First, Seil is right.
Second, tell her that it may not be that the universe was literally created 6000 years ago, but that the entire thing is possibly metaphorical. I mean, think back to when the books of the Bible were being written, they didn't need a scientific explanation of what was going on. They just needed to know that the universe was made, things happened, et cetera.
For the same reason there are no dinosaurs in the Bible, there's no evolution: It's irrelevant in terms of the greater picture. One day to God might be a million years to us.
It's not to say that God doesn't exist, because he used evolution to populate the world, and make sure that's clear.
The above is, incidentally, my own belief on why the Bible says seven days, instantly created. It didn't need to be scientifically accurate, it just needed a quick background, to have understanding of what came next, and to answer where the world came from. Heck, it even got the order right, for evolution.
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I did a lot of posting on here as a teenager, and I was pretty awful. Even after I learned, grew up, and came to be on the right side of a lot of important issues, I was still angry, abrasive, and generally increased the amount of hate in the world, in pretty unacceptable ways. On the off chance that someone is taking a trip down memory lane looking through those old threads, I wanted to devote my signature to say directly to you, I'm sorry.
Thank you for letting me be better, NPF.
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