Thank you for your reply Rabbi, I appreciate it.

My concern is the definition of the word translated into 'Day'. Since the standard for the definition of a day by the rotation of the Earth around the Sun was not extablished until they were set into orbit on the 4th day, there would not be a useage of the term on the first 3 days. I have understood that the original Hebrew or Akkadian word actually has a fuller meaning and can be translated as 'age' or 'phase'. I really don't care if it is 24 hours or 24 centuries, just want a solid understanding. I also understand that the matter that our Earth was created from was the waste of the world preveiously inhabited by the Fallen Angles of Lucifer. From the first verse of the Hebrew book of Genesis, “When God began to create Heaven and Earth, the earth then was welter and waste (tohu wabohu meaning the vacancy of a desert, emptiness and futility, nothing recognizable).

Thank you for helping my understanding.

Editor's Comment

I understand your point of it being meant as a 24 hour period, however this does not explain the likes of a big bang, spontanous evolutions (not traditional evolution) as evidenced in the earth's layers etc. It just doesn't seem to add up.

If a person takes the torah's 6 days of creation, and coincides this with science's explanations, from the big bang to modern day human, it makes more sense from a perspective of a day not being 24 hours, but being just a way for humans to understand that it was a process that had steps involved. Even if we think that on each day something occurred, just by looking at how G-d's nature works now, nothing happens spontaneously, but is an occurance of a sequence of events that act as a natural progression. This would make more sense when understanding torah, and explaining how (if I got the story right) Adam had sexual relations with other animals that were so simliar to human beings but were not, when he was kicked out of the garden.