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“...it really doesn’t matter much to me. as a Catholic, i don’t believe in all of that young earth stuff that some Protestants do. even if we did evolve from amoebas, God was still there at the beginning to bring life from nothing.”

I go beyond you as a Catholic or ‘some Protestants’...I believe it is all settled in the Genesis account. God created the heavens and the earth.

And then we find chaos. We do know that Lucifer, one of the highest archangels, was given dominion over the earth. Lucifer was not given dominion over a planet that had no form, covered with water. Nor was he given dominion over a lot of rocks. He had dominion over a creation...a creation that preceded the account of man’s creation in Genesis. This all ended when Lucifer reached out his had to take God’s throne, and he with a third of the angels (his third) were cast out of heaven.

When that happened I believe God wiped out the civilization that was on earth at that time with a flood. We read later in the Bible that the sun, moon and stars were ‘turned off’...instant deep freeze...the ice age that is today so difficult to explain.

In Genesis we find the Spirit of God hovering over the face of the deep. Instant thaw!

And from that point in the Genesis ‘creation’ account, what we see is ‘re-creation’.

I have no problem with the six days as literal six earth days as we know them today. And that was about six thousand years ago. The earth, though is ‘eons’ older.

As far as the ‘useless appendages’ are concerned, and the appendix in particular, man probably was mostly vegetarian in the beginning of this creation, and needed the appendix for aiding in the digestion of that vegetable matter being consumed. Later, when not needed for that function because of the more carnivorous diet, though we have always, I believe, been omnivores, still serves a purpose.

As for the ‘tits’ on the boar (in this case, the man), God created Adam first. In His image and in His likeness. With creative powers. And reproductive powers. Then God saw that man needed a help-meet, and created woman out of the man, Adam. Adam said, ‘Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone’...so the mammary glands that Adam had, were no longer needed by him, but were needed by the woman, Eve.

Adam is told by God to ‘replenish’ the earth. This is the same instruction God gave to Noah after the Flood...’replenish’.

God also set the rainbow in the sky as a token of his promise to Noah to never destroy the earth again by Flood. Why was this so necessary? I believe it is because this is the second time God destroyed a civilization by Flood.

I could go on...and as I post this I expect all sorts of flame-throwers to come out, so flame away...I am protected...

My loins are Girt about with Truth, I have on the Breast Plate of Righteousness, my feet are Shod with the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace, I have taken up the Shield of Faith to quench your fiery darts, I have also donned the Helmet of Salvation, and taken the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God!