If you condider asking a question to be “tearing at the faith of other”, then we really don’t have much of any importance to exchange.
I stand by my earlier post to you, though, that based on our correspondence to date, I have a lot more respect for you than I do for the phonies that inhabit and post on these threads. Your position is based on faith, any you have not yet rationalized that faith by claiming that science supports it.
I, too, am a Christian. We just see things differently.
Do you consider biblical creationism to be real science?
Why the use of 'real' as though that persons desire to have 'straight science...' is errant if it were to include the idea that something scientific might support the idea of creation in a biblical context?
My position is indeed based on Faith, and I will bolster my position using facts that are presented scientifically, as well as continue to protest the attempt to discredit the Bible, as well as to oppose, as non-confrontationally as possible, those who attempt that discrediting.
While there are many warm little ponds, it is mind boggling to think that random collisions between non-living molecules slowly made them more complex in a VERY SPECIFIC way to allow them to feed and reproduce as a single unit.
Then, somehow, that pond scum rears itself out of that soup and treads the earth, changing forms, gaining complexity (Against the 2nd Law of Thermo) until today, here we are, the crowning glory of a cosmic game of chance.
How can a Christian reconcile his being an 'image of God' and at the same time profess that he is a direct descendant of warm pond scum?