Xanikk999 said:
Yeah, but have you ever seen/heard of a mutation that has actually
added information and resulted in a...erm...higher state? All mutations result in
losses of information. I challenge you to think of any mutations you believe are evolution working, and decide whether they added or lost information.
As for God kick starting evolution, I think it would have been simple enough for that to be explained in the Bible. It is made so clear in the wording of "six days" that it is as it says. How do you explain "And the evening and the morning were the first day" Gen 1:5 ? This is as clear as it needs to be that the days were
literal 24 hour periods. How can it be made clearer?! Really, if you cannot believe this is literal, then how can you believe the rest of the Bible literally, including any fundamental parts to the Christian belief? Jonah was in a fish for 3 days? Or maybe 5 million years going by some people's logic?
God also did not use the big bang theory, because it says in Genesis 1:16: "And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also." That was in Day 4,
after the earth had been created. Some people ask where the light was from "let there be light", and that could well have been God's (God is described as light).
I don't want to offend anyone here (although that is probably inevitable), but this is what I believe, and I'd like you to think about it! Evolution vs Creation debates always get heated, unfortunately, but they are also very interesting.