Pete, there is no answer that will satisfy you, so why ask? Why hang around on a thread about science? Your god doesn't leave a fossil footprint record, but the signs of the remarkable change and duration involved in the planetary (and beyond) natural world are everywhere - and clearly shown to be not attributable to "one hand" in an overarching dismissive seven-day wonder.

Carl Sagan started a conversation that Neil DeGrasse Tyson is continuing. I think Tyson has the harder job, because he must bring more people up to speed on the state of science today, after decades now of weak and watered-down textbooks in Texas and other bible-belt states. Do you watch the program and consider how amazing it is that we have learned so much about our world, or do you tsk tsk at the story you don't believe? Or are you somewhere in between? You'll accept that witches don't curdle milk but don't want to believe in continental drift or evolution or modern signs of an out-of-balance atmosphere causing global warming? What do you accept about the disposition of the world in scientific terms?

SRS