D: you're alright you are...
I think you'll find that there's a good half dozen regulars here who are pretty good with evolutionary theory (i.e., well above High School level), and I'm nowhere near the top of that heap in my understanding. Have you ever checked Jan H's review of the Creator book? It's on the Watchtower Observer site.
I don't know the US's education system that well, but if it's similar to the British one, then you don't get the latest stuff, or the variety of stuff that you get a College.
Creationist sites vary from the down-right hysterical (Adnoai quoted one... christiananswers...? the other day, and I've had to avoid the temptation of ripping the deceitful, inaccurate, selective and downright WRONG information presented there to shreds, as I'm too busy at work) to the clever but wrong. And mostly, they are aimed at people who haven't been to College and studied Biology or some such, and perhaps are not that experienced at analysis.
They present a seemingly sound case. Unless you know enough to spot the mistakes or misrepresentations of data, or the bits they've left out (the creation answers site is great at that, mentioning things that they would wish to be true (dinosaurs co-existing with man) but providing no evidence of the assertations (unless it's buried deeper in the site, and even then, I bet you I can refute it with one hand behind my back), so you can be lulled into believeing what you want to believe, and into believeing that scientists are under some strange dellusion.
Then, bright eyed and bushey tailed, the Creationist visitors to these dens of ignorance trot along to places like this, and act as thought they have a personal understanding of Evolutionary theory that has lead them to reject it as false. When in fact they have read some stuff that can be ripped to shreds by a decent College student of the appropriate discipline, or someone who's put in the time and effort to read enough to understand the arguements and theories involved.
And people wonder why the evolutionist sometimes come over as arrogant; people spouting errant nonsense can make you act that way!
Anyway, as you know, the point I was making was that trying to come up with cute elaborations of the theory of god is fine, if you are happy doing that. But if you've not fully investigated the theory of evolution, I personally don't get WHY.
That doesn't mean you are wrong in yourself to do it or that you shouldn't do it. It means that I don't get why you do it.
I'd decide whether it existed before I figured out the colour of its underwear!!
Of course, evolution and god are not, theoretically, mutually exclusive. But, knowing that evolution is a pretty well established fact, with a variety of theories explaining the mechanisms, is very important.
It means one can liberate oneself from being bound to a book, and can look for god as you find him, not as some bloke 2000 years ago wanted you to find him. Free yourself from slavish devotion to texts, and actually be able to take what is relevant from them, what is meaningful and true to you. Rather than wonder about what the hell John the Divine Mushroom Man was babbling on about.
Or decide that the whole god thing is the biggest confidence scam in history and have nothing to do with it.
People living in glass paradigms shouldn't throw stones...
