I hope you don't think I'm painting all Christians with the same brush; I'm not. While it's true that the intolerant ones tarnish the image of the whole group, that's the case for every group. When it comes to people, I relate based on what I see of them, not their stated religion - because, too often, the two are contradictory.

Young-Earth Creationists, on the other hand, uniformly annoy me. Not because of their religion (technically, they don't have to be Christian, but I've never heard of a Jewish YEC, despite drawing from the same Book), but because they're willfully blind to evidence - or, worse, twist it to suit themselves.

The way I see it, it makes no difference in the grand scheme of things whether one believes that God directed evolution or whether it was the result of billions of years of environmental pressures. What does make a difference is the "billions of years" versus "a few thousand years" thing. The latter ignores centuries of rigorous intellectual study of, if you will, God's creation (or nature, if you won't), pretty much throwing most of science out the window.

And that offends me.