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Now Christ was in the tomb for three days and three nights, just like Jonas was three days and three nights in the "great fish". So seems when instructing to our 24 hour "time" the night gets mentioned with it.

I believe the Christian astronomer Hugh Ross uses the Day Age theory to reconcile his scientific understanding of the universe with Scripture.

Are you implying a similar model.

P.S. I am not claiming Christians that try to take a non-straightforward reading of the text from Genesis 1-3 and Exodus 20:8-11 cannot be believers. I just believe they have a tendency to instill confusion into those who they witness to, because of the evident difference between what they say and what the passages in the Bible say.

Exo 20:8-11
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

A direct comparison. I believe the Holy Spirit is competent enough in His communication to make sure if there were a difference to point it out here.

I believe the Christian astronomer Hugh Ross uses the Day Age theory to reconcile his scientific understanding of the universe with Scripture.

Yes, that's roughly correct, although I find his model interesting in that he directly addresses the apparently "strange" order of creation events in Days 1-4 (for example, the sun after the plants). Obviously, to anyone who holds firm to a 144-day creation account, it will still sound like a stretch.

I'm not sure what quoting Exodus 20:8-11 is supposed to communicate. After all, God chose to use the language of days in order to describe His creation account. Whether His days were literally 24 hours long or whether they symbolized longer time periods, it is still entirely reasonable for Him to use that day language to justify the institution of the Sabbath.

"I believe the Holy Spirit is competent enough in His communication to make sure if there were a difference to point it out here."

I believe He did just that, here:

Exodus Ch. 31 Vv. 12&13 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.

The reference clearly points to something with a much larger meaning.

I believe the Christian astronomer Hugh Ross uses the Day Age theory to reconcile his scientific understanding of the universe with Scripture.

Just to clarify, though, Hugh Ross is not an evolutionist; on the contrary, he rejects macroevolution completely. Indeed, his organization spends as much time compiling refutations of evolution as it does developing its progressive creation model.

Consider what Peter says. IIPeter 3:8 But, beloved be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

V. 10 But the day of the LORD will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the "ELEMENTS" shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therin shall be burned up.

So the "day of the LORD" begins with the ending of this flesh "age" and v. 13 says "Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for "new heavens and a new earth", wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Now back up to IIPeter 3:3 where the subject is "I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance;

2. That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

4 And saying, "Where is the promise of His coming?
for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the BEGINNING of the creation."

5. For this they WILLINGLY are IGNORANT of, that by the WORD of God the "heavens were of OLD", and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

6. Whereby the WORLD that THEN "WAS", being overflowed with water, perished:

7. But the heavens and the earth which are "NOW" by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the "DAY" of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Yet if you back up to II Peter 2, Peter keeps using that word "REMEMBRANCE"

II Peter 2 continues with subject of chapter 1 and similar to the book of JUDE.

II Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

5 "AND" spared not the "OLD WORLD", but saved Noah the with person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

What exact was "righteous" about Noah. Back to Genesis 6:9 after our Heavenly Father "for it repenteth ME that I have made "them. So what happened that cause our Heavenly Father to "repenteth" for making "MAN".

Note Christ Himself said that one of the signs of his coming would be the "days of Noe" (NOAH).

So back to what was "righteous" about Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

Now this word "generations" is interesting = family history. This word "perfect = without blemish as to breed or pedigree.

Genesis 6:2 That the "sons of GOD" saw the daughters of "men" that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

3. And the LORD said, "My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that "he" also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."

4. There were giants in the earth in those days: (Interesting word - giants)
and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare "children" to them, the same became mighty men which were of "OLD", MEN OF RENOWN.

So II Peter 2 is clear as to the subject matter and speaking to and about Noah and WHO was of "OLD".

II Peter 3 is not talking about Noah's flood, with those words of the "WORLD THAT THEN "WAS" being destroyed with a "FLOOD". Jeremiah 4:22

For MY people is foolish, they have not known ME; they are sottish (stupid) children and they have none understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was "without form, and void; Genesis 1:2 "AND" the earth became without form, and void;

Jer. 4:23 cont'd and the heavens, and they had no light.

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

25 I beheld, and, lo, there was "NO MAN", and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

This is not talking about Noah's flood.