"RE: "It's just a theory."
You're right, there aren't any facts (I'm being serious here), just observations,
hypotheses (what is the damn plural?) and theories."
That's is exactly what bothers me with evolution in this society. It is just a theory and there is absolutely no evidence, in the fossil record or anywhere else, that directly supports evolution. It's just an unproven theory. Yet it is presented as absolute fact, in schools, in the media,and in scientific communities. If you question it at all, you're some religious nut. On Discovery channel tonight there was a show about sea snakes, the scientists were commenting on "how well these snakes have adapted to their environment". That statement is NOT consistent with evolution. I adapt to cold weather by wearing a jacket. I know what I want, to be warmer, and I know how to get it, wear a jacket. I have control over it, I adapt. The sea snakes, according to evolution, have NO control, they are at the mercy of completely random mutations that have no set goal. They didn't adapt, they are just lucky that they became the way they are.
Jeff, you bring up the Big Bang. Many Christians take many parts of the Bible as figurative. I for one believe that the Big Bang is quite possible, but it required the intervention of some external force, God. According to science, nothing existed before the Big Bang, not even space, and more recently there is a belief that time started with the bang. So nothing was sitting nowhere and it exploded. How can nothing explode, there was no matter and no energy. I guess I better be more careful at home when I leave nothing laying around the house, it may start a fire. There are some interesting things in Genesis. The first is the mention of the "first day" i.e., the start of time. There are many scientists who are teorizing that time started with the big bang. Also after the earth was created, it sat in darkeness until God said "let there be light' Recent scientific studies of the elemental makeup of the Earth support that it may not have come from the Sun, and possibly is older than the Sun. Does this prove the Bible? No, but is is kinda cool.
Now as for Brian's request;
"What distinguishes your creation myth from the creation myth of any other religion?"
The main thing that distinguishes mine from others is that I believe the Christian view to be true, based on faith.
Michael
