The young earth old earth debate is a red herring. Time is not a constant. It changes dramatically across the universe.....and God is outside of time constraints period. Quantum physics demonstrates that both could be true.
Of course it a red Herring.. that time-frame is not biblical.. i have always view the “days” as epochs.... as for Adam.. the creation of man is the moment of first self awareness man.. the endowment of a “soul” to become made in the image on God..a three part being.. ... God image is not an image of flesh.. God image is being a self aware three part being ...
God: I AM WHAT I AM..... Man: I think therefor I am
Yes. And “a day” can mean nothing to an eternal conscious awareness existing outside of time and space - except as He imagines it, and imagines Himself subject to it. All of Creation is an imaginal act.
The Bible is for man; God doesn’t need it. I think ‘the days’ refers to our material sense that creation is the result of an order of process.
-JT
I think this is the article I read a few years ago...a bit over my head.
http://www.aish.com/ci/sam/48951136.html
I remember it was an interesting read...