Hmm... let's see how people respond to this.
I am a devout Christian, but at the same time I also accept evolution to hold some truth as well. In fact I find the two to be in no contradiction to each other.
Explanation: The Bible says that God created mankind and the world in a matter of 7 days. However, it also says that God is a being not bound by time (2 Peter 3:8). "With the Lord, one day is a thousand years, and a thousand years is one day." It can be reasonably inferred that with this passage, a day could also be much more than only a thousand years, and vice versa.
I also have other explanations but I'm too tired to write much more lol.
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I already said this but in genesis it says that there is the day and night which leads me to believe it was a literal day.
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I'm reminded of the one movie about the the school teacher who got into deep shit for teaching evolution in class when it first came out. The defense lawyer argued the same point. That a 'day' there isn't defined and could have been thousands of years. The movie was 'something Monkey Trial' or something. It's gonna bug the piss out of me now. The other point to consider is that the Bible was written by men. Men who penned their own influences, biases, prejudices, etc into it. To expect the original authors to be completely objective and without bias or prejudice is asinine in my mind.
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The Scopes' trial is what the movie is based on.
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Thank you.