Young-Earth Creationism vs. Old-Earth Creationism?

The way in which a reader of the Bible is to understand the text is to use the same rules of grammar and syntax by which the text was originally written. When this is done the text demands that the days in Genesis be literal 24 hour periods. The chronologies thus provide a precise record from Adam to the Flood and beyond. One does not need to have Lorentz, Poincare, Einstein, or Feynman to understand the Genesis text (its a language thing, not a scientific thing - just like a newspaper or magazine). The Biblical model of creation provides the chronological framework by which creation researchers are to peform their scientific modeling.