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As a matter of fact, I totally agree with you, that Genesis 1 refers to "eons," not to 24-hour days. You can't have 24-hour days before the creation of the sun (it is our earth's orbit around the sun that determines what a "day" is); and that doesn't happen until the fourth "day." In fact, I suspect that the events in Genesis 1 do not happen in time at all.

I'm not sure why you're agreeing to a position I don't hold. In principle, I'm not against such an interpretation....of eons....but as I've said, I've yet to hear an argument that has merit, when taken in context to Genesis as a whole.

Some of the arguments stand by themselves when taken out of context, but when you plug them in, they simply doesn't make sense.

That said, I'm not sure why you seem to think that God could not have established such a standard from the beginning, as I remarked on a few posts earlier.

[betty boop]

That said, I'm not sure why you seem to think that God could not have established such a standard from the beginning, as I remarked on a few posts earlier.

Well then, please forgive me for not paying better attention.