Creation in a nutshell

OK here we go with the other end of the story.

Before six thousand years ago, there was Nothing.  Only God.

He was probably lonely and decided to work for a week.  He made the universe and the earth and all living things in 6 days.  Some christians like to call this 6 "periods of time" and try to connect each period to a few billion years or so.  Those christians need to make up their minds.  Either the bible is true or it's not. 

Anyway..

He made all of these things, and to cap it all He made Adam and later also Eve.  All the humans on earth today come from those two.  Some 1500 years or so after creation week, there was this dude called Noah who got it into his head to build a helluva boat and somehow he managed to fit a bunch of animals in there and they lived in there for a year or 3.  Noah, his 3 sons, and a wife for each were the only humans to survive.  All people alive today come from those people, and all the animals came from those animals.  Except the fish of course.

Why do people believe in such a fairy tale?

The problem with proof is that none of us alive were present at the big bang or at God;s "light bulb moment".  We cannot hit the rewind button and check the slow-motion replay.  The scientific method thus becomes difficult to apply.  We as scientists are forced to play the role of crime scene investigators.  We look at the scene of the crime, searching for clues, ignoring our own personal ideas of what may have happened.  We focus on hard physical evidence.  In the end we build a case for one of the two suspects, based on the clues we find.  We may find some pieces of evidence that appears to disprove creation, and we may find some other pieces of evidence that appears to disprove evolution.  The mere existence of evidence does not close the case.  In the end it comes down to each of us in our own hearts.  We look at the cases presented, and we weigh the evidence as fairly as we can.  And we respect those who came to a different conclusion.  As long as that conclusion is based on a scientific opinion as opposed to a belief system.