Intelligent Designer

What do you do when you can't breathe, therefore can't sleep? (and inexplicably have no coma-inducing antihistamines in the house) If you succumb to peer pressure as easily as I do, you start a blog.

So here's what's stuck in my brain. I just finished reading The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel. Now I don't remember ever doubting that God created. . .everything. But I have tried to reconcile Genesis 1-2 with what I have been taught about evolutionary theory, and never got them to jive completely. Not a faith-shaker for me, but curious. I'm no science geek. Guess what? A lot of what we learned about evolution in school has been disproved or has no evidence. No big suprise there--except that it's still printed in current textbooks. What fascinates me is all the detail support for "Intelligent Design". We are fearfully and wonderfully made. Our environment is carefully crafted. From the Big Bang (yes, but had to have been initiated by a source--GOD) to our solar system (rare qualities, our sun has. Jupiter protects us from asteroids. The moon is precisely placed to keep the earth tilted so we are warm and comfy). Primordial slime as a source of life? Never recreated in a lab. Evolution from simple animals to complex--nope. Ever heard of the Cambrian Explosion? Almost all the major animal forms showed up all at once in the Cambrian Era (after the dinosaurs died). Now the book didn't go into the controversy over the age of the earth if you take the Biblical timeline literally. He takes the view that it doesn't matter when, but who. That's easy enough for me, since my coping argument has always been that a day in Genesis could be years upon years. But what argument do I have for my neighbor down the street who says the earth can't be more than 6000 years old and dinosaur fossils are faked?

This is what I can't get out of my head.