[CarrotAndStick]

Exactly. I believe that God created mankind, but that "days" in the Old Testament are not representative of 24-hour periods. Am I disqualified as a "creationist"?

If the book is unclear about the definition a day, how can you be so sure about the rest of the contents?

[allmendream]

How can you be so sure the definition of a “day” holds true when there is no Sun?

Morning and evening the first day was apparently a morning and an evening and a day without a Sun.

MUST have been exactly 24 hours some six thousand years ago!!!! It is the only thing that makes sense! A day without a Sun MUST be 24 hours! I INSIST UPON IT!!! I BASE MY AND YOUR SALVATION ON IT!!!! If a day without a Sun isn’t 24 hours the entire edifice comes crashing down!!!! /s