==But where I fault the YEC is in saying the time of the “days” of Genesis must incorporate “In the Beginning..” and hence the creation of the whole universe or “world” as the article says.
A straightforward reading of the Genesis 1 is obviously what the context calls for. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (along with light, and the separation of the same) all within the space of what the Bible describes as an evening and a morning.
I really don’t see any wiggle room here. Is it your position that God began before the beginning?
Evening and morning. The meaning of both words is broad enough that since a literal 24 hr. consists of more than the night, dusk to dawn, evening and morning refer to the beginning and end of a time period, “day”.
Using this thought of evening to morning as a time period where something developes or forms is also found at Ps.30:5.
That this evening to morn was not thougtht of as a 24 hr. is the fact that the Jewish weekly day began and ended, in the evening or near sundown.
That period between evening and morning is not given a length.
I see “In the Beginning..” as a statement of the origins of the heavens and earth, period. And what follows as a description of God’s creative acts toward the earth.
The heavens and the earth are created (and) then the earth is prepared. Question is how is the “and”.