#1. The creation days are epochs of time. Example: God said to Adam,"In the day you eat of that fruit you will surly die." But yet Adam continued to live for hundreds of years until he died. #2. The oldest elements of earth are about 14 billion years old according to the speed of light. According to scripture before it was earth, it was a body of water without form, after God created the heavens. The Earth is younger than it's oldest elements. The animal life lived long before man was created. #3. Evolution is a falsehood because life is patterned. The limit of carbon dating is less than six thousand years. Animals that are able to cross breed are either sterile, or revert back to original form proving a pattern. The same is true in plant life. #4. Adam and Eve were real people and all life has a beginning. If Evolution was true, than it would be a fact and not a theory. There are many different life forms, but none ever leave their basic form. Theistic Evolution is a contradiction to the word of God. Evolution is "Random Convergence" or "Spontaneous Generation" for which is not demonstrated in science. All of the past proofs are either falsehoods or pure speculation of an artist.
Um... just a couple minor corrections in case you actually intend to use this information in your assignment:
1) Saying that elements of the earth are approx. 14 billion years old is a bit misleading. Current calculations put the age of the universe at about 13.7 billion years... so, technically, saying "elements" of the earth are that old is correct... but by the same token (and keeping in mind the law of conservation of matter), you might as well say that elements of human beings are 13.7 billion years old. Factually true, but ultimately misleading.
2) "Patterns" in life do not disprove evolution.
3) Carbon dating is considered accurate up to 60,000 years, not 6,000. Furthermore, Carbon dating is not the old radiometric dating method used. Potassium-Argon dating is used for samples that are more than 100,000 years old. Uranium-Lead dating is used for samples ranging from 1 million years old to over 4.5 billion years old.
4) Saying that Evolution is false just because it is a theory is rediculous. The be accurate, the Theory of Evolution is a theory that has come to be commonly-accepted as fact. Same thing with the Theory of Gravity. If you are going to say anything is untrue just because it is a theory, you might as well say gravity is untrue because it is a theory.
5) Evolution has nothing to do with "cross-breeding".
6) Evolution is not random or spontaneous. Mutations and variances are random, but it is important to recognize the difference between genetic mutation and variance, and the process of evolution.
I'm not going to comment on the points you made about scripture or biblical beliefs, as it is not my position to say if you are right or wrong there. I am only correcting your misrepresentations regarding scientific concepts.
The questions are
1) How long are the days of in Genesis 1? Why?
2) How old is the earth and life? Why?
3) Did man and apes share a common ancestor? Why or Why not?
4) Were Adam and Eve real people? Why or why not?
I numbered your questions for easier answering.
1) It somewhat depends. From a scientific perspective, genesis has to be considered from a metaphoric-standpoint (if any at all). So let's break it down.
Genesis 1:1-5 was supposedly the first "day". According to the story, the first day consisted of everything that would have happened from the moment of the big bang, up to the first time the earth completed one rotation about it's own axis. If we use the age of the universe (13.7 Billion years), and the age of the Earth (4.5 Billion years), we should be able to say that the first "day" in Genesis was roughly 9.2 Billion years long.
After that, it gets a bit tricky. Genesis tends to tell a story of how different parts of the Earth were created at different times. Kinda like making a cake by baking the dough, then making the icing, then making the candy decorations... and at seemingly random times throwing pieces of it together. Current scientific theories on the matter postulate that all of these different components developed simultaneously.
Unfortunately, the two don't really mix well. I suppose they might have lined up more appropriately if the author(s) of Genesis had a basic understanding of currently-known principles like plate tectonics... but here we are.
2) The Earth is roughly 4.54 Billion years based on uranium lead dating (or more specifically, lead-lead dating) of several meteorite samples such as the Canyon Diablo meteorite. As for the age of life, it somewhat depends on how you define "life". Current hypotheses in the field of abiogenesis put the start of life at some point between 4.4 and 2.7 Billion years ago... of course, that's not life as we know it, but rather when the first small molecules such as amino acids formed.
3) Technically, all life shares a common ancestor if you go back far enough. So, to be accurate, humans and apes just share a
more recent common ancestor than, say, humans and rose bushes.
4) The concept of Adam and Eve, as two individuals that were created in a fully-evolved state from essentially nothing, and then proceeded to populate the human race.... is a bit rediculous. Even as a metaphor, the concept really doesn't work.
