The Genesis account is scientifically viable.

1) Just to clarify, I will restate what I believe happen. God creates the universe through the Big bang, time goes by, the solar system is in the process of forming as is the earth. The sun is formed and is producing light, but the earth is covered in a thick blanket of clouds which block all sunlight from reaching the surface. God says let there be light. A mars sized object smashes into the young earth blasting away some of the atmosphere and most likely vaporizing any water on the surface. This impact caused the atmosphere to thin just enough so that light would hit on the surface of the earth (the frame of reference for Genesis is the surface of the earth), but the sun was still not visible (like a cloudy day). Since sunlight was now reaching the surface, day and night could now be distinguished from one another. 1:6) i believe your logic is sound and I don't feel like I need to respond to your comments, so I won't :) I do acknowledge what you stated in the last two sentences of that paragraph though. 1:11) I'm sorry, I might have confused you on this one. The Hebrew words for seed, trees, and fruit (zera, es, and pri) can RESPECTIVELY mean "semen" or "the embryos of any plant species, " "any large plant containing woody fiber," and "the food and or embryos produced by any living thing. " "There is not a single plant that could have survived in the oxygen rich climate that the first bacteria. .. " The early atmosphere was not full of oxygen at all. "Oxygen has not always been as abundant as it is today. Most scientists believe that for half of Earth"s 4.6-billion-year history, the atmosphere contained almost no oxygen. " . http://www.astrobio.net... I think this clears up that fact that wood-fibered plants were probably able to survive on the early earth. "In evolution any complex organism needs other organisms to assist it in its growth" Who said God only created on type of organism? God probably did create ecosystems and all types of creatures to help assist with the survival of each other. I think saying "God could have" and "God would have" is not very productive in this debate. We can only look at what he did do, or didn't do in your views. And that is what we are arguing over, if Genesis lines up with what we see in science. And I do understand that the Cambrian explosion did not include modern life forms. That's undeniable. What I was suggesting is that the first life forms of the Cambrian time-period actually did appear out of thin air (haha i know this might sound absurd to you), God might have created them this way and that is why species tend to characteristically appear abruptly in the fossil record. Even Richard Dawkins acknowledges the fact that species appear very abruptly as far as the Cambrian Explosion goes. And for your comments about the rattlesnakes in Texas. Yes they have evolved. They have adapted because of natural selection (maybe not natural selection, I guess it's more human selection haha) Evolution is a topic for another debate though. I don't really have much else to say. If you would like to better understand my position, then explore this website . http://www.reasons.org...