Is there a merit to creationism? Only to folklorists and storytellers - like me! I take a keen interest in religion and mythology & often tell Creation Myths, of which there are 1,000s, including the two very different ones giving in Genesis. I can't resist taking a dip into the Pseudo Science of Creationism as a caution as what happens when people start taking these things literally as part of a more sinister agenda.

The universe pre-dates humanity by billions of years; it will also ante-date humanity by billions of years. We invented God to account for things in the darkness of our ignorance, to place ourselves at the centre of it all when, in reality, we're barely on the edge. Science at least tells us where were at.