What does the earth being flat have to do with genisis again? That's a few times I've seen it in this thread. I would guess you believe that only the christians thought the world was flat.
Of course not. I don't fault the anonymous authors of Genesis for not knowing the earth was a sphere. Nobody did at the time. But as science moved forward we realized the earth wasn't flat. And it's not 10,000 years old. Rabbits aren't ruminants. There was no global flood. The different languages didn't all originate at the same time. And the extant species, including human beings, did not originate separately in their present forms.
These are facts regardless of whether it's more distressing for you to give up the religious dogma then it is to deal with the cognitive dissonance of accepting some of these facts but denying others.
What I have a serious problem with is the very notion that this all evolved from a single cell that magically appeared in a pond that magically appeared on a planet that magically appeared in a universe that magically popped into existance. Those things are being tought as fact these days.
Once again you're confusing abiogenesis with evolution. Evolution does not deal with the origin of life or the origin of the universe. Although there are several ideas about these occurred, there is no clear consensus on the details.
But more to the point for our discussion, you don't seem to have a problem at all accepting how things could magically pop into existence, because that's exactly what ID presumes. God magically created a universe, life, and so on, not to mention you have to accept that God himself somehow popped magically into being.
Claiming God did it, doesn't solve anything. It just moves the question back one level. If the universe was designed, who designed the designer?
