Two scenarios that may/may not happen.

[Huggy Bear]

Misinterpretation.

Genesis 1:1 states:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

This is simply stating that God created the universe and the earth PERIOD. There is no mention of how long it took...

The 7 day period only relates to God making the earth habitable and seeding it with life, so In order to interpret the earth as being 6000 years old, you'd have to believe the bible is speaking of that 7 day period as literally 7 days (which is most likely why you referred to them as literalists), except the Bible makes it clear that God measures time differently than we do (which makes sense because time is relative).

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. - Psalm 90:4

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. - 2 Peter 3:8

So without taking anything else into account and going by just the numbers of the bible it's at THE LEAST 13,000 years from the beginning of the 7 day period till now.

This means Adam was hanging around for what could've been just under 2000 years before the 7 day period was over, seeing how he was created sometime during the 6th day (keep in mind this is a thousand year period) and Eve wasn't formed time sometime AFTER the seventh day.

What we DON'T KNOW is:

1. How long was Adam hanging out by himself when God decided to create Eve.

2. How long Adam and Eve were together before the fall.

Well, Huggy, you're becoming desperate as fuck because Bible seems to be specific as though there were some chance that the word "day" might be misinterpreted, the verse carefully states "the evening and the morning," as though to emphasize that it was one twenty-four-hour period and no more. The day referred to in this verse is still taken to be the familiar twenty-four-hour day and nothing more by Jewish and Christian fundamentalists today:

Genesis 1:5 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Indeed, until the 19th century, there was never any question about this. It was universally assumed that the days referred to were literally days-twenty-four-hour periods. In the 19th century, however, it became more and more clear that Earth was millions of years old, and in almost the first retreat from the literal acceptance of the Bible, there began to be some hesitancy about those "days."

You're conflating two different things. In the scripture you posted, there is a period marking the end of a sentence. "morning" and "evening" don't necessarily describe a 24 hour period they simply mark the start and end of a day.

It's like you think the writer of Genesis caught amnesia somewhere between the 2nd and 5th chapters of Genesis where It's CLEARLY states:

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. - Genesis 2:17

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. - Genesis 5:5

The above proves that the Bible is measuring 1000 years as one day as it relates to God. God said Adam would die the day he partook of the tree, and he died at age 930... which falls within the 1000 year day.