[Superman]

Thanks, IROC. I thought you were going to clobber me.

Good post, Markus. I can't help you much, as the journey you are on is a solitary one. Two relefvant writings have held significant meaning for me. One is a paper written by William James, the son of the famous writer Henry James. William is thought to have fathered modern psychology at least as much as Freud. More, really. The paper is called "The Will To Believe." The other is a book by the (in my humble view) towering genius C.S. Lewis called "Mere Christianity." Powerful writings, in my view.

As to the evolution v. creation debate, I have no quarrel with either side until they begin to exclude the other position. Christians sometimes seem to ignore or discount the brute fact that "natural selection" is a mechanism that seems clearly to operate in nature. By the same token, evolutionists seem unduly proud, intellectually (I mentioned the sin of Pride a moment ago). They seem to stretch the natural selection observation fairly thin when they conclude that man evolved from apes. In doing so they go beyond the scientific evidence.

I do not know how or when God's hand fashioned the human aminal. But I think it did. It could have done so just like the story in Genesis. I do not know whether that story is true or not. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe He redirected natural selection. Maybe he simply granted immutable souls to these creatures at a particular point in their development and formation. I simply know that God loves us, and offers us life without end. And I think that natural selection is a mechanism that occurs in nature. I am more certain about the former than the latter.