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This is why I am confident that Scripture has nothing to do with God. What it "says" is usually a matter of opinion. Human opinion, to be precise. Anybody who reads Genesis can see that the original meaning, to the original audience, is six days. Some people now hold different opinions. But that's mainly because they accept some of the evidence that has since been ascertained.
True. There are alleles that have hundreds of variations in the human code. They could only have come about through mutations. The majority of them neutral, otherwise those mutations would have killed those people of. I read somewhere that it's very likely that each one of us have at least one unique mutation in our DNA, somewhere, but most likely in some dormant part of the DNA. We all get a cancer mutation some 20 times in our life, but most of the time, the antibodies take care of it.
Consider what Genesis 1:3-5 actually says; "And God said: “Let there be light.” Then there was light. After that God saw that the light was good, and God began to divide the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, but the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, a first day."
This is an after-the-fact interpretation. You know that the light of the daytime sky comes from the Sun; the ancient people who wrote that story didn't. To them, there was no contradiction in "light" being created before the Sun.
I am unaware that theory of evolution says that there was ever a time when humans were neither male nor female. I am quite confident that sex emerged in the animal world more than 600 million years before humans had evolved.
Yes, what the fossil evidence indicates is that you are more likely to be correct. Even with the earliest human fossils, there are differences between the sexes that are distinguishable in adults.
