That is what bugs me. Even when one reads Genesis 1 and believes that it is God's idea of a day at work (i.e. not 24 hours) there is nothing in the Bible that states that evolution could not have happened.
Those people who would posit that the Bible disallows evolution might want to realize the Bible also does not say that 2+2=4 either, but they do accept that.
The entire concept of a day is relative and is based on the observer. An ‘day’ on earth is different than a day on Mars, is different than even a day on the moon. If the Bible is the Word of God- then He would be the observer and we have no idea what basis the ‘day’ was based on, especially as this was written from the perspective of before humans were created, thus their point of view would yet to have existed.
>> Even when one reads Genesis 1 and believes that it is God’s idea of a day at work (i.e. not 24 hours) there is nothing in the Bible that states that evolution could not have happened.<<
“and the morning and the evening was the first day”. They were approx. 24 hr days or the change in the earths rotation would have had to have been very drastic. If you don’t accept the 24hr day and try to extend the time you will end up with some rather severe problems.
I'd suggest spending a little more time with your Bible, pnh102.
Evolution, at it's core, depends utterly upon death as an objective good, a literal requirement for improvement of basic life forms and every successive and more putatively advanced life form thereafter.
The Bible states that death was not part of God's Creation. The disobedience of man, the original sin of man, brought death into this world, not just for mankind, but all of Creation.
This is inescapable, and it's not something that can be easily and simply segregated to just Genesis and blithely discarded. It's present throughout the Old and the New Testaments. Jesus Christ himself spoke upon it and validated it. He was, after all, the Second Adam, brought into the world to undo the damage done by the first Adam.