You keep bringing up Augustine as if he was a proponent of the theory of evolution. In his treatise on The City of God, chapter 11, he argues that everything that God did in creation he did outside of time and that time did not even begin until after the creation was complete. His argument was that it detracted from the glory of God to suggest that it would have taken God any time at all to complete the creation, not that it took him longer than Moses suggested.
So quit using Augustine to foster your argument for evolutionary theology. He would have laughed at the suggestion.
That's interesting, P-Marlowe writes things that I clearly did not say, but my post gets removed.
Augustine wrote in "The City of God" that "We must bear in mind that these days indeed recall the days of creation, but without in any way being really similar to them."
And in Confessions, Augustine writes that the lack of "evening and morning" on day 7 means they were long days.
Also, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Eusebius, Basil and Ambrose all point to long days.
So again, I ask how can you claim old-earthism is not historic or that is evolutionary when it predates evolutionary theory?