My my, but there is some pride and arrogance going around here. I don't think it is wise to tell everyone what makes them a Christian when it is merely your own idea of what a Christian is. There are a great many Christians who understand the science of evolution and praise it for the great miracle it is revealed to be. The evidence for it was placed right in front of us by the Lord for all to see once they knew enough of the ways of his creation. We are there now and to turn your eyes from it because of a limited view of scripture is disappointing.
And seek forgiveness for applying a logic to scripture that causes either Apostle Paul or Moses to be a "liar". Consider:
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To believe in the "old earth evolution" theory makes the Apostle Paul a liar.
Secondly, Jesus himself declared the "beginning" to be when Adam and Eve were created.
19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
The beginning is the beginning. There is nothing prior to the beginning.
To believe in the "old earth evolution" theory makes Moses a liar.
God Himself, when giving the 10 Commandments, re-declares that He created the universe in 6 literal days.
Exodus 20:11 (God speaking) For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
This is where we get one of the 10 commandments - Honor the sabbath.
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Either Adam and Eve were the beginning, in which case Moses lies when he declares that there were 5 days before the beginning, or Paul is the liar. Unless you understand that neither is lying. They are telling a truth in a form that worked for them but is corrupted by your interpretation.
A little over 15 billion years ago our Lord said, "Let there be light" and there was light. Then the symmetries broke, separating time from space, matter from energy. Then some millions of years later the light was separated from the darkness, leaving the great background infra-red radiation. Nearly 10 billion years later the earth formed about the sun and gathered to itself the great oceans. Then life was breathed into the clay of the earth, the RnA crystals began to replicate and evolve, found membranes and catalysts and eventually brought forth DnA. Slowly the fishes and the plants of the sea evolved, not by growing bodies from bacteria, but by the children of bacteria being each a little different to its parent. Then by degrees life moved to the land and the animals and plants were created. Then the birds took to the air after a thousand generations of reptiles became, with each child, a little more bird like. Toward the end of this long and grand miracle the apes evolved and sometime after that there were apes that were much like humans and then humans themselves.
Perhaps atheists see this as a way of understanding without the need for the Lord, but why blame the Lord for their folly and ignore his creation because of it?
Praise Him for such a wonder.