In the words of Mr Neil Peart:
"You can't get something for nothing,
You can't have freedom for free."

We have 'something', and it can't have come from 'nothing'.
Rush said it, therefore it is right.

I noticed 2 groupings on this list; Christians and Creationists, and I'm proceeding on the assumption that Creationists are a more extreme and rigid form of Protestant Christianity. Unfortunately, with either group, my eyes tend to glaze over when I see one of their entries on this website, and I move on to the next item. Without meaning to come across as disrespectful, I've had it all stuffed down my throat since before I had the power of speech, I know all the stories by heart (or the major ones anyway), and I have absolutely no interest in re-visiting what I was sick of by the time I was 15 (when I stood up to my parents and stopped attending church). Religious holidays were always the worst; on Christmas, the same story about the birth in the manger. On Good Friday, Christ's crucifixion. On Easter, he rose from the dead. It was like a movie you never really were that interested in in the first place being played over and over and over again. I can remember being 6 years old and attempting to tell a Jewish classmate that he needed to believe in Jesus or he was going to wind up in Hell. I cringe when I remember that; then again, I was only a brainwashed kid repeating what had been drummed into me. I wish I could believe in some of this stuff as passionately (or at all) as some of the people on the website, as I think it would make life a whole lot easier if you felt that all the questions had already been answered. Unfortunately, I can't. Sometimes, if I'm in a reasonably good mood, I'm willing to accept the idea of a moving force in the universe, but it would be arrogance for me to assert that I absolutely know the nature and composition of that force. In a good mood, I'm willing to accept the idea that human beings have a spark of the divine within them, and they interpret that spark according to their culture and history, and in every interpretation there is something of beauty and wisdom and something ugly and imperialistic (my religion is better than yours; hence, I'm better than you are). When I'm in a bad or dark mood, I come to the conclusion that none of it matters anyway-- we all live and die and there's nothing that anyone can do to change that, and we better attempt to enjoy what we can while we're here on earth because this is all there is, brother. I believe that if people are honest with themselves, they'll have to concede that their state of belief or disbelief changes as life changes. As a brainwashed kid, I believed whatever Christians told me. As a teenager, I became intensely hostile to religion in general and Christianity in particular and declared myself a fervent atheist. In my 20's, I read the Bible, found it was a book not as easily pigeonholed as I had assumed, and decided to declare myself an agnostic as I explored other avenues of religious expression or non-expression. This is where I am now. If at some point, they diagnose me with terminal cancer, I hope I face my destiny bravely and with open eyes and an open mind. On the other hand, I can't totally discount the possibility that I'll fall under the spell of some holy-roller and begin talking in tongues.

Most Christians are Creationists, but not all Creationists are Christians. There is a growing number of scientists who question the theory of evolution and the inconsistencies within and find more rational and credible evidence in an Intelligence behind the existence of the Universe and life. There is not much logic, cause and purpose in the evolution theory and there is plenty of logic, cause and purpose in the Creation theory.

One of the more open minded groups on here.

An invisible man in the sky created everything? You know this because you read it in a 5,000 year old book? Do go on... ;-)

Most are fools who repeat what their hillside-protestant mouthpiece tells him/her/it. . .a few bright ones ask some real good questions- indeed, what would a 'day' be to a god? Those who do not question and actually take the King James (faulty) translation literally word-for-word are excellent examples of foolishness.

Not that I have anything against those who are, but "not me".

Yeah, I'm a creationist but not a literalist where the Bible is concerned. You should have seen my dad when I asked him "what is a day to God?"

God created all things. I don't believe in the evolution theory as it is often described. I do believe life evolves or adapts to a changing world but if God says let it be, it will be... and it will be quickly or instantly... after all God is God who can do anything.

I guess it depends on your definition of creationist. If it means "God created everything", then yes I am a creationist.

But to many people, the term creationist brings to mind someone who rejects widely accepted scientific theories such as the Big Bang and evolution. I'm not that sort of creationist. I believe that the Big Bang is how God created the universe. The general ideas behind the story of creation and the Big Bang are actually remarkably similar. In addition, like the majority of practicing Catholics, I belive in a contextual, not a literal interpretation of the Bible. This means that I have no problem with the obvious fact that the account of God creating man, then animals, then woman in Genesis doesn't exactly line up with evolution. For one thing, Jesus frequently used parables in his teaching. He told stories to make a point. If Jesus, the Son of God could teach by telling stories, doesn't it stand to reason that some of the Biblical writers were inspired by God to do something similar?

Count me in! Count me in!!

I am a Creationist. So sue me :D