In Genesis, where God created all living things, plant and animal, after their own kind, fully developed. He created Adam and Eve as fully developed man and woman. He did all that in six days. There is no place for the stages of development or eras of time of evolution during those six days.
I showed you some of my references. Now, you show me some of your references. That's fair.
I have no reference (unless you mean Genesis). I use my eyes and brains and I've been in plenty of debates with Christians, Muslims, and Atheists. The Jews always seem to be reserved though. Hmm. :<
But let's use Genesis! The issue is that you read the entire Bible literally, word for word. You are effectively missing the key points or ideas of the Genesis account. You are ignoring the idea of time that is repeatedly said in Genesis. You are missing the idea of the progress in Genesis. Has it ever occurred to you that it may be "six days" to God but millions of years to you? Certainly you are an extreme fraction of the entire lifespan of the universe. Everyone knows it is impossible to create something, even for us, so massive (the universe) in six days. Science does not go along with this. Instead it could be
six eras. The universe is constantly expanding and since the beginning, it has been
six eras so far.
250,000,000
500,000,000
1,000,000,000
2,000,000,000
4,000,000,000
8,000,000,000
= 15,750,000,000 years.
15,750,000,000 years which is coincidently right around the mark of scientific estimates of how old this universe is (if you do not understand why I did the calculations, refer to the Hubble Law). Yet Creationists (Christians like yourself) believe the Earth is a few thousand years old. :<
God has given you a brain. Use all your senses and reason with them. Instead of dismissing science based on an emotional response or lack of knowledge, accept science for it has helped introduce a new era of knowledge in the light of God's mastery of creation. Note that I never dismissed the fact God
created the universe! When you create something, it takes time to build such a creation. For you, you can compile a drawing and be finished with it in a day. For God, it took Him six days to create the universe. The fact is that creation also takes part with evolution. For you to deny evolution is simply removing logic from reason.
Now, let us reason with Genesis!
1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
:::Creation is evolution.
2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
:::Movement determines evolution.
3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
:::The progress of light coming onto Earth.
4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
:::Another form of progress.
5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
:::Suddenly water came. Another form of progression. Evolution in the works.
7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
:::God made the firmament, which takes time and evolution into account.
8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
:::Finally, land became habitable - another form of evolution.
10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
:::And why do you think grass came forward? Evolution.
12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
:::Came the development (which requires time and therefore evolution) of seasons!
15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
:::As hard as it is to understand this verse, it still shows movement of light and the stars.
17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
:::Wow, I wonder how animals came along! Evolution from water (life)!
21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
:::A hint! Multiplied! Evolution requires passing down genes and what do you think multiplying does?
23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
:::Finally, after a long time of time and progress, man finally appeared. And certainly God did create man since evolution was also His creation!
27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
:::Plenty of hints here.
29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
:::Almost every verse shows a sign of continuous growth and multiplication.
This is what the evolution theory pertains to. I used to believe that the evolution theory was wrong but simple logic proves it plausible. There are tons of evidence out there that supports the evolution theory but far too many creationists try to poke holes into the theory. That is good though! It only makes the theory stronger as time goes by.
Perhaps this should help you understand my point.
And a piece of wisdom for you:
Science should not denounce but affirm God's creation.
Take care.
