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Quote by: stevemckay Gen 2:7 the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground…

But thats not how man was made. No dust from the ground.

So why do many Judeo-Christians assume the creation of man happened in one step and not in stages from basic organic molecules all the way up to a modern human? From what I understand the word used in the original Hebrew for “Day” actually means “an indeterminate period of time” so saying he had to do it in one 24 hour day does not fly.

Religion uses supernatural methods to explain reality and Science uses natural methods to explain reality. That is a fact that you are going to have to live with. God using dust from the ground to create man is supernatural. We know that in nature, simple, small changes occur to create larger more complicated outcomes.

When you go and venture off to explain the Bible with natural explanations you only exchange the power of some conscious being into the hands of some unknowning, unconscious, random occurrence we call "nature". All this stuff that was explained through the power of god, can now be explained through the power of randomness and chaos. You can't worship that, you can't get people to pay money to worship that, you can't give humans power because of that. You render religion useless when you find out that reality works on its own by itself, no matter how many bad deeds you partake in or no matter how many times you hand in your church money.