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"The Hebrew word for day as I said earlier is yom...

You will also find that the ancient Hebrew measurement system, whether linear, volumetric, or time was almost exactly the same as the Babylonian system and that "day" did not mean a 24 hour period, it meant the time from the onset of darkness until the next onset of darkness. Since the ancient Hebrew language lacked the basic capability to describe non-linearities or abstract concepts like the space time continuum one can't take things too literally.

Since the ancient Hebrew language lacked the basic capability to describe non-linearities or abstract concepts like the space time continuum one can't take things too literally.

All one has to do is compare like language in the Bible to like language in other parts of Scripture. You will find a pattern that is consistent and unbroken. So when you look at the way the Hebrew words are used in their context compared to other situations with different context you will find that the author was very consistent in his presentation of words.

So I absolutely reject your statement that the Hebrew language makes it impossible to take the Bible as literal.

Not to mention the fact that any other interpretation of days leaves one to say man did not die as a result of his sin. Now if you want to get into a theological discussion about Adam selling us to death for his sin that's another matter all together.

Compare the way the language flows as if a poet wrote it. It is not that difficult if you really wanted to learn it.

Indeed. “Back in the day” a day was neither exactly 24 or exactly 12 hours as we would measure them.

A day from sun rise to sun set would be EXACTLY twelve hours. Thus an “hour” during the summer was significantly longer than an “hour” during the winter.

Moreover “sunrise and sunset a second day” just MIGHT be poetic; after all the Sun was not yet created, so “sunrise and sunset” may not actually refer to the spinning of the Earth about its axis towards and away from the Sun; after all, if one wishes to take it absolutely literal, there was no Sun for there to be either a “sunrise” or a “sunset”.