re: #200 LudwigVanQuixote

Yom literally means day, but the text itself tells you that it is a metaphor for a period of time from G-d’s perspective. What it means in terms of time as we would measure it is actually a separate question.

Bingo. And outside of that, the Genesis 1 order of things is quite in parallel with how our brains, which God gave us by the way, have led us to understand these things. What kills me is the Creationists’ insistence on using the 24-hour definition of a term that, AFAIK, is also used elsewhere to describe a finite but otherwise unexplained period of time.