Many people argue that Christianity contradicts science because it’s creation story, Genesis 1 contradicts what we know about evolution. Many are rightfully frustrated that charletans such as Ken Ham make money off of promoting bullshit such as the idea of a 6000 year old earth and that the flood of Noah’s ark was a global flood and that dinosaurs were on it.
However, the young earth creationists are missing what the Bible is meant to be. The Bible is not a science textbook. Throughout the history of Christianity, Christians have known that the Bible is the inspired word of God that contains history as well as poetry and metaphors. St. Augustine knew that Genesis 1 could not be literal because it says that light and darkness, day and night were created on the first day, yet the sun, moon, and stars were not created until the fourth day. Genesis is a poem explaining that God created the universe and Earth.
The story of Adam and Eve is a story to teach how humans have original sin because they fallen to the temptations of Satan by trying to be like God. If humans were without sin, they would have eternal life in heaven, but since they sin, unrepentant sinners perish and go to hell.
The story of Cain and Abel has a similar meaning. Murderers face accountablity for their crimes and cannot hide what they did from God.
As for Noah’s ark, it is a poem based on actuall local flood in Mesopotamia(that the Epic of Gilgamesh is also based on) The message is that God punishes the wicked but saves the righteous.
The main message of the Bible is that in order to save humans from damnation, God chose Abraham to have his descendants(the ancient Israelites) be his chosen people and that through his chosen people, he had his son Jesus who was part of God and was with God from the beginning born of the Virgin Mary in human form to sacrifice himself and die for the sins of humanity. So now us Christians are God’s chosen people because we are the ones who are saved. The Ten Commandments and the teachings of Christ and the apostles are teachings on how we Christians should live our lives. Salvation is by faith and good works.
So do not let the ignorant young earth charletans like Ken Ham and Ray Comfort and their retarded followers dissuade you from converting to Christianity. Evolution and Christianity are not incompatible.