Apex Or Ex-Ape?(Critical Essay‪)‬

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's NO SECRET that evolution has been controversial in Christian history. First, there is the clash with the reading of the creation stories of Genesis, namely with the time element. Genesis 1 depicts creation lasting one week of twenty-four-hour days, whereas it must have taken billions of years. Genesis also has the sun created on the fourth day but how could there have been "evenings and mornings" before there was a sun? It is reasonable, I think even likely, that whoever had the sun created on the fourth "day" wasn't thinking of solar days, so "literalist" readers of Genesis chapter 1 may be in a snit over nothing at this point.