Pete, I love ya' Bro and I love your heart. I know your religion works for you and that is the real function of any belief......working for YOU. I figure we all could do well with whatever we believe if it makes us feel good and does no harm to others.

But let me give you some caring advice............Find someone else to carry the water for you and put Ham down the disposal. He's spoiled and is stinking up the entire refrigerator. Go get some fresh beef. When Ham says:

"We know from the dates God gives us in the Bible that He did create the whole universe about 6,000 years ago. When we hear the term light-year, we need to realize it is not a measure of time but a measure of distance, telling us how far away something is. Distant stars and galaxies might be millions of light-years away, but that doesn't mean that it took millions of years for the light to get here, it just means it is really far away!"

..............that is utter horseshit. It means exactly what he says it does not. It means more than far away. It means real fuckin' far away. It means that the universe is way to hell and beyond 6000 years old and it means that only in the cartoon world of Fred Flintstone did man and dinosaurs share the planet at the same time. Believing they did makes no sense unless they were just tooling through space and crashed down here 6000 years back and of course brought a few fossilized remains along just to throw us off.

The "Word of God" has passed through far too many hands and to think that Ham has an inside track is would cheapen any god he believes in. Read up on William Sloane Coffin maybe.....or Jacques Ellul.....or the thousands and thousands of brilliant theologians that have lived and studied in just the last 100 years.


Spaw