[DallasMike]

LOL!! I have plenty of trouble remembering what I wrote -- much less what anyone else wrote! '-)

You and me both. After I re-read your post, I wondered how I could have forgotten this wonderful quote of yours:

Science without religion would be, to me, far less enjoyable!

How very true.

[TXnMA]

DallasMike, -- as an indication that you and I and our Sisters in Christ, Alamo-Girl and Betty Boop, are not alone in our comfort with our salvation and both creation and scientific observation -- in a previous CrEvo thread, 50sdad wrote:

"The major problem with those who hang their entire faith on the idea that God simply MUST HAVE made all of Eternity in seven 24-hour calendar days is that gripping like a bulldog to this idea causes scientific people who might actually accept Jesus in their hearts given time and persuasion about His love to decide that Christians are a bunch of know-nothing Luddite morons who don't believe in gravity. Seriously."

"I am more impressed that God made a billion stars than by the idea that God had to do it all a week, despite a rather elaborate geological and astrophysical record to the contrary. I am amazed that God could take a steady-state mass at the beginning of the entire timeline, force his will on it and cause Big Bang, because even the most severe of physical scientists can't tell me, in a universe of cause and effect, what caused that reaction to occur. I am impressed that God formed man and the animals around him from lifeless dust, and don't think the time frame really important, for the end result is my thinking mind and the heritage of Jesus' sacrifice."

"The only thing funnier than watching the Godless Scientists make Creation dance and twist to prove that God had no hand in it is watching the God-full Creationists try and make that same cosmos dance and twist to prove it happened in their timeframe."

I would much rather be testifying -- to God's greatness, the wonders of His Creation that I've been privileged to observe, and about His gracious love that sent my Saviour to rescue me from the condemnation of my sin -- than trying to defend both my Christianity and my scientific professionalism from those who make careers of attacking them.

In fact, if you folks on this thread will bear with me and allow me to testify without attacks, I would like to begin a series of comments sharing my personal testimony.

OK with everyone?