God tells us what a day was in creation
True. If God wanted to mean a 24 hour day, how else would he have said it? He called it a 'day', and then described each day as evening and morning. Amazing how easily intellectuals twist scriptures.
And for those who make each day a 1,000 years, then how did the plants and fish survive? They were created on the third day, but the sun, moon and stars weren't placed in the sky until the fourth day.
Except God hadn’t created the sky until the second day, the earth on the third day, and the sun and moon until the fourth day. So the light wasn’t from the Sun, and could not mean a full rotation of the earth as neither had been created yet.
I have read where the term “day” might be better translated as “period of time” or “era”.
These primitive people that had not witnessed Creation, but it had been revealed to them, on their own terms, described it in their own terms the best they could.
As with so many things in the Bible that can be considered a mystery (the Resurrection is perhaps the most important mystery to me), I take them on faith, even if I don’t completely understand them.
On the first day, I have wondered if the “let there be light” was more like “let there be energy” (what we now theorize is something like the “Big Bang”). And that energy is distinct from the empty dark expanse of nothingness previously.
But was it a solar day?
Our sun had not yet been created.
(Just sayin')