why does it bother you if i believe in creation?

Question

for you athiests and evolutionists try to be mature with your response

Answer 1

you go girl

Answer 2

Relying on false assumptions leads to incorrect decision making. We live in a democratic society which means we are all impacted by how everyone else votes. I don't want my kids to be scientificly illiterate because Billy Bob thinks it's a sin to talk about evolution in school. I don't want to have cures for diseases put on hold because Jerry Falwell and his pal George Bush can't understand that a few undifferentiated cells is not a human being. Creationism isn't good faith, it's just incredibly bad science. It has no more place in a discussion of the true state of the universe than flat earth theories. There's no more basis for believing in creationism than there is for believing that the earth rides on the back of a giant turtle. A bunch of people walking around thinking something that just isn't true is not a benign situation. It's the same kind of irrational thinking that makes people fly airplanes into buildings or huddle up and drink that special batch of Kool-Aid.

Answer 3

It doesn't bother me...because I believe in God & Christ...However, there are issues with the Creation story...And all Christians need to come to grips with it....

In the book 'the science of God' the author gives an explanation as to the 'Time issue' that can not be explained away by scripture...I believe he called it "Time dialation".....

Evolution is fact...It can be shown, to a large degree, to be the truth.... Again..However, there is much that we don't and can't know about the developement of human kind...Most of the supposition on the subject is just that...fossil records are in complete at best....and we don't have to argue about this issue...except when we get our knickers in a twist..

There is supplimentary evidence that mankind did start to develop into more coherent groups some where around 8500 B.C.....could be slightly earlier or later...And this cohesion seems to be linked with the domestcation of food crops in the middle east...which from the Judeo-Christian standpoint makes sense,.. and this correlates nicely with the creation story....The Book 'Guns, Germs and Steel " goes into the details of crop developement in the fertile cresent..which is where the old testament accounts take place.
The Language of the Creation story is simple...it was written for a simpler understanding of the world and its history..it doesn't try to explain the physics of reality, or the geological time scale.. that we know to be true now.....
As Christians we need to realize that we can come to understand so much about existence, and it doesn't have to change our faith,,,only the realty of the worlds physical history...

Who can say, perhaps God is the great genetisist, and his manipulations are what we have in evidence..

Answer 4

Evolutionists strictly rely on science, which you have to admit is pretty difficult to prove wrong sometimes. To them, if they were to have the slightest thought that maybe we were created by a higher power, then their whole research would go to pot. It's just not feasible to them that we were created basically from nothing. Atheists simply cannot believe in something and they refuse to even try. A lot of Creationists are the same way in which they believe in something and they refuse to look at it in a different light. I'm not really sure what I am, because I find fault with everything. There are flaws with all beliefs. I prefer to go about life happy not knowing what I came from. Who cares? I'm alive and that's all that matters. It's all about having faith in something and I am happy to let everyone have it.

Answer 5

It doesn't bother me, so long as it is a belief that YOU hold. As Jesus said, when you want to pray, do so in your private room, not like the hypocrites on the corner. As an atheist, I agree with him.

Creationism is a belief. It is not rooted in fact or evidence. The enormously vast majority of scientists agree with this (even Christian scientists).

The issue is how your beliefs must interact in society. If you insist that your beliefs become part of public school instruction (as most creationists do), then there is a problem. There are a variety of beliefs, not just creationism, that are not rooted in evidence.

The flat-earth believers, for example. Or Christian Scientists who don't believe in medicine. You likely easily dismiss these are mere beliefs, and certainly would not want such things taught to your children in school. I agree, but I would also include creationism as a similar example.

I have no serious problem with creationist beliefs (with the possible exception that I believe teaching it to children, even in the home, is problematic). My problem is with how any belief system affects our society and our schools.

If you want to keep your creationist beliefs in your home, I have no real problem with that. If you insist on teaching my children about your beliefs, then I take issue with it. The same issue I would take with if a Christian Scientist wanted children to be taught that medicine is useless in health class or if Muslims want history classes to teach that Muhammed actually talked to God.

Answer 6

Because by doing so you are denying reality and hindering progress.

It's not so much that most atheists really care that individuals believe that creationism is fact. Where we see the problem is when creationists try to pass their religion off as Science which it clearly is not. There is no use of the scientific method in ID or Creationism. and when that is brought into science classrooms it weakens the foundations of science that progress is dependent upon.

Answer 7

I think people get bothered by what people believe in when that belief causes people to do harmful things.

There is nothing wrong with believing in Creation and I don't think it would bother anyone.

Let's take an example. For fun let's say I believe that Virgina ham is the greatest food in the world. As long as you allow me to believe it and I allow you to agree or disagree with me then we're okay. But let's say I think that everyone needs to believe that Virgina ham is the greatest food in the world. And if you don't I will make you change your mind and fighting breaks out either because you adamantly don't want to believe me or I adamantly want you to believe me. I think at this point anyone would be bothered by the fact I believe Virgina ham to be the great food in the world.

Of course if I believed that all people who wear jeans should be shot...then I think most people would agree my belief would bother people because the belief itself is harmful

If people let people believe in what they want and not force the belief and as long the actual belief doesn't harm others then it okay.

Answer 8

How come the people who believe in creation and the people who believe in evolution don't realize that the stories they give us to explain our existence are almost identical? Just read the beginning of the Bible and the beginning of a science book... it really does sound like the same thing. Anyway, I don't think you all are as far away from each other as you think. I think you tell the same story in a different way. Peace. - a christian who believes in science too. :)

Answer 9

Because we see it as a failure of the education system. Whenever someone has to resort to believing in a lie (that IS what the myth of creationism is after all) then that means that somewhere along the line, the education system has failed them.
And that is what we abhor. The sensless waste of potential.
When you start believing in a magic sky-pixie (you call him god) then you become part of the problem plaguing the world. You become part of the anchor that holds mankind back in it's collective quest to advance.
And that's just sad.

Answer 10

Because you're believing what amounts to a lie. In addition, it shows you're a dangerous person: rather then look at things logically, you'll blindly follow your religious leaders without a shred of doubt in your mind. Thinking like that is what led to the rise of Nazi Germany, and to think that people can still do it today frightens me.

Answer 11

Great question. If they think we are doing something stupid why should it matter to them because according to their beliefs we are all going to the same place when we die. The reason athiests bother Christians is because we want them to be in heavan with us so we have a reason.