I wholeheartedly believe the minority view is correct. While his research has turned up at least 20 Westminster divines who endorsed a 24-hour creation day, the tickets remain unclaimed. Not one Westminster divine is on record supporting what our General Assembly now says was within the scope of what they wrote. As a consequence, the language of the Confession is equally vague. Such arguments truly astound me.
Confession is indeterminate seems incredulous.
And it is used in a theological paradigm, not in a poetic framework. In the frequently alluded to case of the millenium, the Confession IS vague. But in this case, with regard to the length of the days of creation, the Westminster divines did not merely repeat the words of Scripture. In fact, they added to those words of Scripture, and such an addition must be seen as an explanation. The days were defined with space, that is, length.