Did God, then, create and establish all things as they are within a period of six ordinary days? No. To arrest the attention and assist the memories of those for whom he wrote, Moses used the analogy of days, with mornings and evenings, as the people living at the time he wrote knew them. He used these days to typify the objective reality of God's creative work during long periods of time. This is a purely literary device quite compatible with inspiration, and above all, when we remember that the main purpose of the author was to show that God is the Author and Lord of all things. In its religious significance, the account makes use of the seven ordinary sections of the week, bidding men worship God and rest upon the seventh. Scientifically, each day applies to a long correlative objective period, required for the slow astronomical and geological formation. In other words, Moses dedicated seven consecutive days in honor of God's work, considered as having occurred in seven consecutive periods. And as, after the sixth day, God is described as having abstained from further labor, so after six days of labor man was to abstain on the seventh. Thus Moses impressed upon the people that the week must end in a day devoted to religious duties.
Exactly as I said. "Theistic" evolutionists.
Please see my post #8—a quote from the page I linked to earlier.
***You didn’t go to the page I linked, did you? Why? What were you afraid of? ***
I hate to break this to you, but I could not have quoted off the web page if I didn’t go there.
I don’t believe that there were 6 literal 24 hour days; let’s face it, as we go back in time, we apparently had slower rotation of the earth so that it was closer to 25 hours per day. That is why our circadian rhythm does not exactly match our current day.
There is the Biblical metaphor and the Biblical literal; it is the Church which has decided which is which.