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I have no problem with the concept of God creating the universe, however you will never convince me or others that the Earth is 6000 years old. There are just too many facts regarding that... coming from many branches of human knowledge, geology, chemistry, astrophysics and so forth.

Continueing to fixate on untenable positions such as 'young earth' just drives people away from God and I think it does a horrible disservice to Christianity. Jesus only requires that we believe in him, not that we believe interpretations of the bible.

I would not say someone who was a theistic evolutionist was not a Christian. However, I don't think it is fair to accuse young earthers of driving folks from Christ either. There is a lot of evidence to support a young earth and Old earth dating methods are extremely flawed and based on a lot of assumptions. Things such as C14 and K-Ar Dating don't work when applying them to things of known age and yet the evolutionists want us to believe they work when applied to things of unknown age. Fossils are dated by the layer of sediment they are in (based upon one man's conception of a Geological column) and yet the sediment has been dated by what fossils are in it. Layers of sediment are said to be millions and millions of years old and yet have undecayed petrified tree stumps throughout them all over the world. The Grand Canyon is supposed to be the result of that little river running through it for ages, and yet, its entry point is about 3,000 feet below the highest point. Rivers don't run uphill, and the canyon wasn't created that way. Finally, so much of current origins science is based upon faulty assumptions such as the current conditions we are in have always been constant. C14 is seen to decay at a constant rate. The speed of light is seen as the same (light years is a distance, not a speed) and yet it has been controlled, slowed down, sped up in a lab, and we know that it has naturally been slowing down over the years. You see, evolutionary scientists would love for the world to believe that they have all of the answers, even if it means practicing some really bad science.To correct the record, I believe it is incumbent upon the informed Christian to speak up whenever and wherever possible to keep folks from falling for the lie of the past couple of centuries.