What makes a human unique is that he has a soul. The story of Genesis is the truth and science does not contradict it, but instead supports it. The Big Bang theory is the same sequence of events described in Genesis. The universe is 13.7 billion years old, but was made in 7 days - those are consistent statements. Science has shown by Einstien, that time is relative to the frame of reference. The 13.7 billion year age is from an earth reference. Seven days is from the reference envelope of the entire universe. An excellent easy to read book on this is the Science of God by Gerald Schroeder who is a physicist
Adam obtained his soul when God breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. Whether there were other homo erectus on earth is not addressed in the Bible and not terrbily important. Events then began unfolding rapidly for humans once he has a soul with the beginning to farm, and the bronze age.
Thank you for pointing this out. The specific revelation in scripture was not written as a scientific or even a complete text. All that is necessary for the account to be true is that God made Adam, a unique being with a soul made in God's own image. To force more precision onto the account than the facts require is a bad way to read scripture, especially when the general revelation of creation suggests that particular accounts are not likely unless God did some extreme messing with reality.
You are the first person I have come across who has taken the concepts of “time” (ever changing) and “frame of reference” (Earth day vs. God day) and realized that old and young Earth theories can co-exist. I believe that 13.7 billion Earth years equals 6,000 to 7,000 God years. The concept of time fascinates me. With an ever-expanding universe that continues to travel faster with each unit of time measured, old and young as one will someday be revealed to our understanding.
I wish my public school vernacular could accurately articulate what I believe about the existence of time.
There were plants before there was a Sun?
Adam obtained his soul when God breathed the breath of life into his nostrils. Whether there were other homo erectus on earth is not addressed in the Bible and not terrbily important.
God can't tell the difference between homo erectus and dust? Is His eyesight poor?