Who cares whether God created the Earth? Whose Endgame is this?

The creation/intelligent design vs. evolution debate is one that rages on and gets all kinds of people hot under the collar shouting at each other --and I have serious doubts that most people are really hearing over the shouts what this debate is really about. And as for the idea that you can change people's hearts and minds by outshouting them... dang humans are dumb.

It seems like many Christians are under the impression that the point of this debate is to answer the question, Where does the earth come from, where did man come from? This is not the real point of the debate because once you say, Ok God created the earth, the next question is, Ok where did God come from? People seem to think that they can prove the existence of God by reasoning that the earth is too complicated to have evolved out of thin non-air, as it were, through pure unmediated evolution. This is a circular argument that ends with the question of where God comes from, proving nothing, changing nothing, convicting no one. It does tend to alienate people we profess to care about though. We are so good at alienating all those people to whom we are supposed to be the fragrance of the knowledge of Him...

The reason it matters whether or not God created the earth and mankind is that if their is a Creator, if WE were created by Someone, then there is a plausible chance that we might owe Him something. There might be a higher Authority in the universe than humankind! We might be accountable to Someone. There might be rules made up by someone other than ourselves that matter. E-gads! The universe might not be a pure democracy! And if we break those higher laws, there might be consequences...

If intelligent design is True... then maybe not ALL reality and morality is purely the result of cultural construction. There might be an Architect-Developer to whom all cultural construction workers must report...

If this is True, mankind might not be God. And every moment, thought and action must be evaluated through this lens. His lens.

Oh, it's a game changer. Believe you me.