OK, you lost me now. according to your knowledge how old is this planet?
we also have 6 days of creation subject. if i am not mistaken those days are not worldly days as we know it
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Scripture was never really meant to be read and understood in one way.
If this was the case, scripture WOULD be the same as a book of fiction, for example Harry potter.
As scripture can be interpretted in many ways, this allows for many individual revelations. In turn, scripture can be re-read many times, revealing new things every reading. As such then, scripture like prophecy can actually mean different thigns to different generations. It was always meant to be this way. Scripture is then allowed to be a living breathing thing.
Or it be left as one understanding, a closed book, with which we never actually need to read, because we already know what it says and understand these sayings. As such then, literalism becomes the act of literally throwing scripture away into the garbage.
Like the Nazi party who burned books then, the literalist seeks to destroy any contrary thought...for it is only in a singular vision can their voice be heard.
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In line with this, the days of creation can be seen in many ways. I like the Jewish mystical idea that it refers to the 6 directions that can be used to define 3 dimensional space...
up
down
left
right
forward
back
Then of course a further 7th day, would be where all the directions meet. Some Rabbis here say, on the 7th day, God had sex. This leads to going beyond the "limitations" of 3 dimensional space....to an 8th day.
Or you could just stick with one answer...it was 6 days..perhaps of a thousand years each...
