Jaran

“This matter of how best to interpret the term "day" in Genesis 1 is not one over which evangelical believers should quarrel; the point is, and all evangelical Christians accept this, that Genesis does teach that God is the creator of all which exists, that He effected this creation in six "days," and that He is a personal God embracing His entire creation in His providential care.”
― John Christian Wenger, Introduction to Theology

“Now, the mere repetition made the things to me rather more weird than more rational. It was as if, having seen a curiously shaped nose in the street and dismissed it as an accident, I had then seen six other noses of the same astonishing shape. I should have fancied for a moment that it must be some local secret society. So one elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.”
― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“For obviously a man ought to confess himself crazy before he confesses himself heretical. The Bohemian, with a red tie, ought to pique himself on his orthodoxy. The dynamiter, laying a bomb, ought to feel that, whatever else he is, at least he is orthodox.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

“There are a number of questions about which there has been much speculation and argument but which Genesis does not answer to the complete satisfaction of human curiosity. One of these is the meaning of the term "day." There are some writers who hold that the entire account in Genesis 1 is so strongly pictorial and poetic that the term "day" cannot be pressed at all. In the judgment of the present writer, however, this view is to be rejected as hardly doing justice to the language of Genesis 1. Other writers believe that the chapter can only be interpreted as meaning six twenty-four-hour days in succession. Indeed, this is a natural way to understand the language, and were it not for the evidence which Christian men of science are now accepting, this would be undoubtedly the common belief of Bible-believing Christians. Nevertheless, in reference to this world there are two sources of truth: the first is those broad metaphysical foundations sketched for us by the Word of God indicating that God is the Creator of all things, that He is the Preserver of His universe, that He is sovereign in all things, and that He is both transcendent and immanent in reference to His creation. The other source of truth is the research and investigation of men of science. This is God's world and He has seen fit to allow created human beings minds which are able to unlock many of the mysteries of His creation.

The Bible helps believing Christians who are working in the field of science to avoid the mistakes and false theories of unbelieving scientists who do not accept the revelation which God has given to men in the Scriptures. In other words, the Bible throws light on the creation. But the opposite is also true: that which is learned by scientists about the creation also helps us to understand, or at least not to misinterpret, the revelation contained in the Scriptures. The evidence from science seems to be that this world is older than was held by Archbishop Ussher (1581-1656), whose chronology was added to the King James Version in 1701. It is not a question as to whether God could have created the universe and performed His activity in reference to this earth in six twenty-four-hour days or in six seconds; the only question is, What did God do?”
― John Christian Wenger, Introduction to Theology