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[piytar]

I just don’t see it as necessary to having faith in the Word. Christ — who has been around since at least the beginning (because He is God and therefore outside of the constraints of time) — often spoke in parables. I think that Genesis might be viewed in the same way.

Or maybe the universe and everything in it (including the Earth) were created in 7 days about 5,000 years ago.

Or maybe God created the universe in 7 days but wrote a “back story.” Think about any decent book. There are always things that happened before page 1. Pretty sure God is the best author ever, so I’d be surprised if He didn’t include a backstory.

God also might have created the “backstory” to bring forth Leviathan per the book of Job.

Yet another alternative is that a “day” where God resides does not map to a “day” here, as stated earlier. I actually lean this way because I simply do not see God being limited to a “day” as defined on a planet He created.

But I’m not sure. Maybe the answer is something else.

Regardless, macro-evolution (i.e., one species to another) is junk. That much we agree upon.

(I also have multiple engineering and science degrees. Even if you allow for a billions of years old universe, the information content in DNA is WAY to much to have occurred through random mutations. Lets not even get into the issue of entropy except to say that information in the absence of complex intelligent life forms such as humans DEGRADES over time, it does not enhance. Thus, before complex intelligent life forms existed, there is no way information in DNA enhanced to the point to form such life.)