How is creationism easier to believe than evolution?

Question

Logically, the creation story makes no sense at all. It just says that a series of miraculous events happened, and that they are beyond our comprehension. Evolution says that a bunch of likely things happened, and although we may not know every specific detail we have uncovered an ecological phenomenom that takes eons. Please help me understand, thank you.

P.S. Intelligent design is neither a thory or a scoence. It is theology masked as a scientific theory in order to confuse the issue. Please do not give me any of that crap. I want intelligent answers.

"Righton," you are not a smart person.

Answer 1

Quotes from Carl Sagan have a home here:

Answer 2

Concerning the debate going on about intelligent design and evolution: is it possible that the final answer about which of these two seemingly opposite ideas is correct could simply be yes?

With one position firmly held by the believers and the other just as fearlessly defended by the non-believers, if you happen to be in a position somewhere near the middle, it does not look all that complex. From this position, you wonder why either-or has to be the answer.

If you believe that some higher being created the universe by intelligent design, what more elegant and intelligent design could there have been than a self-regulating system that continually checks its own errors and makes its own corrections in mid-stream as an integral part of the process.

This all seems quite logical to me although it probably won’t satisfy the believers because they are afraid to see any truth other than the one they have been told to believe in. Inversely it certainly won’t satisfy the non-believers because it leaves them stuck with a god that they are so obviously terrified of.

To sum up this view from the center, it might be most easily be explained by saying perhaps the designer was intelligent. Problem is, the designer was likely so intelligent that those seeking to prove that it is intelligently designed may be incapable of ever understand it well enough to see it for the elegant self regulating design that it has always been.

The nonbelievers will be similarly handicapped due to the internal terror the have about the idea that there may be a God. Neither side being able to leave their entrenched position for fear they may have to admit they were wrong. While the rest of us stand by trying to figure out what all the fuss is about. Personally I don’t think anyone is wrong, I just feel both sides are about half right.

Answer 3

Actually it takes a lot more faith to believe in evolution than to believe in Creation.

I had an oil spot on my garage floor. After a long while I looked and it had become a tricycle and later it evolved into a volkswagon. I left it in wonder and later I looked at it had become a nice shiny Rolls Royce. Boy, talk about evolution!!!! Now do you really believe this happened? Now that would take a lot more faith than to believe an intellingence that had all power could create something from nothing and make everything lineup as we see it today. IF by an evolutionary event, something so complex could just come into being with no design by sheer chance, that is what I would say would take the most faith of anything. Creationism may be a lot easier to believe but it sure takes a lot more faith to believe that without a God to direct it and do the creating, that things just up and evolved from nothingness to the complex things that are here today.

Answer 4

It may not be easier to believe because creationism is taken on faith, while evolution presumes to be scientifically sound. Apparently so many of us have problems with the 'faith department.'

For my part I have problems with the 'science' of evolution. It says that something became something else. Then why is the original something still around?

Ex: Something crawled out of the primordial mist (sea, or ocean or whatever you wish to call it); it became something else, and something else until it finally became a mammal. However, something stayed in the 'sea' and became fish, sea mammals, etc.

Eventually the land mammal became some kind of primate. Then the primate became Man? Do you follow the logic of evolution so far?

So Man came from the apes, but if Man came from the Ape, why do apes still exist? Why didn't they all evolve? And where is the missing link? There is no evidence that early Homo Sapien cross-bred with any other early humanoid such as Neantherdal Man. In fact, Homo Sapien may have killed off those other early humanoids. (Which should not be surprising, since we seem to be such a hostile breed even with each other!)

Creationism say God is the First Cause and He set all things into motion, creating Man in His image and Likeness and placing him above all other creatures of the Earth.

Science say there once was a big atom that accidently exploded and this set creation into motion.

Then science teaches that there is no such things as 'accidents;' that accidents don't happen, that they are caused to happen???

So how is this less confusing than the classical Christian view of Creation?

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Answer 5

Popular evolutionist theories are:
- the big bang, home huge explosion between meteorites
- a single cell somehow multiplied and created everything
- humans developed from monkeys

It appears that these theories are illogical, explosions bring nothing but destruction, cells mutated or other wise do not create much of consequence, monkeys still exist.

God created all, because he is the Creator & we and everything else are the created, it's no logicall that we can fully how God does what He does. He speaks and things happen.

It really isn't far fetched to believe that God created all because if you take a look around no animal is or ever was able to do what humans do. If evolution is correct, since animals existed long before humans why haven't they evolved to build airplanes, skyscrapers, & etc.

Answer 6

Evolution cannot be proven because there are too many variables and mathematical calculations to happen to chance. The odds of that happening without God the Creator is impossible. Many so called evolution artifacts and theories have been disproved frauds and hoaxes.

If evolution were true, what and who caused the so called Big Bang Theory,if it was not God?

Evolution is a humanist idea (lie) for us to believe there is no God and everything came about on its own.

God created the heavens and the earth,he also made us in his own image. God do not resemble a ape, gorilla monkey or other ridiculous animal. We look like him when Jesus came to earth in human form,but both are spirits. One day we will take on his spirit form in our new bodies.

Answer 7

In order to have a creation, there has to be a Creator. In order to have a design, there has to be a designer. After all, would you deny the existence of the person who made your watch or car? of course not, that would be absolutely absurd.

The Bible is the inspired Word of God. It has been tested and tried by billions of people all down the centuries.

Read Romans 1 verses 18 20 in an easy to read translation

Answer 8

Creation tells us that a God who loves us made each and every thing with His own fingers, down to an intricate leaf, everything working together and beautiful. It's easier for me to believe that than that a bunch of "likely things happened".

Darwin himself had realized at the end of his life and told people he regretted deeply the things that people had come to believe because us his research. He meant for his study to be a theory, yet today it is taught as fact.

Answer 9

Because they'd prefer not to think. It's easier to say 'god did it'.

Plus for some stupid reason they think their entire belief system becomes invalidated if they don't believe every word of Genesis. Why they have such guilty feelings about this is mysterious. It's not like people who believe in evolution go around saying 'evolution disproves all of your spiritual beliefs'. Maybe they think if one part of their bible is proven to be a myth then the rest will be proven to be false too. Doesn't sound like they have as much faith as they claim to have.

Answer 10

Science is something that finds useful knowledge about the world we live in. Our experience shows that if we do not know something, we find out later. Evolutionary biology is a serious branch of science. 'Creationism' is just long sequences of words, having almost no any meaning, and certainly no any evidence. As a fantasy, 'creationism' is not that much fascinating either, just one boring speculation. 'Creationism' can be compared to Santa Clause (which I like much more!), but not with something as serious as evolution.