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A Matter of Days: Resolving a Creation Controversy is unavailable, but you can change that!

Creation—it’s all in six days’ work. But did the creation days of Genesis last hours or epochs? The length of time represented by the word day sparks a storm of controversy. Lightning strikes and thunder roars with questions at the core of this debate: • Does belief in an old earth equate to belief in evolution? • Was there any kind of death before the Fall? • Does the Bible speak of a...

• a chronology’s function • sixth-day events • the seventh day • the coming eighth day • biblical clocks WORD CHOICES: YÔM, ʿEREB, AND BŌQER The Hebrew word yôm, translated “day,” is used in biblical Hebrew (as in modern English) to indicate any of four time periods: (a) some portion of the daylight (hours), (b) sunrise to sunset, (c) sunset to sunset, or (d) a segment of time without any reference to solar days (from weeks to a year to several years to an age or epoch).2 Yôm cannot, however, be
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