[Alter Kaker]

Your English is getting better--missives?

I bought a thesaurus.

but without the creation of the universe, the conditions would not have been there for life to appear and evolution to take place,

The two are related insofar as evolution requires the universe to already exist. But then everything else we know of or can imagine requires the universe to exist as well, so I really don't see your point.

[moog]

The two are related insofar as evolution requires the universe to already exist. But then everything else we know of or can imagine requires the universe to exist as well, so I really don't see your point. I only said that they were related in the manner I said and that one supposedly happened after another--that was it. In a way, i was agreeing that yes, they are separate theories. I do believe in a creation mechanism, but do allow for some parts of evolution to exist because it does. I can respect that someone believes in evolution, but again, I will hold that none of us really knows everythng for sure.

If people in religion can look on science (in the least terms) as man's efforts to explain God's processes, the two can coincide. Let's not forget some of the Renaissance people and what they had to endure (e.g. saying that the earth oribits the sun instead of the converse).

For me, my belief in God and that he created things is a cherished belief. If someone believes differently, fine, that's their perogative.