[ealgeone]

The Hebrew backs it up....but hey, thanks for playing.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

The Hebrew doesn't back it up, at all. Yom has multiple literal meanings dependent on context, and in the context of Genesis it can't mean "24 hr. day" in a literal sense because for half of the period of creation there was no sun, hence no solar time. That is why the CCC states that "Scripture presents the work of the Creator symbolically as a succession of six days," because six yoms of labor followed by 1 yom of rest is a clear representation of a solar week.

And another thing -- the CCC does NOT say that Genesis is symbolic, only that the use of the word "day" to refer to the yoms of creation is symbolic, which is obvious by the structure of the sentence alone. It does NOT say that the act of creation is symbolic, or that the reality of creation is symbolic. To say "Catholics think Genesis is symbolic" is, at best, a massive stretch. But hey, anything to forward the old agenda, by hook or by crook. The end justifies the means, apparently, when attempting to discredit Catholicism.