Dr. Davis Young, former geology professor at Calvin College, recognized this dilemma and abandoned the “day-age” theory. Here is part of his explanation as to why he discarded it:
The biblical text, for example, has vegetation appearing on the third day and animals on the fifth day. Geology, however, had long realized that invertebrate animals were swarming in the seas long before vegetation gained a foothold on the land ... . Worse yet, the text states that on the fourth day God made the heavenly bodies after the earth was already in existence. Here is a blatant confrontation with science. Astronomy insists that the sun is older than the earth.8
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/wow/whats-wrong-with-progressive-creation
For more articles on 6 days:
Days of Creation:
Get Answers: Genesis—How long were the days mentioned in the Biblical creation account?
Framework Hypothesis:
What is the Framework Hypothesis? Is it Biblical?
A Critique of the Framework Interpretation of the Creation Account (Part 1 of 2)
A Critique of the Framework Interpretation of the Creation Account (Part 2 of 2)
A critique of the literary framework view of the days of Creation (Technical, PDF, by Andrew Kulikovsky)
Gap Theory:
How is the Gap Theory refuted by the Bible?
What About the Gap & Ruin-Reconstruction Theories? (from The New Answers Book)
Can evolution’s long ages be squeezed into Genesis?
Gap Theory—An Idea with Holes?
The Gap Theory—Part A
The Gap Theory—Part B
What does “Replenish the Earth” mean?
Genesis unbound (critique of John Sailhamer’s sophistic version of the gap theory)
Replenishing the Earth (ICR Back to Genesis article)
Progressive Creationism:
Hugh Ross and “progressive creationism”: why is it wrong to add billions of years to the Bible?
Why Shouldn’t Christians Accept Millions of Years? (from The New Answers Book)
What’s wrong with progressive creation? (from War of the Worldviews)
What’s wrong with Progressive Creationism?
The Dubious Apologetics of Hugh Ross (Semi-Technical)
Cosmic breakthrough
Hugh Ross Exposé (Refutation of his article on the Christian Leadership Ministry website)
Gerald Schroeder and his new variation on the “Day-Age” theory:
Part 1
Part 2
Did God rest on the seventh day for a literal 24 hour day, or for millions of years?:
Is the Seventh Day an Eternal Rest?
Theistic Evolution:
Why is evolution so dangerous for Christians to believe?
10 Dangers of Theistic Evolution
Feedback: Young Is the New Old
“A child may see the folly of it”
Biblical problems for theistic evolution
The big picture
Bryan on theistic evolution
God and evolution: do they mix?
Is it possible to be a Christian and an Evolutionist?
Theistic evolution: future shock
Theistic Evolution and the Future of Humans
Theistic evolution: what difference does it make?
What Should a Christian Think about Evolution?
Did God use evolution to create the world?:
Couldn’t God Have Used Evolution? (from The New Answers Book)
The Atheists Know . . . Why Christianity has to Fight Evolution
Did the Creator Use Evolution?
Evolution incompatible with Christianity
The god of an old Earth
Jacques Monod vs Theistic Evolution
Is evolution “anti-religion”?
The horse and the tractor—Why God and evolution don’t mix
Theistic Evolution and the Creation-Evolution Controversy (ICR Impact article)
How has theistic evolution harmed the faith of scientists who professed Christianity?:
From (theistic) evolution to creation (article about Prof. John Rendle-Short)
The Genesis Flood:
Global or Local
Get Answers: Flood—Does the Bible really claim that Noah’s Flood was global?
Links to above topics: http://www.answersingenesis.org/get-answers/topic/creation-compromises
Good finds both, CottShop. I had no idea you were up on this stuff too! I’m reading a book by Alex Williams and John Hartnett that touches on these subjects. It is entitled, “Dismantling the Big Bang: God’s Universe Rediscovered.” Have you read it? What I really appreciate about this book is that it doesn’t just destroy the evo-atheist Big Bang model, but it also uses scripture as a guide to help steer their new cosmology in the right direction. And since you are obviously up on this stuff, you are probably already aware that the new Christian cosmologies are making very accurate predictions :o)