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Or to put it another way, even though you cannot speak with the same voice, perhaps there are some that the one of you could reach that the other could not?

Well put, Alamo-Girl. BTW, I've enjoyed reading your research for years. You have a real talent.

The real problem is that I am a scientist by training and career. Young-Earth Creationists make it difficult for me to witness to my peers. Thanks in part to the mainstream media, many non-Christians believe that all Christians are ignorant and scientifically illiterate. I have to get around that when talking to someone about Christ who has a science background. Atheists love Young-Earth Creationists because it gives them the opportunity to point out what they believe is the foolishness of Christianty.

Why should non-believers with a science background believe me about the saving power of Jesus Christ when so many Christians make the ludicrous claim that the earth is only 6,000 years old?

Not only that, but I have seen people who were raised to believe in Young-Earth Creationism who lost or damaged their faith when they encountered the real world. The Bible has much to say about putting a stumbling block in front of people. I see Young-Earth Creationism as a huge stumbling block that has tripped many.

I am passionate about the subject because I have witnessed firthand what a dangerous thing Young-Earth Creationism is. If I were in another field, I might not feel as strongly.

Take care and thank you again for your kind and wise post.

Thank you oh so very much for sharing your concerns, dear brother in Christ, and thank you for your encouragements!

The real problem is that I am a scientist by training and career.

It seems to me that you must have a particularly strong faith to testify about Christ in the "belly of the beast."

I know my daughter has an exceptional faith and she too is surrounded by people who criticize and ridicule some if not all Christians. She is an IACUC manager apparently in your area.

I say she has an exceptional faith because she, like my mother before her, never again picks up a burden which she has laid down before Christ. She simply trusts Him with it.

For me, it is a continual battle to resist the urge to pick it up again and worry about it or try to fix it myself - as if to tell God I don't trust Him. And so every time that happens, I must repent and confess and lay it down once more.

People like her - and you - and TXnMA - are forever being challenged by a high percentage of people around you who believe God is just a hypothesis.

If you didn't know His Name, if you don't know Him - you couldn't do it.

It is a calling, in my view, as surely as a missionary or a preacher.

I pray for God's rich blessings for all of you, no matter what your calling.

To God be the glory!