The Creation "Days" Were Not 24 Hours Long

Thank you for accepting. I will be breaking this argument down using scripture.Evidence Against the 24 Hour Day a) The Third DayThen God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with seed in them, on the earth"; and it was so. And the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. - Genesis 1: 11-12 [2] As we can see from the English translation of the Third Day God created plants from sprouting and yielding seed which created fruit bearing plants that spread through dropping fruit with seed in them. From these verses alone we get the deep sense of time that goes far beyond the 24 hour day. This suggests God planted the seeds himself and grew the Earth slowly through progression and growth to get the biodiversity we enjoy today. It doesn't say "God created plants" and that's it but it painstakingly goes and says that the Earth sprouted vegetation and yielded seed. If this took a mere 24 hours it would have just said that God created the plants and nothing else. The fact that they described the planting process in detail lends itself to a long and intricate process of planting.The original Hebrew uses the word dasha meaning to sprout or grow forth. [1] It doesn't mean to just grow but to grow from a seed into a plant from the Earth. Also, we can tell from the text that God did not directly interfere with the planting process but merely oversaw it as it grew through the process because of this clause "And the earth brought forth vegetation", God did not bring vegetation forth from the Earth but the Earth brought forth the vegetation on its own from the seeds that God created and sowed. Again, this completely destroys the idea of a 24 hour day because of the language and words used we can tell that God planted the seeds into the Earth and watched them grow forth on their own. Even the fact that the fruit trees grew and bore fruit suggests a time period of at least a few years because that is how long fruit trees take to do so. b) The Sixth Day"And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, “Let us make man[h] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image,in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." Genesis 1: 25-27 [2] On the Sixth Day God created all the animals and man in one day. If this is true then dinosaurs and man would have had to have lived at the same time which we know to be false. More than that, it says God created the animals and then Adam and then Eve. When God created Eve Adam exclaims "at last"."Then the man said, "At last, here is one of my own kind--- Bone taken from my bone, and flesh from my flesh. 'Woman' is her name because she was taken out of man." - Genesis 2:23 [2]Since man and woman were created in the same day, the Sixth Day, we know that this exclamation of relief must have also came on the Sixth Day. However, it is illogical for someone to say "at last one of my own kind" if Adam had been there for less than 24 hours (since God created the animals first). Less than a day is hardly enough time to grow lonely and long for a companion and then show great signs of relief when the companion has been given to you. In fact, less than 24 hours isn't even enough time to come to terms with one's own existence. A baby does not long for a companion and then relieve when one is provided. From this, again, we get a sense of time. Adam must have been alone among the animals for a while so that he longed for a companion. The Word DayOne of the Hebrew translations of the word for day (there are three including the traditional 24 hour period and the daylight hours) and the third translation means an unspecified amount of time. [3] We have already shown that the other two definitions do not fit leaving the third definition which specifically mentions an unspecified period of time. We use this in English occasionally as well such as "the day of the dinosaurs" or "every dog has his day" which shows periods of time. It is not so distinct in English as it is in Hebrew however. Day in the original Bible had the meaning of a long period of unspecified time.ConclusionEvidence in the text and the original Hebrew overwhelmingly points to the Creation days to be long periods of time and not 24 hour days.Thank you[1] Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions:dasha דּשׁא (Strong's H1876) to sprout, shoot, grow green (Qal) to sprout, grow green (Hiphil) to cause to sprout, cause to shoot forth [2] http://www.biblegateway.com... [3] Strong's Hebrew Dictionaryyôm יום (Strong's #H3117)From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literally (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially): - age, + always, + chronicles, continually (-ance), daily, ([birth-], each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever (-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (. . . live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year (-ly), + younger.