Maxwellwebb

Like Cavanherk said, the earth wasn't created in 6 days. The word "day" can be used for any amount of time (Old Testament Hebrew - SearchGodsWord.org), so most likely the earth is almost exactly as old as scientists believe.

Anyways, that is very interesting, at Genesis 9:8-15, God speaks of the rainbow being a symbol of the covenant between man and God, it says: "and no more will the waters become a deluge to bring all flesh to ruin." So God will never use a flood to eradicate wicked man again.

So, since there had never been a rainbow before, that suggests that there had never been rain until the flood being that a rainbow is the natural occurrence after rain and sun coincide. But, how could vegetation and life exist without rain? It is believed that in Genesis 1:7 the water beneath the expanse (the sky) and the waters (sea) was a water canopy that blocked a large amount of UV rays from the sun

From wikipedia: "Evolution of early reproductive proteins and enzymes is attributed in modern models of evolutionary theory to ultraviolet light. UVB light causes thymine base pairs next to each other in genetic sequences to bond together into thymine dimers, a disruption in the strand which reproductive enzymes cannot copy (see picture above). This leads to frameshifting during genetic replication and protein synthesis, usually killing the organism."

This portion states that UVB rays disrupt DNA strands, this could be why back before the flood people lived longer due to the water canopy blocking the majority of them and why the human lifespan went from hundreds of years to 70 to 80.

Now onto the evolution topic.

Man did not evolve. Nor did any other species, according to the Bible, God created Adam the man, not Adam the fish. So, evolution and Bible do not mix. Also, the Bible says that the animals and man were created in their kind, not what they would eventually be.

I may revise this if it is confusing or an error is found.