How do creationists answer questions backed by major scientific proof?

Question

Evolution is actually a very proveable theory, and I've done it myself in a AP Bio lab. Bacteria which as you probably know reproduce extremely fast can be killed of with certain anti-biotics. However, after a few generations have passed, the bacteria are no longer effected by the anti-biotics and will live even if the anti-biotic is present. How do creatinists dismiss this solid evidence?

Everyone whose answered this question is just saying how I'm wrong and this doesn't prove anything, which is exactly what I expected, but your reasons why I'm wrong is either becasue A) you think I'm stupid and my research is faulty or B) Because a book written by some dead dudes 2000 years ago says so, I guess you can't ask the ignorant for logical answers.

And bacteria growing a resistance to anti-bodies is evolution, as is finches developing different shaped beaks depending on what they eat.

Answer 1

You can't win. They will attack the evidence, reclassify it, deny it, and when all else fails, acknowledge it and say it doesn't matter ("micro-evolution but not macro-evolution"). You can't defeat voluntary ignorance.

Answer 2

During all of recorded human history and all of "mans`science" ; there has " never " been a substaniated case of a " living thing " being produced by anything other than another "living thing". I noticed you started your so called proof with something already living ?? It is absurd for materialist to claim that all living things evolved into exsistence from nothing , when mans` own science has yet to discover how even one ( 1 ) protein molecule could actually have come into exsistence by any known natural process !! Your science has no clue how DNA is created , and with DNA being the genetic code of life in all living things , until man can produce DNA ( which he never will ) your "evolution " is without basis in any scientific " proof " !! You see ; someone had to create DNA , and if man can`t do it then that leaves only a God in Heaven that did . Matter cannot create itself , if you don`t believe it then spend the rest of your futile life trying !! Knowledge cannot create itself . Knowledge can only be passed on from a beginning source of knowledge , and that would be God Almighty !! You cannot create order out of disorder , your science has proved that for you ! You have nothing solid but the "lack of proof" of evolution . If there is no God as you believe , on what basis is there any meaning or hope for fairness , comfort , or better times !! Without a personal Creator God , how are you anything other than the coincidental , purposeless , miscarriage of nature ; spinning round and round on a lonely planet in the blackness of space for just a little while before you and all memory of your futile , pointless , meaningless life finally blinks out of existence forever in the endless darkness ?? Have you ever heard the word " GENE " when discussing life ? Then isn`t it amazing that the answer you deny is in GENEsis 1 : 1 .IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH ..... Man has no other answer , only an arrogant refusal to believe . God Bless with some understanding !!

Answer 3

Not all of us do.

I am a non-Christian, theist, agnostic creationist who accepts evolution. My faith embraces science.

I believe in a balance within a person. I don't require overwhelming proof to believe in something. When presented with overwhelming proof, like one is with evolution, it is foolish to pretend you don't "believe."

But I very much dislike the coldness of some atheists and other types who insist that a lack of proof of a creator is solid evidence that there is none. Five hundred years ago there was a total lack of proof for the existence of protons and electrons, yet they do exist. Science - or at least, science at its current level - is not the be-all and end-all of existence. The heart and intuition are also completely valid sources of information.

Answer 4

We don't. As a generally rule we accept that concept of evolution.

Talk to us when you grow a human from that same bacteria. That's the proof we want to see!

Let's not even go that far. Grow a frog or fish or mosquito from that bacterium.

That's the part of evolution EVEYRONE is waiting to see and if you can do it, I'll wager you'll get a Nobel Prize!

Everyone wants to know why Apes don't continue to make Neaderthals!

Why don't we see a few getting born now and then.

What, is nature shy now they have have camcorders and microscopes so we can document the process and see how the genes transform.

You are aware, aren't you, that a Catholic Abbott proved botanical evolution ages ago. He's the father of modern Genetics. He did it with pea pods. But he didn't get that pea pod to produce an apple tree!

Answer 5

An adaptive bacteria or virus... You know people can adapt to a virus and become immune. Once you've been exposed to the West Nile Virus, they say you will never have to worry about it again.

The bacteria or virus did not come out of NOTHING and form into a human being like evolution is supposed to prove. Why has evolution also STOPPED? There isn't enough change between humans in 5,000 years to even suggest we live in an evolutionary state.

According to the theory it takes BILLIONS OF YEARS for evolution to actually take place.

Answer 6

Too bad alot of these replies are showing how ignorant some people are. To show someone evidence of evolution they'd have to understand what evolution is first, however creationists would rather make a strawman evolution that life comes from non-life or how the earth was formed; this dark age reasoning allows creationists to ignore scientific evidence like it never existed.

Answer 7

To answer your question, I really don-t know, because I-ve never been confronted with major scientific proof.
To reply to your following comment, of course bacteria can develope immunity to antibiotics. That has nothing to do with evolution. A friend visiting the Saguenay River region complained of getting the "Saguenay Agony". But I never had that problem because I had been brought up in the region. Being accustomed to the water, it did not affect me.
Back to your bacteria: If bacteria evolved to form viruses or something, then I would sit up and take notice.

Answer 8

Both are right.

Darwin argued that evolution of complex forms of life evolved from simpler forms. Genesis describes such an evolution. 1. Light and Dark 2. Water and Sky 3. Seas and Land 4. Vegetation 5. Sun, Moon, Stars 6. Fish and Birds 7. Mammals and Man 8. Rest.

Evolution of the species is not tracked according to days, weeks, years, it is tracked according to evolution of species. This can take very little time as in an adaptation to environment, or a very long time as in the the evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs. Many theologians have tried to interpret the time line of the 7 days of creation with many contradicting ideas. The creation story has order, it is set up in stages.

The assumption that man evolved from apes is clearly contorted and dogmatic. God created the world in stages and left the best, Man, for last, the highest stage of evolution. We may have resemblances to primates, but our differences are much more important than our similarities. Both the Creation story and the Theory of Evolution are consistent with the development of formlessness to simple forms to complex forms. Both emphasize continuity. Just because the Theory of Evolution has some details wrong, doesn't mean it should be disregarded entirely.

There are too many missing pieces to accept it as fact, that is where our faith in God's wonderful gift of creation comes in.

Remember that Genesis just gives us the Who (God created....) and Why (and He saw that it was good...), it doesn't give us the mechanics.

On another note....there is no way that you can prove Macro Evolution in an AP Bio Lab, nice try though. Who now-a-days disputes micro-evolution?

Answer 9

Well, Im not into orgaanized religion, but I think science is over-rated. Science think it knos everything about the universe...but in reality it knos basiclly nothing. I am very spritual but not religious, I hate those dull scientist type people who think they have true meaning in the universe tho only phsyical or material means. They need to go on a psycheldelic journey and then come back an tell me the universe is complety meaningless.

Answer 10

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