Creation or evolution

Answer for An Old earth

Genesis 1:1-2   In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  When was the beginning for an eternal God?   It must have been Millions, billions, trillions of years ago for a God who has no beginning and has no end  his first recorded act in the Bible is that he created the heavens and the earth, "in the beginning".  That cannot be a problem for those who know God.  For the earth to have diamonds, and, silver, oil, and everything God has provided for humankind, scientists tell us these things can only be as a result of millions of years.

So that is the answer.  Millions, billions, trillion years ago God created the planets, but at that point  the earth was without "form and void," "formless and empty" - so for millions of years the earth lay in this state but the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. God was present. There was no measured day or not - time had not been introduced.

The space between verses 2 and 3 of Genesis is millions of years.  Then God began a world marked by time, days and nights.            Genesis 3 – 5 ‘And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.'

The planets, stars, galaxy, universes had all been dormant and their existence seemingly meaningless until God starts it up with his command "let there be light"

In one day his work jumpstarted everything. There should be no problem in believing that the subsequent five days when all else was created as reported in Genesis 1, really did happen exactly as stated. We have no reason to try and explain the claim that each day was probably the same as thousands of years because the earth was already 1,000,000’s of years old when God began the creation of the world as we see it.

Genesis 1: 9 – 10 ‘And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.”

When God created land and sea we can understand that there was one land mass and one sea.  With the International food of Noah's day it is very likely that the islands and continents of today had their beginning. We can all see from the TV news how floods can leave devastation and 1000's of tons of soil can be displaced in a very short time. The whole earth was under the flood waters as a result of God's judgement so you don't really need your imagination to see the affect this had on the earth's layout.

Also during that very same time when the surface of the earth was under water the movement of land and sea resulted in the mass burial of all that remained outside of the ark. Things were buried in an instant, and pressed down hard - what is the result of such activity? Fossils

So how do you answer the theory of fossils, bones etc. dated using carbon dating and claims that they are millions of years? No problem.

The earth that covered animals, men, and everything else that drowned or was killed during the flood was already millions of years old and then it pressed down on things that had died, which left an imprint as they disintegrated or were preserved by their surroundings.

When scientists perform carbon dating it is dependant on radioactivity. If something is radioactive everyone knows that everything around will take on the same radioactivity, the strongest radioactivity being more dominant. 

When something has been buried for a few thousand years by earth and rock that is millions and billions of years old, of course it will all measure the same with Carbon dating.  People make the false assumption that therefore as the earth around the fossil is millions of years old, obviously the thing that died is the same age. This does not follow and when thought about, is not logical either. I don't wish to cause embarrassment to all the clever scientists who make their living by proving evolution true and creation a fairy tale but the fact is when you know the one who created the earth and everything in it, creation becomes logical and meaningful. If you have to deny that a Creator created the earth and try to make evolution plausible you have denied the existence of the Creator, the One true God, which is probably more important to you than the reality or myth of evolution itself.