[BlooMoose]

As a geologist and a creationist, you can imagine that I have had many questions cross my mind. The way I have come to believe, regarding the age of the earth, is this:

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."

How long was that first day? God only knows. One day as is a thousand years to him. Or maybe longer? Time could not be measured until the sun was created...and then the moon. It could have been a million years long...or three! Time means nothing to God. Only schedule....

I don't question the Bible much anymore. I don't have the knowledge or the time. Although I am so curious about a lot of things, my concern is to save my butt and the butts of my kids...so I focus on what is ahead and not what is behind. I LOVE the earth, it a beautiful and marvelous creation...so dynamic. I also believe that so many events in the Bible can be explained scientifically, even getting water out of rocks! God must LOVE science...can you inagine understanding science the way He does? TO be able to create life and see it evolve and to know what is going to be the final outcome of every single creature? I don't question him. I don't believe everything I hear (or read), either. I think that everything is just as it should be and it goes pretty much in line with "prophesy". That is pretty scary to me. But I can't imagine life without faith in a higher power. I'm sure a lot of people can...but I can't. My business is the "now" and although I yearn to be able to study more about about the BIble, and question, and answer, and understand...my time is spent doing other things that are necessary to my "now". So, my answer for me is...I have faith in the jist of the Bible and choose not to question it - I am so intensely curious and know that any search for the "truth" would detract from my responsiblities, given what little free time I have already. But, I LOVE to read what everyone writes and know what they think. I believe that I can learn something new everyday and that, by being a by-stander to any discussion here, I could get an answer to a question I may have been pondering for quite some time.

So...carry on. I'll be open to learning something....but, please don't make me have more questions!!!!!