To the couple of posters talking about God using evolution as a pat of creation: I considered that a possibility for a while, but think about this - if evolution is true that means death existed before sin which goes against the Bible since death is the result of sin. That's not to say there aren't changes in nature, even in recent history new species have been created, but what the Bible teaches us about the origins of death points to a creation process that resulted in fully-formed beings rather than a life-cycle spanning eons. Just something to consider.