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Boanerges said:
What would be the purpose of having death occuring during the first days of creation? Also why should we think that in the record of Genesis 1-3 that years would have passed? Isn't it more likely to view the fall as something that happened on the seventh day?
Certainly, many would say that the fall happened on the 7th 24 hour day. I wasn't addressing that. Many people are open to longer than 24 hour creation days, but some of those people are predisposed to the idea that no animals could have died prior to the fall simply because death entered the world as a result of the fall.
So for those who hold this view, some of them might allow for a somewhat longer period of time between creation and the fall, but there would be an outer limit to the timeframe because presummably animals couldn't have existed for extremely long periods of time without any dying.

One argument that at least one of the days was more than 24 hours is based on the naming of the animals. How long would it take Adam to name all the animals? Forget the fact that he had to observe them all and find fitting names based on their characteristics. Let's just say he took 3 seconds per species. That would enable him to name only 28,800 species in one day. There are more than that. So either he only named a small portion or that 'day' was longer than 24 hours.

What are your thoughts?