Quote Originally Posted by sawleaf
Why not both??? What if God set everything into motion and let it all play out. Maybe the Genesis chapter in the bible is a way of explaining the exsistence of the Earth in a way that people could understand and believe thousands of years ago? What do you think people would've thought in biblical times, if you tried to explain geology and evolution?
I couldn't agree more, Sawleaf. What's more is that I don't understand why religious types reject evolution so flatly. It's a beautiful system, it shows that we all have common ancestors if you go back in time enough, and that we are inextricably tied to Nature, even though we're destroying it right now. Besides, though I don't believe it myself, what if God himself set everything motin in the first place?

To me, Adam and Eve are the first two molecules that we can consider as 'living'. Even when God creates Eve from Adam, that could just be a fancy way of saying Adam's cell split into to 2 cells, Adam and Eve. LOL, I'm going off the deep end, I know, but my point is that evolution doesn't contradict the Bible in any way. You just need to go deeper in your interpretation of it, and not take it at face value. I said it once, and I'll say it again until I get banned: The Bible was NEVER meant to be taken literally.