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.
I happen to have a cosmological paradigm which post5ulates the existence of a dimension as real as space or time which is the dimension of life force. And further, I believe there is a dimension of spirit essence. Consciousness is a reality and living things are conscious to some level of complexity. The most primitive life forms may be themselves responsible for their form and function, as reflection of their life force consciousness the way God created them to be, to exist, interacting with the most basic dimensional expressions of His Creation.
My cosmological model is, BTW, based upon what the Bible tells us and what devout Rabbis have offered, such as Nachmonides in his thirteenth century commentaries on Gensis, where he tells us that his reading of Genesis yields at least ten dimensions.
In his terminology the word dimensions might better be read as 'variable expressions, and we do not know how many actual dimensions God has created and will create, where I use the term 'dimensions' to mean the larger picture like space or time as dimensions having 'variable expressions' such as length or volume.
Having offered this 'other' cosmological paradigm at FR and been soundly ridiculed by the science fundamentalists/materialists, I will offer no more than this: I am currently generating the 'mathematical expressions' to illustrate the cosmology I envision.
The thought that the most (stupendously complex) “simple” single-celled organism could spring to life when its chemical parts are mixed together is laughable.
Spirited: Yes, it is laughable. In fact the notion that life will eventually arise from the transmutation of dead things (chemicals) belongs to alchemy and Hermetic magic, two main elements of the ancient royal occult science of gnostic magicians.
CS Lewis understood that modern science and occult science are twins. For an all too brief period of time modern science was a search for how things really work. But for quite a long time now it’s been sliding back into its’ old ways. The Big Bang (Orphic Cosmic Egg) for instance, is an ancient pagan motif bespeaking an inexplicable cosmic explosion that unleashes the forces of chaos responsible for evil and suffering. In this way of thinking, man is not fallen, the material world is.