toobfreak
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Why not both? For one thing, chimps didn't turn into people, chimps are a dead end in the hominid chain while Sapiens is a parallel branch still going on.
Evolution still goes on, but on time scales of thousands and millions of years not visible to people only living 70 or 80 years.
Just keep in mind that the author of the book of Genesis is unknown but estimated written possibly around 1600 BC and was speaking in a metaphorical sense, in that the six days of God does not equate to six days of life here on Earth. And why would it?
God's "days" could be millions of years long, and our days did not even exist yet in the time of Genesis. Our days are based on the current spin rate of the Earth, so theology really runs into a HUGE problem if they try to suppose that the creator of all at the beginning of time based all of the universe on six day time periods of a single planet's spin far into the future.
I mean, back when the dinosaurs were killed off, the Earth's diurnal rotation was only 23.7 hours long. Back during the Ediacaran when complex life was forming in the ocean, our day was only 22 hours long.
The author of Genesis was merely trying to convey a time period in God's world when they had no other way of conveying or understanding such things other than in ways relating to ordinary man (the reader) could understand--- earthly days and nights. As such, while much of the Bible is really an historical account and timeline, Genesis is really just a metaphorical assumption trying to connect the beginnings of recorded history with the formations of the universe that connects how the Sun, Moon, planets and world all came about in the first place for there to even be a human species on Earth to have any history of.
This is not surprising because every civilization and culture since recorded time has done the same thing.
One culture simply imagined that the world was a flat disc of earth riding atop the backs of four giant elephants or turtles.
And they explained it in the best way they could considering they had no science, no technology, no tools at the time to really inspect, examine and understand the true scope and nature of the universe.
But too many people fear admitting that, thinking that if Genesis (or a tiny part of it) cannot be taking strictly literally, that it somehow invalidates the rest of it, which is wrong. Likewise, too many people make the false assumption that just because proven science conflicts with the first page of the Bible, that serves as proof that the whole thing must be false.
Fact of the matter is that historical and archeological research has in fact confirmed much of the timeline and events recorded in the Bible as real. In fact, the great flood of Noah was even recorded in Babylonian records 1,000 years before it was also written down recorded in the Bible.
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