Any God could make creation...all of them did for years...think about it. But the God I believe in us beyond our basic understandings of intellect. When you look at evolution and the incredible intracancies of it, only a real God could make this happen. The problem with fundamentalism is in the interpretation......and on the third day...so a fundamentalist gets out his Timex 24 hour clock and tries to figure out how God did all that just in the third day. But when making this happen, did God have a clock and Timex himself? The people writing how creation happened in Genesis were writing to people as dumb as a box of rocks...so they used days instead of trying to explain eons an million year time sections. (Unfortunately, There are still some around as dumb as a box of rocks). Evolution cannot be fully accounted for in my mind without a limitless intellect behind it. The tool God used to create the world...was evolution. I’m a “creationist” using a different clock.
Let me summarize all the points of view:
Evolutionists - Lucy or something MUST be an ancestor of mankind. Unfortunately, the earliest fossil records of homo sapiens are genetically the same as us; and genetically distinct from the fossil records of any of the now extinct bipedal hominids that we have. Perhaps we only have a few scattered fossils, some of which are bipedal hominids that went extinct.
Young earth creationists - Lucy, the dinosaurs, and all other forms of life now extinct must have been alive at the time of the flood. Carbon dating must be wrong. The red shift must be wrong. There was no Old Kingdom of Egypt, so most of archeology must also be wrong.
BOTH of these theories are based mostly on doctrinaire belief and the rejection of the best evidence before us.
Old earth creationists - the Hebrew word translated as “day” must mean a long but definite period of time. And, when Genesis says “the evening and the morning,” it means only to say that these periods of time started and then ended. The biggest problem in this point of view is why didn’t we understand the Genesis account this way prior to modern science and archeology.
This argument of Creationist vs. Evolutionist is pointless. Both are wrong.
Evolution is a material “manufacturing” recipe for “life”. It is not history.
The Bible is moral truth seeking and thus historical inheritence related, and not a recipe.