The Bible and Evolution

Science tells us the earth is billions of years old, while the Bible tells us it's about 6000 years old.
The Bible states in several places that 1 day is as a thousand years...
Therefore, the earth could be billions of years old.
The same can be said for God creating everything in 7 days.
7 days could be 7000 years.

Now, The creation account is divided into seven days during which God creates everything, Genesis 1:1-2:4. We don't know for certain if those 7 days = 7000 years. We also don't know if those 7 days were consecutive days.
During that time, (the 7000+ years,) it would be possible for a certain amount of evolution to take place, but that evolution would be a same to same evolution. In other words, a cat would not evolve into a dog, but a cat could evolve into another form of cat. Lions, Tigers, Cheetahs, Panthers, etc are all part of the cat family.

We also do not know just how simple Adam and Eve were. They were very similar to us but probably more Neanderthal than we are now. This could explain what scientists have allegedly proven to be neanderthal existence.

The Bible does prove that we, (humans) did not evolve from apes or crawl out of the ocean as fish.
1 Corinthians 15:38-39 KJV
38. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
39. All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

So, while there is some sort of evolution of sorts that has taken place, very little of it has taken place with humans. Humans, as well as other living creatures, can evolve according to their environments, but this usually takes generations and takes place extremely gradual.

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Charity · 56-60

Correct, nowhere in the Bible does it say the Earth is 6,000 years old. Those who interpreted the Hebrew Bible theorized that notion of a 6,000-year-old Earth and taught it and passed down those teachings throughout the generations.

2nd Peter 3:8 says 1,000 years to the Lord is as one day and a day is as a thousand years is also a way of saying God is not limited to time nor is anything that he do. So a day could be a million years as far as God is concerned. Since God set man up under the system of a 24-hour day they used the term day.

When you examine the usage of the Hebrew word for day yome in Genesis you will find that it can also mean a span of time, a division of time, Strong's Concordance.
https://godrules.net/library/strongs2a/heb3117.htm

And no humans did not evolve from the fish. The Bible clearly says in Genesis 1: God formed man from the dust of the Earth and placed him in the garden, that God breathed the breath of life into man. All other things God told the Earth to bring forth from plants to animals, so one can say everything else may have evolved from the Earth but not man.

And when you read scripture and look at the process that man has determined evolution went by coincides with the bible. Plants were first they have now discovered that plants are millions of years older than first thought,m; water life, which would be all marine life; then the Beast first and cattle second beast or more like the dinosaurs and cattle the much tamer animals which we have today; and lastly God put man here. And because it says God placed man in the garden, that indicates man was not made created on Earth but created from the elements of the earth and placed on Earth.

Good teachings!