Smokey,

But I'm NOT saying what you say I "might as well be saying".

Smokey, you get to decide when your creations start. If you write a song that begins, "One foggy night in late November", I can't come along and say "Well, Smokey, you might as well start with a clear afternoon in July". I don't get to choose the time your creation starts. That is up to you.

If God exists, and if He chose to create a universe, He got to decide when it started. He could have created eggs. He could have created chickens. He could have chosen not to reveal when He made the universe. He could have chosen to reveal it. I think He chose to reveal it. Maybe I'm wrong.

Neither you nor I nor anyone else thinks He created the universe yesterday. That's a "straw man".

And now to bed.

Kent