Evolution and the bigbang theory are compatibel with the Bible.

My opponent does not understand that the language used in the bible was written to be understand by simple desert folk. The language in the bible was original in Hebrew.I will use a comment in our debate to explain why the bible being in Hebrew is an explication to this. You know the genesis account is not meant to be a blow by blow accurate picture of the process of creation and the development of the universe after the big bang, the biggest problem is that the Hebrew language itself is entirely unable to express such notions with a vocabulary of only about 4,000 words which all that was needed to describe the pastoral economy and a small body of civil and religious laws. When Genesis 1 says that "God Created the heavens and the earth" this is the language that best describes "In the beginning God created the universe". There simply is no word for "Universe" in Hebrew. So I think this can be an explication to your problem that in the bible there is written that water existed before light and your problem with light in the bible. You must also consider that a science book would not have any effect on society as god intended to do. Can you imagine what would happen if god had given Jesus physical formulas ? People would have ignored him and the bible would not have had any affect on early life and society as god had intended. I think we can agree that the simplistic language of the bible is logical due to the knowledge that the people had in those time. Now your second point the painting of god in the Vatican. Here we have the second of the ten commandmet: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. What does that mean you shall not paint heaven(heaven above ),you shall not paint hell(or that is in the earth beneath) . the one thing I don"t understand the water under the earth? Well it does not matter what the Vatican does it is god"s ten commandments how are the word of god not the Vatican or the pope. Other problem my opponent has is the order that life is listed to have appear in the bible plants bevore animals.because the first living beings were single-celled prokaryotic organisms, such as bacteria. MY explanantion to this problem the bible was written by people how were inspired by god but they still were people and god new what they could understand in a time where the microscope was not even invented saying that the first live were bacteria little things we can"t even see would be ridiculous no one would accept the bible. So god listed in the bible the animals man new at this time but god never said that plants were the fist living beings that would be a lie he only stated that plants were formed bevore animals what is true. The last problems that my opponent has is that mean are created apart from the other animals what is in fact supporting evolution because mean only came after the first animals mean are very late in the evolution so animals were created bevore humans. This is like to say my mom was created bevore me that does not mean you are not her offspring .human spirits were created in gods image their bodies just were the result of evolution after many animals were born bevore them. Also my opponent states that mean always had a physical bodie what is wrong .adam and eve only noticed they had bodies after they sined proving that they had a body after the first sinn as punishment. Conclusion:when it comes to use science against the bible many people do not understand that the bible is written for simple town folk to learn them morality not to learn them science but the bible never lies they only put it in a way so that the early people could understand it.