Alan

Earlier I responded to your post about the late John Gerstner’s beliefs on the issue.

You might be aware that John Gerstner is a mentor of RC Sproul and according to Sproul was in his opinion the best in the field of apologetics.
I thought because of this it might be interesting to get RC Sproul’s take on this particular issue.
http://creation.com/famous-evangelical-apologist-changes-his-mind-rc-sproul

Here is one quote by RC Sproul from the link above.

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For most of my teaching career, I considered the framework hypothesis to be a possibility. But I have now changed my mind. I now hold to a literal six-day creation, the fourth alternative and the traditional one. Genesis says that God created the universe and everything in it in six twenty-four–hour periods. According to the Reformation hermeneutic, the first option is to follow the plain sense of the text. One must do a great deal of hermeneutical gymnastics to escape the plain meaning of Genesis 1–2. The confession makes it a point of faith that God created the world in the space of six days. [emphasis in original, indicating these words are part of the Confession] (pp. 127–128)

Tom