God can do whatever he wants, even evolution on a 5 billion year old Earth.
Again you did not answer my question. My question was:
Why does God need evolution to make man?
Your answer is weak and generic. Of course God can do whatever he wants. That is not an answer to my specific question.
The answer you don’t want to give, is that God does not need evolution to make man. He could make man exactly the way God’s Word describes how man was made.
My answer to your question is: while God could have made man in a billion different ways, including ways we cannot even think of right now, we know how man was made because God’s Word tells us how God made the first man.
And I will also say the biblical account of creation is the only account one can believe in and not run into biblical errors with. If you believe man evolved from other lower life forms, the whole natural selection/death process was in place - but God’s Word says that death only entered the world because of man’s sin. So you are in severe conflict on this point.
Further under natural selection and evolution, death equals progress. Dying off of weaker things in order for stronger to survive, death turns out to be a positive mechanism under this view. But the bible says that death is an enemy of man. So you are now in a large conflict on this point.
And finally if man evolved he was not created in the image of God. So again you are in severe contradiction to God’s Word on this topic as well.
Or can create things as He sees fit - even in 6 literal days. What is interesting... how many early writings depict dragons and other “monsters” that we generally discount as folklore and myths. Yet even in the Bible, we see allusions to dragons, leviathan, and other dinosaur-like creatures...
Why is it not just as possible that our perception and understanding of time are not what is wrong?