Evolution or Creation?

Where to start? The beginning, or not, as the argument may be.
The Christian faith denies the theory of evolution and the scientific community denies the theory of creation. So who is right, or more importantly, who has the evidence to back up their claims?
Let me start by making it clear that the theory of creation and the theory of evolution are just that, Theories. Neither have any base in absolute fact and neither can be 100% proved or disproved. All we have is supportive evidence on which we can make reasonable assumptions about how either theory could or could not be true.
From a personal point of view I can not see how creationism could support the diversity of life. Even the human race is so diverse in term of colours, builds, features and everything else that distinguishes one race from another, that one set of parents as little as 9000 to 12000 years ago (creationist estimate of the age of earth according to the bible)
The Bible claims that God created the world in just seven days which by any measure is pretty impressive considering it took two men nearly three weeks just to install my new bathroom.
It is fair to say on the side of creationism that one of Gods “days” could be billions of years of human time, so in my opinion there is no need to argue the possibility of a seven day universal construction.
Time in the bible is figurative at best. In Genesis on the sixth day God brought forth all the animals and Adam named them. Now given that there are over 90 million different known species of land animal (including birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, invertebrates and vertebrates) the task of naming each one would have taken many, many years at least, and that did not include the marine life, but Adam did this all in one day.
There are several thing about the theory of creation that bothers me and which are not clearly explained in the bible.
When God supposedly created Adam (and take note that the Koran claims that it was Allah that created Adam) and Eve he placed them in the Garden of Eden and blessed them with two sons Cain and Abel (although only Cain, Abel and Seth are mentioned by name the bible tells that in his 930 or so years Adam had many more children after them). It is known that Cain Killed Abel and as a punishment he was outcast and sent to the east of Eden, to the land of Nod, where quite strangely he met and married a Shepard’s daughter (like any good mystery, her name was never revealed). By now you should be asking yourself “Where did she come from?” and quite rightly so. In chapter four of Genesis the population suddenly changed from just the original four (Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel) to a mass of population out side the Garden from Which Cain could choose a wife, in less that 16 paragraphs with no explanation. As yet I have never seen a convincing rationalisation of this paradox, although I have heard the use of such terms as “They could be the descendants of Adam not previously mentioned” or “God put them there after creating Adam and Eve” and my all time favourite “They just were, ok!”
Another worry I have is that if all the people were descended from Adam and Eve as claimed, then does God promote incest? The descendants of Adam would have had to take the terms of brotherly and sisterly love to a literal degree. I have seen the film Deliverance and I have seen what the results of what sort of offspring a man and wife can produce when they both share the same parents. We should all be sat on our back porches strumming our banjo’s with our little six fingered hands whilst drooling.

But in response a creationist would mock “are we expected to believe that we came from apes?” And believe me this is a standard response to any such questioning of God creation.
So let us set the record straight, when Darwin first postulated his now famous “theory of Evolution” he suggested that perhaps man and ape shared a common ancestor somewhere in the darker times of history, a primate that both man and ape could be related back to, but not that man and ape were ever one and the same.
Unlike Darwin, We now know that Humans and Apes share approximately 98-99% of the same DNA which proves we are more closely related than most people would like to admit. After all we are both primates, we walk upright, have opposable thumbs, binocular vision and only have one pair of mammary glands.
So like it or not, we are related to apes, although we are not required to invite them to family gatherings.

As I mention previously, Evolution is a theory, but unlike creationism, it is a theory with evidence. We have fossil records that show evidence of creatures that lived millions of years ago, and we can see the evidence of natural selection over a relatively short time. There is no doubt that dinosaurs existed, yet they are not mentioned in the bible at all, despite being some of the largest creatures ever to have roamed the planets surface. We have hundreds (maybe even thousands, I am not going to count) of museums around the world packed to the rafters with examples of this planets evolution and the plethora of creatures that once roamed in abundance around the globe but I have yet to see an equal (or even any significant) amount of museums that have evidence of creation with in.
In conclusion to this section ( I will most probably revisit this subject again) I believe in evolution simply because I can see examples of how creatures have developed over many millennium to suit their environments but none to support that God created everything at once.