"And, before you start, let's not even begin to think that any of the God/creation stuff in in the remotest sense "evidence.""

Too true! It's always puzzled me as to why the evidence accumulated by thousands of painstaking scientists, working over many decades, should be dismissed out of hand and we should be forced to accept the statements in an ancient book, of uncertain authorship, as the final word on the subject instead!

The religious fundamentalists tell us that the Bible is "the word of God" - but where is their evidence for that statement?