I don't think it is in all Christians by any means, as I've got all the way through to retirement age withut noticing it much. But recently, it has led to my leaving another site.

Just spotted this, Penny!

I think such general santimoniousness goes hand in hand with the sort of mentality we see here regarding YEC. Of course not all Christians are into YEC, but once we start believing in a GOD then it raises all sorts of other issues too. What is God? Why happens to those who don't believe? etc. etc. My main issue here is that otherwise reasonable & rational human beings are prepared to carry around such medieval notions as Heaven and Hell. Indeed, such beliefs are the very core of the Christian faith; the idea of Salvation, and Sin, and a wrathful God who would create us with free will within a universe of infinite wonder only to punish us for all eternity for finding something better to do with our lives than being religious.

Soon as I meet a Christian - any Christian - I know that in their hearts I am headed to Hell, there to suffer an eternity of hellish damnation along with the rest of humanity for simply being human. As I said earlier I can't see how anyone can believe in any stripe of Christianity and not hold with YEC - because one is as rediculous as the other. This is why I'm an atheist - that and the reason that no concept of any God I've ever read about has ever measured up to the divinity and spirituality of John Coltrane, whose Prophetic Creations are truly filled with wonder and spiritual beauty.