...Must Love Dogs

I've been attending Reston Bible Church as of late, simply because I'm disenchanted with the church search and my roommate goes there. I'm ambivalent about it, though I usually like what Pastor Mike has to say, and I almost always learn something. Today Mike decided to get off the trip through the book of Mark and talk about Intelligent Design. Why Mike, why!?
By the end of the sermon I was fuming. Livid. Defensive. My usual reaction to this sort of stuff.
Thankfully my friend Amber, who is a high school biology teacher, was also there so afterward we grabbed lunch and fumed together.
I cannot stand it when complex arguments are simplified into something that is supposed to be palatable for the masses but just ends up splitting religious hairs. I am what Mike disdainfully called a "Theistic Evolutionist" which will go in the very first singles ad I ever submit, I assure you. "SWF Theistic Evolutionist seeks SM to share long walks on the beach and the same concept of creation. Must love dogs."
2 Peter 3:8 says,
"But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day."
Reading that, I cannot understand how any logical Christian could state that the Evolutionary concept is not biblical: God created the world in six days. Just not six literal days. God may have created it, but he made it like our body: it functions, grows, changes and adapts. So in a sense I am keen to say I believe in Intelligent Design; however I shutter when I realize with whom I am grouped.
Why teach it in schools though? I strongly believe in the separation of church and state: It is both dangerous and detrimental to education when God comes into the schools in the form of organized education, just as I think it's dangerous and detrimental to Christianity to have God introduced in such a venue. Let science, literature, art, mathematics, etc stay in the core. If a religious science class is to be offered, make it optional. See how few actually take it. I look at our history and what has been done "in the name of God" and I want to do whatever I can to stop that process. We're already invading other countries to spread our ideas of God and freedom (to which the response has been massive casualties and hatred, so I'd say that's a success...) and to know that the Christian God is being so blatantly abused like that internationally makes me wary to let these very same people try to place him into our schools. There is a time and a place to teach kids what is religiously the concept of God and I hardly think 9th grade Bio is the place to start.