Then why did God go to the trouble of telling us that He not only created different animal groups on different days, but the source of materials for the different animal groups and man?
Day 3 Gen 1: 11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so.
Day 5 Gen 1: 20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."
Day 6 Gen 1: 24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. Gen 2:19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air.
Gen 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
Gen 2:21 & 22 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
I don't know how much more clear God could have been that He didn't use evolution to create life on this planet. The language and wording of those declarative statements lends itself to a factual, direct reading of the passages. There is nothing in there that suggests an allegorical reading is intended to be made.
What does that word mean?
The truth is, it was not a 24 hour day until rather recently in history.
“Day” can be just about any unit of measure.
More over, if you understand Einstein's theories, at all, you understand that TIME, itself, is most likely an irrelevant concept to God.
To me, science helps me understand God.
Science does NOT contradict God.
Scripture was written by MEN, in large part, 99% of the time, God did NOT dictate, precisely, what was to be written down.
Strange that you literalists can attack the Catholic Pope due to the fact that you do not accept HIS authority, yet you can not bring yourself to believe that ancient scribes and monks MIGHT have made a few mistakes?
Every step of the way, every transcription, every translation of the Bible counted on HUMANS, and therefore it will contain some degree of human error.
“Do not put the Lord, your God, to the TEST”
To hold out that the Bible is a scientific journal is pure blasphemy. We are not to worship objects and the Bible is an object. The Bible should teach us how to live, and that is all it is intended to teach.
I have great sympathy for the “Intelligent Design” crowd, I have helped them get elected, I have recruited them to precinct posts -— mainly because we agree on so many other issues.
However, God is laughing at us all, over this silly debate.
We do not know, and humility demands that we admit we do not know, all the secrets of creation.
All excellent points, Metmom. God is giving His eye-witness historical account of what He did during creation week. If we employ the assumptions of the naturalistic historical sciences to reinterpret scripture, we are placing naturalistic science in a magisterial role over scripture. That’s a big no-no. I thought you might find the following interesting in this regard. All the best—GGG
http://creation.com/loving-god-with-all-your-mind-logic-and-creation-journal-of-creation-tj