It is the author's opinion that the Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God. All Scripture should be taken literally. God says exactly what He means to say through human mediums. Many times the Word of God uses similes, metaphors, symbolic language, poetic language, or other figures of speech, but this is always used to convey a literal meaning. This is dangerous, because it gives sinful Man the freedom to make the Bible say what he wants it to say rather than what God wants it to say.
Inerrancy is the result of inspiration.
This is the only way to interpret Scripture. Otherwise, you have sinful and fallen men judging the Bible instead of allowing the Bible judging them. With this in mind, let's see what both camps say about the six days of Genesis. Other Bible scholars claim that the universe could be billions of years old without sacrificing a literal understanding of Genesis 1 and 2. This process normally takes months or years.