I can only speak for myself, but I never approach witnessing with a dogmatic attitude about creation. I will express and defend my opinion if necessary, but I do encourage everyone to seek his or her own answers. I am not so arrogant to believe that I am right about everything. Ironically, the creation/evolution issue has only come up one time and I found that shaking an atheist's faith in evolution was the fastest thing Ive ever seen to make them consider God. Other than that one time, I find the majority of the stumbling blocks have been homosexual issues, reliability of the scripture, and the nature of Gods love, just to name a few. Should we attempt to remove these stumbling blocks by offering a different interpretation or should we rely on the Bible and stand for what it says?
One thing that you are missing Vance is there are people that require something to provide objectivity. You and many others here may be able to deal with interpreting the Bible to fit what you believe, but there are many more people out there that will not accept the Bible as the Word of God in that fashion. Many of these people will say that YEC did them in, but in reality, they have lost confidence in the Bible as a whole. I cant tell you how many times Ive heard an atheist discredit the Bible by saying something like you can interpret the Bible to say whatever you want it to say. How do you reach these people? Agree with them? I suppose you can, but then what? Can a person with this attitude be expected to believe that Jesus died for their sins and rose from the dead?
Its obvious that you are so concerned about this and I applaud your passion and dedication, and I dont believe that your intensions are wrong. However, I do think that you are going about it the wrong way. If you think that blasting, demeaning, and demonizing your fellow Christians publicly is what the Holy Spirit is leading you to do, then I cant argue with that. Only you and God can say if thats true or not. I can ask you to reevaluate your methods and make sure they are inline with Gods intentions.
As always, God bless