Perhaps my understanding of evolution is flawed, but I never
understood evolution as speaking to the origins of life itself (i.e.,
evolution neither accepts nor rejects the proposition that life itself was
created by a deity).

      See, for example,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

      As I understand the conflict between a literal reading of The Bible
and the theory of evolution is that the theory of evolution does speak to
the origins of --human-- life.  Specifically, the theory of evolution
asserts human life sprang from forms of life preceding human life.  In that
way the theory of evolution is in conflict with a literal reading of the
seven days of creation in Genesis.

      See, for example,
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=1&chapter=1&version=50

      Is my understanding of the theory of evolution (propounded by the
adherents of the theory of evolution) correct?

      Is my understanding of the conflict between a literal reading of The
Bible and the theory of evolution correct?

Michael

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