What Religious Beliefs Are Sacred?

I find this topic interesting. The same people who believe in the creation theory and Noah's Ark somehow belong to the same group of humans who believe in Republican values? Is that correct? I see some people who state that the world was created in seven days and believe it as if they were there at the time. I think I just want to say, "What about fossils? They were here for thousands of years before man. We only have a record about what happened that is a somewhat interpreted description from ancient (a couple thousand years) old scrolls. And the age of the earth, as far as we can tell, the generally accepted age for the Earth and the rest of the solar system is about 4.55 billion years (plus or minus about 1%). This value is derived from several different lines of evidence.
The oldest rocks which have been found so far (on the Earth) date to about 3.8 to 3.9 billion years ago (by several radiometric dating methods). Some of these rocks are sedimentary, and include minerals which are themselves as old as 4.1 to 4.2 billion years. Rocks of this age are relatively rare, however rocks that are at least 3.5 billion years in age have been found on North America, Greenland, Australia, Africa, and Asia.
While these values do not compute an age for the Earth, they do establish a lower limit (the Earth must be at least as old as any formation on it). This lower limit is at least concordant with the independently derived figure of 4.55 billion years for the Earth's actual age.
As far as animals go, The oldest rocks which have been found so far (on the Earth) date to about 3.8 to 3.9 billion years ago (by several radiometric dating methods). Some of these rocks are sedimentary, and include minerals which are themselves as old as 4.1 to 4.2 billion years. Rocks of this age are relatively rare, however rocks that are at least 3.5 billion years in age have been found on North America, Greenland, Australia, Africa, and Asia.
While these values do not compute an age for the Earth, they do establish a lower limit (the Earth must be at least as old as any formation on it). This lower limit is at least concordant with the independently derived figure of 4.55 billion years for the Earth's actual age.
Last night on television some guy who want his wife to dress almost as if she were amish and said his (three girls) children were rased to act the same way their mother did. They called it returning to good American family values. He stated once that a woman wearing pants was against his religious convictions. You tell me, what religion says women can't wear pants since it is unlady like? Actually, here is the history according to paleontology. "The oldest human fossil found (named Lucy and found in Ethiopia) has been back dated to between 3 and 3.6 million years ago. Lucy was not a Homo Sapien, but we do know that she was a hominid, she walked upright. Chances are our species are direct desendants of Lucy's species.

If you want to get specific, the first Homo Sapien walked the Earth around 200,000 years ago, but no one is really quite sure about that. The reason being that it is difficult to find fossils. The earliest Homo Sapien found to date is 200,000 years old but that's not to say a Homo Sapien could be found that dates back 400,000 years or longer!

Some will even claim that Homo Sapiens have only been on the Earth for about 100,000 years. If that's the case it is trtuly remarkable how far we have come in such a short time, well I guess if we've been here 200,000 years that's remarkable too. After all Dinosaurs were on the Earth for 250 million years, and what did they get done?"
So when you see a diarama of a man hiding from a dinosaur, remember that people who believe that must think the Flintstones is a documentary. Dinosaurs were extinct well before man. So, if the book says that God created all the animals and man in seven days, that is impossible. These aren't theories, we know this. So, the creation story can't be true. I don't know of hearing of anyone who was there, so, it was one of those wise old men stories that someone from Europe could call an "old wive's tale" because they didn't know so they made something up that sounded good.