(October 6, 2014 at 2:27 am)Retrolord Wrote: God created Man in his image. There were first Aquatic Microorganisms, then fish, then amphibians, reptiles, land animals, then man, it all took 700 million years from the first Marine Speck. The Jewish word for day "YOM" means age. So no . . . It didn't all happen in 6 days.
Man was the last to be created. There were animals before man and of both genders. Since Neanderthals shouldn't technically be called "Men" I don't think it conflicts that God created man. Eve coming out of a rib is just a story, to show that the last species to evolve has arrived. "The coming of Man" if you will. There must have been hundreds if not thousands of Homo sapiens born after that to other Parents as well. Adam and Eve just symbolized that the age of man had arrived. Subsequently, the rest is all about how man took unfair advantage of their developed brains to dominate the Earth. Survival of the fittest
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These are my views. Why? Because I had and still had a love of Science before and after I came to the Faith
This is pretty close to how I used to answer the question when I was still Christian. I think my answer was that they were created in the same age (day) as animals, but didn't have souls, and only people did.
Of course, I don't believe that now and it's all presuppositional, but that's how I would have responded to the OP five or ten years ago.
