Creationists????

Question

Please explain.
You are typing on a computer that uses the theory of electronics and quantum mechanics to operate.
You may drive a car that uses GPS technology, which is based at least in part on relativity theory (the clocks on satellites run a little slower than on earth).
You drive a car that relies on electrical, mechanical and chemical theories to operate.
You most likely rely on some drugs a doctor prescribes that rely on molecular biology theory and chemical theory.
I could go on and on. My point is why do you have difficulty accepting evolution, which is based on the same sound science at the fore mentioned theories???
Are the others just convenient things you can use in you daily life without having to think about?
Are you just so blind to the world around you that it doesn't matter or requires too much energy to contemplate?

Oh, my bad...I forgot most of you don't know what a theory is...so here is the definition. If you don't believe me look it up yourselves.
Theory:
A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.

Opps...I forgot all about the "research" at the discovery institute in seattle that says intelligent design is a science too....News flash its not science. Never will be.

The theory of evolution is "just wrong". Based on what information. I've looked at the arguments against evolution... have you?

The probablility is 0??? Based on what information? Your belief? Where is you evidence?

Answer 1

You can't educate the willfully ignorant (fundamentalists)

Answer 2

Whats all this technology got to do with evolution?? I was doing an entire major toward evolution at university my friend and its bogus.


There are too many anomalies in the theory of evolution to produce sufficient evidence we evolved from anything. I'll give you just one of them.

Evolutionists claim that an inch of rock is formed every so many hundred thousand years, this is how they determine how old things are, they just measure (and look unto which section of the fossilised rock they are in; ie precambrian, cambrian etc). Tell me how over 10 foot tree's are found hole, with leaves, fossilised "Upsidedown" vertically. When the rock only forms an a foot every so million years. Why does the hole thing become fossilised??

Answer 3

The best argument I have yet encountered for intelligent design and against evolution is this:

In order for DNA strands/chromosomes to change length they must mutate. In order for a mutated chromosome to successfully reproduce heterosexually, it must be connected to an IDENTICALLY mutated chromosome.
I am not talking about natural selection within a species, I am referring to evolution of one species into another with different chromosome lengths. I've read a couple of different papers about the overlap or fold method of mutation to produce "human" chromosomes from chimpanzee chromosomes, but nobody has addressed the following part of the argument:

The reproduction of a mutated chromosome requires successfully combining with a similarly mutated chromosome in the same place at the same time. And then that 'new lifeform' would have to find another 'new lifeform' of the opposite sex at the same place at the same time to continue the "new species". Feed any set of variables into a probability generator for number of males, females, land mass, food available, regenerative cycle, and natural occurrance of gene mutation, and under the best possible circumstances using the most liberal timeframes for the age of the universe, it still remains mathematically impossible for this to have happened 1 time.

The simple fact of the diversity of chromosomal structures and the mathematical impossibility of a simple (single celled organism) having had enough time to mutate into one complex life form (say, a heterosexual insect) points to an intervening force of some kind, and the additional fact that (in evolutionary terms) the window of time for life on this planet is exponentially smaller than the age of the universe (a supporting argument for the anthropic principle) demonstrates that this intervening force also was not random but deliberate, which indicates intelligence.

Additionally, if I told you YOUR computer 'evolved' over billions of years, you would laugh me off of the planet. Yet, you will tell me DNA 'evolved', yet a DNA strand is infinitely more complex than your computer.

Quantum theory is virtually untestable, because it cannot be directly observed, and electrical and electro magnetic theories predate quantum mechanics, and fit well into relativity. Molecular biology, mechanical, and chemical theory are based on direct observation of trial and error, just like the point and click interface on your computer, and have nothing to do with evolution.

I have difficulty accepting evolution because it is bad science.

And regarding contemplating the world around me, I consider that relativity and quantum theory are diametrically opposed, and that string theory as a means to reconcile the two fails due to lack of testability. I am currently working on a thesis which replaces quantum mechanics and transposes relativity into the world of sub-atomic stucture based on some particle accelerator research done in the late 1980's and early 1990's. I hope to be ready to publish by 2010.

Answer 4

As a Christian I concede that evolution has played a huge role in the development of everything around us. But, as a rational thinking engineering-minded individual, I can't help but pay attention to all the coincidences that make our lives possible on earth.
Some people may consider them just that, coincidences, but given the fact of how different everything would be (if at all) were earth's orbit differed by just a few miles, I would like to think there are greater powers at work.
Some think that faith is the sign of a weak mind but to be optimistic and be disappointed is a far better choice than to be pessimistic and suffer the consequences.

Answer 5

I get a big kick out of the Creationists who claim that the fact that earth's orbit is just right and the atmosphere is just right (I call that the 'Goldilocks' principal) is a clear indication that a supernatural creator was involved. Right. In other words, the fact that we, as carbon/water-based life forms happened to show up on a planet that is capable of supporting carbon/water-based life forms is some kind of a miracle.

Horseshit. Where else might you expect carbon/water-based life forms to show up? Under ordinary, natural circumstances, it would be reasonable to suppose that carbon/water-based life forms should show up on some of the hundreds of billions (estimated) of planets that are capable of supporting such life.

If we, as carbon/water-based life forms had turned up on a planet that could NOT support carbon/water-based life forms without divine intervention... now THAT would be a strong indication of a supernatural creator.

Answer 6

Because behind every single thought in our brains, there is a
creator of those thoughts. Evolution is saying that this whole
complex universe ( gravity. etc) and the very complexity of a
humans very DNA. The probability is 0 that we came from 0.
It took INTELLIGENTS to create all things. Not by "accident".
Now...stick that in ur pipe and smoke it !!!

Answer 7

Creationism is just a justification for belief using scientific terms in an unscientific way to make people feel better about their faith. Why they go looking for God in material things is beyond me, because the Bible clearly says not to do that.

Answer 8

Creationists are taking the bible literal literally!

Evolution is still happening everyday. Read the bible very, very
carefully and you will find that the creation story makes no
sense whatsoever. It's pure nonsense.

Answer 9

I believe in both.If one studies the word then there shouldn`t be a problem with believing evelution as the world has been around along time and God created all things but his time isn`t our time and that is where so many get confused ,that God created the earth and all things on it in 6 days.The word tells us that aday is like a thousand years to God and a thousand years is like a day.Time as we see it is meaning less to God who is ,always was and always will be.

Answer 10

All well and good, the other theories and all. The theory of evolution is just wrong.

Answer 11

Evolution as sound science? That's faith. Real science allows for God, and you've kicked Him out before even looking at creation as a possibility. How is that science?