Pardon . . . leave me for dead?

Astronomy has been one of the loves of my life. I love learning. There is such a large body of knowledge about life and how it began, I can't see how there's even any debate about this. I think the creation story at the beginning of the Bible is beautiful, but only those who want to take it literally will work so hard to twist the light of knowledge into something that sounds plausible to them but is just astoundingly bizarre to everyone else. Fundamentalists would not feel so threatened by the idea of evolution if they were willing to consider that every single word in the Bible might not be meant to be taken literally, even by those who first wrote it all down.

I guess I'm really in for it now . . . it's just hard to keep silent on this issue when it's so pervasive here. I can't get over my sense of amazement.