well metaphor- if we stripped you naked and dropped you in the middle of a jungle or dessert, you would adapt and evolve into something other than you would have been otherwise.

I do not believe man can from monkey's, but do know from a biblical perspective God said 'let us make man in our image and after our likeness' 6k years ago not 'lets us make man'. Big difference. I lean more towards the ruin-reconstruction theory because as a rational being I can not except the earth is only 6k years old when I consider the evidence. It's also the most supported by scripture. Creationism as most 'christians' teach is not. It's a shame young earthers run around claiming such an absurdity twisting scripture to do it.

and the earth became desolate and void.....
is what
and the earth was w/o form and void
means

was
hayah=a primitive root (compare 'hava'' (1933)); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary):--beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use.

so what was it before that. Did God create it in a desolate and void state? That's not exactly a biblical view of God, is it? Kinda kills the 'God made....saw....it's is good' concept, eh?