You keep using the word "research." This stuff just isn't scientific. Scientific ideas come from hypotheses that seem to best fit the available facts. The best scientists do not set out with an agenda; they look at the facts and analyse as best they can. As time goes on, other scientists usually add to the body of knowledge and improve or change the hypothesis. Creationism works from the opposite direction. You want to believe the Bible word for word so you set out to attempt to prove that everything it says is true. No one can logically defend this as being scientific, no matter how you try to dress it up. That's one thing the article said. That isn't the only article I read, I came across another that said creationists now believe that the continents were created as one land mass that quickly and suddenly blew apart. There's all manner of things wrong with that idea, it's impossible according to the laws of physics for a start.

I also read about this claim that a day in the life of God isn't the same as a day in the life of mortals. Again, this is totally unscientific and cannot be proved one way or another, it's pure religion. Someone tried to tie Einstein's relativity into it, talking about time dilation and so forth. The only way this person's ideas would work is if God were zooming around at close to light speed while he was creating everything (which itself was not moving), then slowed down as soon as he made Adam. Uh, yeah . . .

I've spent more time looking into this than most everyone else who takes evolution as fact. Most of the world sees it as lunacy. There were news reports here of that creationist museum opening in Tennessee and they were pretty tongue-in-cheek, it's just hard not to laugh at the lengths these people go to, to live their own special version of reality.

I have no doubt that some very religious scientists eventually became uncomfortable with not being able to reconcile fundamentalist beliefs with their science, and chose to throw the science out the window. I did ask here if anyone could point to a non-religious creationist but they couldn't, they don't exist.

BTW if you really do believe a divine being created everything, why does it have to be the Christian god? Do you also believe that all other world religions have got it wrong and everyone who isn't a Christian creationist is going to hell?

You're also repeating the idea that anyone who objects to part of the Bible, or certain interpretations of it, is ignorant. This is spurious logic because you are effectively claiming to dismiss all opposition as being uninitiated in this special knowledge you claim to have -- knowledge which should prove beyond a doubt that this stuff is literally, word-for-word fact. Give me some of that knowledge then, prove it. Or is it still a waste of your time to condescend to such a request?

Linda.