[narby]

A day is one rotation of the earth on its axis.

I've often heard the term "in the day of", meaning a long period of time. Such as "in the day of Abraham".

Day is pretty meaningless in Genesis, particularly since Gen 2:4 starts all over from the beginning and tells a completely different story.

Bible litteralists claim that this merely retells the same story. But there are some subtle sequence differences between the two.

Bottom line. The Bible says God did it. Science attempts to tell us how He did it by examining Gods creation directly.

Since there can be no conflict between Gods creation and Gods Word, then someone has interpreted something wrong. Since Science has accumulated far, far, far more evidence in the matter than a few confusing words in the Bible, I believe their version of how God created the world is correct over your interpretation of Genesis.

[JohnnyM]

you are right that day can mean an extended period of time, but when you use terms like evening and morning the second day you are speaking of literal 24 hour days.

Now since these are literal 24 hour days, there is no room for evolution in creation.

JM