The fact that God named the light day and the darkness night, ending each day with evening and each night with morning proves the day and night of the 6 days were as literal as all days and nights since then(v5,8,13,19,23,31) #2 The word day is used 2,182 times in scripture and always of a literal day unless qualified as the day of the Lord, the day of God, the day of judgment, or similarly limited by some other qualifying statement. The days of Genesis 1 are literal, because they are not so qualified, they are numbered 1 to 7, and begin and end with an evening and morning as all other ordinary 24-hr. days. #3 The word evening means dusk or night. It is found 49 times and is always used in a literal sense. The word morning means dawn, or break of day. It is found 187 times and is always used in a literal sense. This proves that day and night and light and darkness are literal days and nights, and regular periods of 24 hours regulated by the sun, moon, and stars as commanded in v 14-18; 8:22 Job 38:12 Ps.19:2 Jer. 31:35-37; 33:19-26 #4 The light of day 1, 2, and 3 came from same source as the light of days 4, 5, 6, and every day since. Th