I always wondered why it was interpreted to mean days since the first "day" as we know it could not have existed without a rotating earth and sun to orbit around. I think where the misconception starts is that the majority of the bible is written using parables which aren't meant to be taken literally. Genesis only talks about what God did not how he went about doing it. Who is to say that God didn't plan and design the process of evolution to go about his "creation". Another interesting tidbit I find in the bible is how god created Eve by removing one "rib" from Adam. Of course this makes no literal sense until we discovered the DNA structure of man and woman in which the male chromosome being in the structure of a "Y" and the female chromosome being in the structure of an X appears as though a missing "rib" was taken from man and gifted to women to create the genetic divergence. Its not as if God could have educated man in bible times on the difference between male and female DNA it would have made no sense so it was described in a parable that people of that age could relate to.
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I always wondered why it was interpreted to mean days since the first "day" as we know it could not have existed without a rotating earth and sun to orbit around. I think where the misconception starts is that the majority of the bible is written using parables which aren't meant to be taken literally. Genesis only talks about what God did not how he went about doing it. Who is to say that God didn't plan and design the process of evolution to go about his "creation". Another interesting tidbit I find in the bible is how god created Eve by removing one "rib" from Adam. Of course this makes no literal sense until we discovered the DNA structure of man and woman in which the male chromosome being in the structure of a "Y" and the female chromosome being in the structure of an X appears as though a missing "rib" was taken from man and gifted to women to create the genetic divergence. Its not as if God could have educated man in bible times on the difference between male and female DNA it would have made no sense so it was described in a parable that people of that age could relate to.