Creationists declare themselves unable to believe that even the most simple, mindless microbe could exist unless it was designed... But in the same breath they're happy to claim that an intelligent entity capable of designing and creating an entire universe just exists without being designed. How absurd!
2006-08-31 11:51:54 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yup. That's Creationists for you. I got into an email debate with one who said the Earth and the Universe were less than 10,000 years old. I asked him what about the distant starlight from a million light years away. We can see it now, so it had to travel for a million years just to get here. He said God "created" the light one million minus 10,000 light years from Earth. WTF!?
2006-08-31 12:01:00 · answer #1 · answered by Kenny ♣ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
sigh
who is to say that the creator is/was intelligent or complex?
for all I know "God" could be just some force like gravity that simply modifies the universe.
of if we are to say that "God" is infinite then their is a certain chance that this entity will developer intelligence and a desire to create something beyond it. Because if something is infinite then it is guaranteed that it will happen, its just a matter of time.
the only thing we disagree on is what is that infinite thing. If you say it is the Universe, then given enough time the Universe we have WILL come into an existence.
if I say that their was something before the Universe that was infinite then it WILL create something that will look like this Universe.
both theory's are logical and cannot be proven or dissproven due to the nature that we cannot mesure the infinate.
2006-08-31 20:23:41 · answer #2 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, there are some people who religiously fight against religion. There are others who foster the notion that matter created itself, (in one time defiance of the first law of thermodynamics). Still others firmly believe that elephants are distantly decended from rodents, yet find themselves unable to accept the thought that there might be someone more important than any of us in the universe. Even more bizarre are people who claim to be scientists, yet approach the unknown with a closed mind. These are all things that are staggeringly illogical. Baseless disbelief is no more scientific than baseless faith.
2006-08-31 19:07:02 · answer #3 · answered by Beardog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only the continued propagation of hatred and bigotry with questions like this, IT boy.
They think differently to you, that's all, why the continuous venom?
"East is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet"
Rudyard Kipling
...read the rest of this poem..it ain't scripture so you won't burn up into ash instantly, but a rather nice case study in humanity none the less.
By the way, I had a creationist debate yesterday with a lass that swore blind that man and dinosaurs co-existing..there really is no telling these people...trying to rationally talk around that is tricky to say the least!
2006-09-01 21:46:27 · answer #4 · answered by Ichi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like your little Gerbil you got there in your avator, I had a Hampster once.
Well, I'm glad they believe that humans, life, the Earth, or the universe as a whole were created by a supreme being or by another deity's supernatural intervention. Kinda like God. That's better than believing it things were created "poof" out of thin air but, I don't really view creationism to be a faith.
2006-08-31 19:02:49 · answer #5 · answered by Erika 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that believing in creationism requires anymore faith than believing that life as we know it evolved from a primordial soup. On the contrary. It seems more illogical to believe that life as complex and diverse as it is came from nothing.
Life in all of it's diversity is the most convincing argument for me. It seems a gigantic stretch to believe that one asexual single cell organism evolved into requiring a both male and female to reproduce, but then for evolution to repeat that for over 50,000 vertebrates and over a 100,000 invertebrates? The odds are staggering! And that doesn't even account for the plants, fungus, insects or germs!
Science has showed us how complex life in our universe is and how everything works together to make it go. It's fragile and wonderful and beautiful however you believe it came to be.
2006-08-31 19:33:17 · answer #6 · answered by Big Blue 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't like the creationism events story.
But even Einstein believed in a Spinozan ideal of God. Intelligent Design and guided evolution could have happenend
2006-08-31 18:57:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree with you about all of this, and I've said so many times in these answers. Saying, "God did it", answers nothing at all. It is merely a pretense of an answer. Some people fear the unknown. That's xenophobia. They are compelled to have answers or pretenses of answers for everything. That's comparable to wanting a date so badly every night that one goes out with trash. In other words, one has no discrimination when he is compulsive about such things. When one says God created everything, I ask who created God, who created God's creator...until we have an infinite amount of these mythical creators.
2006-08-31 19:03:46 · answer #8 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anti-Evolution bias is a misplaced resistance to humanism that began in the 19h century.
Remember, before humanism, one either worked for God or King and nothing else.
Maybe someday everyone will see the everydau common sense of Evolution, but it will be a generation or two.
2006-08-31 18:56:37 · answer #9 · answered by WheeeeWhaaaaa 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What do you care? They're idiots. Know that, feel secure in that, figure out ways to take their money and their women, and move on.
And if you see one on the playground give 'em a wedgie and take their lunch money.
2006-08-31 18:57:03 · answer #10 · answered by dascatalyst 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋