The idea that animals change over time doesn't invalidate the fact that we have dominion over the earth. Non sequitur?
Let me ask you, and I'm serious about this question because I don't know.
Did God simply snap his fingers to create a physical earth, or did he make it in layers?
And did He simply think an adult Adam into existance? Or did he create Adam as an infant, and then nurture him into adulthood by teaching him how to hunt and survive?
What about Eve?
Did God instruct her on how to procreate?
Did He help Eve physically deliver Cane and Abel, and even cut the umbilicle cord, since there were no doctors around to help?
And where did Cane and Abel find wives to marry?
How was it that a city East of Eden was already formed when Adam and Eve were the only ones God created?
I'm serious about some of these questions, and when I read these comments on FR claiming some inside knowledge as to how this amazing universe came into being, my curiosity is peaked and I want to know more.
True enough.
But the Bible does not tell us HOW the earth was created, or HOW man was created, does it.
Many creationists simply presume that the word "created" means that God snapped his fingers, and everthing was thus.
In the absense of a clearer explanation in the Bible, why is it so hard to believe that God created some creatures over a long period of time.
If God knows the number of hairs on a given man's head, then why does it not make sense that God also guides and forms the biological process in which DNA and genetics change and evolve.
And given that God uses many allegorical type stories in the Bible to get across his point, why is it so hard to fathom that some passages which you consider to be literal are also allegorical.
Who says you are simpler than a plant?