[allmendream]

Maybe you better read Genesis again.

God did not create life out of nothing. At God’s command the Oceans and the Land brought forth life.

Thus scripture is perfectly compatible with the notion that (at God’s command) life originated from non living material; quite possibly by natural means.

Just as when Genesis says that God created the Sun, does that mean that gravity and nuclear fusion were not the means that God used? Those are the means that God uses to create stars that we observe forming. Did God not create those stars also?

[editor-surveyor]

"At God’s command the Oceans and the Land brought forth life."

That is in direct contradiction to what Genesis says.

God never commanded the oceans to bring forth anything. The first life he created didn't even live in the oceans.

[Soothesayer]

I still get confused about scripture. You told me what I wanted to hear so I’ll agree with you.