See, as someone who's both a Christian and a paleontologist (who believes in evolution and all that stuff), I get both sides of the argument. I get the rabid Fundies who feel they must convert me back to the One True Way, and I get rabid atheists berating me (and I do mean berating) because I believe in a God. I grew up in the Bible belt, and I've had to live and work with people most definitely not from the Bible belt. And while both of those have had some amazing things for me, neither was a good experience at all when it came to personal values and beliefs. Neither side is totally right, and imho it's dangerous to go through life thinking that.

I see the wonder in rocks that are millions of years old. In those rocks I also see the wonder of being created, of a set of natural laws so complex that, in my mind at least, they had to be created by a higher being. I see honestly no reason why either side feels this needs to be such an exclusive 'all or nothing' issue, and to me at any rate it just gets tiring to hear all the arguments after these many years I've been studying paleontolgy. In the end it just boils down to how you interpret what you see, I guess, but to me it's all become one big blur of 'blah blah blah I HAET U' and really, where's the productiveness of that?