My timeline of the universe

[icarus4586]

      6010 years ago, in 4004 BC, the universe was created. Six days later, the first human was created. His name was Adam. A couple days after that, he underwent the first surgery, when God took one of his ribs and made a woman out of it

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[anonymous]

Okay, so here's my what I think about the evolution vs. creation debate. Some people think it's very important to have your opinion on which one is right, just like some people think it's important to know exactly when the rapture will happen with respect to the tribulation and what a particular verse probably meant in the original whatever language it was written in when we scrutinize it out of context. I, however, tend to think that God is a whole lot bigger than any of that. We have these two ideas that we like to battle over, whether God made everything in six literal creation days or whether everything happened according to science with evolution. The thing is, we're just very little people on a very big earth in a very large universe. How shallow are we to think that we can narrow everything down to two very small ideas and then battle over which is right? There are some things that are important for us to know, like the fact that Jesus Christ is the son of God and that God created us (in some form, using some method that

[icarus4586]

I should probably note that the problem I've been having is not chiefly a struggle with evolution. I was taught for the longest time that evolution and the Bible were incompatible, and so when I came to see that there was in fact loads of evidence for evolution, that threw me for a bit of a loop, but I got over it. The problem for me was that evolution is often set up as a poster child for a much bigger belief-system called naturalism

[anonymous]

Evolution itself doesn't contradict the Bible, per se. Obviously naturalism does, but the evolutionary process does not. There is no direct evidence for evolution in the Bible however, and like you mention evolution is often presented as "Ha! You see? Everything wasn't created as is! God clearly doesn't exist as presented in the Bible, which means the Bible is wrong, which means there is no God!" which is pretty bogus logic even if evolution did happen. People make evolution about religion when it's a scientific principle and not a theological one which is why it generally gets rejected outright by most Christians.

I guess what I'd like to point out is that from a faith perspective it makes exactly zero difference if evolution happened or not because last I checked evolution and the evidence for or against it is kinda irrelevant to the stuff Jesus was talking about, y'know?

- Aaron