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I’m at work whattajoke, so I don’t have ready access toall of my books. I have read books that are extremely critical of Darwin. passages that show his overt hostility toward Christianity while his wife kept her faith. I will endeaver to give you an example of his “over the top” hostility toward Christianity. I know Darwin lived a bitter life alienated from his family and made some interesting statements as he neared death. As for stealing ideas, I believe the theory of natural selection was being developed rapidly by Lyell and Wallace at the time Darwin trumped them with “The Origin of the Species” It can be argued (like many pre-victorian scientists) that he borrowed a few ideas from competing scientists. The basic inadequacy of Darwinism is it’s inability to explain the existence of matter and the exquisite complexity of even the most basic living cell. The “1st cause argument is the most difficult to overcome. Something cannot come from nothing. Yes, I am a YEC, as you call it. I believe the geologic table, the existence of dinosaurs, the speciation of all living creatures can be explained by a careful analysis of the days of creation and the Noahic flood. Cheers. . Keep up the correspondence if you want to. I’m sorry for relegating you to hell so quickly. I just don’t want anyone to perish since God provided such a free way of salvation through Jesus Christ. As a believer in Christ, you don’t absolutely have to understand the mysteries of creation immediately, but you do have to believe in the most intelligent of designers, The God of Creation!

As a believer in Christ, you don’t absolutely have to understand the mysteries of creation immediately, but you do have to believe in the most intelligent of designers

There's the crux. No, I, nor anyone, needs to understand the mysteries of creation immediately. But it sure is fun demystifying them one by one. Are you proposing we don't examine such mysteries, throw our hands up and proclaim, "I don't understand this! God did it!"

Sorry, I can't do that. The desert dwelling scientifically illiterates of the middle east did that 2,000 years ago and gave us the bible. Since that time, we've learned a few things. Like how to prepare and serve pork that doesn't kill us, for one.

In those 2,000 years, we have "demystified" so much of this world around us. And each and every single time, there has been a naturalistic explanation. We have not yet come to the conclusion any single time that a supernatural deity was the force behind anything. Until such a day comes, I'll stick to my guns.

Also, you've set up a false dichotomy: "but you do have to believe in the most intelligent of designers." Why? Aren't there other options? Other gods? Discounting the sciencse, humanities and human history suggest many options.

I’m sorry for relegating you to hell so quickly.

At the risk of sounding rude, LOL. The idea of a hell is, quite honestly, absurd.

One last point - I would hope that an omniscient god would not be besmirched or phased by a lone long-dead student of natural history.