This Day and Age is a modern upbeat rock/pop band. Their debut release, "Always Leave the Ground" infuses light pianos and catchy guitar riffs similar to Copeland. Its members come from Tonawanda, NY.
It holds that the six days referred to in the Genesis account of creation are not ordinary 24-hour days, but rather are much longer periods (of thousands or millions of years).
According to this view, the sequence and duration of the Creation "days" is representative or symbolic of the sequence and duration of events that scientists theorize to have happened, such that Genesis can be read as a summary of modern science, simplified for the benefit of pre-scientific humans.
Another explanation is that the Sun was created on the first day, but the translucent layer of slight darkness (1:3) was not removed until the fourth day, rendering the Sun invisible but still with visible light during the first three days.
This abstract use of "day" is found in other mythological and religious writings of the Middle East to denote the passage of cosmic benchmarks in addition to referring to earthly time marked by the sun or the moon.
The day, week, month, year, and generation (this last usually implying the time from the birth of a man to that of his son, but possibly in Gen. 15:16, a century) are all that we find.
"It is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion." The broad outline found in Genesis 1:1 through 2:3 ends in 2:4 with the words: "in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens": [1] (http://www.blueletterbible.org/tmp_dir/c/1095203603-5111.html).
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