Playing devil's advocate for a moment (and I've had this same discussion with this person already):
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Originally Posted by Grymir  With the inclusion of evening and morning from day 1, such a stand would not work. |
That still ignores v. 14 and 15 which say that the things used to measure days, years, seasons, etc.... were not put in place until day 4. No further 'imposition' of anything on the text other than simply reading what it says. In contrast, your reading backwards of a 24-hour day as we know
yom definitely means from the fourth day forward (hope I explained that right).
[quote]If this idea comes from one who is trying to fit millions of years into the biblical framework, I would ignore what this person says.
It's not.
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Real young earth creationist do not say the days have to be exactly 24-hour periods as we measure time today. But they could have a little variation.
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This person has no problem with that view. As he has told me "Each 'day' could have been a second, fifteen minutes or a year - whenever God said 'Okay, it's morning....Okay, it's evening - 1st day." This person definitely believes that every day from Day 4 forward are literal 24-hour days. The days prior to that - uncertain and cannot be determined from the text. They could've been SHORTER than 24 hours OR LONGER.
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With the plants created on day 3 and the sun on day 4, they could not live long without the sun. So if the 24 days started on day 4, what would happen to the plants if the previous days were longer?
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You're forgetting that the fall had not happened yet, so nothing in creation was subject to decay yet...so the plants would not be subject to decay without the sun (remember, though - there was 'light'....so they may have gotten their sustenance from the existing 'light' v. 3).
Again, I've had this same discussion with this person, so I've taken time to go through their argument quite a bit to make sure I understand it. I asked many of the same questions and had most of the same objections, so I'm just seeing what your responses would have been.
Hope that helps. Additional feedback welcome.