Creationists: How damaging is it to your intellect to have to disregard 75% of scientific discovery?

Answer 1

What you really want is for us to conform to your way of thinking and therefore see our faith as being 75% or more in disparity to science.. That isn't what we believe. We see God and the first and greatest scientist. All His creative works are based on it. That is how Christians see science not by your view that God is a magician... Jim

Answer 2

That is an interesting percentage that you came up with. If science is based on observable and testable data I don't understand how a system of theories can be built around an unsupportable premise. For example, let's say I have a journal that says I have $696.00 in my bank account. I'm not sure that is exactly right because I am not 100% sure where that money came from. Every time I make a new entry, whether the entry itself is right or wrong, the subtotal and final total (if there were one) could never be right. My beginning balance is always subject to change and the subsequent entries might need correction. Mathematically, if the premise is missing or erroneous, compounded by possible errors in subsequent entries, then the answer will be incorrect. Science prides itself in interpreting observable data yet they are willing to build on untested and unobservable data. If you investigate the hypothetical physical process called "baryogenisis" you will find it is but one more "missing link" that is used to build subsequent theory. There are studies in genetics that are not compatible with evolutionary theories. I have found my intellect is challenged, not damaged, and as a creationist I have the advantage of exploring far beyond the physical boundaries of a visible universe that is designed, not accidentally arranged.

Answer 3

What 75% of evidence?

As for evidence, consider that Radiographic dating is still consider an theory without any empirical evidence to back it up. It can only date things older than 1 million years. As for the so called missing links, I think we will one day learn that they are the skulls of the children of the fallen angels. The were large and consider almost like animals. Their fathers were beings who base form was intelligent energy. I can only imagine what this would do to not only the genetic bonding, but also to the very nature of them at the atomic level.

As for the best example of whether evolution from a lower form of species is possible, I give you the Human Brain.

Studies, like that done by the University of Michigan, and features in the Discovery Channel program, The Amazing Life of the Human Brain, shows just how amazing the human brain is.

Every second while awake, we are absorbing 40MBs of data per second. That’s 144 gigabytes per hour and about 2 terabytes per day. That’s a lot of data even for the largest computer. When we sleep at night, and only at night or under nighttime conditions, all that data is sorted and stored through the creation of synaptic connectors and biochemical bounds. The brain has enough volume to allow for the creation of these storage connectors to last over 10,000 years.

Without the need of a creator, what evolutionary pressure could cause the need for this much volume that would take that long to fill? Clearly, man was either created by God to live that long, or if evolve, once lived that long, and has since de-evolved to what we are today. Which do you think it is?

Evolution does take place, in that animals have evolved and humans have de-evolved since the time of the creation. Many divergent species are related, such as the Meerkat/Hyena and the Lion/House cat. A house cat can breed with a lion, I wonder if the same is possible the Hyena and Meerkat?

This is why I believe in God. I use the brain he gave me, and designed for me, to determine something beyond imagining.

Answer 4

The intellect comes damaged to begin with, but this scientific evidence just reaffirms their faith (which has absolutely nothing to do with intellect) because it shows them how powerful their god is that it could do something so completely against the laws of nature and the universe.

Answer 5

Not at all, these "scientific discoveries" have no real foundational science to back them up. Dating the rocks by the fossils and fossils by the rocks, that isn't science. Evoultion even goes agaisn't the 2nd law of thermodynamics that says everything tends to degenerate. Whereas evolution says everything tends to generate.

Answer 6

Creationism is, like evolution, a theory. I am not certain where you arrive at the 75% of scientific discovery from.

Answer 7

Not very, because we are trying to use logic to prove God does not exist. When Columbus sailed in 1492, he had to prove that the Earth was round. Everyone believed the Earth was a cube. Well, the Bible already said that the Earth was round. *sigh*
People need proof for everything nowadays.
Look, scientists may not necessarily be right in everything, you know.

Answer 8

Someone above said, if that percentage was right, there would be very few scientific majors who are christian.

........... i disagree.... The evidence of evolution is out there but they still believe in God.. no matter what evidence is found, it won't change a thing!

Answer 9

You have to have an intellect before it can be damaged.

Answer 10

Scientific discovery? You mean God's creation right?!!!