Six-day creation: Within biblical history

Simply, every reference within the Bible that looks back to Genesis 1-11 (the chapters speared most by Christians and non-Christians regarding whether they were intended to be historical narrative) refers to those happenings as historic occurrences. While oral tradition was common, the written word held final authority.

The Old Testament appeals back to the Creation as a historic event. None of these reference the six-day creation, but they speak back to the event as historical. In other words, what was received by them was received as history. Not allegory. Not man's best guess. Not God condescending to man because he would be too dense to comprehend what He really did. (This is not an exhaustive list)

• Exodus 20:8-11, 31:17
  
• Psalm 33:6-9 (whole psalm is great!), 104 (pretty much a creation psalm in its entirety), 136:4-9
• Isaiah 44:24-26, 45:7, 46:8-11, 48:12-13

The New Testament is no less plain regarding these events (again, not an exhaustive list):

• Matthew 19:45
• Romans 5:12-14
• 1 Corinthians 6:16, 11:8-12, 15:21-45
• Ephesians 5:31
• 1 Timothy 2:13-14

Plainly, Jesus (Son of God, Creator) and Paul understood these portions of Genesis 1 thru 3 to be historic events as written. Let me emphasize, this does not PROVE a six-day creation, but it gives us the sense of how the events were understood then and how we should understand them today.

Really, other than the "1000 year" misquotes already dismissed, there is no biblical indication of eons occurring at any time after the commencement of the creation.

Next, what's really at issue.