Bill Clinton comes to mind.

Now on to the second cooler part, this article made me think of the genogrpahic project going on at National Geographic http://www.nationageographic.com/genographic
Basically they are studying the same Y-chromosome and Mitochondrial DNA to draw a map of human migratory history. One of the interesting things they found is that they can trace back the Mitochondrial DNA (from the mother) to 200,000 years, but they can only trace the Y chromosome back 60,000 years. Apparently this difference comes from a very severe bottleneck in our history where humans almost reached extinction.
Here’s also a TED video on Spencer Wells, the project manager, explaining the Genographic project.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/spencer_wells_is_building_a_family_tree_for_all_humanity.html

Jewish-Christians-Muslims. All share the same god and have the same (or very similar) stories. Adam and Eve (and for that matter Mary, Joseph, et al) are English versions of Hebrew names. Some other religons have a “mother-father” myth, although usually they are descriped as gods. Or you know, a giant cow that licked an icicle. What ever.

Anyhoo, cool article.

I think what was implied was that god creates the rules of the environment, not the resultant configurations using those rules. That is to say, god got the ball rolling. To me thats a much more sane approach to religion than saying god actively controls everything. If I had a god, it would’ve done things that way. However, I retract my statement if active control was also implied.

No, “day” didn’t mean ” a certain number of years,” it meant “a single day.” “Back in the day” refers back to a particular time period, it is not saying that a day equals some number of years. However, if you actually read Genesis it repeatedly says, “And there was an evening, and there was a morning – the XXXX day.” That sounds like a regular day to me.

Even if we suppose that what you said is true, then a “day” equals about 2 billion years (~13.7 billion years divided by 7 days). One wonders how plants created on day 3 could have existed for 2 billion years before the sun was created on day 4 (see Genesis 1:11-19). The point is, no matter how you try to reinterpret it, it doesn’t fit the facts. I wouldn’t take Genesis as anything more than another ancient creation mythology.

RageIsTheNewBlack said: “I’d also like to point out that I am Christian and I think evolution is more of how it happened than it is why it happened.”

The how and the why of evolution are the same thing: natural selection. It’s the unavoidable consequence of heritability, variations in traits, and lots of time.

I’d like to point out that that (probably) wasn’t intended to mean literal days. Not only did the term ‘day’ in the Bible often mean a certain number of years, but surely you’re familiar with phrases such as ‘back in the day’. ‘Day’ doesn’t necesarrily always mean a 24-hour period.
I’d also like to point out that I am Christian and I think evolution is more of how it happened than it is why it happened.