Plain reading of Scripture conveys a literal 6 days of creation.
Only when you buy into evolutionary myth and try to factor that nonsense into Scripture do you start jumping through hoops to force God's Word to fit junk "science".
Yom with a number IS a 24 hour day... and everywhere else in Genesis where it is used it is never questioned. Only in the account of Creation to people start mangling the Bible.
I have faith the God conveyed what we needed to know, period. And "0" wasn't an issue.
What we needed to know may not have actually been within our grasp (nor is yet)
The ones who dont dispute the meaning of words in the Bible never have talked to someone who has translated it themselves.
Science is not a threat to God, and God is not a threat to science. As for the evolution myth, who's to say God didn't use evolution as a mechanism for making Man? Care to explain the large voids in generations that the Biblical geneology makes? They look like the same gaps in evolutionary links to me.
Saying God created things before Man is not blasphmey, it's simply an understanding that God is just now opening up to us.
How would you have felt if you just followed some guy who was raised in Egyptian palaces for 40 years, and watched him come from the mountain and say "Oh, by the way, there used to be creatures that existed before us, they were hundreds of times our size and well adapet at survival. They didn't make it, what do you think our chances are of getting out of here alive are?"