Hello Dayage,
Firstly there are several things that do not made sense with your analogy. How is one to explain that both Adam and Eve were created already fully grown?
If so, how would G-d feed them without plants already being fully grown and mature, which the Bible (in Genesis) also indicates that they were.
Now, if both Adam and Eve were created fully grown along with the plants, wouldn't this also indicate that the planets, stars and whole Universe would also appear to show age (as it does), but in fact were created by G-d already fully made, AS THE GOOD BOOK CLAIMS!
No one ever seems to take this "age thing" into account. So while you are bickering about the meaning of the Hebrew word YOM (a single day), you first have to explain the age appearance of both Adam and Eve?
Genesis 2:1-3 -
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day G-d had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And G-d blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
So important was this 7th day that He made it a commandment!
Genesis 2:4-8 -
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the Lord G-d made the earth and the heavens - and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord G-d had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground - the Lord G-d formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Now the Lord G-d had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. And the Lord G-d made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Now as to the 7th day, we can know for sure that it was indeed single 24 hour days.
How so you may ask?
The answer to this lies within our very own biological body since it revolves around a 7 day cycle. As it turns out, this time period is the most ideal time for the human body (including all other living things) to rejuvenate itself and its cells. Not only seven DAYS, but every cell in the human body is replaced and renewed within a period of seven years. The 7th day pause (for resting and rejuvenating) occurs biologically in nature for none other reason other than G-d making it so.
This 7 day cycle can be seen in primitive one-celled organisms, and are even present in bacteria. This 7 day cycle can also be witnessed in the duration days from the onset of a diseases symptoms, development and resolve. Even organ transplant patients tend to have more rejection episodes on the 7/8th , 14/15th , 21/22nd, and 28/29th days after surgery. These dates fall on days slightly before a full moon WHICH SHOULD BE A DAY OF REST! In effect the body's immune system attack the foreign organ. Furthermore, an even bigger rejection occurs seven days after the organ transplant operation. It is also further witnessed that medications administered at particular times may be more effective than at other times. And, it has also been witnessed that viruses, pneumonia, and malaria infection peak at seven days. Most of us are also familiar with the common cold usually lasting a period of 7days (sometimes even two weeks).
The female gestation period also revolves around a 7 week cycle. This corresponding period is 280 days or 40x7.
Interestingly the number 7 also becomes confirmed for us when we observe the gestation periods of living things in nature. For instance ALL bird eggs hatch in multiples of 7 day periods from laying. The hen sits three weeks (which is 21 days - 7x3), while the pigeon sits two weeks (which is 14 days - 7x2). Ducks 28 days, other ducks 35 days, Eagles also 35 days, Owls 28 days, Penguins 49 days, (these are multiples of 7).
And the list goes on… Additionally, most animals have a gestation period of multiples of 7. For instance the mouse 21 days (3x7). The rabbit and rat 28 days (4x7). The cat 56 days (8x7). And the dog 63 days (9x7). Again as you can see all multiples of 7.
We have a cycle of 7 days because (in part) by the MOONS LUNAR CYCLE (4 phases) that G-d instantly created and set into motion to revolve every 24 hours.
The bottom line here is that the cycle of all living thing lie testimony to 7 days!
By the way all this information can be found in my book.
Allthough I can give such a book the respect(its atleast worth a good place on my book shelfes it deserves, i dont think you should take away E=MC² from Einstein and give it to God as a present. The bible isn't a science textbook is it...?