Originally Posted by onehundred80

I think that something was always here, some have a hard time believing that. Their simple explanation is that something made it, why could it have not been here all the time? Maybe it was just gases that coalesced into other matter. Evolution did the rest.
How the battle of creationism and evolution has raised it head again can only be put down to ignorance and self serving beliefs. This belief, by a lot of Americans does harm to the US's standing in the eyes of the many throughout the world who regard creationism as idiocy of the highest order.