Well put.
I see a “decreasing interference” in the Biblical history.
There really is no reason that the “days” couldn’t be 6 24 hour days... I mean, He’s creating everything we know as existance, so I assume there would be no problem in a bit of “compression” of the time necessary to produce Creation. Yes, this would violate the physical laws that we know, but what’s the harm?
Today, it would cause chaos, because we’re more aware and observant, but when there weren’t observers, there would be no harm in accelerating the laws a bit, after all, they’re His laws.
As you say, I’d rather stick with God’s authority than man’s limited ability to interpret observations.
“There really is no reason that the “days” couldn’t be 6 24 hour days”
There really is no reason that the days would be 6-24 hour days.
The Earth’s rate of rotation has changed over the eons, as well as it’s size.
So, I think what you are saying is that the Genesis story relates ‘a day of creation’ in the perception of GOD, to something man can understand, which is a day of work on the Earth.
The principle is the same, but the scale was vastly different. Because we are humans, and God is God.
Truer words were never said.