the rocks speak

Adding my voice to the people who most certainly have seen "both sides" of the story.Except, of course, there aren't two sides. There is one side, science, and a load of sniping in the loosely organised religious umbrella of "Creation Science".Trust me - I've seen the "evidence" of the "other side". I used to be a YEC - for a whole week. I'm so totally ashamed that it took a whole week for me - on an undergrad Biology course, a week to see it for the drivel it was. But such is the power of fundamentalist religion, or, more properly, the power of the assumed authority of its paperbacks.But I thank God that the Christian community I was in, conservative and verging on the fundamentalist that it was, was not largely YEC. If it had have been, and I had had YEC in my mind as a fundamental part of Christianity, I would have abandoned the faith. Hell, I'd probably never have taken it on in the first place!So think on this Mike the Wiz. You want to see people on here come to faith in Christ? You want to see Crashfrog return to the fold? You're doing a damned fine job by associating the Faith with something they (and I) know isn't true. Why not add "Christians believe the moon is made of green cheese" and be done with it?

Erm - the difference is surely that organic matter contains carbon. At least, that's what I learnt in organic chemistry.Not some magic "change" that occurs when matter becomes part of an organism.Organic matter is found throughout the universe, even inside stars.