To help christians and evolutionists understand the bible, I will try to explain it in a simple way. Let's assume you have a computer in front of you. Before working on your computer, have a good look at your screen saver what ever it is. This picture on your screen is made up of many pixels of different colors. To illustrate my point, assume you can remove all these colored light pixels three feet from your screen.
Now your screen is blank and all these colored light pixels mingle among themselves within the same dimension of your computer screen and, every ten minutes, 100 pixels of light will hit your blank computer screen in a strait line.
If these pixels of color happen to touch their original location, they will stay there. If not, they will return to group. After thousand and thousand of years trying to return to your screen saver in their original spot, the picture on your your screen is almost complete, except for one last light pixel.
Let us assume it would take this last pixel seven hundred years to return to its original location on your screen saver. In this case, we can say it would have taken seven hundred years to create the picture on your screen saver.
And, the period of time it took for all the other thousands of pixels to end up in their right location, the thousand and thousand of years, it took to rebuilt the picture, pixel by pixel, that is the period that we call evolotion.
So, evolution takes place on a very long period of time and creation takes place on a shorter period of time.