One explains the term "days" to mean long periods of time; the other accepts the word in its ordinary and most natural sense, and endeavours to eliminate the long course of developmental work made known to us by palaeontological science, and supposes all that to have been passed over in silence; and argues that a final preparation for the advent of the man Adam was made in a special work of six days.
"Creation and Its Records"
B.H. Baden-Powell
I will here interrupt my argument for a moment to say that there is a certain degree of coincidence between the succession of life on the earth as far as it is explained by palaeontological research, and the order of creation stated in Genesis; but that is not concerned with any forced interpretation of the term "day."
"Creation and Its Records"
B.H. Baden-Powell
Relative Importance of mineral and palaeontological Characters.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell