Is creationism anti-intellectual?

Question

I notice that many of the refutations of creationism focus on the peceived deficiency in scientific sophistication among creationists.
Is this warranted?

Answer 1

"Intelligent design" is anti-intellectual because makes claims to be something it isn't i.e. a science. ID proponents pick and choose pieces of pseudo-science to try to support their cause and debunk the scientifically valid model of evolution.

True creationists are at least honest because they don't pretend its a science but rather a religious doctrine based on faith.

What is anti-intellectual is when these creationists try to have it taught instead of scientifically valid facts. Religious doctrine has no place in what is essentially a scientific debate.

Answer 2

No, it's not warranted. Those who believe in evolution as the scientific explanation for the beginning of life focus on their preconceived assumption that creationist are deficient in scientific sophistication. Evolution itself is just a theory, without full factual evidence, assuming that the "missing links" are still to be found. It is conceivable to regard it just as much a "fairy tale" as the creationist account.

In fact, science has recently made a stride towards proving creationism. Quantam physics has come up with the "String Theory". It postulates that all matter, everthing that exists, consists of "strings" of vibrating energy. That the arrangement of these strings produces the various forms and types of all matter. The creationist account describes God as "speaking" everything into existence. Sound being a vibrating energy... what conclusion would you derive?

Science has always been about man's trying to understand the nature of the things of God. An intelligent design beyond our intelligence.

Answer 3

There are scientists who believe in creation, in the excistence of a superior Designer.

Tell me my friend isn't it the biggest invention of sciense the law of cause and effect? Every result has to have a cause.This is a scientific way of thinking and also common sense.

Declaring that our world which is a result has not a clear cause as most scientists do, can it be called intellectual?

Is intellectuality to remain in a vague way of thinking and feeling superior from others by hiding the knowledge from the simple people?

What is scientific sophistication? Is it not accepting the law of that everything that exists has a cause?

Then scientists end to be anti-scientific!!!

This is the real problem and not if believing in creation is anti-intellectual.

Take care!

Answer 4

Well, it's not scientific.

There are some intelligent people (and even some intellectual people) who believe in creationism. They are not many, but they do exist.

So, I would agree in a deficiency in scientific sophistication, but that is fine for them. They believe in an origin of the species that does not involve the scientific method. They don't want to be called scientific (unless it's to be misleading).

Answer 5

Evolution fails to satisfactorily address the facts. Creationism is far more probable.
For instance...All life of all kinds appeared in a relatively short period of time and has stopped...this does not follow evolution.
Life at its most basic level in the cell contains irreducibly complex structures. By this I mean all the parts needed to co-exist at the same time to work...quite a divergence from evolution theories. And on and on...
The problem is, society denies God, and has force fed generations the garbage called evolution. I have no ploblem with adaption and evolving within kind. But God also said that one kind will give birth to its own kind. Even to this day, we do not see monkeys begetting humans. Evolution is absurd.

Answer 6

A lot of creationists distort evolution, or purposefully misunderstand it in order to build up their side of the argument. (I swear, if one more creationist tries to argue against evolution by saying that it is "just a theory," I just might have to beat them over the head with a science book)

A lot of creationists refuse to believe in some middle ground. Like, perhaps evolution was God's way of creating everything? They think that just because something isn't in the Bible, then it could not have happened. That is very narrow thinking.

Answer 7

Some make claims that a person with an intellect wouldnt believe in any god, but I must disagree. I believe in all science (evolution, astrophysics etc.) but also believe there is a higher power. They dont conflict in my mind and way of thinking. Some say that to a logical mind god must be regected. When you go to the big bang, everything in the universe just came into existence. Went from NOTHING, the all of a sudden, there was SOMETHING. Doesnt make any logical sense. Why is there SOMETHING when there should be NOTHING?


Now, I have noticed many many many people on here, athiests, who a very clearly unintelligent, and make their arguments not on what they come up with themselves, but just say the points others have made, and then call other people stupid. If you cant come up with your own ideas, and just use cliches like 'flying spaghetti monster', then you are not an intellectual. Come up with your own opinions, dont base your opinions on other peoples opinions.

Answer 8

Absolutely.

You bring up a creationist page and they'll tell you 'evolutionists' (they dont exist anymore than you're a gravitationalist for not believing you'll float up in to the sky any second) think animals developed through chance - this is a deliberate and wilful misunderstanding - creationists quote scientists out of context - they don't fight fair - indeed they cannot because they insist on trying to prove a foolish stuperstitious fairytale.

Answer 9

To answer your questions in order:
Yes.
No.

Christianity and the Church fought the concept that the world wasn't the center of the universe for a long time. They also fought that the world wasn't flat. This is just the current of a long, long line of the church fighting factual science. The funny thing is that the Pope referred to evolution as truth. I'll be happy to post his speech if anyone is interested in reading it. When the Pope accepts evolution, I don't know why other Christians refuse it.

Answer 10

No it is not warranted and not all creationists are dull to science.

Unfortunately, only the "6000yr old earth and Dinos are fake" Christians are shown in the media.