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There should be no argument in my opinion. BOTH could have been equally true. God creates universe with the appearance of time... is that "appearance" of time just an illusion, or did he actually provide a REAL and tangible history to the universe that pre-dates it's actual creation?
I think it's entirely feasible that the "appearance of time" is an ACTUAL timeline of it's own. If man-kind were to go back in time... to the exact moment that God created earth, would we witness him creating earth, or would we see pre-historic creatures? I'm pretty sure you wouldn't witness God creating earth, so I would have to assume that God created existence with a real, viable, logical history that pre-dates the actual creation. I would wager that going back in time, we would see Dinosaurs and pre-historic critters running around. I would bet money that we could leap back to current date and actually WITNESS evolution occurring.
This would cause the scientific community to point back at religion and say..."See... we were right." Does that mean that God didn't create everything as is in a single moment? No, it just means that God provided man with a logical mechanism for existence. This would mean that BOTH evolution AND creationism could be right... at the same time.
Why all the arguing? There is absolutely NO way we could ever know for certain how everything started. There are a few things we can know with reasonable certainty however:
Every living creature on Earth has and DOES currently make slow physical adaptations to better suit its environment. That in it's own is evolution. To look back through fossil records, we can see that an evolutionary process is very likely. If we could ever go back and PROVE that man evolved from monkeys, would that DISPROVE any religious belief? No. Not with the assumption that God's idea of the "appearance of time" isn't an illusion with no substance.
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