Then you must be new to crevo threads. The saying that "creationism is a cancer on conservatism" has been around for a long time.
The only problem is that true evolutionists don't believe in God, because the purpose of the theory was to come up with some way to explain the earth without God.
And next you're going to tell me that the Pope isn't a Christian. Who are you to tell me whether I believe in God, or not? Your interpretation of Genesis and mine are different. Disagreement about what the Bible actually means is one of the oldest arguments on earth.
I don't believe what's being foisted on us as science by the left any more than I believe the revisionist history foisted on us by leftist political science profs.
Science should not be politicized, by either the right or left. Just because the left has corrupted many scientists in the environmental debate does not mean that evolution isn't a solid science. It is.
We have the whole of creation to study indeed, but we have the whole of Scripture as well, and evolution doesn't fit the whole either. If man was not uniquely created, and did not sin against the Creator, there is no need for redemption, and there would be no need for a Savior. If you choose to throw out Genesis, you throw out the words of Jesus, and the Apostle Paul, as well as the entire book of Hebrews.
A picture is worth a thousand words. And the whole of God's creation in living breathing 3D reality contains many orders of magnitude more information than the few hundred words in the creation stories in Genesis.
If you want to find out about redemption, read the Bible. If you want to find out what God's creation is about, then study it. And the best method of doing so is the discipline of science.
The scripture says that God created all that we are and see. What it does not do is give more than a tiny sliver of a glimpse about how He did that. And as no two denominations can agree on the important parts of what The Bible says, you and I don't agree on that part of Genesis either.
I don't accuse you of not believing in God. I'd appreciate it if you'd offer me the same courtesy, merely because we don't exactly agree on a particular interpretation of a couple of chapters in the Bible.
It's not just about Genesis (as much as you want it to be). It's about God's plan for the redemption of sinful man.
You are clearly defensive, so you have misinterpreted what I have said, and thus much of your post is irrelevent.
Just one last point..........if science shouldn't be politicized, then why don't you stop doing it, OK? My belief in creation isn't political. It's spiritual........and very based on logic and common sense as well. Amphibians don't magically develop lungs, and mankind didn't magically develop a soul.
But what I belive will have no effect on the 2008 election, no matter how hard you contort to make a point that it will.