Creation Or Evolution

EVOLUTION OR CREATION?

      In a coherent world like ours people are questioning their religion and not knowing
whether to believe in creation by God or evolution, Through out my research I have
found four possible answers to this question to incorporate both theories . Which prove
neither wrong and belief in both at the same time
     One approach would be to believe that when God when created the trees in 4004
BCE, he would have formed them complete with growth rings. So too with other plants,
animals and minerals. Everything in the world would then appear as if they had existed in
the period of time prior to creation. In other words, God created the world as if it has had
a past. One would interpret the evidence to show that the world was created only a few
thousand years ago, but that it was created looking as if it had evolved over billions of
years .
     A second approach would involve a relatively small change in the belief system of the
"Genesis believing" creation scientists. The change would be to accept the Genesis
account of creation as God's initial creation message which He revealed to the ancient
Israelites who lived in a pre-scientific age. This would have been the only type of
explanation that they could understand at the time. This would require one to abandon the
literal interpretation of Genesis in favor of the belief that it is a historical myth. One
could argue that Jesus used parables to make a point about human nature; the parables did
not necessarily describe real people. Perhaps the authors of the Hebrew Scriptures
adopted some existing parables about creation and the flood from nearby Pagan cultures
in order to ...
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