Look, the order of creation is nearly identical, plants, fish, birds, mammals.
Also, what does a “day” mean? The Bible also discusses the “end of days” which means: THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A BEGINNING OF DAYS!
So a Biblical “day” means what, exactly?
Also, why is it considered “immoral” to think man might be in the same evolutionary chain as “monkeys” but -—
Perfectly OK to believe that God made man from “HUMAS” or DIRT which is nothing more than the decayed remains of other plants and animals. (INCLUDING MONKEYS!)
Try to give an account, to uneducated, illiterate people, 4,000 years ago, about how life began on Earth.
They know nothing of DNA.
They know nothing of cell structure.
To say that man was made from dirt, the smallest particle that they understood at that time -— is nothing short of pure, God inspired GENIUS, as it is the only thing they understood, that was remotely like what happened.
Therefore, Genesis is an honest account of creation, made to people who could not possibly comprehend the full story.
End of story.
If you do not believe it is possible that life began millions of years ago, than it is YOU who lacks faith.
“Put not the Lord, your God, to the Test” Jesus said to Satan.
When you try to force Christians to accept impossible ideas, you only weaken faith, at least, when those ideas, themselves, have no bearing at all on salvation.
God is laughing at us, for even having these arguments.
They can be interesting, yes, but far too often we try to make litmus tests out of the evolution vs creation debate.
Frankly, the extremes on both sides are childish.
I'm not sure how you, or anyone else, can hold this argument as tenable given the fact that the Hebrews were exposed to a culture, for quite some time mind you, that was immersed in human/animal hybrids, and that such exposure would have made them very receptive to the idea of common descent. It would have been a very simple matter for God to state that we were related to other animals.