Only some sects do not believe in creationism. As for those that do, i.e. the point of this thread... I guess they just choose to ignore evidence to the contrary?

The Creation story was not real. Judaism did not have it's own "creation" story, so the Jews wrote it. All cultures have their own creation story such as Native Americans, Greeks/Romans, Celts, Bushmen, etc. None of them are correct or accurate. This is also true with the Flood stories and the like.

My coworker at my old job said that people and dinosaurs coexisted. That really irked me because of what I was taught. I'm Catholic, but I believe in evolution. I even went to a Catholic school and they taught classes on Christianity and biology. The one nun at my school actually believed in evolution and even said Adam and Eve were not real people, but symbolic in the Jewish/Catholic/Islamic faith(s) as how "humans," came into being. She told me that us humans evolved to the way we currently are, as being the image of what God had intended. Even now, there are the diverse races of humans such as Africans, Caucasians, and Asians (a lot of Native Americans and South Americans can trace their own lineage to Asia; you can tell this by facial features such as the eyes and skin tone). Africans spent more time in the sun, so their skin got tan and gained pigment. Caucasian skin stayed white/pale after being sheltered from the sun. Asians adapted to arid environments by having slanted eyes so they could block out sand.

As we became what we are now as humans, that is when God recognized and acknowledged us as being worthy enough to know of our faith, and that is when he sent His son, Jesus, as a human (Jesus is God in human form) to guide us in the faith. At least that's what "I" believe and have studied over the years.

I believe that God created the world and had a plan of what it was supposed to become. He created life and then sat back so lifeforms grew and changed. He did not interfere as much until humans came into being. I think everything had to happen naturally and within time. Dinosaurs were the apex creatures of the past. God did not destroy them by sending a meteor; it just happened and no one knows why. Life changed after they perished and other lifeforms arose to fill in the niche that dinosaurs left behind (ancient mammals).

Besides, we can all trace our lineage to the first human that was found in the southern part of Africa. The real Garden of Eden is the Fertile Crescent in the Middle-East. That is true.

Thanks miz.  Furthermore religions tend to state something and pass it on as fact without any evidence of diligence. Science is understood to be an evolving explanation which is why even gravity is still a theory.  Scientists try to prove each other wrong all the time because science experiments to come as close to fact as possible. Science has proven time and again that it is superior to religion at explaining the physical world around us.  This is mainly because science is not static like most religions. The supernatural and things beyond our current understanding do not work well with science.  Religion is a way for some to explain these things among its other benefits.  I find it naive to expect people to give equal merit to religion at explaining the physical world when it is clearly inferior to science in this specific regard.  It is asking people to abandon logic to fit your preference.  

Sorry if I came/come off as condescending.  We can have religion and science in most instances.  They don't need to be at odds but people naturally want to convince others to agree with them.  Just respect people and accept that they have the right to believe and say what they want.  Good luck to the OP on finding what works for you.

With the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

I read plenty of books exposing the holes used to date fossils, rocks, etc.  Sorry I do not take those on faith.  Hey if you want to believe in it thats your choice. Do not think everyone will share your belief in that or "scientists."  One of the points I made is scientists are human. Which means they are prone to error, and have agendas they are trying to spread.  You might be cynical of say pastors and preachers. Imagine that same cyncism applied to scientists. Take all of your arguments against the Bible and apply it to the scientists.  That is the simplest way I can explain it.

Your wrong, a scientific fact is held in a higher regard than a theory.

I have no idea who Kent Hovind is. I have studied these issues from a variety of books for decades.  I have studied ancient aliens, bigfoot, multiverse, etc.  I took the time to educate myself to wide array of origin concepts and ideas.  After decades of study the Christian relationship with God made the most logical sense to me.

Do I have all the answers?  Of course not. I do have a healthy cynicism for the agenda too many scientists have. I would suggest you brush up on genetics and DNA. Some of the recent findings of complexity and programming found within are eye opening.

Why the "but"? My understanding is that the Catholic Church is officially on board with evolution, so long as the discussion is limited to the body and not the soul.

I'm a Deist (formerly a Christian). I choose to believe in God, but I reject the idea that he intervened in the world by sending his son, Jesus, who died on the cross for our sins.

I believe God, to some extent, created the world. But to what extent I have no idea...perhaps he created it like it says in Genesis...or perhaps he just put everything in place so the big bang could happen on it's own and create things like the Atheists say...but either way I believe God set things in motion...

Not this again.. people has the freedom to believe in a whoever wizard they will..

To say.. Gandalf is more real than allah or budha is just... a lost course..

I personal. do not belive in anything people can present.. ufo's.. gohst.. or gods..
But i still believe in life i the univers and also that the "mind" do not stop when we are dieyng.. and that we live in a "creation".. but not anything people can imagine (or make monye or power from)

You don't think the Buddha actually existed?

I'm not asking whether you believe in his teachings, or the events ascribed to him, just whether you believe he actually existed.

And the saying is "lost cause." Although the way it is written here would not completely fit the purpose of your post.

PS3-Sales, it is posts like this one that make it difficult for atheists and agnostics to debate this topic without blowing a fuse in their logic circuits.

And I don't mean difficult because  his points are difficult to refute (far from it) but difficult in that this is either a bait post (intended to agitate) or the poster is so ingrained in his beliefs that no manner of intellectual discourse will be fruitful.  

It reminds me of "Tide goes in, tide goes out....you can't explain that".   If you're unfamiliar with that phrase, look it up.    It makes my brain hurt just hinking about it.