Pete- "my information is that Hebrew scholars whether conservative or liberal, are agreed that the author[s] intended the narrative to be read as 6 normal length days of creation."

??how many Hebrew scholars of today have you consulted about this? And what difference does it make what anyone 'intended' a short passage to mean? The goal is to determine what DID happen. Reading it as 6 days of 24 hours each is a blatantly circular path assuming what you want to discover. In order to sustain such ideas, you must .. as you have done...try refute 27 areas of science, including, but not limited to, the amazing regularity of radioactive isotope decay and carbon¹⁴ decay.
As to 'gap theory', I have just been reading details of how that fits.. or doesn't.. and it doesn't lend itself to short explanations.

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