[Boogieman]

“Could have been six 24-hour days, or it could have been 6 1-million year eras.”

Perhaps, if we didn’t have contextual clues to settle the matter, it could be a “grey area”, however, the text is quite plain, when it says, for each day of creation, that there was evening, then morning, then the next day. If you want to ignore that and believe it is talking about ages, then you are not trying to interpret what the text says, you are trying to fit the text to what you want it to say.

[Celtic Cross]

Then again, its not out of the question to refer to "the dawn of an age," "the twilight of an age," etc. And the fact that the language of the bible is so poetical in many cases would fit with this.

But like I said, I really don't care either way. However God did it, He did it.