Do the Quran and Bible Really Teach The Universe Was Created in 6 Days? [View all]

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From the article:

The word for “days” used in Arabic in the Qur’an is Ayyam, a plural for Yaum. In general, the word Yaum is translated as “a day”. However, the plural Ayyam is also meant for “periods of time”, and therefore is meant to indicate stages rather than a time period between sunrise and sunset (or sunrise to sunrise) on earth.
One might wonder what was the measure of a day before the earth was created? It could not have been the days as measured by the rotation of the (then-nonexistent) earth upon its axis. However, the Qur’an clearly speaks of measurements of days other than the earthly days as explained below.

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https://www.patheos.com/blogs/askamuslim/2018/02/breaking-news-the-universe-was-not-created-in-6-days/2/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Muslim&utm_content=49

Treating the word "ayyam" as having 2 meanings leads to the conclusion that 2 meanings can be intended. Bit to those who insist on a strictly literal meaning, and we can see that insistence among some few here, we will hear the familiar refrain that the account is nonsense.