...evidence to support creationism?

Question

anyone seen or have any? I am just curious since it is supposedly so much more feasable than another theory which has lots of evidence backing it.

...so the answer is no(ne). Oh, I'm sorry...faith.

Answer 1

I have FAITH, that's all I'll ever need.

Answer 2

I'm afraid that most of the answers so far rely on the Bible as evidence, although they have no evidence for the Bible's own truth, so you cannot use the Bible as evidence as it is unproven. You can say that it is because of faith, but that is very different to evidence. I am not criticizing faith, but it is just not evidence. You wouldn't want to be accused of a crime just on the basis of a policeman's faith that you did it, you would need him to produce evidence, so they are very different things. Being objective, the only evidence there is supports evolution. It's not 100% accurate, it can't be, but it is the easiest to accept, based on the current evidence. This could change if some evidence came to light of a new truth, but so far, the fossil record suggests and supports evolution in the way that no other theory can so far hope to get near. I'm not dogmatic or fundamental about this, I could change my mind, but objectively, that is the current truth. Creationism unfortunately tries to fit the evidence into a background of faith, and comes up with the wrong answers.

Answer 3

Its more feasable primarily because over thousands of years of recorded history, there is ABSOLUTELY NO conclusive evidence for any other theory. You'd have to expect that if the earth WASN'T created, there'd be some other evidence by now!

Additional evidence can be found in observation of nature. It's common knowledge that without intervention, nature shifts from a state of order to a state of chaos. Not the other way around.

Any theory that suggests increasing complexity of life over the course of time by random mutations doesn't fit the natural pattern. While no true scientist will deny the existance SOME change, there's no evidence of species transformation in the fossil record. Certainly not in an upwards direction! Devolution makes more sense than evolution.

Lastly, I know that creationism CAN'T be proven. We believe the earth was created by God, and he's not a physical being. He wouldn't leave physical evidence. There's circumstancial evidence gallore, but there's just as much circumstancial evidence for evolution and the big bang.

But logic speaks loud and clear. It is easier to believe in God than to doubt him. Either way you go, its a matter of faith.

Answer 4

Why of course ...

Modesty and integrity are also in short supply on the part of religious leaders. After all, where is the integrity in asserting that the Bible teaches what it does not teach? Where is the modesty in putting personal views and favorite traditions above the Bible? This is precisely what many creationists have done.

For instance, creationists often say that the entire universe was created in six literal 24-hour days some 6,000 years ago. With teachings like this, they misrepresent the Bible, which says that God created the heavens and the earth "in the beginning"—at some unstated point before the more specific creative "days" began. (Genesis 1:1) Significantly, the Genesis account shows that the expression "day" is used in a flexible sense. At Genesis 2:4, the entire period of six days described in the preceding chapter is spoken of as only one day. Logically, these were, not literal days of 24 hours, but long periods of time. Each of these epochs evidently lasted thousands of years.

All too often, religious teachers are equally off base when they talk about faith. Some seem to suggest that faith involves believing passionately in something for which there is no solid evidence. To many reasoning people, that sounds more like gullibility. The Bible defines faith quite differently: "Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld." (Hebrews 11:1) So genuine faith is not mere gullibility. It is based on solid evidence, on reasonable assurance.

On what evidence, then, is faith in God based? There are two bodies of evidence, both of them compelling.

Answer 5

The answers I see above mine sadden me deeply.

Belief in the absence of contrary evidence is at least bearable. Firm belief IN OPPOSITION to clear evidence is lunacy. I will wager that most of the creationists posting here could not articulate a clear understanding of what evolution is, nor cosmology for that fact.

One should never make such a firm argument from ignorance (otherwise, one could say that the Muslims in the middle east are equally correct, since they have even less science education that Americans, in general).

The bible itself is self-contradictory. Simply stating "No its not" is not an adaquate response.

Reason is essential to this world (why Christians eventually abandoned slavery).

Logic is essential to this world (why Christians embrace Aquinas' arguments - however bad they are).

Science is essential to this world (why quantum mechanics makes Christians computers go).

You cannot apply the above three whenever its convenient, then ignore them all together when it conflicts with a 3,000 year old mythology book at a time you decide. That begs the question, creates a special pleading and a variety of other logical messes.

And about looking like monkeys. We sure has hell do. We look as much like a chimpanzee as a chimpanzee looks like an gorilla. If genetic similarity doesn't mean relation, then why don't our genetics more closely resemble a horse? Or a crocodile?

Think folks, please. It will make this world a better place to think rather to spout out trite and empty platitudes you hear on Sunday morning.

Answer 6

Check out these Web sites:

www.creationism.org
www.carm.org
www.answers.org
www.rtb.org

You may also want to read "A Case for a Creator" by Lee Strobel & anything by Stephen J. Gould (who is a believer in both Intelligent Design & Evolution). Either way you'll get a better idea of the evidence that supports the view that intelligent design is th preferred view.

EDIT: No(ne)? Did you even look at these Web sites? How about the 610 scientists that all signed the "Dissent From Darwinsim?"

http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2732

And if they are not enough, read Dr. Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time." In it, he concluded that the world is too complex to have just begun & evolved - it had to have planned and implemented by a divine intelligence.

Answer 7

There are mounds and mounds facts and points I could show you, but the one that always gets me... is DNA.

In every cell in every blade of grass, fingernail, tree leaf, fish scale, worm and hair there is this tremendously complex code mapping out everything about that cell. Scientists are still baffled at the complexity of DNA.
If you walked down the street and you happened to look down and find a wrist watch laying on the ground and picked it up... you would assume based on its beauty and complexity that someone had designed that. It didn't grow out of the ground... or fall out of the sky. Someone... an intelligent human being... drew, modeled and eventually produced that watch out of glass, plastic, metal, crystal, etc... and you think, this person who designed this is really smart. This is a neat thing.
You continue walking down the street and and a butterfly lands on your arm and you spend a few minutes studying it... how much more INFINITELY more complex is that butterfly than the watch. every one of the millions of cells that make up that butterfly contains that code of DNA which scientists can barely understand. It moves... it has a brain... it's...ALIVE!
Now look at that butterfly and tell me it was an accident.

The other thing I like to point out is that a theory of evolution states that non-living cells (where did they come from anyway?) were zapped by some sort of energy source and were made into living cells. In order for that to happen there are two types of amino acids that must bind together as a reaction to that energy. (please forgive me. I don't remember the names of them) Scientists have tried many many times to cause them to do this in a laboratory. The only thing the amino acids ever do is break apart and are destroyed.
The mathematical odds of just 2 of them to bind together (evolution would take thousands to bind together) are the same odds as a person walking down the street and finding the winning lottery ticket on the ground...every day for 1000 years!
Given those odds, many people still hold that evolution is the way it happened. Fortunately, there are also many scientists who are abandoning the theory altogether because the scientific discoveries they are making can be less and less backed by the theory of evolution.
The other thing that many people like to ignore is the fact that Darwin (the father of the evolutionary theory) admitted that his theory was incorrect before he died. He actually died a Christian believing that God created the world.
Maybe it's just me, but when the founder of a theory or movement states that he was incorrect, you shouldn't continue to follow and believe his theory.
Just some thoughts.
Hope this helps.

Answer 8

There are 2 theories, creation and evolution. Let check both logically. According with evolution it supposed to be an explosion of life with no gap in the transition from one specie to another but archeology shows the contrary that there is allot of gaps. Until today They haven't found the missing link yet. Now Creation supposed to be an explosion of life with allot of gaps between species, because God created every specie according to their own gens.

Answer 9

When you ask Christians to support theory, they can't. They give you sentimental, irrational answers, like, "it just is," or "it's in the Bible." The Bible also recommends killing your son and gives advice on how to kill goats. There is absolutely no support for creationism -- it is absolutely absurd.

Well, that was fun. I'm gonna take a nap now, and then I think I'm gonna call, uh, some hospitals.

Answer 10

There is no evindence, even remotely, that supports the creation fable of the bible. A friend of mine is native american and in his religion the world sits on the back of a giant turtle who is mother of all life on the earth. You may laugh at that but it has as much evidence to support it as anything written in the bible.

Answer 11

Same level of evidence used in the evolution theory. Just different interpretations based on our presuppositions.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/qa.asp