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Giving an example, he said that some faculty members believe that the Hebrew word yom (day) should be seen in Genesis as a literal 24-hour day.

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The biblical exegete professor says that the Hebrew word "yom" when preceded by a number (1, 2 or 6) refers to a 24 hour cycle of the earth.

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But then, I never had a problem with the idea that "yom" - the Hebrew word for "day" - can't also mean "eon," meaning that our observable universe was created in the space of six eons, each eon lasting... what's the current estimate?

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Personally, I think the hovering of the Holy Spirit recorded in Genesis 1 provides a physical foundation of a potentially literal "yom" that can be billions of years long, removing the need for both symbolism and unfounded interpretations for the Hebrew word 'yom'.

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Furthermore, in the Exodus 20: 11 passage, Moses speaks of the seventh day ( "yom") to be observed every week as the Sabbath, and in the same breath says this is because everything was created in six yoms with God resting on the seventh.

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I am often puzzled by the YEC insistance of a creation "yom" having to be 24-hours, when defining a day as sundown to sundown never results in precisely a 24 hour day March 21 and September 21 probably come closest though. 6 months of the year, a yom measures a little more and 6 months it's a little less.

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But since in doesn't always have a specific 24-hr limit, he believes he can take a non-literal meaning of 'yom' in Genesis 1.

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We believe that the "yom" of Genesis I may be interpreted either

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April 2007 (EDT)::: Yes, '' yom '' can be read as an indefinite period of time.

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And '' yom '' '' 'cannot' '' mean an indefinite period of time when (a) used with a number (first day, second day, six days), (b) used with

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