Hi 57,
Yes, but we're not dealing with what man believes according to what for 6,000 years has been associated with evening and morning. What we're working to discern here is what God has said and whether or not God, when He says there was evening and there was morning the first day, meant for us to deny that what He has said could possibly be true because man has come to associate that evening and morning are somehow tied in with the sun existing.
My position is that when God said there was evening and morning the first day, that He intends us to understand that there was one half of the period of a fairly normal time span of a day and then the second half of a fairly normal time span of a day. It is God's way of telling us that these arguments about 'how long the days of creation were', or 'how we could possibly understand that God created this realm in the time span of what we know today as six fairly normal days', are answered by God.
His account says that, yes, the days were six days just like you and I experience today as regards the length of the days. They were days that consisted of an evening (one half of a roughly 24 hour time span) and a morning (the other half of a roughly 24 hour time span of a fairly normal day). You see, for me, God has answered all these questions that we have about the length of actual, real time that it took God to create this realm of creation that He made for the existence of mankind. For me, I believe that God inserted the 'evening and morning' clue for the very purpose of answering the doubts that He knew men would have about believing what He has told us about creating this realm and how long it actually took Him to put it all together.
Then He lists for us the genealogies of Adam and then Noah and Abraham. There was a purpose that God didn't just tell us that so-and-so was the son of so-and so. God listed the number of years that each father had lived when that father had a particular son. That accounting of years would have been worthless as merely evidence that father begat child all the way to Jesus. Those years are given for the very purpose that not only can we know without doubt that God did create this realm in the time span of six fairly normal lengths of days, but, he did it all about 6,000 years ago. God has answered all our questions. We just don't want to believe it because it stands awkwardly opposed to what man has told us is the 'truth'.
God created this entire realm of existence just as He has told us and He is going to bring it all to a close just as He has told us. In the end, God is going to achieve the purpose for which He did all of this creating. He is going to have the royal priesthood which He intended to get from the very beginning. Those who have believed His Son, just as was established before the foundations of the world were set in place, will gain eternal life with God. That's my understanding of God's word and this realm in which we live. How it was created and when it was created just as God has clearly told us.
God bless you,
In Christ, ted.