
The Days of Genesis
Brett Palmer, the self-described bible skeptic behind the "What Genesis Got Wrong" series, argues that the creation account's seven days were written to be understood as literal 24-hour periods, not the long ages some readers propose. He works through the Hebrew word yom, tracing how Moses pairs it with ordinal numbers and the phrase "evening and morning" starting in Genesis 1:5, and tests that reading against counterarguments like 2 Peter 3:8's claim that a day is as a thousand years to God. Chapters move through the seventh day's ambiguous ending, the possibility Moses could have chosen a different word if he meant something looser, and the theory that Genesis 1 is poetry rather than a chronological account. Palmer treats each objection on its own before returning to the philological case for a literal week. The video runs long and includes a clickable table of contents so viewers can jump between sections, structured more as a reference work on Hebrew word choice than a straight narrative.