[dirtboy]

It would be the action of a perverted god to leave a false trail of all the various evidences of evolution and age around to mock the great blessings of intellect and intellectual curiousity He has given us. And G-d is not perverted. Yet it might be an intellectual test, or more likely -- it seems to me -- have alternative explanations consitent with Holy Text and Revelation.

Agree with that.

That is -- evolution is just a *theory*.

And agree with that as well. I believe that the geological column represents hundreds of millions of years. I believe that species have come and gone.

But I don't agree with certain aspects of Darwinian evolution. I do not think that life as we know it know could have evolved through mutation or chance. But I do believe that life has an innate ability, through its own power, to reach a higher potential and awareness.

[bvw]

"Beliefs" I try to avoid. Yet say I jump up -- I do believe I will come down. Yet that is only a situational short-cut to intellectually predicting the consquence of my actions -- for on a spacecraft a jump up would have no down no matter how much one believes.

So when you say you believe that geological column represents hundreds of millions of years. and that species have come and gone, I do not think that is the same level of "belief" that you might applu when jumping up in the belief that you will return to ground.