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Of course you can. Genesis actually shows the Earth was without form and was void, fish, land creatures, birds, and humans last of all creation. It easily could have said humans came first. It didn't.
The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters.
So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so.
The Bible says that there were others besides Adam and Eve. That's how their son Cain found a wife in Nod.
Adam was the first human, not the first humanlike creature. He knew the difference. It's like if a dog one day was born, and it knew the difference and was self aware. His offspring would be doglike, but no longer be dogs.
Another theory would be that evolution was doing it's thing, but never produced a creature to God's liking or satisfaction, so he simply created a being by his own mind and hands, and placed him amongst the other creatures.
Can you be a christian and still believe in evolution? Elaborate answers only
Nope. Sorry, but the Bible dates the Earth at around 6,000 years old, and that isn't sufficient time for evolution to have produced the variety, yet alone the complexity of what we see today in nature.
Why is it in your opinion necessary for a christian to understand genesis literally in order to be a christian?
What I mean is, that many christians would argue that they don't read the bible literally, they read it metaphorically or symbolically, or however you'd say.
Why is it in your opinion necessary for a christian to understand genesis literally in order to be a christian?
Because to assume the Bible is intended as a work of fiction undermines your entire belief structure. If it isn't true then you shouldn't take things like Jesus and God literally. Unfortunately, because of the spell you are under, you seem to think it's OK to throw out the parts of the Bible which defy science, while you keep everything which, although no less ridiculous, hasn't been debunked directly.
But wouldn't you say all understandings are more or less an interpretation of an expression? In the case of written expressions, every reader is more or less understanding their own versions of the written - who is to say which understanding is closest to the intention of the writer?
If you aren't educated enough to understand why the laws of physics prohibit people rising from the dead then nothing anybody can say is going to change your mind.
In exactly which way do you think I can't prove that the laws of physics prohibit people rising from the dead? How many people have you met who have risen from the dead, you intellectually challenged Jethro?
In exactly which way do you think I can't prove that the laws of physics prohibit people rising from the dead?
If we are nothing more than evolved machines, your first belief contradicts your second belief. Any machine can be repared and brought back to a functioning capacity, if you have the technology to do so. Otherwise it's not just a machine.
If reparing a machine "defies physics" in your mind, then it's time to step your game up to level preschool Physics.
