Sorry to the author, but evolution and the bible are at odds...no other way to slice it. The bible tells a very specific story about some things that are completely at odds with the theory of evolution. This is going to sound harsh, but if there is someone who professes to be a "Bible-believing Christian" and also accepts evolution, then they're clearly cherry picking the parts that they want to follow and the ones they don't.
God is Spirit. God is not a biologist. So God is going to tell a spiritual side
to a story, rather than a Popular Mechanics version. Some Christians consider
God to talk to talk like a Garage Mechanic, "Well first I loosed the screws, then
I remove the carburetor and blew the water out of the float bowl.....etc"
God sometimes tells spiritual stories, sometimes mechanical ones.
One mechanical example: Lazarus and the rich man.
Here is a description of a man in hell, yet literalists
refuse to
believe that it is a literal description of Hell. Why? I dunno.
Because they prefer it to be more roast pig-on-a-spit I guess.
19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24 So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’
25 “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’
27 “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’
29 “Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’
30 “‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’
31 “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”
So here is a man in Hell, having a conversation about his family.
It doesn't sound like a pig-on-a-spit to me.
By the same token, God is not always mechanical in scripture.
The purpose of Genesis is to describe that God Created everything
by His hand in His own purpose. Not to create a biology or geology lesson
for people to follow.
It's sad when people resort to the "You just don't understand me" argument.
