frogprince,

So you insist on only that meaning? Isn't my childhood the morning of my life, and my old age it's evening?

I have never said that the use of those many-times mistranslated words are all equal- a "year" can be whatever someone wants it to be, - A season, 12 cycles of the moon.

Genesis is "literal" ONLY in that it is the translation of the recollection of what was told to the ancestors of the original writer by those who listened to the human words of the person "enlightened" by God.

To believe that over the direct observation of God's universe is to accept a thousand errors for every one that science, in it's less than perfect state, allows for a time.