Hootowl, you make the same mistake MOST people make.... My dad also made this mistake until I asked him one question...
My dad, like you ASSUMe all "Christians" are Christians... BUT....
I asked my dad to Name one thing He dislikes about Jesus Christ. I said to my dad.... Dad whether Jesus was true or not, whatwould you have against a Man that lived the life Jesus lived?
So I ask you too now Hootowl, let us just say somewhere in history did live a man that lived the life Jesus lived here on earth as the Bible described? What would you have against such a man?
If you say flat out that there was no such man, what about John the Baptist then? Did He also not exist? If not him then what about Stephen? Or hey Paul of Tarsus... Even you agknoledge Adam, so what about Adam, BEFORE he sinned, what do you have against Adam as God had made him?
I would like to show you something that not even you can deny.... Go find a flower, and look at it... How beautiful a simple little thing as a flower can be... the vivid colours, and the perfect shape, and the life in that flower. Now with all your wisdom, create something with life. From SCRATCH! Use all you have to your disposal, and just make one living CELL! You do not have to recreate a whole flower, just one CELL of that flower, with your effort.
You cannot! So admit there is something bigger than you, something more clever that ALL people put together, and that something has to be GOD! Now whether HE was here on earth or not, He still has influence on it. If He made it, He is also the one that KEEPS it a living planet.... So there is something that should tickle your intelligence!