[LionsDaughter]

Okay. I also did not intend for that post to read quite as defensively as it did. My apologies.

No, Genesis is not a biology text. It just tells what happened. Genesis is there to tell a story, not give nuts and bolts on why the story unfolded the way that it did. You are right. Fungi don't seem to fit. But then again, "faith as small as a mustard seed" and all that.

[From many - one.]

I'm glad we have that straightened out and especially pleased that you mentioned Faith.

I have made the distinction between Creationists-by-Faith for whom I have the utmost respect (my own brain needs too much to poke at whys and where-fors), and Creationists-by-Argument who seem to me to be a different type of group altoghther.

For myself, I have not the slightest problem with accepting both Genesis and evolutionary theory. It seems to me to be an excess of hubris to say that God, on day 5 could not have created animals comlete with their whatever billion year evolutionary history. And I would certainly not have expected Him to try and explain the details.