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.
In other words, if I don't believe in your particular interpretation, then I've "thrown out the whole of scripture". In other words, you accuse me of not believing in God or his word.
.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.
I don't believe it's scientists that are taking political means to force their ideas on religious believers. It's religious believers who have used the political arena in several jurisdictions in their attempt to force religion into science class. There are a handful of religious funded groups who's sole agenda is using politics to do just that.
Amphibians don't magically develop lungs,
It may appear to be magic to those who do not understand. But it's just evolution, and it happens litteraly every day a little bit at a time. Evolution is one of God's most elegant of creations. It's only too bad you refuse to see His wonderful creation.
and mankind didn't magically develop a soul.
Which is a totally irrelevant subject from evolution. I have respect enough for God to believe that he could give a soul to a grasshopper, should he choose. It does not tweek my ego to think that at some time in the past, 6000 years ago maybe, God gave man a soul. That this doesn't quite jibe with your interpretation of Genesis, well, we just disagree. Just like the Catholics and Protestants in Ireland. Religious disagreements are all over the globe, and have been that way for all time.