Why is it impossible to prove to creationists that they are wrong?

Answer 1

creationists == religion ==> faith.
There is nothing to prove or disprove. It is all faith. There is nothing testable.
However, as science answers more and more questions that were the purview of religion in the past, there is less room for religion.

evolution ==science ==> testable hypotheses and theories.

The two sides are in different camps. They approach philosophy from different angles. Neither can prove or disprove the other.

Answer 2

there is enough controversy in the fossil record that the evolutionist interpretation of that record is suspect, not that it is a conspiracy but that it is just wrong. there are times where a creature that allegedly evolved from another type is found far deeper in the layers of the earth than it should be based on the Evolutionist interpretation. Perhaps we who believe in creation have an unreasonably high expectation for our evidence, however, the creation of the world is a tenet of our faith. based on all the evidence that I have seen; and I have looked, examined, and studied; I find it easier to believe that an omnipotent God created the universe, than to believe that through random chance, deoxyribonucleic acid can violate the laws of thermodynamics, even over millions of years, and become more complex while all around it EVERYTHING else in the universe is experiencing decay, or entropy.


Creationism is not science. there is nothing that can be done, within the scientific method, to experiment and see if it did occur.

Can anyone post on here the name of a peer-reviewed study that shows conclusively a single Genetic mutation exhibiting a net increase in the amount of information stored within the Genes? I am asking for this because people claim that bringing in thermodynamics does not present any problems for the theory of evolution, however, I have never seen or heard of any study that showed a mutation that had a net increase in data in the DNA.

Answer 3

You cannot prove that creationists are wrong because their belief is their 'theory' just as evolution is your 'theory'.

I do not believe in any religion and have no time for religious fools, but truth is both sides are more than likely wrong because both theories are terribly flawed, not to mention that the human race knows almost nothing significant. In so many thousand years, we have not been able to reach even the nearest planet.

Answer 4

proving something to be wrong requires undeniable facts, facts on both sides are lacking, however I tend to believe that both can exist together, example God created earth in one day, one day to a person telling a story like this represents a time period, the next day another and so on. same as science, the ability to embrace both ideas show a much more inteligent and wider obsevation than one or the other. the idea that any of the two ideas is wrong, rest only in the minds of those who have no faith or are blinded by it.

Answer 5

I do not understand Nathaniel's resort to thermodynamics. The laws of thermodynamics do not prevent increasing organization within an open system. The Earth is an open system, as it obtains energy from the Sun. That energy could allow increasing complexity on Earth. Moreover, a sub-system can increase its own level of complexity by causing less complexity outside of the sub-system, as when an organism takes in relatively complex food, then dumps relatively simple waste into its environment. Finally, complexity can increase as energy decreases; ice crystals have low energy but more complexity than liquid water.

Regarding mutations that increase complexity check http://www.gate.net/~rwms/EvoEvidence.html

Answer 6

Why is it impossible to prove to most African Americans that OJ was guilty? When the facts don't fit your dogma, people are more willing to throw out the facts than to change their beliefs.

Answer 7

Creationism is impossible to disprove, because since it is not a science at all, it is not falsifiable. The only way one stops believing in that is when they realize by themselves that it's just completely ridiculous.

Answer 8

Because people who are absolutely sure of something (and it is a tenet of their religion and faith) will not believe something different.