One thing I've never understood about Genesis is how there could be morning and evening if the sun wasn't created until the fourth day. For that matter, how could there be days before the sun was created, since a day is one revolution of the earth around the sun? This is one of the reasons I don't think it could be six literal days.
To a certain extent, even the most fundamentalist Christians don't take the Bible completely literally. There are many very fundamentalist churches who don't believe in transubstantiation, a belief one would have to hold if one supported a literal translation of the bible.
It seems excessive for an undercover officer to start firing his weapon because of a few drunk guys tailgating. I wonder if the officer had any liquor in him at the time...
I fail to see why we should drag this conflict down to their level. We are America, an educated, civilized nation. We should be above this kind of naive idiological jihadism. Why can't we just see this situation for what it is? We have a group of people who are a security threat and we have to protect ourselves and others from this threat. Its the same thing as the police in our country. They don't pretend there's some apocalyptic conflict that they are involved in. They are just doing their job -- arresting those who break the law so society can function. That's all we're doing on a global scale. We do not have to buy into the childish Islamic thought process that this is a battle to defeat "infidels". If we ever want this conflict to end, we need to show the Islamic people that this is not about emotions on our part, but about natural consequences. If you are a threat, you will be taken care of. We don't hate these people, nor are we fighting some kind of radical holy war. We are simply making the world safe by eliminating those who would violate the rights of others. To claim otherwise is to validate everything the enemy preaches.