Do the Quran and Bible Really Teach The Universe Was Created in 6 Days?
From the article:
One might wonder what was the measure of a day before the earth was created? It could not have been the days as measured by the rotation of the (then-nonexistent) earth upon its axis. However, the Qur’an clearly speaks of measurements of days other than the earthly days as explained below.
To read more:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/askamuslim/2018/02/breaking-news-the-universe-was-not-created-in-6-days/2/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Muslim&utm_content=49
Treating the word "ayyam" as having 2 meanings leads to the conclusion that 2 meanings can be intended. Bit to those who insist on a strictly literal meaning, and we can see that insistence among some few here, we will hear the familiar refrain that the account is nonsense.
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Days means literal days. God is all-powerful, he can do anything.
That's actually not too far off the response I got when I tried to propose to some litealists there could be room for evolution in the Bible using the logic that God's days may not be the same length as human days.
Eventually Gil admitted I was referring to all Christians, but my math was still wrong even though I was going by his own source. 
Good ol' Gil. He is the definer of the rules and the decider of who is in compliance and when that still fails, then you are still wrong anyway because of reasons.
whole thread. 
which does tie the 'day' to 'a 24 hour period'. It's use for all 6 days in Genesis 1. In fact, the article says nothing about Hebrew words at all - just the Arabic in the Quran. Never mind, here's a literalist who does, and makes a more convincing argument for the use in the bible:
We can determine how yom should be interpreted in Genesis 1:5–2:2 by comparing that context to the word’s usage elsewhere in Scripture. The Hebrew word yom is used 2,301 times in the Old Testament. Outside of Genesis 1, yom plus a number (used 410 times) almost always indicates an ordinary day, i.e., a 24-hour period. There are a few instances where yom and a number do not imply a literal, 24-hour day. The words evening and morning together (38 times) most often indicate an ordinary day. The exact construction of evening, then morning, along with yom is only seen outside of Genesis 1 in one verse. This is Daniel 8:26, which clearly implies a long period of time.
All in all, the context in which the word yom is used in Genesis 1:5–2:2, describing each day as “the evening and the morning,” seems to suggest that the author of Genesis meant 24-hour periods. This was the standard interpretation of the days of Genesis 1:5–2:2 for most of Christian history. At the same time, there were early church fathers, such as Augustine, who noted that the vague nature of the “days” of Genesis could well suggest a non-literal interpretation.
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For instance, according to Exodus 20
–11, God used the six creation days of Genesis as a model for man’s workweek: work six days, rest one. Apparently, He had us in mind even before He made us (on the sixth day) and wanted to provide an example for us to follow. Certainly God could have used six discrete 24-hour days. And He could have created everything using a process of long time periods. Our view, based on our interpretation of the Bible, is that six literal days is the most likely interpretation of the Genesis account.
https://www.gotquestions.org/Genesis-days.html
Myths. Legends. All of it. Depending on where you are born, you hear the local ones. 
Foolishness from Iron Age storytellers. Suitable for the Iron Age. Comical today.
why not do it in one second...and why did he need to rest on the 7th? Sounds like a fairy tale to me.
