DB-
In rereading MY post it sounds harsh...I guess evolution pushes my buttons too. It's not that I dont care what you think (someone elses's opinion's are always of interst, if for no other reason than to trigger the re-evaluation of one's own). What I meant was, "I dont give a crap "IF" you believe in evolution." If you like those ideas, fine, go with 'em. My point was never that you, nor anybody else needs to be a baptist-type bible thumping fundamentalist. Theocracys suck man, whether they're here or in Iran.

My point is that, among those scientific theories generally assumed to be fact, I think (Macro) evolution (i.e. one species gradually or in a punctuated fashion morphing into another species entirely) is one of the most poorly proven.

I don't know how we got here.
And I don't confuse what I believe with what I know.

Personally, I believe there is a God (tho unlike George Bush, He hasn't spoken to me on a first name basis, at least not yet). But, and especially in a scientific sense, I don't KNOW that belief of mine to be true. I also believe he calls different people in different ways. Some to be Jews, some to be Catholics, some to be Wiccans, some to be Bible-thumping baptists, some to be Islamic, some to define their own tenets of faith. Any of it, or all of it is Ok by me. When I KNOW I've discovered the "one, true path", I'll be the first to institute the "thought police". So far I'm still lookin' for it.

Till then, my objection to macroevolution is based on the paucity of hard, scientific evidence for it, not on its possible conflict with Judeo-Christian traditions of creation.

OK, I've vented. I'm outa here.
Best to you DB