I have a couple of ideas (see below), what are yours.
1. It offers a quick and simple solution for those folks that don't like complexity, or don't want to think very much. God snapped his fingers and poof it was done! No more thinking involved. All you've got is a few pages of genisis to read, not the thousands upon thousands of pages of reading required to get a true understanding of what we know about the genetics, evolution,chemistry, physics and math (ick!) that go into life.
2. People like to be put on a pedestal, and made to fill special. Evolution doesn't coddle people, creationism does.
2006-07-09 10:51:27 · 21 answers · asked by Helt2 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I always felt both were correct, 1 more than 2. "God did it", and "God loves me" are two phrases that when put together account for half of the worlds problems. They feel it is better to come from Adam and eve making us all inbred, than to come from a monkey like creature making us related to chimps. I prefer to think that I am related to apes, than to think that my girlfriend is basically my sister. Basically, they lack the ability to think, so they turn to faith. Some people never grow up, and will always like fairy tails (religion) and imaginary friends (god).
2006-07-09 10:56:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
on the contrary ill informed Mr know it all. It is exactly the irreducible complexity found in the recent discoveries of microbiology that Darwin said would make his theory fall on its face. There have been hundreds of such complexities within the human body that could not possibly have been the result of multiple gradual changes. Evolution has no explanation for the sudden appearance of fully formed species in the fossil record during what is known as the Cambrian Explosion with no similarities even remotely akin to the record of life forms there. James Watson slobbers all over himself over the discovery of the code within the DNA because he thinks we are too stupid to examine what exactly his research has discovered. What has been discovered is the evidence for an intelligence out side of creation that inserted a code for the building blocks of life.
In just a few more years your silly mocking of Christians for not believing what your academic cronies have pushed on the world is going to leave you looking really much like a fool. Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Some to eternal life and others to their eternal destruction.
Put that in your evolutionary pipe and smoke it
2006-07-09 11:49:07 · answer #2 · answered by messenger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only Christians that hold to a literal interpretation of the Bible have ruled out evolution. I am not Catholic, but I believe that Pope John Paul actually embraced evolution during his tenure. He even had Stephen Hawking come for an audience where they supposedly had a great deal in common about the issue. Since Catholics are still the majority of Christians, and the Pope is the spokesman for the Catholic Church, it seems that at least most Christians believe in evolution. This of course would make Genesis symbolic with its references to the snake, apple, Adam and Eve, etc.
2006-07-09 11:14:35 · answer #3 · answered by spirus40 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are probably right on both counts. I feel that our sub-par education system is partly at fault as well. The Japanese do not have these problems with people denying logic based on faith. And don't forget about the modern Christian 'scientists' whose agenda seems to be proving the Bible by any means necessary. Dr. Dino (Kent Hovind) is probably the worst example of this. He has created a system of bent truth and outright lies that supposedly debunk evolution. The sad part is the number of people who take this garbage as truth.
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2006-07-09 11:10:31 · answer #4 · answered by bc_munkee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hebrew account of the Genesis creation adds a bit more compexity than that and it is in this complexity that it amazes us in its accuracy. You are wrong about the coddling. Evolution offers the greatest comfort of all...a rationale to avoid any accountability to God.
2006-07-09 10:55:43 · answer #5 · answered by spencer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple solution my foot! Take the human eyeball, for example. It is more complex than any computer system man has ever devised. But God spoke the word and it was created. And who do you think created genetics, physics, etc?? Man? Nope. God created all things.
2006-07-09 10:57:23 · answer #6 · answered by wildgirldancing 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In many of the southern states there are Creationism museums. i imagine that's strong that you're giving him each and each and every fringe of the tale. i became delivered up with my college in ordinary words coaching me evolution which I blindly believed in till my philosophy instructor presented the Paley's watch / sensible layout argument. that fairly replaced my thoughts, in the previous that I had assumed the 7 days tale became a metaphor for 1000's of thousands of years.
2016-11-06 02:50:30 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Creation: the bible
Evolution: science
Any knowledgeable human being can scientifically do an experiment, not every knowledgeable human being can spiritually understands the bible. Christians are people of FAITH not people of science. As the bible says, "for faith is the substance of things hope for, the evidence of things not seen". With science, you have to prove to believe.
2006-07-09 11:04:04 · answer #8 · answered by Reidi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called faith. The Bible is God's Word. It says that God spoke and the world came into existence. Why do you believe the way you do?? I think it's stupid that people think that the world started from some germ in outer space, but I'm not bashing you for thinking that way.
2006-07-09 10:56:53 · answer #9 · answered by Elizabeth G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says God created man
2006-07-09 11:16:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋