[Cicero]

Oh, horse manure.

If ten million Americans thought the earth was flat, it wouldn't set back science one bit. Presumably these people would go into some other line of business.

As long as the Creationists aren't preventing science from being taught in America, they have a right to their beliefs.

I happen to be somewhere in the middle. I think General Evolution is bad science, but I also think that when Genesis speaks of the six days of the creation it doesn't mean literal days, because the sun and the moon weren't created for the first several of them, and you can't have days without a sun.

But if some people want to believe that the earth was created in about 4,004 BC, that's their business. There are many other problems in America that are much greater impediments to the advancement of science--such as politically correct research grants.

[PatrickHenry]

As long as the Creationists aren't preventing science from being taught in America, they have a right to their beliefs.

Of course. But they have no business using con-man tactics to bully foolish school boards into teaching their faith as if it were science.

[billbears]

I happen to be somewhere in the middle. I think General Evolution is bad science, but I also think that when Genesis speaks of the six days of the creation it doesn't mean literal days, because the sun and the moon weren't created for the first several of them, and you can't have days without a sun.

On that point I could probably agree with you. However on the other hand, this is God we're talking about. His way are not our ways. If He wanted to do it in 6 days, then he could have. Our minds don't have the capability to comprehend His power and never will.

I do know one thing for certain. I didn't evolve from a fish, ape, monkey, duckbilled platypus or anything else. God made man in His own image. Now whether that was 6000 years ago or 6 million years ago isn't the issue as much as that was how man was made