Part 2

So what about question two, you know what did God do during in between days. Well for starters, one third of God’s friends gave him the big F-you and followed Lucifer. Now I don’t know about you but I’d be pretty bummed if one third of my friends left me for some dude who wasn’t as powerful but that is beside the point. The point is that there was a whole mess of demons running around the universe most likely causing some serious problems. Maybe God had to go deal with a few of the issues that were popping up and left after day one to go mop up an insurrection here or a rebellion there.

But God is omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient so he could have created and dealt with the demon Jihad. OK, fair enough so lets answer the question based on simple science and the laws of physics, something the creationists will have to admit God created. As I write this, the current estimation of star in the universe is something like 10 to the 24th power. That is a lot of stars and most of them are millions, if not billions of light years away.

Number of Stars

Why does this matter? Well for starters, according to the Bible, God created stars on the fourth day. If we assume that the creationist we are talking to allowed God to take breaks, then God would have taken three breaks or roughly 2.729883 billion years would have elapsed before day four. Seems to me that this is just about the right amount of time for those stars, many of them billions of light years away, to begin popping up in the night sky. It sure sounds to me that the Bible is actually proving the theories of evolution and the big bang right under the creationist’s noses.

Now maybe my reasoning is flawed, and maybe I’m way off base here but the above diatribe is my way of reconciling my Christian faith with both evolution and the big bang theory. See the Bible was never meant to be a science book; it was meant to be a spiritual book that drew you to Jesus Christ. God didn’t include quantum mechanics and superstring theory in the Bible for a reason, it isn’t important in your spiritual journey. Science should point out to us that we are such a small part of this enormous universe. Science should show you the wonder of our origins and the beauty of the world around us. If you happen to be spiritual, maybe science will point you more towards God, I know it does this for me. If you aren’t, then it will most certainly amaze you and leave you in awe. Creationism has hijacked the Christian faith and it needs to stop. Nothing prevents you from believing what you want to believe but don’t force it on others and certainly don’t be dishonest (lying for Jesus – that just pisses me off). ID is not a joke, it is worse than that. It is a strategy to try and return this country to a theocracy. Thank you Charles for doing what you do. Keep up the good work and keep keeping us all informed.