One of the problems with YECs is that they don't seem to grasp that the timeline implied (note "implied," not specified in detail) in the Bible was written by those who were essentially clueless about the size of the world. Or that it is round, not flat, and that the "heavens" they were so awed about are far vaster and more awe-inspiring than their minds (and, for that matter, our minds are) were capable of grasping. This was accepted as dogma until people like Copernicus and Galileo came along and, although the Church howled like stuck pigs at the time, established some of the basic facts of what the Cosmos is really like.

The Biblical view, limited by the understandable ignorance of those who wrote it (NOT God!!), sees the Cosmos as tiny compared to what it really is, and makes God, who allegedly created it all, a mere wizard, pretty much on a par with Zeus or Odin.

If, indeed, a Supreme Intelligence and Prime Mover DID create all THIS, then the idea that He/She/It did it a mere 6,000 years ago and actually sculpted a real Adam out of river mud and Eve out of one of Adam's ribs as the Biblical myth has it, rather that setting in motion the existing natural processes that the Prime Mover would also have created, makes a mockery of the real intelligence, power and scope of that Supreme Intelligence.

Enlightened Christians have no problem in reconciling the teachings of Jesus with the facts of science. Science merely explains some of the details of how the Supreme Intelligence actually did it.

Even if the very sketchy Creation myth is derived from the Bible, it IS a myth, and to insist that it is historical fact rather than myth, minimizes God and verges on blasphemy.

As I have said, pete, your God is much too small. Have a care!

Don Firth