Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
God didn't literally, using his hands, mold Adam from the muck of the earth (as it's poetically described in Genesis). Just like God didn't literally deliver Israel from an iron furnace, as it's described in Deuteronomy. The latter was a poetical way of stating that it was harsh for the Israelites in Egypt. God molding Adam from muck, similarly, refers to Adam's origins stemming from inorganic matter.

I like to think of it this way and is similar to your statement.

"God formed man from the dust of the earth...."

what was the smallest particles man knew about thousands of years ago? "dust".
Now if God said that He formed man from atoms, molecules, protons, electrons, neutrons, etc , man would not have any concept of what He was talking about..... until the microscope was invented.
What is this "dust"? the same particles of matter that the earth is made of, yet arranged differently.

Does this mean that God did not literally use "real dust"? no. He could/can do whatever He wants.


Abiogensis (life arising from non-living matter" is a main teaching that Macroevolutionists must believe..... if the universe has a beginning. Unfortunately, many Christians discount abiogenesis, yet the Book of Genesis actually supports the concept of abiogenesis....... because "God formed man from the dust of the earth."

Young Earth Creationist Fundamentalists are an unusual bunch to me. They so badly want to argue against evolutionists that they actually contradict the Bible in their own argument.
The Bible supports a "Big Bang" type of event and it also demands abiogenesis as true.
Also, the Hebrew word "Yom" found in Genesis and translated as "day" does not literally or always refer to a 24 hour period of time. It literally means the ending of one time period and the beginning of another.

When one studies the Hebrew instead of the King James Version, one comes to understand that a 6,000 yr old earth viewpoint is not demanded by Scripture and an ancient earth is actually more logical when examining Genesis 1-3.