The other day I visited a forum where a person asked three questions as an indirect way to debunk the bible. He said:
So the earth was created it 6 literal days? Humans came from dust? A women came from a man?
Here is the answer I gave him:
Six literal days? This just means six stages is what it means by the earth being formed in 6 days. A day is relative. A day on Mars is not the same time period to a day on earth. A day to God is definitely not a solar day on earth. God existed before the earth was created, so he is not subject to solar earth days like us. The third day for example, was dedicated to dry land and the colonization of plants where it describes them as bearing seeds and producing fruit. Clearly not 24 hours then, but could be millions of years for all we know.
Man made from dust? Funny because science says we are made of stardust. Dust that originates in stars and is found on earth.
Woman from man? Well a male (baby) can come from woman and we know that a person can come from another person genetically speaking. Some scientists for example, are trying to bring back extinct species with old specimens of extinct animals that have their DNA intact. Further, we know that Adam (male) would have had both the X and Y chromosomes, therefore Eve could have come from Adam genetically speaking because he had the female chromosome just as all males do. Whereas, Adam couldn’t have come from Eve because she didn’t have the Y chromosome.
