I just saw an interesting movie lately, Religulous. To watch just google (video) it.
It's from an atheist point of view and how religions manipulate people, but as far as I see it without losing respect about religious people themselves.
Funwise it shows, how religion and things like creationism are used by christian extremists and the Islam, while a priest-scientist of the Vatican-observatory says: Sure there's evolution, and a 2000 year old book can't be taken literally.
That's what I never understood about many extremist christians. Hey, the bible is a great book and the genesis included the days are not that far off as well. There was first the heaven (universe) than earth (well the sun/light was there before the earth, but that's ok for a 2000 year old book to be wrong on that) the water, the land, vegetations, animals and mankind. It is wrong though about the stars, but again that's okay for me.
But to suggest by that:
1. a day for god is a thousand years
2. a day is as long as the next (if you don't believe me, go out in winter and then in the summer and count the hours of light)
3. and quote "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens" (Gen 1. 20 if that's wrong, sorry I haven't cited the bible for a long time), as their source for creationism (while this could be brought along with evolution with no problem)
is all beyond my understanding.
Same thing for the creation of mankind (well there are two totally different tellings anyway in the bible), but hey again, why shouldn't it be taken as god gave the final spark to mankind to create a conscience or a spirit or whatever you call the ability to recognize that you are.
I think this whole debate in the USA is controlled by christian wing-nuts, who just want to prove their point. Let the moderates jump in.
Just don't take everything in religious context literally it never was meant to be like that in the first place.
