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Thing is, the bible doesn't actually say anything about evolution or vice versa. They're not at odds with each other. The bible says that god created all the creatures of the world all at once in their current form. (including Man in his own image) The bible says God created all the creatures of the world, but doesn't go into a lot of detail. The "all at once in their current form" is an interpretation not everybody agrees with. And what exactly "in his own image" means means is even more subject to interpretation. I think it refers to Reason, something we share with God, and not with the animals we're related to.

Evolution says that the diversity of species came about gradually over billions of years.
That Man came to his/her current form by way of natural selection. There's nothing wrong with the idea of evolution God's tool to create stuff. I've used evolution to create stuff myself, so why can't God?

These are contradictory assertions. Only in your interpretation. Not everybody agrees with your interpretation.

I'd be very interested in which book, chapter and verse says that the world is 10,000 years old. My understanding is that you can calculate it using the information provided.
http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm But that's really pulling stuff way out of context. Remember that Genesis is not an eye witness account, but a thousand years of oral history written down many centuries after it happened. If you're using it as a detailed history book instead of a book with a message about God, you're completely missing the point.

who gives a hoot what a book like that says?
how many glaring, even shockingly incorrect statements can a book contain before people will stop referencing it? The shocking incorrectness is in your interpretation of that book. Why cling desperately to an obviously incorrect interpretation, just to use it as an excuse to throw the actual message away?

I'm not saying the bible is right, I'm just saying your interpretation is so obviously wrong that it's a really lame excuse to hide behind.

Thing is, the bible doesn't actually say anything about evolution or vice versa. They're not at odds with each other. The bible says that god created all the creatures of the world all at once in their current form. (including Man in his own image)
Evolution says that the diversity of species came about gradually over billions of years.
That Man came to his/her current form by way of natural selection.

These are contradictory assertions.

I'd be very interested in which book, chapter and verse says that the world is 10,000 years old. My understanding is that you can calculate it using the information provided.
http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm

Not that I really give a crap.
who gives a hoot what a book like that says?
how many glaring, even shockingly incorrect statements can a book contain before people will stop referencing it?

"The Electoral College needs to die."

As it takes a super majority of Congress to do this - good luck. The founding fathers put it in the Constitution for a reason. We are a Republic not a Democracy. If people knew what a Democracy 'really is' and what it 'really means'; one would not bandy the 'Democracy' term about as it has been used. Let's say that it's not very flattering.

The Electoral College, for it's faults - is a key point in our Gov't and has been for 200 years. I see no reason to abandon it, simply because an Electron did not go the way the majority vote may have gone.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bible+age+earth

Here's the top ranked page for me:
http://www.albatrus.org/english/theology/creation/biblical_age_earth.htm

which uses the following passages for reference:

• Ezekiel 4:4-7
• 1 Kings 6:1
• Gen 12:10/ Exodus 12:40/ Gal 3:17
• Gen 12:4
• Gen 11:11-26
• Gen 5:3-32

It seems like most of the dates are not explicitly mentioned, but they can be grafted onto a skeleton of known historical events (such as the fall of Jerusalem)

[I haven't actually checked these out myself....]

I believe it because I think people don't understand exactly how many years we are considering here in the long haul. Au contraire! If they are Christians, they know that the Earth is 6000 years old, by adding-up the ages of everyone in the bible.