Let The Creatard Shitting of Bricks Begineth

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Even the English word 'day' requires context, i.e., " in their grandfather's day", or "day of the dinosaurs". The creation passages are completely harmonious with science when the Hebrew word 'Yom' is correctly interpreted in context as 'a long but finite period of time'.

In other words, you're suggesting it was meant in the sense of era? Unlikely, but if so there remains the more difficult problem of of how and in what order, not to mention what kind of universe god created.

Day One: God creates heavens and earth and separates light from darkness. So light and darkness were all mixed up until the earth was created and after that they were neatly separated?

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Day Two: God makes a vault in the sky to separate the waters from the waters. Wait a minute a vault in the sky holding back water. Really? Care to explain that one? Didn't hear about any of the space launches hitting a vault. No little trip through the vast sky born lake either.

Day Three: God gathers the water under the sky to make dry land and puts vegetation on the land. Funny, but I thought the fish came first. Maybe not. But I'm sure ocean critters came first, if not actual fish.

Day Four: God add light to vault in the sky, the sun and moon respectively, also the stars. Also he separated day from night. Apparently they were all mixed up before. Ooops, didn't the stars come before the earth and the moon later yet? Oh and how do you get vegetation before the sun?

Day Five: God creates the fishes and birds. Whoops, the birds come after the land born creatures.

Day Six: God creates animals on land including livestock. And he created humans. Okay, livestock was a breeding process really, a little bit of man made evolution in fact.

Oh but wait. . .that's only Genesis 1. That's not how it really was, there's another creation account in Genesis 2. This time god creates man before vegetation or rain, but there were streams. Apparently without man to sow the seeds there could be no vegetation or at least that's what it says. But, before that god had planted a garden to put man in. At some indeterminate time god had made the animals and now he asked the man to name them. Then he made Eve out of Adam's rib.

That story doesn't work very well either.

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I really don't think make the days into eras even begins to solve the problems with Genesis.

V1 - In the beginning…..States the cosmos is created, and that it began (not steady state, nor adhering to hindu doctrine of oscillations. Here the frame of reference (FOR) is from the cosmos.
V2 - FOR shifts to the earth’s water surface. >And the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters < . The Book of Job adds that the earth’s surface was dark because an opaque cloud covering prevented the light from reaching the surface.
V3 - This is where the ‘days’ began with the phrase ‘and God said’. The first phrase. >Let there be light< . The earth’s cloud covering is reduced enough to allow cosmic light sources to penetrate all the way to the earth’s surface.
With each one of the days, God is preparing the earth for mankind’s arrival. After God created man, He ‘rested’ (God’s creation activities have ceased until Day 7 completes). As one can see, some of the reasons God created the universe centers around Man - who has been endowed with both a body and spirit which connotes an eternal purpose.