Jesus: Literal 24-Hour Days In The Bible

My first interviewee was my cousin. He believes that the days in Genesis were literal 24-hour days. He supported this belief by citing other instances of the word “Yom” meaning literal 24-hour periods. Going along with a literal interpretation of the Bible, he believes that when you add the 2,000 years between Adam and Abraham to the 4,000 years since Abraham, you come to a total of 6,000 years old. My cousin does not believe that humans and apes share a common ancestor. His explanation is that although God created them on the same day, He created them separately. My cousin also believes that the account of Adam and Eve is true and supported by multiple people in the Bible, even Jesus himself, treating him as a historical figure.
My second interviewee was a family friend. He believes that Genesis is a literary story, and the “days” in Genesis are neither 24-hour periods nor long periods of time. According to him, the earth is 4.5 billion years old because that is what science and physics prove. He also believes that humans and apes share an ancestor and that Lucy is the perfect example. He went on to say that looking at humans and apes show their similarities. He supported this idea by the studies of DNA that
In Genesis, it says, “there was evening and there was morning on the ___ day.” This cycle of light and darkness implies one normal day, not periods of time. When discussing the word “day” it is important to take into account the Hebrew word “Yom”, interpreted as “day.” The word “Yom” is used multiple times in the Bible and has different meanings depending on the words around it. In Genesis, the word “Yom” is found in singular form followed by a number, which based on a grammatical analysis done by Steven Boyd, is determined to mean a literal 24-hour period. To be considered more than a day it would have had to been found plural and surrounded by prepositional phrases, which is was