Evolution By Creation?

In over all of the debates of "Creation Vs. Evolution", I have come to see a way that both exist. This is coming from a religious perspective. This is just a theory of mine. Hopefully this may settle the debate.

Evolution, as we all know, is the process of growth and adaptation, starting from the single cell to the animals and sea creatures we know today.

Creation, is the belief of a "Higher Power" creating and designing the earth and all life on it.

This debate has been going on since Charles Darwin gave us his theory in his book "The Origin Of Species". This debate has divided people, since the origin of man is a major belief and concept for many people. The religious say the Bible is right, and that God created everything. Whereas evolution, which does not say that God doesn't exist, says that everything evolved from single celled organisms. Thus bringing about a massive debate that has turned friends against each other. Brought even more division amongst those that are religious, and those that are atheist, agnostic, etc.

Even I once was against evolution. I believed that God created everything. I understand also that the earth was not created in 6 days, 6000 years or any other small number, because of fossils, and the time line within the Bible is longer than 6000 years anyway. This made a conflict with me on how long has the earth been here? How long has man been here? Evolution must have some truths to it, especially with time lines and such. That explains the dinosaur bones we have discovered. They are far older than 6000 years.

In my research of the Bible, have noticed a few lines of verse that suggests that maybe, just maybe, that Creation and Evolution are one in the same.

What if God created the earth, then used evolution to progress all the creatures?

And another Question, did man evolve or was he created?

To answer the first question, I have noticed in the writing of Genesis, that it is worded in a way that allows evolution to be the way things came about.

Genesis 1:20 (KJV) And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

"Let the waters bring forth" shows that God may have placed the single cell organisms in the ocean, and then evolution took over, and produced all the sea creatures. (How "fowls" come from the ocean is beyond me, and may be another blog later, but lets focus on the water.) So now we have all water life flourishing. Growing. Evolving. Since this happened in day 5 of the creation of earth, and we all know that our "day" is not the same as God's "day", this allows the time line of fossils and such to fit nicely here.

The next verse is, Genesis 1:21 (KJV) And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

The devout, hardcore, Christians will take that as "God created all the sea life and birds. So evolution didn't happen." It does say that, but with the verse prior, even with the evolutionary process, God still created, through evolution.

And again with the beasts of the land, as in, Genesis 1:24 (KJV) And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

Again, it is worded that the land brings forth the life, just as the waters brought forth life. The single cell organisms on earth grew and evolved into many creatures.

And again, the next verse says God created. Genesis 1:25 (KJV) And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Like I said above, the hardcore Christian can use that as definitive proof of God creating all. But the verse prior allows the evolutionary process to occur. This was the 6th day, and again the time lines and fossils, allow it to fit. There is another thing that happened in the 6th day, that I will get to shortly.

So just like in the evolution process described from "The Origin Of Species", a sea creature eventually evolved into some form that allowed it to come out of the water onto the land. Along the theories, that creature may have mated with another creature that was already on land. Thus progressing evolution, and the coming of new species. Possibly, reptiles and other like creatures.

Hopefully I have made sense so far.

Back to the 6th day, the second question, "Did man evolve or was he created?", comes around. I can only give a religious answer to this. Once science can prevail and find that missing link, my faith is all I have to go on for this answer.

Unlike the 2 verses that gave the opening for evolution to occur, the verse on man is worded that we were created.

Genesis 1:26 (KJV) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Also repeated again, Genesis 2:7 (KJV) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

It is written specifically, that God created man. God did not call upon the earth or the waters to bring forth man. Nor does it say for man to come from the beast on earth. Without the difference in wording, there is no room for evolution.

If science can find the missing link, I may have to rethink about the origin of man. Until then, this is the closest to any (religion included) logical explanation that I can live with comfortably, to evolution and creation.