From Carol Harrison:

Re: God and science not an easy mix for many (Dec. 15): my belief is that our world began with molecular structures and evolved from there over a period of billions of years. God is a human-made term, gender-neutral but given a gender. The earth was no more ‘created’ in seven days than god is real, or leprechauns, elves, the tooth fairy. It’s all folklore and the original Romans were a very suspicious group of people who believed that gods and goddesses controlled life.

That explains some of the cliches used today by people, christians, who are equally as suspicious.