You’re getting hung up on the word generations thinking it means great time periods. The Hebrew there can be translated as:
A day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day, just a time period that might be any length of time.
As I said before I do not know I am just guessing, for lack of any thing else to use.
You may be right but until some one proves to me that God made the world in six literal days I will be convinced it took thousands of years.
And no one has to convince me of the crazy evolutionist scientists, they are just like the man made global warming scientists, a bunch of shysters.
I don`t believe in the big bang theory and come to think of I don`t even believe in the so called fossil fuel.
Two things...the greek used in the KJV is not from the oldest texts that we have. I would suggest either a greek interlinear or the New American Standard translation. The NASB is the closest to a word for word translation we have outside of the interlinear.
In Genesis 1, where the word day is joined with an ordinal number it is always translated in the Hebrew as a literal 24 hour day. It is used consistently that way throughout the Old Testament.
The concept here is to let the Bible interpret the Bible. If a word is used in one form in a passage and the same way in another passage, the word can be understood to have the same meaning.
If you're serious about exploring this topic more, I would recommend gotquestions.org. They have very good summaries about creation, was it a 24 hour day, etc.
Good chatting with you.