Don

As far as I know, evening to evening is not mentioned in Scripture. I get that this delimis a 24 hour day from the Hebrew culture, which I maintain is an assumed substrate to understand the Bible (and I think you agree). That is, all authors except perhaps Luke were Hebrews and so one needs to know the basic Hebrew mindset to make the most sense of the Bible. Recall that in the limit the Bible is just marks on paper, any meaning is provided by the culture where those marks have a meaning.

I want to be careful on terminology, in the 2nd origins story, animals are FORMED after the human is formed. The ESV adds a “had” so this is how they reconcile Gen 1 with Gen 2, so they claim that the animals were NOT formed after man was formed.