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It doesn’t flipping matter HOW God created man, but that God did.

Actually it does matter: man was a special creation -- taken from the dust of the Earth and having life breathed into him by God Himself.
To say that man evolved from other animals is to deny that man is special; this is even distinct from saying that evolution is the method for God's creation of animal-life.

Being made in God's own image is a big deal.

P.S - Can someone tell me the special biblical exception that allows for an old universe, but young earth? Genesis 1:13-17 doesn’t seem to lend much wiggle room, IMHO. There is TONS of scientific evidence to allow for an old universe.

2 Pet 3:8 -- But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day.
IOW, God is not bound by mere time. -- Also consider that a day is one revolution of the Earth WRT the sun... if there is no sun and no Earth, that is an undefined period.

2 Pet 3:8 -- But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. IOW, God is not bound by mere time. -- Also consider that a day is one revolution of the Earth WRT the sun... if there is no sun and no Earth, that is an undefined period.

We're not in disagreement at this juncture. My only complaint is that knowledge of the age of the earth or universe isn't dependent on the greek scriptures of the NT.
The Jews/Israelis etc of Jesus' age and before understood such things from the Hebrew Scriptures.
What intrigues me is that I can't seem to find many adherents to the "Young Earth" theory in Judaism whereas all the people arguing for it seem to be christian.
If such an interpretation was easily gleaned from the Scriptures that Jesus read and interpreted from, logic would dictate that there would be some sort of ancient "Young Earth" belief within the Judaism of Jesus' age....and like I stated above, in my research of the 2nd Temple period I know of no ancient Jewish theory postulating Hebrew Scripture support of a "Young Earth".

Yes, I know it’s a big deal. That was the end event I was referring to. Also, “taken from the dust of the Earth and having life breathed into him by God Himself” is not incompatible with evolution, IMHO. It’s just that it’s not accomplished in 1 second, like the YE folks seems to think is a prerequisite for some reason.