“Do we call God a liar or man a liar?” ... Dude/dudette, your world must be a rather severe place, divided into either ors so dramatically! There are other ways of looking at the evidence we have before us, without calling God or man a liar.
I understand what you’re saying, but the plain reading of Genesis 1 really leaves no room for doubt. When “yom” is used with an ordinal number, it always means a solar day. When “yom” is used with “evening and morning,” it always means a solar day. Both were used.
And this declaration that God CREATED is literally sprinkled throughout Scripture. It’s not only in Genesis. Just a couple of examples:
Jer 32:17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.
Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Rev 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
All those passages would be nonsense if evolution had any relationship to reality. I choose to believe Scripture.
If you think about it, it’s God’s creation of us that gives Him the right to eternally reward us and eternally punish us. He owns us. That’s precisely what the Holy Spirit in Romans 9 declares as well.
Rom 9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
I don’t have any problem with microevolution, i.e., changes within species. There’s actual evidence for that. But there’s a reason for something called the LAW of Biogenesis being around. It’s called a LAW because it’s never been proven wrong. Life ALWAYS comes from life.
But that begs the evolutionary question. The thought that the most (stupendously complex) “simple” single-celled organism could spring to life when its chemical parts are mixed together is laughable. The “chance” production of a single protein has been compared to a solar system full of blind men all simultaneously solving the Rubik’s Cube. And that “simple” cell requires dozens. Now THAT’S misplaced “faith.” And there’s zero evidence of a fish “evolving” into a reptile, etc. There have been a lot of hoaxes foisted on the gullible by “true believers” in the evolutionary faith, but all were eventually exposed for the hoaxes they were.