Well duh, if they meant metaphorical day, they should have used the hebrew word for metaphorical days.

/s

Which baffled me enough to shut me up, so that guy probably thinks he convinced me.

This seems to happen to me more frequently these days. Sometimes a person will say something so absurd that it just stops me in my tracks and I'm sure they think it means they "won"

I dont know hebrew, but that does seem plasuable enough to me. My understanding is that different languages have different structures, and therefore its definitely plausible that hebrew has a "literal" structure. Similar to how we say literally, except we use it wrong a bunch.

Of course, I generally doubt anyone that says they know hebrew until they demonstrate it, so i doubt what they said was true, but I could understand how it might've been believable.

Original Hebrew? Anything in Hebrew that is supposedly from the "original" is a translation.