And while we're at it here, let's take a poll. There seem to be 3 basic positions represented in here:
1) Atheist/agnostic.
2) Pure creationist, believes Earth is no more than about 10,000 years old.
3) Believers in God who believe the Earth is much older than that and who at least allow the possibility that evolution was God's way of creating the variety of life we have now.
Which are you? I would consider myself more or less a 3.
However, some 3's in here appear to be clinging so tightly to evolution that they are speaking as if the physical world of matter is all there is, which is to say they are much more a 1 than a 3, which is to say they don't REALLY believe there's a God but think it's a "lovely idea".
If you are a 3, then just as with a 2, by definition you have to allow for the possibility of supernatural intervention by an omnipotent metaphysical Supreme Being whenever He bloody well feels like it. This means you have to allow for things that cannot and will not ever be explained by science, which deals only with the physical and by definition cannot address the metaphysical.
Using physical science to explain the metaphysical is much like a man standing under a streetlight looking for his car keys. Another man approaches and asks "What are you doing?"
"I'm looking for my car keys."
"Where were you when you dropped them?"
"Over there," he points to the gutter over in the dark away from the streetlight.
"So why aren't you looking there?"
"Because the light is better over here."
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So everybody, are you a 1, 2, or 3?
You left out the category that most would fall in.