[nmh]

I don't get it.

Why bother to believe in God?

Why bother to believe in a virgin birth?

Why bother to claim you are a Christian if you don't believe in the miracle of Creation?

God is supernatural. He has no limits. Why limit Him on Creation and (pretend?) to believe in God, a virgin birth etc.?

BTW, it's not just the Catholic church pushing this nonsense.

[MineralMan]

"I don't get it.

Why bother to believe in God?
"

An excellent question, indeed...

[orionblamblam]

> Why bother to believe in a virgin birth?

Because "virgin birth" is an established fact in the animal kingdom. It's called "parthenogenesis."

> Why bother to claim you are a Christian if you don't believe in the miracle of Creation?

I would suspect becuase being a Christian involves things other than believing vague creation myths as literal fact.

> Why limit Him on Creation

That's what a great many Christian evolutionists ask Christian creationists.

[tjwmason]

God is supernatural. He has no limits. Why limit Him on Creation and (pretend?) to believe in God, a virgin birth etc.?

What is the most amazing part of creation? Is it that God took a load of existing matter and turned it into us? Or rather is it the actual act of creation?

By far the most important part of creation is the dialogue "fiat lux" "erat lux", or put another way, the big-bang. This doctrine of creation ex nihilo is what is important.

The means by which God took that matter, and turned it into the universe as we now know it, is on a totally difference level. Many theorists suggest that He used evolution; other believe that there is evidence of Intelligent Design. The act of creation is what is important.