I am a creationist.
I remember being told in grade 5 that God created the fossils to test our faith. I believed it. But not no more. I think that any Christian willing to say that God tests us with fossils is considering God to be an evil one, to deceive us. There is only one test God had for us, anything but deceiving. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Since all these previous posts are nothing but speculation and trash talk. I'll join in.
I speculate that Adam was smarter than us. Ever hear about those people with an amazing memory? People with mathematical skills beyond imagining? Or those artist painting beautiful paintings? etc...
Add all of em up and you got Adam. Yes, because after the fall into sin, God cursed everything because of our disobedience, therefore everything is going downhill. Not uphill, like those poor evolutionists think everything is heading. But maybe after 5 billion years downhill mutations, even they maybe convinced.
As for God's image, (cant believe people still believe this), it does not talk about our physical bodies, you silly! You really think that monkeys are less that God's image?
No merely, God's image talks about how we socially interact with one another. Love, a love for living beings, a love for things that are beautiful, a love for things that are right. Of course, the fall into sin sort of smashed that image, and we are left with people who like to rape, who like to hate/kill their neighbour. Ah, but if evolution is true, this is just natural. Forget about right and wrong, those ideas are just silly.
Yeah, I released some steam there didn't I?