Pete, it's much easier to buy the simple Biblical view of creation:

• God is all-powerful, and can do anything
• Every word in the Bible is true, in every sense of the word
• The Bible says that God created the world in six days, so that has to be the way the world came to be.

If that's what people believe, that's fine. It violates any number of scientific principles and very sensible discoveries of fossils and geological plates and such. But if God can do anything, then certainly God can defy Science and create the universe by shortcutting the natural processes that were also created by God (or so we believe).

But when you drag science into the picture and make a vain attempt to scientifically prove all this stuff, doing all sorts of dances to make observable facts fit your preconceived notions, it gets a little crazy.

So, if you believe a 6-day creation, believe it. But don't try to prove it. And don't try to use your distorted, pseudo-scientific calisthenics in a vain attempt to disprove what legitimate science says. If you don't believe science, then don't try to twist it to "prove" your point of view.

As I've said before, I believe that the Genesis creation stories are a beautiful, poetic description of the intimate, eternal relationship between God and creation, a creation that God saw as good. The universe came about in a way consistent with scientific discoveries, but (according to my belief) God has been the essence of the evolution of creation from the very beginning.

I can't prove my belief, but it makes sense to me and to many generations before me. If others don't hold that belief, that's fine. But my belief system is how I make sense of the world, my perspective. There's nothing for anybody to disprove or for me to prove.

To me, my approach seems to make much more sense than trying to distort science (and the beautiful, powerful poetry of Scripture) to "prove" what cannot be proved.

-Joe-