: :The fact that descent with modification, heritable variation, environmental diversity, and pressure from selective forces are, together, entirely capale of explaining the diversity of life simply has no bearing on the existence of an omnipotent deity that can "fake" these phenomena.: Why couldn't a God or gods create the earth to operate in this way. Some say that evalution, if used by the creator God, would demonstrate a greater mind than the constant static ecosystem that many christians beleive in. Besides this, there is a field of science called creationisim, in which scientific evidence is collected in order to explain HOW creation took place. I do not beleive in a good that would fake anything. God just didn't decide to put sea shells in rocks at the top of the highest mountians, no the rock had to have been under the sea at one point of history. Furthermore, I am very unique in that I am a Christian and I beleive in the Big Bang. There is evidence for it, just like there is evidenve for the electron.
: One thing we have to disscus is the validity of the Geological Column. I will post on this when I do some more resarch on the subject.
: I made the disinction between atheisim and agnostisism in the responce I wrote to Lark, where I said that Atheisim was a beleife that God does not exist and that agnostisism is the teory that God does not exist pending new evidence. Thoes who beleive or postulate that there is no God have nothing to prove. But my original post was more about how I am the one who must prove anything. Since I DO beleive I am reponsible to prove God's existance. And furthermore, when some one tells me they do not beleive in God I have no right to ask them to prove it.
