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>>12484006
The best explanation of creation that I am aware of is basically this:
1. Modern science is based upon uniformitarianism, which is the assumption that the universe operated in the same way in the past as it does today. Hence we can observe a physical process as it occurs today and apply its current behavior to the past interminably.
2. Uniformitarianism is an incorrect assumption, and Christianity rather teaches catastrophism, which is the understanding that the functioning of the universe is subjected to and modified by various catastrophic events throughout time. Thus observing a physical process today tells us nothing about how the process behaved in the past.
3. The fall of man particularly, and also the flood, are catastrophic events which altered the physical behavior of the universe. The fall introduced death and decay into the universe, and the flood in scripture appears to have had certain affects upon the operation of the planet earth. You can see the gradual introduction of death into the universe by the gradual reduction of the human lifespan recorded in Genesis, until it reaches our modern lifespan.
4. As a result of this, we are cut off from the ancient past at the epistemological level. We cannot observe it in any way and can only learn of it through revelation. We can look at the evidence around us, but it can give us no scientific manner of making determinations of the past. If we assume uniformitarianism and attempt to make theories off the available data which assumes the past operated in the same way, then we will come up with theories that appear correct under these assumptions, but which are actually wrong (evolution). God has barred us entirely from Eden and the pre-fall world:
>Gen. 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.