There is so many logical issues with some of these arguments.
Example: billions of years? Where is the evidence? You have weird dating methods that are continually discredited. But even more importantly where are the BONES? If you look at the last 100 years of life we have so many scattered bones from people and animals dying, yet in BILLIONS of years very little do you have any comprehension of how much time that is? If you look at a 1% reproduction rate of humans in under a hundred thousand years we would fill the planet all the way up to the moon. And the 1% reproduction rate is so we can survive.
And here's the biggest issue: Scripture is completely contrary to evolution.
1. Death entered the world through man. Man did not enter the world through death and "natural selection".
2. Species take after their own kind. That means animals didn't change into new species either.
Which makes perfect sense when you look at OBSERVABLE evidence. You have to add billions on to some of these theories for them to hold any water. When the arguments make no logical sense the reply is well it took time, billions of years.
You might be thinking well an old Earth doesn't have anything to do with evolution. Well it does because if you have humans on Earth from the beginning with the old Earth model you have a lot of issues. Scripture tells us animals were created for man. And man named them. So from a Scripture stand point man is the focus of everything.
Yet people think Earth was just sitting around for billions of years without man and animals? Okay so let's think of this. Why were trees given (Genesis) for food. But if there are no humankind or animalkind what food are they for?
If you think the Creation Days are millions or billions of years apart you have another issue.
Day 3: Vegetation is created.
Day 4: Sun is created.
Vegetation, trees, etc need sunlight. If it's not a literal day you have a huge issue of the green things surviving.
Day 6 man is created. And God says the following...
28God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
All the fish, birds, every living creature was created for man to rule over. Why? Because God rules over everything. And we are made in His image.
29Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
All the seed bearing plants are given for man to have food. Later this was changed into eating animals.
30And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food."
And it was so.
And now all the beasts, birds, and creatures are to eat the green plants for food. If this isn't literal days you have HUGE problems.
1. You don't have sun for green plants.
2. You don't have man to name the animals.
3. It's not until the 6th day that it "became so" which means animals weren't eating green plants yet.
31God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the sixth day.
Notice God is stressing ALL He made. He's not stressing what He made in the 6th day. It was built as a package deal. And all of these takes away the idea of Day 1, 2, 3 etc were not literally very short periods (not millions, billions of years between). Unless God did it supernaturally and made animals that didn't need green plants etc until it was the 6th "epoch". But if you're going to believe that why not believe that God made it in 6 days like His readers, Jesus, and the calendar all imply! Consider for instance we have 24 literal days and it stresses (morning and evening). Hence the same as we have. Why say morning and evening if it's not morning and evening? Kinda ridiculous. But if you're going to believe all that why not believe God is well able to do it all in 6 days and man is wrong right now in his understanding of dating?
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