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"Answer: The Hebrew term translated as “day” was simply a period of time. In fact, we have a similar usage for the word “day”. Does the phrase “back in my day” mean a SPECIFIC day in your past? Or a general time-period?"

Do you think that's why the Hebrew says, 'evening morning x day'?

Of course, we know that the Hebrew 24-hour day begins at sundown, consistent with the word order that we see in Genesis indicating the same 24-hour day.

Or maybe, Exodus 20:9-11 - "Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."

This is where Scripture specifically relates the 24-hour days of the work week and the 24-hour Sabbath with 24-hour days of creation.

You have to be really, really, super-duper smart to get around it when it's worded like that.

>You have to be really, really, super-duper smart to get around it when it’s worded like that.

Um... God _IS_ that smart. Again, even if you don’t think that the creation-days are 24 hours, it is quite obvious that it was a principle that God set up (the Sabbath, like you pointed out).

I honestly don’t know if the days of Creation were 24-hr days or not, in the end it doesn’t matter... it’s the Creator, not the creation that’s what this is all about.