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I thought it might be beneficial for us to have a thread of just quoted statements made by Church Fathers concerning this debate here. That way it can be an easy resource to use to show what Church Fathers upheld the Authority of the Scriptures.
First quote:
St. Basil: "'And there was evening and morning, one day.' Why did he say 'one' and not 'first'?... He said 'one' because he was defining the measure of day and night..., since the twenty-four hours fill up the interval of one day."
"God made everything together, that is to say, at one time, and in a short time." "'So there was evening and there was morning.' This is to be understood as the duration of one day and one night."
"Those who do not accept the Scripture in their ordinary, common meaning, say that 'water' is not water but something else; plants and fishes they interpret as they please; the creation of reptiles and wild beasts they explain in their own way, twisting it from the obvious sense as do the interpreters of dreams - who give whatever meaning they choose to the images seen in sleep. As for me, when I hear the word 'grass' I think of grass, and the same with plant, fish, wild beast, domestic animal. I take everything in the literal sense, for 'I am not ashamed of the Gospel.'"
From St. Basil, Homily II
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-08/TOC.htm
First quote:
St. Basil: "'And there was evening and morning, one day.' Why did he say 'one' and not 'first'?... He said 'one' because he was defining the measure of day and night..., since the twenty-four hours fill up the interval of one day."
"God made everything together, that is to say, at one time, and in a short time." "'So there was evening and there was morning.' This is to be understood as the duration of one day and one night."
"Those who do not accept the Scripture in their ordinary, common meaning, say that 'water' is not water but something else; plants and fishes they interpret as they please; the creation of reptiles and wild beasts they explain in their own way, twisting it from the obvious sense as do the interpreters of dreams - who give whatever meaning they choose to the images seen in sleep. As for me, when I hear the word 'grass' I think of grass, and the same with plant, fish, wild beast, domestic animal. I take everything in the literal sense, for 'I am not ashamed of the Gospel.'"
From St. Basil, Homily II
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-08/TOC.htm