If God is omnipotent (all-powerful), why did he take six days to create everything? Why not speak everything into existence all at once? A: The short answer: Because that’s how he decided to do it!

GARRET KEIZER is the author of "Help: The Original Human Dilemma." ADVOCATES OF teaching “intelligent design” aren’t giving up, no matter the recent setbacks in California and Pennsylvania. In Utah, ...

Michael Shermer is founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and the author of "Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown" (Times Books, 2005). According to intelligent-design theory, life is ...

Columns share an author’s personal perspective. Dear Pastor, If God is omnipotent (all-powerful), why did he take six days to create everything? Why not speak everything into existence all at ...