I would like you to read what I am going to send to fundamentalist believers. As far as the existence or non existence of God, benevolent or malevolent, what we believe or do not believe will not alter the truth, whatever that truth is!

Before I became religious I was as you well know a well built athlete, both very healthy physically and mentally and did not know what depression was.  I rode my bike, exercised every day , without fail, and was progressing at work and at home and I was at peace with myself. After religion entered my life I became a judgmental bigot, and could no longer interact, as I should have, with my fellow workers. 

I have educated myself over my life time and was expected to dismiss it all and accept what I knew as inane nonsense of fundamental creationists. Been the person I am (If you like how God made me) I could not accept all this rubbish and slowly I became pulled apart by what was obvious truth about the universe I knew and the mind bending nonsense of fundamentalists.

Mental pain is even worse that any physical pain, there were times, that were so bad, that it was difficult for me to continue to survive even one more second or even a minute because of the unspeakable pain and horror of my mental state. And this was all happening, when I was supposedly held up in the arms of an infinitely powerful loving God. What an oxymoron that situation was?

It was then that I began to struggle with obvious nonsense that fundamental believers, insisted on believing, such as the universe and the earth been made by God in just six days. If he were that good why did he need six days, why not make the whole thing in a single moment You are right, how on earth could Noah put all the animals, even two of each species into his wooden boat? Did he go to Antarctica to get the penguins, to Australia , to get all the Marsupials, to the Arctic Circle to find polar bears?. The bible says the flood covered all the mountains of the world, then it must have covered mount Everest as well, if this were true, more water would have rained out of the sky , than there was water in all the oceans of the earth, how did all this excess water disappear

I gave them simple examples to prove the earth could not possibly be only six thousand years old. Just one example there are fossilized trees, that have more show scientifically than six thousand year old earth is base nonsense. Another simple example I gave, was the ice core taken from the Antarctic ice sheets, which show annual rings just like those on trees going back hundreds of thousand years. The speed of light is another factor, we know by the red shift of remote galaxies etc that the universe must be billions of years old, but all this logic to no avail, these supposedly intelligent people, continue to insist all of creation was done in a mere six literal 24 hour earth days and the earth is only six thousand years old, in spite of the fact that archeology digs have found human settlements, hundreds of thousand years before present day.

If you a ask  fundamental creationist , what about the fossils of ancient animals , such as dinosaurs or pre-Homo-Sapient man, they want us to believe God put them there in the rocks of the earth and confuse the issue , so that we accept the Bible literally and without question. Of course this turns God into a liar?

In other words God wants us to dispense with reason and logic, let our brains fall out of our heads and become unthinking robots.

Alan