God used Evolution to Create the World.

Since we have now both used the bible as references I deem it logical to use it also in this round. Progressive Creation and Evolution, scientifically do not match up according the the 6 days in genesis. We see that land plants were made first but the evolution theory says marine organisms were the first life forms. Evolutionists believe that land mammals came before whales, while the Bible teaches that God created whales first. Also something to consider the text states that on the fourth day God made the heavenly bodies after the earth was already in existence. Here is a blatant confrontation with science. Astronomy insists that the sun is older than the earth. Therefore this argument should already by ended. Dr. James Barr, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford University, who himself does not believe Genesis is true history, admitted that, as far as the language of Genesis 1 is concerned, "... so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer(s) of Gen. 1–11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that (a) creation took place in a series of six days which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience, (b) the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical story, (c) Noah's Flood was understood to be world-wide and extinguish all human and animal life except for those in the ark." The reason for this is quite simple... the word for Day in genesis is YOM it is used 2301 times in the old testament and every time it is translated to mean 1 literal day (almost always day and night). Why then would we take the one YOM out of 2301 in genesis and make it mean billions of years. Again will make this point because i realize it wasn't understood very well in my opening argument. The Bible teaches this "Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin" (Romans 5:12). It is clear that there was no sin in the world before Adam sinned, and thus no death. With progressive creation you have much death before the fall. Evolution teaches disease and suffering happened from some of the earliest life. Almost all Evolutionary scientist even believe cancer was around billions of years ago. That is in total contradiction to the bible. Finally one last thought. Believing in progressive creation means the flood which happened around 5000-6000 years ago, according to the bible, would have been localized. One important tenet of progressive creationist is that the Flood of Noah's day was a local flood, limited to the Mesopotamian region. They believe that the rock layers and fossils found around the world are the result of billions of years of evolutionary Earth history, rather than from the biblical Flood. Here are some problems with that argument... First God said he would never flood the earth again... did he mean he would never have a local flood again? The measurements of the ark were big enough for all animals, why didn't he make the ark smaller and have the animals go to another region? lastly the bible says the waters rose 15 cubits which is over 8 meters above the mountains. we all know that water finds its own level and cannot cover the highest mountains while leaving the rest of the world uncovered. Thanks for the Debate.