Missy,
I equate people who believe in the Bible as literal truth as ignornant, plain and simple! I take it you embrace everything as if God wrote it? The misogyny, the historical inaccuracies, the advocation of slavery, the stoning of recalcitrant sons at the city gates (I could go on but why bother)? And which of the two creation myths do you believe in as there are two in Genesis? I take it you haven't pondered such things as they may interfere with your pathetically narrow, and unquestioning world view.
Peter I must say you are up front and very articulate with your views. As requested by some up here I did a little digging into pasts posts of people up here and you, Reg and sometimes EEE are in a class of your own. On the other hand you have the village idiots with Edlorah and Mick so I guess that rounds things out. The questions you bring up are good ones but they have all been brought up before. Have you read any CS Lewis? I think you are taking the high road that you are somehow more intelligent than the Christians and how could they not see the obvious. They must be stupid of course.  Except we are not all rednecks from Mississippi named Jethro as you seem to group me with. Do all Christians take Genisis literally? Of course not but then they also don't think that we evolved from Apes as Darwin would have you believe. There are way too many holes in Darwin's theories. John Lennon was by far the most talented of the Beatles and also by far the most arrogant. Not a very good father to his son Julian and had extremely progressive views which I'm sure you just ate up especially Imagine. Hey whatever yanks your chain.

Merry Christmas