Thank you for the question on Evolution and the Bible, “Does evolution disprove the Bible, it says after the earth was created Adam and Eve was the first person. But then again evolution was proved to be true, does it disprove the Bible? There isn’t any way to explain this better, so I hope you understand.“
May I share a way that you can understand Evolution and the Bible for your consideration:
- Read Genesis 1 again and look closely at the order of creation. Is it not from lower form (sea life) to higher form (man and woman)? The Bible explained the beginning of life and its development nearly in sequence with the evolutionary theory from lower form to higher form.
- The Bible already states that there was macro creation. Paleontologist observes there is sudden arrival of life form with higher evolutionary status.
- The critical difference is the time line of the events. Geologists and paleontologist assess animal fossils being millions of years while the Bible declares “days.”
The “days” of the Bible has been viewed as literal 24 hours days or millions of years. May I suggest that days are neither 24 hour days nor in millions of years. As one read the text carefully, Day 1 was form before there was the sun and moon which was created in Day 4. Day 1 is viewed as separating darkness from light, not the light from the sun in our solar system. In my opinion and it is only a suggestion that the Days are Creative Periods of God called Days for our understanding. In each creative act in the completion of it, God calls it Day 1 to Day 6. Surely God could have created everything in an instant as fruit trees and other plant and animal life form. If Adam had to wait for the trees to mature to bear fruit, he would be dead and so would the animals. God created things with age or maturity in it.
Since I am not a physicists or geologists, I have to be careful here. From what I am reading, the question becomes how does the earth’s magna or temperature affect radioactive elements.
The earth temperature varies depending on the depth. The temperature of the mantle varies greatly, from 1000° Celsius (1832° Fahrenheit) near its boundary with the crust, to 3700° Celsius (6692° Fahrenheit) near its boundary with the core. Radioactive 238 melting point is 2,070°F (1,132°C). Could or would the formation of the earth and its mantle affect the parent isotopes from the daughter’s isotopes? Thus with volcanic eruption would the parent’s isotopes have more or less radioactive than the later magna or layers of rocks that rises through tectonic shifts? In other words, would the parent’s decay rate be affected by the earth’s core as it rises to the surface? I don’t know the answer to that question but that is a question regarding the impact of isotopes in the formation of the earth and the volcanic eruptions from the earth’s core to the earth’s surface.
Before dismissing the Bible, let us at least be willing to consider the text and our understanding of science. It may not be far fetch as one thinks but closer to reality even as cosmologists debate the origin of the Universe and what is beyond the Big Bang.