[tacticalogic]

People make up an absurdity like the earth (or universe!) is only 6,000 years old, they read that into the Bible and push Young Earth as their central doctrine — then the idea that the earth is 6,000 years old is suddenly more important than Moses, Jesus, everything — then they say you have to believe the Earth is 6,000 years old or you are an atheist. And they wonder why so many young people take that at face value and drop out of church.

I know. Rather than fight to get Christian theology and philosophy presented by making it a part of a required philosopy curriculum and focusing on things like the Ten Commandments and the life of Jesus, they try to force the acceptance of the Book of Genesis as an authoritative science and history text.

[metmom]

Rather than fight to get Christian theology and philosophy presented by making it a part of a required philosopy curriculum and focusing on things like the Ten Commandments and the life of Jesus, they try to force the acceptance of the Book of Genesis as an authoritative science and history text.

So how'd we get from allowing creation to be taught in schools again as it had been for decades until it was forced out by litigation, to forcing everyone to accept the whole book of Genesis as an authoritative science and history text? Hyperbole much?

The hysteria about what the "other side" is doing is amusing at best.

I guess if you can't present your point of view and let it stand on it's own merits, then the only thing left to do is misrepresent the creationist position and make things up about them and try to snow others into believing it.

OMG!!! They're LITERALISTS! They want to impose a theocracy on us! They want to send us back to the Dark Ages! The sky is falling! OMG!!!

Ooops, better strike the OMG part. They don't want Him in the picture.