More straw men, interplanner . Liberals are not necessarily atheists and materialists, and many ARE Christians, just not fundamentalist and evangelical . You have to be extremely naive to believe in the literal truth of Genesis and deny evolution. There is absolutely no conflict between evolution and an ancient earth and believing in a god .
Yes, there are a lot more liberal Christians in America than you realize .
I think you've made a point for me in that there are many Christians so scared of believing something subversive to philosophic materialism and uniformitarianism that they have decided to opt for evolution and a very slow development process. The institutions have succeeded in making you cow to that. I guess you're not up on catastrophism and much of the recent research on vertical tectonics and 'tracing Genesis through history' where, in one monumental study, not 1 but 2 leading British antiquities specialists conclude that all world myth has devolved from Genesis, not the reverse.
To see how this struggle is really over presuppositions not 'science' or 'evidence' please visit Lewis' "Science and Religion" in GOD IN THE DOCK. For one reason, it is from the 1940s. Nothing has changed. The momentum of Huxley and Lyell was set and still on course, but extremely faulty. Lewis explains it so simply: when we find something in nature so remarkable to be called a miracle even in slow motion, we no longer consult the mathematicians of the world; we must consult several others brands of inquiry. But scientists only work in predictable mathematics. They don't solve murders, explore psychical aspects, reflect on human nature. Yet the point of Genesis is that a Person with plans, not mere geological processes, formed this place, and there is no limit on his features and powers BECAUSE THERE CAN'T BE BY DEFINITION.
That is an antiquated way of saying this: the people who 'don't believe' in God are pretty much those who have so constricted his features and powers that the end product is a worthless comparison. I just don't get the idea there of compacting something so dynamic into the smallest space possible and then saying 'that's a person?' The God I'm talking about ripped up the earth's mantle in the deluge, flung sedimentary rock all over the place, bent pieces of granite like Ayers rock in to contorted shapes, blasted granite into "Yosemites" in a matter of hours, all of which is in both Biblical text and scientific finding about the deluge.
Grand Canyon's sediment is from New England, and the granite crystals of Ayers rock is sharp and broken, not rounded, and has led to an entire school of thought that the whole center of Australia, no small piece of dirt, was sloshed into place in a major upheaval of heat, ice, water, etc.
But I digress from presuppositions, and those presuppositions lead to destructive thinking. It is the ongoing effort, possibly of the ruling British class, to destroy the US Constitution with its Creator and inalienable rights and ascribe them to government, which would be atheist and manipulable, and uniformitarian. That is the problem for this election. One party would love to see that happen. And the founders of the US did not think that the freedom we have could last unless there were those core beliefs because they generate the necessary virtues; they do not reduce men to animals who must be caged at certain infraction points, although that system is necessary.
You might spend some time on the details provided even here by people like 6Days in the thread Creation vs Evolution in Religion. He is far more current than I am on details, and they are quite amazing.
So you'd have to convince me that the oxymoron liberal Christian should be allowed to exist. "The basic realities about life are conservative"--M. Thatcher.
How can you possibly match up the Creator of Genesis, Psalms and Isaiah and the uniformitarianism that seeks by intention to end Christianity and to dominate the world in master-racism? That's Lyell and Darwin's first page and dedication.
Finally, to show how awfully unscientific (how religious!) this uniformitarianism is, just look at the PBS or NOVA special called BUILDING NORTH AMERICA. It is silly and detached. As though the world has just sat still for millions of years and dust has accumulated in soil layers! lol