I hesitate to fully adopt any model . Here ' s what I unquestioningly affirm God directly created life . God directly created the first man . Scientific truth is just as truthful as biblical truth . There is no contradiction . When there is inconsistency , one or the other must have been misinterpreted . It can be either one which has been misinterpreted , though . God does not lie . There are events which happened millions of light years away which we only see today . Either we are wrong about the distance or we are wrong about the age of the earth . Those events did indeed happen . Faithful Christians will disagree on this issue . <| sep |> lol you are <| sep |> Yeah , thanks FA <| sep |> It just isn ' t overrated , it just means that you ' re not a very good tourist . The food everywhere in the world can be good if you ' re a good tourist . I get so fed up of hearing ' pizza overrated in Italy , I ate opposite the Colosseum it was rubbish and expensive '. That ' s on you .