the fact that so many Christians adopted evolutionary ideas so relatively recently in history only illustrates my point. Before uniformitarianism and Darwinism took hold on the culture just about no Christian read anything into the text but divine act of creation

pete, you've really outdone yourself. That has to be the most assinine, idiotic and ignorant thing you've said yet - and it has some pretty stiff competition.

You know - or perhaps you don't? - that before Galileo proved otherwise (he was one of those Devilish scientists, dontcha know) all Christians believed that the sun revolved around the earth.