No? I asked a specific starter question.
In the Bible God describes a distinctly NON-evolutionary method of Creation.
Yes. The question is whether this was intended as a history lesson or as something else.
If He used evolution then He wouldn't have made up some fairy tale to describe what He did.
That is your thesis. I am asking you to elaborate on it and reflect on the audience for the work and whether the story was indeed intended to be a scientifically accurate historical record.
SD
It was intended to be both. The New Testament says that the Old Testament accounts are there for our examples. So the Old Testament is history with a point. But just because the history recorded in the Old Testament is used to give us instruction doesn't lessen its historical truthfulness.
That is your thesis. I am asking you to elaborate on it and reflect on the audience for the work and whether the story was indeed intended to be a scientifically accurate historical record.
I think the account was meant to be an accurate representation of what happened in the first seven days of the universe.
In Exodus 20 God even emphasizes that the seven days of Creation are seven literal, 24-hour days (Ex 20:8-11).