For those of you who say Creation is true but God created the “framework for Darwinism” cannot take the bible verbatim nor believe it is inerrant. You say, well the bible is interpretive but I say not. The bible has to be hugely twisted for it to work even minutely with any evolution theories. With a simple analysis of the Hebrew text in the first chapter of Genesis, “day” is referred to as 24 hour days. The writer (Moses) uses “And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day” this terminology that you read, comparing it to the rest of scripture and to Hebrew text, when evening or morning is mentioned, it is always in reference to a single human day. – Argument 1

Second argument, if you are Christian, then you believe that we are in a state of sin and cannot come to God without a savior (Jesus).
So, that said, sin then came into the world because Adam sinned right? Unless you don’t believe that part of the bible… So, unless Adam was not a man, not created in the image of God, he would have had to have been the first cell ever to have “appeared” out of lifeless chemicals then sinned before it evolved and therefore death and decay would be the curse through the millions of years of evolution. OR, Adam, the man, sinned and THEN death and decay was the result after then; hence, if you believe that Adam was created in the image of God and then was the first sinner, cursed the earth with death, you cannot believe in the big bang or any “framework” theory. This is not interpretive and you cannot believe in Christianity as a faith and accept that sin (death and decay) was before Adam or what evolutionists say would be the mitochondrial eve. Evolutionists do believe in the mitochondrial eve, and guess what; some evolutionist scientist’s timing is pretty close to the biblical chronological timing of one of the wives of Noah’s sons.

I recommend everyone here to check out the following resources:
Answers in Genesis: Ken Hamm
http://www.answersingenesis.org/

A Judged Creation – Billy Crone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dceMA5JdcJo

cheers all!

Examples:

in the bible when it says god created earth i believe he used the big bang to create earth
when it says he created humans i believe that he evolved us from apes

i believe these sort of things because you simply cannot deny the fossil evidence and simularities between humans and apes.

I find them somewhat shallow and confrontational. What I mean is they would force a guy to put his best foot forward without acknowledging his heart condition or propensity towards sin – which is the real elephant in the room you need to worry about. It would impress me much more if a guy said ‘I am a wretched sinner and I have to struggle with sin every day, and cling to Christ for counsel and comfort and conviction’ than it would for him to answer every one of those questions to me the ‘right way’.

Speaking of ‘the right way’ did you notice how there is a right and wrong answer to each one of those questions? That hints at the problem…it oversimplifies life to a set of check boxes that you either perform well or you fail. It simplifies life to right / wrong. Moral / Immoral. good / wrong. Its not really that helpful to view Christian spirituality with “yes or no” “checkboxes”.

While I appreciate the idea of making a young suitor tremble, I can’t help but think the final judgment of ‘approved / rejected’ would be made based on the guys’ external shell, which albeit can be very revealing. BUT how much more important it is for fathers to peer gently, lovingly, into a guys heart and see whats really going on, rather than to hear the right or wrong answers.

A Bible-believing, Christ-loving father-of-a-precious-daughter’s two cents.

So yes there is a big commentary on its significance. This death immediately followed sin, it is the essence of the entire point of the Bible. The point of the skin here was that a sacrifice is required to atone and cover our sin (Romans 4:7 Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered) , because the result of sin is death (Romans 6:23). This was ultimately pointing to Jesus who would be our sacrificial lamb and atone (or cover) for our sins.

God declares his creation very good at the end of day 6, I have a hard time believing that his very good creation include billions of years of death and decay. There is no account in Genesis that indicates that even humans ate animal meat until after the flood, in fact why would God tell Noah he was now allowed to eat animals if he was already doing so? And just look at the last time you saw a dead animal in the street and ask yourself if that seemed like Shalom to you. We are created in the image of God and death (even in animals) is still emotionally disturbing to us. And as for the dinosaurs there is so much evidence that they lived at the same time as man well after the flood(in both cultural studies and in the Bible in Jobs, and the Psalms). I mean in Gods perfect creation without sin and curse you honestly believe entire species where dying out??

The Bible says that the result of sin is death and the only way to overcome sin is through Jesus’ death on the cross, but if sin isn’t what causes death I’m kinda confused as to why its such a big deal that God had to die for our sins.

Although I appreciate your article and agree this is not an issue to divide over, truth still needs to be defended and changing our interpretation of the Bible to fit with what popular science says is a very slippery slope. Evolutionary theory starts with the basic assumption that there is no God so trying to mix there theories with the Bibles doesn’t make a lot of sense it the first place. I mean if you don’t take creation literal, do you not take the flood literal, and if you don’t take the flood to be literal do you take Gods wrath and hell as literal?