Evolution and the Creation Could Both be True

Thanks for the arguments!Rebuttals"Many Christian evolutionists accept the entire Bible as truth, both the Old and New Testaments. These people, like myself, don't find contradictions between macroevolution and the Genesis account of the beginning of the world, so they see no problem with accepting both."I would love to know who else, besides my opponent, accepts both the theory of evolution and the entire Bible as true. I read many polls about evolution vs creation, and the claim that both are true was nowhere to be found. Theistic evolution is irrelevant to this claim. "Noah's ark and the six-day Bible model are actually pretty irrelevant to the debate, seeing how I specified in Round 1 that this debate is about macroevolution (human evolution)."Wait, how is it irrelevant? Are you trying to shift the goalpost now? You stated in the title and your first round that this debate would be about consistencies/inconsistencies about the Creation model and Evolution. Also you did not give any precise definition for "creation" and "macroevolution" in the first round, but now you are referring to it as "human evolution". Even if you are referring only to the evolution of humans, it is still a fact that evolution talks about the descent of ALL living beings from one common ancestor, therefore not only humans matter here. Creation is defined as "literal interpretation of the religious scriptures" [1]. Since you didn't give any definitions, and then tried to shift the goalpost in the 3rd round, my arguments are completely justified."We could go on and on about Genesis 1 and whether the creation model is viable, but as I stated earlier, this debate is not about trying to prove/disprove creationism, but rather discuss the consistencies/inconsistencies of human evolution and it's comparison with the Bible. "I never tried to disprove creationism in the 2nd round, and it looks like this is the resulting claim of your goalpost shifting. Genesis 1 is pretty relevant to this debate.2 Peter 3:8 can be translated to mean any of the two. Bible can be put in any context one wants. I am not an expert on the Bible verse translation/interpretation, so i'll skip over that. Though this verse is not helping my opponent at all.I did a research on the word "tsela" myself and...yes you are right, it can mean life as well, but the "Eve was made from the life of Adam" isn't clearing up anything. Let's see why:"This opens up a big window of possibilities. Evolution without religion has a problem: life cannot be made from non-life. Here we see that Eve was made from the life of Adam"This is kind of contradicting to your position, Pro. First of all Evolution (of life) never mentions the origin of life, just to clarify that. Abiogenesis (which is about chemical evolution) states that. Since Evolution started immediately after abiogenesis, then it means that the two are directly connected. You just listed an inconsistency yourself here. Bible claims that life must come from life (although Adam didn't come from life, if we consider God as non-life), and Abiogenesis states that life came from non-life (chemistry). "To end this round, I'd like to state Genesis 2:7 which says: "And the Lord God formedmanof the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." I actually find this verse to more supportive of evolution, because evolution holds that life was created from the mixture of many elements, or in other words, the earth itself."I assume that with "evolution" you are referring to abiogenesis. You say that the verse is more supportive of it. This is bad for you for 2 reasons:1. You are contradicting your previous claim that life cannot come from non-life 2. Abiogenesis states that life actually originated in the oceans, not dirt. And that most of the water and chemicals arrived on the comets that fell on the Earth after the formation.In short, Pro hasn't really answered any of my arguments, but instead tried to shift the goalpost.Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com... [1]