[ZULU]

If what you are saying is correct, when the world was created, God created all living things at the same time.

So at one time there were T. rexes, modern men, Australopithecuses, modern lions, ground sloths, extinct giant salamanders, etc. all living together.

The geological record and fossil record do not reflect this.

But you are approaching this entire subject from an entirely different perspective than a scientific one. You are approaching it from a faith-based perspective, based on your interpretation of scripture.

But someone else can read the same Scripture, look at the same scientific claims and come to a completely different conclusion.

As someone who believe sin the Bible, the God of the Bible and also believes in Evolution, it has always escaped me why this issue is of such obvious importance to some believers.

I think, from a Christian perspective, the most important message in the Bible is not whether evolution occurred, not whether snakes were created with no legs, but the fact that man sinned, God punished him, God sent His Son as Redeemer, Christ died for us, and we consequently have an opportunity to be saved.

The rest is interesting but peripheral to the main message.

[andysandmikesmom]

I am in agreement with your post #53...I feel the same way...yet there are those who would say, that our very salvation depends on this matter of evolution...that if we do not believe in the literal 24hr day, the literal 6, 24hr days of creation, which had to have happened just 6000 yrs ago, we are calling God a liar...that if we do not believe in Genesis in that particular way, then we will not believe anything else in the Bible, and all this adds up to the fact that we are damned...I see this, as reducing the matter of salvation to nothing more than a numbers game...

I am in agreement with you here, especially with your very last sentence...
"The rest is interesting but peripheral to the main message."