[GOPPachyderm]

You are of course right on all three counts. What I meant to say was that those with an evolutionary naturalistic view exclude the supernatural as the explanation for anything. I think that the account in Genesis is true although we don't know all of the particulars, such as the length of time. It seems to me that darwinian evolution is born out of the need to explain away the need for God as creator.

[luckystarmom]

It was so appropriate that after we've been discussing this topic, my 11 year old asked me if I knew about the big bang theory. I told him that I did.

I asked if he knew what evolution was, and he knew some of it.

I told him there were people that didn't believe in evolution or the big bang theory, and they believed that God created the earth in 6 literal days.

He then asked what I believed. I said I didn't know what was the truth, but I knew that God started it all.