Reading Genesis literally does not require one to assume the six days of creation were consecutive.
Of course it does. It doesn't say God labored for a day, then rested, then labored for another day, then rested.....and then on the 1,460,000,007th day he rested.
Trained scientist have a term for what you are doing, it's called "curve fitting". Curve fitting is when you start with your answer (The Creation story of Genesis is true), collect you data, and then fit the story and the data to support you pre arrived at answer. This for of reasoning is not accepted outside of the left wing liberal sciences such as Psychology or Climate Change research....
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
