...Back in the day...
...It took two days for me to drive to the in-laws...
...At this exact time two days from now...
Three different uses of the word “day.”
1. an indefinite period of time
2. not 48 hours to the nanosecond, actually about 12 to 15 hours driving, spread over two days
3. 48 hours.
Genesis 1 is silent whether day is a period of time or 24.000 hours. Choosing one or the other is not a test of fellowship and doesn’t modify the purpose of Genesis 1, showing that all things were the creation of God. I go with the “period of time” and “what difference does it make.”
A similar discussion revolves around the statements that the Lord will rise on the third day. Some preachers have taken that to means 72.0000 hours.
Science doesn’t incorporate the concept of “purpose” in its operation. (Think: Tossing 10 fair coins. The coins do not require a “purpose”.) Intelligent design implies a purpose. The two are mutually exclusive.
In the NOVA show, “The Rise of the Mammals” (IIRC) the commentator stated that since the forest in which little horse (IIRC) lived was disappearing it was “necessary” that little horse evolve.
There is no “necessary” in Science. That phrasing attached “purpose” to the evolution of the little horse so he could survive. I would have expected a phrasing such as, it was a fortunate happening that little horse evolved in such a way that he was able to survive the disappearance of the forest.
Genesis 1: God created everything.
Genesis 2: Man is a special creation.
Genesis 3: God: Now what do I do? (Take that in a very general sense.)
God’s first covenant is with Noah.
God’s second covenant is with Abram. With all the messes that follow, the theme of the Old Testament is, God: “I’m going to keep my covenant with Abraham.”
God’s next covenant is the one we find in the New Testament.
Actually, if you knew Hebrew you would know the same word and phrase used in Genesis to determine a day is the same word/phrase used in Exodus where God handed Moses the Sabbath law about taking a day of rest. It was not eons, nor generations, it was a physical 24 hour day.
Through the Scriptures of we see the different word/phrases used for different spans of time, but for a 24 hour day it is always the same.
Do you take a 1000 years off to rest, or maybe an eon? No, you take a day.
God knew what HE was saying, even if you are not sure.
Now the 24 hour day did exist before the sun and moon were created, and thus each and every day GOD said this is good.
He did not say it was good, and then use evolution which needs death and destruction to work, He called it good, because death and destruction never entered the universe until after Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good an evil.
To say God did not do as the texts tell us HE did, is borderline Blasphemous, because then you claim GODD lied, or told a fib.
Nothing in GOD is a lie and HE does not jest.