Argument #1: Transitional Fossils

[Confused Ape]

I commend you for studying the subject. However, there is a book that explains the origins of life. That Book says that God created the heavens and the earth. Your books say differently. They both can't be right.

Umpteen millions of Christians believe that both are right. Their view is that science reveals how God created the heavens, the Earth and life.

You keep ignoring everything I've posted about the BioLogos viewpoint so here's another one - How could humans have evolved and still be created in the “Image of God”?

We believe that God created humans in biological continuity with all life on earth, but also as spiritual beings. God established a unique relationship with humanity by endowing us with his image and calling us to an elevated position within the created order. Thus, BioLogos believes that God created humanity using the process of evolution and endowed us with his image. Both views of the image of God (“spiritual capacity” and “commission”) are compatible with the scientific evidence for evolution, and both views are affirmed by individuals in the BioLogos community. In fact, the two views are not mutually exclusive.
If the image of God refers to our spiritual capacities, God could still have used the natural process of evolution to create our bodies and human abilities. God could have used a miraculous process to create our spiritual capacities, or used some combination of natural processes and divine revelation to develop these capacities. Either way, God is the creator of our whole selves, including both our physical and spiritual aspects.

I think the real problem with the evolution/religion conflict is that some theists regard evolution as atheist dogma which is used to promote the idea that God doesn't exist. Science can't prove that God doesn't exist and it can't disprove the idea that evolution is the way God did it. All it can do is disprove some ideas about God such as he created the universe 6,000 years ago.

These are Richard Dawkins's concluding thoughts in that debate he had with Francis Collins.

God vs Science

DAWKINS: My mind is not closed, as you have occasionally suggested, Francis. My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about, nor can you, nor can anybody else. What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will turn out to be one of the particular historical religions that people happen to have dreamed up. When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I thought were cogent arguments against a supernatural intelligent designer. But it does seem to me to be a worthy idea. Refutable--but nevertheless grand and big enough to be worthy of respect. I don't see the Olympian gods or Jesus coming down and dying on the Cross as worthy of that grandeur. They strike me as parochial. If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

And now to Genesis 1

And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

Genesis doesn't tell us that -

1: The greater light to govern the day (our sun) is one of billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

2: Our sun isn't the only one with planets.

3: There are billions of galaxies in the universe.

Does this prove that God doesn't exist and didn't create the universe and everything in it? No. All it means is that if there is a God who spoke to humans he didn't intend the Bible to be regarded as a science textbook.