""go for it, sringsinger. a little intelligent discussion as to how we arrived at our convictions and beliefs would make a refreshing change.
I think I have expressed something of how I came to a faith position in the past but am happy to do so again at serious enquiry.
regards   pete.""

It's not your faith I have issues with Pete, it's the lunatic religion to which that faith has led you. In the face of the total impossibility of the bible being literal tuth, you have been brainwashed by a bunch of evangelising pseudo scientists into suspending every critical faculty you might once have possessed, in order to believe that every form of genuine scientific achievement which utterly disproves their bullshit is wrong.

The whole of scientific knowledge relating to the age of this planet covers numerous separate disciplines, which correlate and correspond too tightly for there to be any possibility of error beyond the acceptable margins of error of any scientific proof.

The sum total of Creationist "knowledge" would not be cramped in the space available on the back of a postage stamp.

I too have FAITH, but I haven't given up thinking for myself.

If your God is the being you think he is, why do you need other men to help you interact with him?

Don T.