I'm glad to see that there is a stable Creationist presence here.
Current theory of the origin of the universe is that there was a large expansion ~15 bya (with a large variation in different age estimates) and that material from that expansion coalesced into stellar systems, the Earth is probably in the third or fourth generation of stellar systems.
In prior (failed) attempts to post in this thread I debunked the Creationist use of Venus' retrograde orbit, but I'll just give redstang a change to state his position first.
[This message has been edited by gene90, 01-12-2002]