[gore3000]

There are some of us Christians (mostly Catholics) that do make the effort.

You are not a Catholic, you are not a Christian. You constantly attack just about everything in the Bible. You have said called both Genesis and the Words of Christ fairy tales. You refuse to even believe that God created life or man. You are a deceitful person trying to induce (like your hero Darwin who you believe in more than your supposed religion) into your atheistic philosophy.

[Junior]

Once again, moron. I do not attack Christians or "just about everything in the Bible." I attack certain Christians' beliefs in a literal interpretation of Genesis. Of course, in your twisted little mind, disagreeing on an interpretation of the first seven or eight chapters in a book containing hundreds of chapters means that I disagree with "just about everything." Of course, your entire Bible appears to only consist of the first eight chapters; should we commence arguing on other sections? How about "once saved, always saved?" Or (my view) that faith without works is dead? Should women follow St. Paul's admonitions and be silent? Or should they instead follow the example set by Christ and be an integral part of his ministry? You see, there is a lot of room for disagreement in interpretation throughout the entire Bible, and yet my disagreeing with a literal interpretation of Genesis makes me an atheist. Only a small percentage of American Christians still view Genesis as being how God literally did it; I guess the rest of us are atheists.

And, if God created the universe, and if life arose therein, could it not be argued that God created life even if He Himself did not step out and zap the first microbe into existence personally, but had set the whole thing in motion knowing that microbes would "naturally" come of it? Now you want to split hairs on the definition of creation: you believe it can't be true unless God intervened; I hold that God's creation was perfect from the beginning and there was no need to intervene, that life was a "natural" consequence of the creation of the universe. My view is consistent with the body of scientific evidence and yours is not. You drive people from the church with your blatant obfuscations and outright lies (misquoting scientists, for example) and your inability to see the forest for the trees. Each of us will have to answer for his views, and I'm pretty sure God will not take as dim a view of evolution as He will of deceit and the dissolution of His flock because of it.