[narby]

Its a bit hard to understand how people who can except the story of the birth of Jesus Christ, the basis for Christianity and yet cannot accept creationism.

I was taught at the Falls Creek Baptist church camp in Oklahoma sometime around 1970 that there was no conflict between Genesis and science. No conflict between the bible and evolution.

Then came the "creation science" movement in the 1980's, and my respect for Christianity started downhill.

So was my church correct in 1970? Or correct today? Either way, the leadership of the church had it totally wrong at some time.

[sgtbono2002]

***Then came the "creation science" movement in the 1980's, and my respect for Christianity started downhill.***

You made your choice live with it. What do you care about the church after letting your Christianity go down hill.

[Gondring]

Then came the "creation science" movement in the 1980's, and my respect for Christianity started downhill.

I have to admit that I actively try hard not to disbelieve Christianity because of the deceitful "creation science" charlatans. I used to take their claims on trust alone...but when I started to look at them as a scientist--as critically as I examined other scientific claims--I realized how absurdly poor they were. I also realized there were obvious attempts to deceive non-scientists into believing the scientific evidence supported creationism. It seemed to conflict badly with the proscription of "bearing false witness."

Do the lies of creation scientists mean that creationism is false? No. But there sure isn't much evidence for it when you strip away the lies. :-(