Well, Will, in the Catholic Church, and in the Anglican Church as well, those days are seen as being very, very long days. Those days could actually be timespans of millions of years. And the Church also accepts the theory of evolution - I mean, it fits in pretty much perfectly with the creation timeline in Genesis.
Catholics don't take every detail in the Bible literally
Right like, I consider myself a Christian, but I accept evolution as God's way of creating the world. People back then, much like in Henson's
The Storyteller, "told their past with stories." It was how they explained the world around them. Some things in the Bible happened and some are just stories decided to teach. And it doesn't matter if all of them really happened or not, the point is the lesson they are trying to get across (which I believe is influenced by God). Of course, this is just what I believe, and no one has to agree.
Not that I want to get into a debate, hehe. Definiely not. So anyway, at the moment we can't yet predict when the world will end. Though, I think the US isn't doing so hot right now unfortunately, heh.