2006-12-01 16:31:57 · 12 answers · asked by eagleperch 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
God's still cranking out animals, plants and insects at the Godco factories.
2006-12-01 16:34:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Easy:
There never was any mass extinction, or new life forms appearing. The god created the world as is 5000 years ago.
Sure the there is an APPEARANCE of mass extinction and evolution, but it just indicates that God created the appearances. He is all-powerful he can do that.
P.S. i am just showing that it is impossible to argue with creationist, they work from fundamentally different assumptions then scientist. Sure a scientist can say: "look this bone dates to 200,000 BC" a creationist can always respond:"NO, the bone is 5000 years old -- but the God made it APPEAR as if it is much older". If the scientist asks "Why would God do that" the response is "The ways of God are unknowable".
Just let it be -- in 100 years "creationism" will go the way of "Geo-centrism."
2006-12-02 01:09:32 · answer #2 · answered by hq3 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It can't. Actually, it can't explain anything found in the fossil or geologic record.
Funny thing -- somebody the other day explained creationism to me this way: See, god made the first primitive cells, then set up evolution, then let it run -- and we evolved from those first cells he created.
Literally made me laugh. Now some christians are saying that they accept evolution completely, including all of the billions of years it took us to evolve from simple living cells and all that entails, but god had to make those first cells. They can't make that last little tiny jump away from dogma that lets them accept that the evolution of those first cells from non-living matter is just as likely as the entire remainder of evolution...
They just can't give it up -- despite no evidence of any kind, "god" has to be involved in there somewhere. Too funny :)
2006-12-02 00:37:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, "Well Traveled" has it correct. Richard Dawkins book, "The God Delusion" explains it brilliantly. In fact no intelligent theist has ever put up any rational arguments for creationism against natural selection.
2006-12-02 00:50:01 · answer #4 · answered by knowledge is freedom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Creationism is myth. Science is theory, discovering facts along the way. Science is fine for me. God-worshippers/creationists have a very important faculty missing - critical thought.
2006-12-02 04:50:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can't. Creationism wants us to believe that everything in science and the fossil record is false and the formation of fossils in rocks can take place in a couple thousand years.
2006-12-02 00:45:56 · answer #6 · answered by Dragonlord Warlock 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The 15 or so extinct homnids were 'test runs." We're the new and improved model. (now if we can just get rid of our tailbones, appendix, spleens and other assorted unneccessart parts)
2006-12-02 03:37:47 · answer #7 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All part of the evolving process of creation,every year he creates,sustains and destroys thousands of tulips and out of their seed he will put on this spectactular show again.
2006-12-02 02:40:52 · answer #8 · answered by Weldon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can evolution explain it? Macro-evolution would not explain mass extinctions, or massive eruption of new life forms.
2006-12-02 00:37:12 · answer #9 · answered by dramaturgerenata78 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
So.... God (or Allah, or Budda, or Elvis) says "I SHALL SMITE YOU!" Who's going to argue?
2006-12-02 00:55:27 · answer #10 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋