Creationist designers?
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"...can and did mean different things in different contexts".
And only by using non-scriptural, modern, real-world common-sense can you decide what that context is. The context isn't given in the original documents - a word that has several meanings was used; only now do we know, empirically, that the world is older and took longer to than the 7 days to create, so only now do we look back at that ambiguous word and choose our meaning from it. For millenia the ambiguity of the word was known, but interpreted according to the knowledge of the day. ie none, and was interpreted literally.
This is a fragment of the argument that states there is nothing that once had a scientific explanation that now has a better religious explanation, but there are an ever increasing number of things that once had a religious explanation that now have a scientific explanation.
To drill down with this more finely into the creation myth: as often stated by apologists, the order of the creation was vaguely correct in that day and night preceded the separation of the land and waters, and the plants and the animals, and finally the man, however with only a small amount of scientific knowledge we can see that once the 'firmament' is created, natural, demonstrable, irrefutable laws allow for the natural development of waters, and land, and life, and the evolution of it into ever more complex forms. That is, science has peeled back the creation myth, as you say, to only the ex-nihilo moment, at which point it disappears from our ability to correctly conceptualize the question in anything other than the terse language of math. Arguing for the case against an unknown unknowable by citing that a modern contexutual translation of a Hebrew word is pretty flimsy ground, mate; whatever you philosophically believe about how the world works and was formed, you have no footing by pointing to scriptural analysis. Whether you say you believe it IS the word of your god, it's not true as it's written, so what truth is it that you claim you see ?