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Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Hebrew for the phrase “evening and morning” or “evening, and there was morning” has usages not limited to 24-hour days. In fact, there are numerous usages in the Bible that this phrase, or variants of it, refers to continuous processes or activities. Exodus 18:13, 27:21, Leviticus 24:2-3 and Daniel 8:14,26 all use this phrase in a context of something that occurs on a continual basis over more than one 24-hour day. Like all young-earth talking points, the "evening and morning" claim fails in about 10 seconds of careful examination.

What does the Bible "really" say? Well, you have the superficial interpretation (young-earthism) which ignores context, language and other basic reading considerations. Young-earthers seem to have thrown-out any basic reading skills in trying to uphold their theory. And the "reinterpret it in order to make it more palatable to modern sensibilities" is a classic YEC talking point, sorry it doesn't fly. Old-earthism has been around for quite awhile, even before Darwinism had its current hold on science and thought (and when cornered, YECs can't seem to prove their "compromise" accusation).

Young-earthism is perhaps the best example of the scandel of the evangelical mind.

"In fact, there are numerous usages in the Bible that this phrase, or variants of it, refers to continuous processes or activities. Exodus 18:13..."

18:13 "The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and they stood around Moses from morning until evening."

Yea, Moses stood there for 100 million years!

24:3 "Aaron is to tend it regularly from evening until morning before the Lord outside the veil of the testimony in the tent of meeting."

Oh, it gets better! Aaron is to tend to the lamp for countless eons!!!

8:14 "He said to me, "For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be restored."

This one REALLY undoes you! The writer is refering to a long period - Six years and a hundred ten days - and does so not by some vague reference to "mornings and evenings" but by precisely counting the number of days in the long period.

Thanks for the laugh friend! - I really though you folks might have a point hidden in your argument somewhere. But now I see it's all bluster. Really, don't you have anything better than this??? I'd love to hear it.

You may choose to believe in an old earth if you want to but know this - you have no basis in Scripture for doing so.

"Young-earthism is perhaps the best example of the scandel of the evangelical mind."

Don't like scandals? Their integral to your faith!

"For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written,

"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."

the word for "day" here in Genesis can either mean an indeterminate amount of time (i.e. in my father's day) or a 24 hour period. The fact that the terms morning and evening are used to describe this word "day" points exclusively to a 24 hour period. Add to that the fact that these days are using a numbering scheme (i.e. first, second, third, fourth, etc ) makes the general era interpretation of day make no sense. I would never say "in my father's first day he did this and in my father's second day he did that." All that would be lumped together in one generic day. Add to this the fact that God used the creation days in Exodus to highlight the observance of the Sabbath, and its pretty much a slam dunk case.

JM