What do you think of creation astronomy?

Question

http://www.answersingenesis.org/video/ondemand/

"He made the stars also" Gen 1

of course it is quite plain that creation violates the philosophical assumptions of naturalism, but nothing inherent to the scientific method. It violates the philosophical baggage naturalist bring to the table but nothing in operational science in the areas of medicine technology or agriculature rests on it. In the end its a issue of assumptions.

Answer 1

It isn't science. It is propaganda,

Karl Popper put it well when he wrote that scientific theory is capable of being refuted by new evidence. When did Creationists ever accept that scientific evidence has refuted one of their theories? They try to wriggle off the hook and salvage their "science" rather tham seek after the truth,

It reminds me of how the proponents of the phlogiston theory of combustion, when confronted with Lavoisier's evidence that oxygen in the air was involved in combustion, tried to salvage their bankrupt theory by declaring that phlogiston had negative weight!

And preferred to tie themselves in intellectual knots and contortions rather than discard their precious theory.

Galileo killed off geocentrism in 1610. Nearly 400 years later and Creationists are still trying to resuscitate the corpse. To what purpose?

Answer 2

I think it's a lot less impressive than the real thing.

The universe was created 13 billion years ago out of pure energy. As it cooled matter formed out of the energy and physical laws were set, mysteriously with exactly the right values to form stars and permit life. The stars manufactured the elements, exploded, and scattered them out into space. Some gathered in this small place, and life formed and evolved into man. Along the way a meteor smacked Earth with enough force to make dinosaurs extinct and permit mammals to develop and eventually dominate the Earth.

Now science can say nothing at all about exactly that was set into motion, only about what's happened in the 13 billion years since. So a higher power, one who watches over us today, could have started it.

And to me that process is a whole lot more impressive and worthy of a higher power than that someone snapped their fingers 4000 years ago, and created everything at once, with fake fossils to "test our faith".

It's perfectly possible to be religious and still believe in science. Many scientists are religious, possibly because of the amazing events that led to us.

Answer 3

Creation voilates simple most fundamental laws of physics and 10 commandments does not include a single law of physics. And can you explain how geocentric system as explained in bible no longer valid became heliocentric? When and how and by whom?

Answer 4

People are free to believe that God created the universe if they want. It shouldn't be paraded around like it has any scientific basis, however.

Answer 5

As with any evolutionary science, as we grow in knowledge creationism's value diminishes. I speak for myself alone and my faith in my creator does not diminish but my knowledge about how we got here and why increases.

Answer 6

I try not to, but I would imagine it impressed quite a few bronze age farmers 3,500 years ago.

Answer 7

sounds fake to me