As simple as possible: evolution is the process from the beginning on how life formed and continue to form / evolve into all existing species ....... Evolution is man's scientific theory/analogy based on design and fossil evidence on how all living species came to be.
Not to be quite frank we don't know what process God used or how he used it. Scripture only informs us that God is the reason the earth and its inhabitants exist. Life forms show evidence of intelligent design even as I believe it was Hawkins said ( though he didn't mean a personal God as we view him)
We can just analyze from scripture
1) God told the Earth to bring forth plants after their kind
2) God told the waters to bring forth living creatures in abundance after their kind 3) God told the Earth to bring forth beast and cattle after it's kind 4) God formed man and "placed" him in the garden in which he had prepared in the East of Eden and told man to be fruitful multiply and "replenish" the Earth
First event from the scientific point of evolution plants were first as with creation they will like to say animals but though the sponges and amoebas and sorts are classified as animals they are not - so I'll just say not referring to those so named type of animals. And they have come to the conclusion plants existed quite a few millions of years before first analyzed ......... Second event from the scientific point of view the waters brought forth life forms - as with the creation account. Now science will say animals were first before plants because sponges are classified as animals and they say sponges can feel pain - how do they know.
I am not speaking of the animal they call the sponges, ((sponges have no nervous system, no digestive system, no circulatory system, no organs)) From the scientific point of view before there were land Beast, marine life existed, then the fowls. Much of the Dinosaurs had feathers; and to have feathers means you are a bird. So according to both science and creation marine life and fowl _ (dinosaurs/birds (and all birds don't fly) ............. Third event from the scientific point of view beast and cattle were next as evolution was taking its course and as with the creation account beast and cattle were next............. Forth event from the scientific viewpoint science places the evolution of man from a primate type animal and as with creation account man was next, only man was formed by God and placed in the garden. *God did not tell the Earth to bring forth man*
I don't believe in the process of evolution as it is taught ..... But the reproduction after it's kind spoken of in the Bible deals with procreation/reproduction (basically requiring male and female) that is not what evolution means. Evolution which is defined as ::::: The gradual development of something from a simple to a more complex life form has nothing to do with procreation.
