"I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth..." No surprise. Most church folks would have little difficulty acknowledging God as creator of all that is. There may be some disagreement on HOW creation took place - some want to say it happened in six 24-hour days, others want to say the "days" of which we read in the Genesis account should be understood as meaning thousands or even millions of years, still others say it was the "Big Bang." More about that in due course, but, for the most part, we insist that creation did not JUST HAPPEN - something...someONE...was behind it: God, the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth."

This earth and our life on it is truly fascinating. For example, you science majors know that the earth's relationship to the sun is not perpe…