Creationism: God created a perfect universe in 7 days

Thanks Pro, I look forward to this debate! I’ll break my points up into four contentions. 1. Evolutionary proof Despite the attempts of the Catholic church, etc. etc. Genesis makes no room for evolution. It’s fairly clear in Genesis 1: “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Evolutionary theory is a bit like Newton’s theory of Gravity. It’s a theory that is fairly easy to prove. If god had created a perfect human being, then why do our teeth rot in our mouths? Why do we get wisdom teeth? Why do we have the remnants of a third eyelid? What good is the gripping plantaris muscle in our feet (only in 9% of the population)? What good is our appendix? Why do we have the remnants of a tail? What is with Darwin’s point on about 10% of human ears? Genesis creation makes no explanation for such things. Evolutionary theory does. Our appendix is an organ that used to aid in a leaf-heavy diet, the third eyelid is actually a remnant from before we were even ape-like, wisdom teeth are often crooked because our diets have changed and evolutionary selection has let our jaws shrink, the plantaris muscle is a remainder from the days when we needed to grip with our feet, the tail is obviously a useless remainder from when we needed tails. 2. The problem of genetics with Adam/Eve How could the human race spring from only two people? It’s scientifically impossible. Human genetics simply doesn’t allow it. Genesis only gives us seven children from Adam and Eve, and we know that genetically, when children are products of incestuous relationships, and when the gene pool is so small, as a species we’d be rife with genetic problems. Even if Eve had 50 children, the gene pool would be dangerously limited. What about races? Did Eve have an Asian child, an African child, a Caucasian child, and a Latino child? The chances of Adam and Eve’s children surviving the terrible effects of inbreeding are very small. Tied with genetics, we now know that the Y-Chromosomal Adam lived some 150 thousand years ago, while Mitochondrial Eve lived some 130 thousand years ago. There is a large gap that genesis doesn’t account for. 3. Old Earth proof Biblically, the earth is around 5000 years old if you count the generations. Trusting an ancient book over things like carbon dating and modern science is just a baffling to me. Most scientists assume that the earth is around 4.55 Billion years old. Even if you don’t want to trust that idea (as it can’t be proven directly from the materials left on earth) you can trust that we’ve found sedimentary rocks at around 3.8-3.9 billion years old by radiometric dating. (http://www.talkorigins.org...) We’ve taken readings from meteorites expected to have been formed with the same materials as the other planets in our solar system: Type Number Dated Method Age (billions of years) Chondrites (CM, CV, H, L, LL, E) 13 Sm-Nd 4.21 +/- 0.76 Carbonaceous chondrites 4 Rb-Sr 4.37 +/- 0.34 Chondrites (undisturbed H, LL, E) 38 Rb-Sr 4.50 +/- 0.02 Chondrites (H, L, LL, E) 50 Rb-Sr 4.43 +/- 0.04 H Chondrites (undisturbed) 17 Rb-Sr 4.52 +/- 0.04 H Chondrites 15 Rb-Sr 4.59 +/- 0.06 L Chondrites (relatively undisturbed) 6 Rb-Sr 4.44 +/- 0.12 L Chondrites 5 Rb-Sr 4.38 +/- 0.12 LL Chondrites (undisturbed) 13 Rb-Sr 4.49 +/- 0.02 LL Chondrites 10 Rb-Sr 4.46 +/- 0.06 E Chondrites (undisturbed) 8 Rb-Sr 4.51 +/- 0.04 E Chondrites 8 Rb-Sr 4.44 +/- 0.13 ...there are many others but I needto conserve space. So with many methods of dating calculation and several different meteorites we’ve come pretty unanimously to about 4.5 Billion years. 4. Problems with an unreliable text There are several immediate contradictions in Genesis. In an effort to prove that Genesis is terrible text to trust, I’ll point them out. Gen 1:25-27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” Gen 2:22 “And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.” In the first two chapters, there is an immediate contradiction. Did god not create man and woman after he made animals? Why trust a book of myths, like the tale of Noah? Just like I pointed out before, to assume that the entire animal kingdom came from a huge group of pairs is just ignorance on a baffling scale. Having such a small gene pool to work from, most animals would have been wracked with genetic disease. Not to mention the fact that several of the stories in genesis come from earlier myths, like the flood myth coming from the Israelites contact with Sumerian and Akkadian tribes, plus the ancient tale of Gilgamesh (Genesis is at times a point by point rip-off of Gilgamesh). Akkadian versions tell the story of the god Ea, god of the waters, who warns Atra-hasis of an impending flood and instructs him to craft an ark to survive it. The Garden of Eden, for example, comes from Gilgamesh. Man is created from soil, lives in a perfect garden with animals, is introduced to a woman, accepts food from the woman, covers his nakedness, and is banished. Ever wonder why Satan appears as a snake in genesis? It’s from Gilgamesh: a serpent steals a plant of immortality from the hero. Ninti, the Sumerian Goddess, is created from the rib of man to heal him. For example, from Gilgamesh: “All the living beings that I had I loaded on it, I had all my kith and kin go up into the boat, all the beasts and animals of the field” And from Genesis 7: “Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. They had with them every wild animal according to its kind...” Or the tale of Emesh and Enten, the source of Cain/Abel, from the 3rd Millennium BCE, tells the story of two boys birthed from the god Enlil and the earth who both bring an offering to Enlil but Enten gets infuriated with Emesh whose gift is considered ‘better’. This story is, again from the 3rd Millennium BCE, while the bible is from the 6th Century BCE.Thanks.