Question: Are the 7 days when God created the earth the same as our days? 1. The caller no doubt has reference to the "Day-Age" Theory which states that the 6 creation days of Genesis 1 were not days, but rather long ages or eons, possible millions of years long. 2. We know the days of Gen. 1 are literal 24-hour days because the word day is defined in the context of the passage: Gen. 1:5--"And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." Day is here defined as the light period in the regular succession of light and darkness, which, as the earth rotates on its axis, as continued ever since. 1:14--"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night: and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years." This verse clearly distinguishes days from years and seasons. If the days were not days, but were ages involving millions of years, then what were the years? Unless we are willing to take a passage in its context, and let Scripture interpret Scripture, we will be hopelessly confused. 3. The fact that the days of Gen. 1 are 24 hour periods is consistent not only with the context of Gen. 1, but with the rest of the Old Testament as well. The word day, when modified by the numerical adjective, can only be taken to mean a period of 24 hours. 4. Further, the Hebrew phrase translated "evening and morning" occurs over 100X in OT with the word Day. Each time it refers to a literal 24 hour day. 5. If one holds to the day-age theory, there are many problems for which there are no answers. For example, on Day Three, the vegetation and plant life appeared. But if the day was a geologic age, then half of that age was darkness. How could plant life survive for millions of years in total darkness? This must necessarily be the case since the text clearly states that these days consisted of periods of evening and morning. 6. The Sabbath command in Ex. 20:8-11 can be understood only when the days of the creation week are considered to be 24-hour days. In Ex.20:9,11: "Six days shall thou labor, and do all thy work...For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is." No one would think that they were to work for 6 eons and then rest on the seventh eon. 7. Perhaps the most damaging statement from the Day-Age theory comes from Jesus teaching in Mark 10:4--"But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them." In other words, God made man and woman "from the beginning of the creation. But this could not be if the Day-Age theory were true, because it places man, not at the beginning of creation, but at the end of millions or billions of geologic time. If we believe Jesus to be the divine Son of God, we must believe what He believed. Only reason for not taking text as it reads: to fit in speculations of evolutionists. (Source consulted:Reason & Revelation)