[Soliton]

This is why I believe the story of Creation is simply an allegory - it stems from the consideration of the Bible not as a literal, word-for-word dictate from God, but as an inspired set of truths and writings (with history of His people recorded by His people as well) to explain who He is, and what our relationship has been and can be with Him.

you are a wise one

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Thank you. Ultimately, I look on the oft-used approach to "disprove" evolution as an example of a weak Christian! For ultimately, we are called by Christ to have faith - it is not works that define one as Christian!

The continual need to provide scientific "proof" for Christianity, or to attempt to "destroy" what is perceived as opposed to Christianity strikes me as the sign of a weak faith - if your faith cannot exist in the face of apparent differences from what you originally believed, then it is not faith!

Christianity - like all religions - ultimately is about faith and philosophy. It is not about science. It is about the spiritual, not physical world. To think that our Bible is a science textbook is to do a great disservice to God who inspired the stories, and to the thousands of scribes who recorded those stories.

Christ Himself taught by parable and example; should we not, as Christians emulate the same? It seemed to work for Paul and the Disciples!