My God's bigger than your God

I don't really understand the biblical literalists and people who endorse 'intelligent design'. It's like they want to believe that God is so small that he can't encompass something beyond their ability to easily comprehend. They don't trust God to be greater than they can conceive. God has to fit inside their limitations. To them, God can't use evolution to create life because it doesn't make for a spiffy special effect in their head. No wand waving, or sudden big budget bangs, just a slow process that takes millennia. And for some reason they don't see the awesome majesty of a creator that can do that. Personally, I think God is all the greater without the razzmatazz and shiny bits. I know I can't comprehend a million years. I can understand it in the abstract, I can do the math, but I can't really grok it. But to God its just a heartbeat. I am perfectly willing to admit that God is so very far beyond me.

I understand that the Bible says creation took 6 days, and scholars say that happened 6000 years ago. But for crying out loud, it was an oral tradition passed down for countless generations by people who had no concept of timescales longer than a few (short) generations, who thought the earth was flat and the sun revolved around it. I think the Bible contains great wisdom, and is worthy of contemplation, but it is not a science text book. Science has opened our eyes to a greater and larger world, and our refusal to admit God into that larger world is at the heart of this debate. The pursuit of an understanding of the fundamental laws of nature is a pursuit of an understanding of Gods laws, using the gifts He has given us. It is not sacrilege, but as sacred as any endeavor of man. Nothing in science has invalidated the divine, but rather the reverse.

I do believe in God. There are moments in my life where I wish I didn't, but I do. In my heart I do. I just don't believe in organized religion. It seems that all a church is good for is providing a source of income to spiritually minded people. Not a bad thing, really, but it seems they take the minutia of ritual more seriously than the eternal mystery of God. They claim to have the answer, but they debate those answers back and forth more vehemently than any scientist and his theory. And they can't provide any way to test their answers except to die and ask the source. And I ask you, one mortal to another - would the words of Jesus be any less true, any less worthy, if he couldn't walk on water? Is his sacrifice meaningless without the ascension? Are the miracles really necessary to your faith, or are they just there to catch your attention, like fireworks? Is your concept of God really that small?