as we know, Christians aren't unique in putting their chips in the right place all the time. We do seem more common though, when it comes to promptly admitting our faults and asking for forgiveness. I'm just ranting about atheism this early because I'm reading some of Lee Strobel's works.

Lot of stuff I didn't know before reading them, like far more than I thought I knew

the biggest bit was that Science cannot provide a single proof for the origin of life. Microevolution, yes, but not the idea that we all have a common ancestor.

Who is he?

Lee Strobel is an american author and former atheist who wrote a book examining the proof for Christ as a lawyer would

"The case for Christ"

he examined almost every facet you could from medical scholars to archeologists to several people with doctorates in New and Old Testament study to come to the conclusion that Jesus is the Unique Son of God.

My theory of evolution is that the genetic code for variations was already present in each species created.

And the offspring varied like a random roll of dice, with some inheriting some genes, others getting other genes

Not quite microevolution. Not an actual change.

Maybe some types survived in some places because of natural selection (others died out), or because animals inhering certain features chose to migrate to favorable places.

Or maybe they migrated somewhere and God chose in some way for their offspring to manifest certain traits that had been dormant genes before

Supernatural selection

there isn't enough time for what you're suggesting. Think of this. Life more or less came into being only 540-60 million years ago, and almost all of the animal Phyla came fully formed, meaning some with the traits they would hold for millions of years. this in itself is another miracle, but the bigger miracle is that life arose in the first place. no biologist can solve the most fundamental problem of evolution, that being the ultimate origin of life, because they are incapable of solving the assembly problem.

I don't believe in the old earth model

the idea that the earth is billions of years old?

Yeah

Bible has a pretty clear timeline. Yesterday/last night we discussed this in depth in the religion channel

then why would god create radioactive decay rates and then make them unique to each element?

I don't see you around here often, or ever I think, but you should definitely join in on some of our discussions

I would love to.

Radioactive decay can be affected by a lot of things

You gotta have a baseline to determine when it started to decay

I believe the Flood could have been a major event to affect this

true enough, but then how would one explain away the Radioactive cosmic background? the flood wouldn't be a good explanation for that

Of course I could be wrong about young earth but, when God said days, he said days. The same word used elsewhere in the OT, especially with "evening and morning" always meant one day, 24 hours.

you can't read the bible literally in this sense, just like you can't read it literally in the sense of Daniel 9:24-26

There's no reason to think that part was anything but literal. Else evening and morning, and the creation of celestial bodies to help us determine time of day, seems like pointless writing on behalf of Moses

Daniel 9:24-26 refers to sevens which translated from the original hebrew meant weeks, and yet the prophecy concerning in this chapter say at what time in history the Messiah would appear, and when one does the calculation properly, it matches up within a year of christ's birth and death

the book of daniel is set approximately 490 years before christ's death

which is exactly what is predicted in the book through the prophesy of daniel.

But he is, of course, a prophet

The creation isn't about prophecy, it's about history. It was written after the events it refers to, while Daniel is written before the events it refers to

and we also need to understand that the writers of the old testament were not secretaries of the holy spirit. Genesis got the order of creation exactly right, but the timeframe of how fast or slow is off.

And of course the context in which that Hebrew word "yom" is used, I'm inclined to take it literally when it says evening and morning

Remember days were measured from sunset to sunset

well, let me put it another way. we have never uncovered a fossil of any kind of human that appears in the same strata of rock as say, a dinosaur, yet genesis would tell me that at one point mankind and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time. also, based on the dimensions specified in Genesis concerning the Ark, and that god commands that a pair of each and every living creature on earth be put inside, it is literally impossible to fit that many creatures in the same confined space for almost 8 months without warping spacetime inside the ark to make the interior far larger than it actually is.

Then maybe a lot of them were dead?

Maybe there was not as much genetic diversity and so instead of a thousand kinds of dogs/wolves, there was just two or three

by that logic then there would be far less diversity than we see on the planet

case and point the different types of finches on the galapagos.