If evolution is true, where did flying creatures come from?

I see you're trying to start a new thread where everyone argues the other side of the issue. Seems like that might be a good excuse for you to get off your ass and do your own homework on this subject.Edited by Capt Stormfield, : No reason given.

You may be indulging in some projection here. Given the religious demographic of North America, the majority of people who understand and accept evolutionary theory were raised in creationist homes. I know I was. Unlike you, I do understand the subject from both sides.It was an honest appraisal of just how little substance supported my efforts to cling to belief over evidence that led me to accept that I was wrong. You should understand that "the effort... put into supporting..." an idea is irrelevant. What matters is evidence. Creationists appear to have none.

In fact, I said or implied no such thing. I responded to a series of posts claiming that by explaining why that claim is not true. Setting aside the incomprehensible hash you have concocted from stirring together your misunderstanding of logic and your misrepresentation of my words, I will address one important idea you inadvertently brushed up against. What I came to realize as I became educated in both science and religion (at a religious college, BTW), was precisely that I had not "come to a belief" in creation. In reality, I had absorbed it from the culture around me as unconsciously, and as unthinkingly, as I had absorbed my language. When I assessed my creationist beliefs I discovered that I had not, in fact, applied my ability to reason to them. I came to understand the difference between the "believing" of my religious experience up to that point, and the tentative, always tested, acceptance of evidence that characterized a rational view of the world. So yes, my ability to reason is still the same, it simply had not been used in the development of my religious faith.

Gosh! However could different species come to share the same genes?!?!? It's almost as if they had something in common, like... like... an ancestor or something!!!!!!

What do you mean when you say "firm"? Unchanging? Accurate? How would you differentiate between two firm answers that were in opposition to each other?

Pretty much sums up the value of faith, that does.