Does Genesis 1 answer the modern age-of-the-universe question?

The Hebrew word yom can refer to a day in multiple senses depending on context. The repeated sequence of evening and morning and the comparison with the workweek in Exodus 20 support a reading of successive ordinary days. Yet the first three days have a literary relationship with days four through six, and the seventh day occupies a special place in Genesis 2.

It would overstate the evidence to claim that a single Hebrew dictionary definition determines the age of every star. It would also overstate the literary argument to say that an ordered narrative cannot make any claim about history. A careful study group can state the interpretive options, identify which premises come from outside the text, and disagree without misrepresenting one another.