Jesus did not rise from the dead -- My debate opening statement.

[Tonus]

Oh my, you haven't had the benefit of Drich's views on Genesis, have you? 

Short version: Earth/cosmos older than 10,000 years . . . evolution not necessarily disputed . . . "monkey-man" pre-Garden-of-Eden, followed by literal Adam and Eve (true, spirit-endowed humans) . . . etc.

It's a magnificent mess and a fine example of what happens when people really take the Bible to be true and then needlessly contort themselves to make it "fit" with what science has found. On this issue, Drich seems to be a church of one. In any case, I've never come across anyone with a similar take on the question.

AronRa just completed a series of videos critiquing one of David C. Pack's videos, and in one of them Pack explains that between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 there is a 13.5 billion year gap where the universe and Earth take shape, are inhabited by people and eventually invaded by demons and is turned into a scorched and barren world that god then begins to prepare for a second shot at populating it with humans.

I suppose it's a natural extension of the constant interpretation and re-interpretation of the Bible that Christians have been doing for centuries as humanity gains more and more knowledge about the world. Perhaps we should have expected that they would find a way to shoehorn the age of the universe into scripture.