Creation Vs. Evolution

Why do the theories of creation and evolution have to be mutually exclusive?

I think they complement each other. Creation is the story and theory of how God created the universe and the Earth and everything on it. The Bible tale shows how humanity of a more ancient time envisioned the process. Evolution is also a story of sorts based on a different theory viewpoint. Both have been developed from human observations. I see parallels.

The Bible version splits each stage of creation into days. Evolution divides similar stages into eras. In the first written works of the Bible that have been found, the translated word “day” was actually a more generic term within the language that simply referred to a unit of time. Whether the text meant an actual day as humans measure it or some longer segment of time, like a century or an eon, is still debated. So if we substitute “day” for “era” and vice versa, here’s what we find…

Day One

• Creation: He created heaven and earth and separated light from dark. Day and
  night were born.
• Evolution: Big Bang theory. There was a mass of something and it blew out and
  expanded to eventually become the stars and planets and other
  heavenly bodies, some of which emit light. The void between all these
  masses of stuff is what we call outer space and it is very dark.
  IE: universal day and night, light and dark, are born.

Day Two

• Creation: He separated the firmament and the waters, creating the sky and the
  heavens as separate from the surface of the Earth.
• Evolution: Our planet and sun, indeed all other such solar systems, spun from
  globs of matter from the Big Bang into individual celestial bodies that spin through space.
  General space(the heavens) and the celestial bodies (like Earth) become separated.

Day Three

• Creation: He separated the land from the water, creating rivers and seas.
  He also added plants.
• Evolution: As the Earth spun and cooled and changed, water coalesced and then
  moved into separate bodies(like rivers, seas and oceans) from the land
  masses. Single celled organisms arrive after this. After a lot of new species are
  created and many extinctions take place, many surviving members are
  algae-like. Some of these develop into land plants.

Day Four

• Creation: He created the seasons. He also set the stars, sun and moon into the sky
  as guides not only for day and night but for when each season occurs
  and other predictions.
• Evolution: All right, this one is not in the same order as since it comes before
  plants arrive. But as our planet spins around the sun, the temperature
  and seasons do change according to where we are in our orbit, so there
  is a parallel here.

Day Five

• Creation: He creates animal life. In the air, in the seas and on the land.
• Evolution: This is another one that comes a little out of order. Those single celled
  organisms came in plant-like and animal-like forms around the same
  time. In fact, there were and still are some forms that resemble both.
  Plants may have gotten at least a small head start getting to land before
  animals did, so it’s not too unreasonable to say that animals come next.

Day Six

• Creation: He creates mankind. And man is set “above” the other animals. Mankind
  is also “in charge” of all that he sees, plants and animals.
• Evolution: Mankind does arrive quite a bit after most other animal life forms in
  the fossil record. We are also unique in the amount of impact our
  intellect and technologies have had on our planet and its ecosystems ever since we became a separate species.

Day Seven.