I've presented reasons that I believe that the Genesis account cannot be describing evolution, and reasons I believe a fairy tale/allegory/poetry Genesis would not be consistent with the Gospel being true. I haven't said, "shut off your brain just ignore all questions." Tell me, what part of anything I've said indicates that thinking and reason are not welcome in the Christian religion in my opinion?
If you choose to interpret Gods “day” as 24 hours, and confine God to live in that box, that's your choice.
If someone tells me they did something in a day, and describes that period as having a morning and an evening, and I believe they meant they did it in a 24 hour period that has an evening and a morning, I'm putting that person in a box?
You really believe that? Really?
If Genesis describes the Big Bang and evolution scenario, why do plants come before the sun? Why do birds come before land animals? And if it's just allegory or poetry, where does the allegory or poetry stop? With the fall of man? Noah? Abraham? Moses?
I think God tells us many truths about how we should live our lives, and also gives us many examples of how we can not comprehend Him completely while we are of this Earth.
Can you cite for me anywhere else in the Bible where God says "Here's what I did, when I did it and how I did it," where we are expected to bunde incapable of understanding what happened, when it happened, how long it took or how He did it?
You know, from your responses to me and others, I honestly cant tell if your a Christian or an agnostic.
What I can tell is that your a prideful agitator who likes to needle at others with your own literal interpretation. You may be right but there is a lot of physical evidence in this world that says your interpretation is not complete.
As many have pointed out, we have been given many parables. You want to say God made the world in a human defined 24 hour day. Have your opinion. As to morning and evening, you have never heard of “dawn” of a new age? As to the order, I cant explain, any more than I can comprehend how God already knows the future even though I still have choices to make. Its beyond human capacity to do so.
I am not trying to criticize, but as I said, I cant tell if your a believing Christain or an agnostic trouble maker, because throughout discussion, you are more concerned about a historical interpretation of the old Testament than the examples of relationships we are supposed to follow from the new Testament. So if you are a Christain, I have to say you are not helping spread the faith by making the history in Genesis your rallying cry. Try the Gospels instead.