Egan and Russ, even though you differ on your "human origin" beliefs, it's refreshing there is some respect here. Egan you are right, the evolutionary belief is ripe among christians also.

However, to me evolution does not compliment the bible, nor does it "add up". Because where in our evolution did the fall (sin)(occur? In order for original sin to exist, it would take fully developed human beings (not inbetween stage)in order to be completely aware with full intellect...

The bible tells us that before original sin occured that in the beginning things were very good, there was no death and no sin. How do you then reconcile that with 'evolution". That is like calling the God of the bible a liar and this also casts a lot of doubt on Jesus Christ.

Christ did not die on a cross for advanced ape like creatures. Or the end result of billions of years of evolution. Everything in the bible compliments every other area, it all connects. It is no good treating the bible like a smorgus board. As soon as you do that? You may as well throw away the entire book because one part connects with another.

Therefore how can we call God "good" If He created sin and death from the beginning and billiions of years of evolution with killing and dying? It was not God that created this outcome, but man in his full humanity/knowledge and disobedience, bringing upon the world and its inhabitants the curse of death. Man was actually created to live forever! Once again, this completely contradicts evolution. IN the beginning because there was no death, suffering/ sin, we also did not eat flesh. God provided all that was needed.

I find that evolutoin is an affront to the creator. But being human beings, we cannot really reconcile the fact that God is umlimited and eternal, therefore we have to limit Him to what we THINK He might be capable of. "God made man in His own image".....have we returned the compliment by "Man made God in his own image"?. This is wrong. If someone could explain to me how a God who can create at all would need to rely on evolution to produce the final product?

If anything....we have DEVOLVED(if there was such a word)...deteriorated. There is also evidence that far from advancing, there have been discoveries of ancient skeletons of collosal proportions (up to 15 feet tall and beyond). These have been found around the world. So far from the missing links of half ape, half man, these massive skeletons are fully human perfectly proportioned and unfortunately once the smithsonian institute get wind of it, they "mysteriously" disappear or are "shut away". Luckily there are some pictures of them. An example of the size is a jaw bone that could fit the size of a human head today in it. It's interesting that the bible says "There were giants in those days".....

So the thing is, we (everybody) I believe are not being told the full truth.

If anything, much of what we find in ancient cultures are a people with high intelligence...possibly even superior to us today. Given the fact we have had all this time to develop and improve our knowledge/technology. These people had already come up with ways of creating so many things even back then. THere are some ways they did things which still baffle the scientists of today.

There are places that remain (e.g. a place you kneel to pray) that are so huge that the people who must have knelt there were absolutely gigantic. Massive long graves. Cultures around the world have their own tales of 'giants" or of a great people who could run faster than us, were bigger than us. I mean these apparent legends maybe truth. Our ancestors had to pass things down to us, everything can be traced back. The bible can most definitely be relied upon for history and prophecy. 250 cultures around the world with the same "worldwide flood story". Many of which have never set their eyes on a bible, but have the same legend. The story seems to be errily similar - a family of 8, a huge boat, a world flood and the animals that were saved. You have this in asian culture, just about any culture. The name Noah only differs slightly because of the culture but interesting how it is almost identical. How on earth can this be possible unless it was passed down through our ancestors who possibly came after the flood and as we broke off into different cultures, somehow the story remained, be it differing somewhat.

as Russ said and I have stated earlier, if the world was billions of years old and evolution existed, far from there being any creation/evolution debating, the creation idea would be a joke, a myth....it wouldn't even get a look in. We'd have so many fossils of missing links that it wouldn't even be up for question.

I do not believe you can possibly reconcile christianity with Evolution. Given that neither have anything to do with the other. If you read the bible, there is evidence that dinosaurs roamed the earth alongside man. Why is that so hard to believe? There are many reports today of people who have seen some. Usually in areas that are not frequented by man and often quite impossible to remain in due extreme humidity.

Why do they find so many fossils with their necks/heads craned upwards as seen in drowning? Why do they find so much sea -life on mountain tops all over the world?

They say Dinosaurs are not mentioned in teh bible. Yes they are! The word dinosaur did not even come into existance until relatively recent times, when someone came up with the name dinosaur which means "terrible lizard". dinosaurs existed long before any modern name was applied to them. God refers to them the "Behemoth". Check out the book of Job.