Excellent. I am a software developer. I can explain how code can be created to look like it evolved, when it actually didn't.
Ok, here goes. Like I said, I am aiming for a balanced view. Bible, science, and logic.
So first we start with a theory of sets. There is a set that contains biologic animals. Dogs, amoebas, fish, primates, humans are all members of this set. So basically if you are a member of the animal kingdom, you are a member of this set. Then there is also a set of spiritual beings. God, angels (good and bad), etc are members of this set. So are people. So if you picture a Venn diagram, people and God (Jesus) belong in the intersection between the animals and the spiritual beings. Agree so far?
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Ok, now comes the question. Do all people belong in that intersection, or are there some people that are just animals and not spiritual beings?
I think Job 33:6 (the person, not the verse) answered that for us before on a moral level, when he said that all people are people, all people have a soul. He specifically said that all people, regardless of how they were born, whether by natural birth or in a test tube or cloned, are still people with a soul. Now of course if we start arguing, on a moral level, that not all people are the same, that some are more human than others, we can quickly get into issues of supremacy. Which I am sure we all here disagree with? I sure hope so. So, we can assume that all people are the same, and therefore there is no such thing as a person without a soul.
Ok, now what else do we know about people? We know that all people and only people are made in God's image and have been made that way from the beginning. Genesis 1:26. We know that all people and only people have been told to have dominion over creation. We know that all have sinned and all can be saved by faith. Romans 3:23-24. (I will quickly address Job 33:6 theology that the Romans passage does not apply to prehistoric people. The Romans passage does not say anything about time. It talks about all jews and gentiles, which is another way of saying all jews and not jews. That means all people, including Abraham, Noah, Adam, and Adam's parents if Adam had parents.)
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What does this mean? Well, in order to be saved by faith, we need to have higher order thinking ability, as in we need to be able to understand concepts like God, sin, death, a need for saviour, eternal life, eternal suffering, etc. In order to be rulers we need to be able to make judgement calls, which at minimum requires a capacity to know what is fair and what is not fair. In order to sin, we need to have the ability to know right and wrong. What I refer to as moral capacity.
Which species in the history of the world had the capacity for this higher order brain functions? The only species that I am aware of is homo sapiens. Please correct me if I am wrong.
So at this point we have defined the term "people" - homo sapiens with a soul and with a developed enough brain to grasp spiritual concepts.
Ok, now we look at the evolutionary timeline. We know that at one point in time people did not exist, and at another point people definitely existed. We'll call these lines A and B. So prior to A our species was definitely animal and not human. After line B our species was definitely human and not animal.
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So we know as described above that we can't be half-human or less than human. So I am going to pick a hypothetical person at some point in time. I am going to call him Adam. Adam is a person.
Where in the timeline can Adam exist? Well, we know that Adam can exist to the right of B because that would make him a homo sapiens who are all people. We know that Adam can't exist before line A because there were no people then. Can Adam exist in the time between A and B?
So our hypothesis: Adam exists in the period between A and B and Adam is a person and Adam is a transitional species between a Homo and a Homo Sapiens. But we know that only Homo Sapiens have the higher order brain functions. So even if Adam is a very smart specimen, we know that his brain is still not able to fully grasp the moral concepts that would condemn him as a sinner, and we know that he would not be able to grasp salvation. So Adam is not a person. Which is a contradiction to our hypothesis. So Adam can't exist in the space between A and B.
But if space between A and B has no people, then A and B must be the same point in time. I will re-draw the diagram, and I will put Adam at the exact point in time when people came to existence.
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Now we have to ask ourselves a question. What about Adam's parents? Well, we know from above that Adam's parents could not be people because we just proved that Adam is the first person (or one of many first people, doesn't matter).
Our hypothesis: Adam is a person and Adam has parents who are not people.
Here is our complete diagram:
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We know from the Venn diagram above that if Adam's parents are not people, then they are not homo sapiens. So if Adam had parents, we are observing an event of speciation over one generation. Which, according to our theory of evolution is impossible. So Adam's parents had to be homo sapiens, so they had to be people, which contradicts our hypothesis.
And therefore the only other option left is this timeline:
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In other words, something supernatural happens in order for Adam come to existence. Now before all the scientific minds here start screaming that this is impossible because it has never happened, I'd like to point to Jesus. Jesus did have a human mom, but he did not have a human dad. Jesus was a miracle. All evidence points to the conclusion that Adam was also a miracle.