Thanks for the kind words, Gordon. According to some on this thread, I'm not a Christian and am just another liberal "boot-licker at the Temple of the Cult of Darwin."
I've obviously dropped into the middle of a long, ongoing conversation and don't understand the dynamics. I'm not going to decide who is right and who is wrong. From what I've read on this thread, however, it seems to me that you are both devout and faithful servants of God.
It’s not my goal in life or my calling to doubt others Christianity based on small disagreements. With all my heart I believe that the Earth is literally as old as the Bible states. Too much of the rest of the Word of God relies on the Genealogy and pattern laid down there.
From what I’ve studied I also believe it takes more faith to believe in evolution (as theorized by Darwin) than in a single Creator with a literal Creation.
But from what you’ve said you believe strongly in Christ and his sacrifice literally and believe wholeheartedly in the salvation that comes through His name, so the rest is just a matter of both of us working through Romans 14.
Again, I do pray God blesses you and very much thank you for the encouragement.