[Lucky Dog]

Are any of these phrases proceeded by a number?

Are any of these phrases the Word of God? Or are they the word of man?? None of it looks like scripture to me.

Grammatically, the presence or absence of a number to modify the period of time does not change the possibility that the Hebrew word used in this passage could be an indefinite period of time versus a 24 hour period.

As to your question of whether any of the examples I used were the “Word of God,” most assuredly, they were not. However, the word recorded in the passage of Genesis under discussion in this thread was an English translation of hand-scribed copies of a Greek translation of hand-scribed copies of the original Hebrew text which have been lost in antiquity. Consequently, my point was that language, and in particular, a word that is a translation of copies of translations, is potentially subject to misinterpretation as far as the individual and specific meaning of that particular word is concerned. Additionally, as I pointed out in another post the individual meaning of this particular word is not relevant to the overall meaning of the entire passage.

In relation to the original purpose of this thread, the argument between creationism and “Darwinism,” there are those who will “swallow a camel and strain at a gnat.” The importance of the creation story in Genesis is not whether the Hebrew word “yom,” used in the Genesis passage means 24 hours or an indefinite period of time, it is that God, as the Sovereign of the universe, is the Creator and Controller of His creation. “Darwinists” try to exclude God from creation by maintaining that naturalistic processes (i.e., not Divine intervention) are exclusively responsible for creation.

[shubi]

“Darwinists” try to exclude God from creation by maintaining that naturalistic processes (i.e., not Divine intervention) are exclusively responsible for creation."

I am not sure who you are including as a Darwinist, but I know for a fact that creation is not included in the Theory of Evolution, except by creationists using a strawman.