RE: Which religion am I?
Erm, can I ask why creation is being treated as an opposing theory to evolution? Genesis is hardly specific about how God made the world; for starters, when the earth was made, that's all it says - it was made. Just because it doesn't say specifically "and beneath the earth were fossils and skeletons of dinosaurs and neanderthals containing ancient levels of carbon-14 isotopes and he saw that it was good" doesn't mean that's not how it is. That's what I suspect myself, though anyone who thinks they have proved how the world works is very very much mistaken.
Traxor, I can't even pretend to know enough about the Bible's history to be an authority, but at least the latter part of the new testament, Paul's letters to various churches and people were written by Paul a few years after Jesus' death, before Herod died, and there are an abundance of manuscripts from around the time to back up the existence of the letters. Incidentally, there are more historical records, both religious and from authorities such as the Roman empire, of Jesus' life than any other historical figure.
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