Why does it have to be one or the other?
I've yet to be convinced that Evolution is a fact. It's still a theory. I grew up in Christianity, but I started questioning it from a very early age.. somewhere around 11-13, and that's without outside influence. Some things just didn't sit right with me, and heaven and hell to this day, are still not things I care about, nor is creationism.
"WHY?" <--------- That word, as long as it exists, we will move mountains to come up with answers. That's not necessarily a bad thing as it's through our relentless efforts of trying to figure out "why?" and coming up with answers as best as we can that lead up to us being where we are right now. That being said, we're arrogant. A few hundred years ago we thought we'd fall off the earth if we sailed too far west. Now, without shyt for evidence, we think we can answer damn near everything the universe throws at us. It's like a toddler thinking they can solve a differential equation now that they've just learned how to count to 10. When we don't understand things we make up theories, but most of the theories we come up with are severely hampered by the fact that they're based upon earth as we know it. The furthest we've ever physically been is the moon(Just outside of our solar system if you count Voyager), yet we think we know enough about the universe to put a time stamp on its "birth" and how it "began". We're talking about a species that has yet to solve its energy and food crisis, a species that doesn't understand enough about itself and its surroundings to come up with vaccines for diseases that's been destroying it for centuries, a species that still can't or refuses to put aside petty differences for the betterment of itself, a species that's individually and collectively narcissistic, a species that purposely setup situations where most of its own kind suffers so that a few can live extravagantly. You mean a species like this is gonna come up with a correct theory of "when" the universe came into existence? We're still in our infancy, no doubt we're making strides, but we're trying to run before we're able to crawl. 1500-2000 years from now we'll be looking like cave men to our descendants, but that's the way it works. Our successors will build upon the knowledge we've left them and a lot of theories will be torn down and rebuilt with the discovery of new things. New ways of thinking will arise and even be applied to theories we use today on some "this changes everything" type shyt.
That's just my $0.02.
