What is the difference between believing in Creationism and believing in Evolution?

Question

Both of these cannot be proven, no matter how much evidence you can get to support them. No one witnessed evolution, and no one witnessed the creation of man. Evolutionists use bones and layers of sedimentary rock to estimate things such as how old things may be and what came when, and creationists believe in a book that they believe was inspired by a higher power.

I'm trying not to take sides, even though I have my own opinions. I'm just wondering what others think. Thanks for your time, and please correct, answer, or comment in a polite manner.

Sorry, I meant evolution of humans, not animals.

Amoveo, I am saying that you can't prove who stole the cookies without seeing who took them, or having fingerprints of the one who stole them, in order to match them with the ones that would probably have been left.

Om, I agree that there is evolution of micro-organisms, but that is no evidence that humans evolved.

Novangelis, literal Biblical creation cannot be disproved, since no one was actually there to disprove it.

Answer 1

Basically, it depends on your definition of God. If you're a Creationist, His Name is YHWH. If you're an Evolutionist, his name is Chance. Either way, SOMETHING had to tweak the odds, cause it caint happen as advertised.

Answer 2

Lets have a hypothetical question. Lets say you fill a cookie jar with cookies. And then the next day they're gone. No one saw it happen and you gather your friends and none of them saw it happen. So therefore according to your rationale the cookies can't be proven missing because no one saw them go missing.

Things can be proven with evidence even if there were no witnesses. Science is based on this and much of our knowledge comes from it. Evolution is provable and there is a lot of evidence for it already. It hasn't been proven yet though.

Creationism has no evidence for it and it cannot be studied as it makes ridiculous claims that contradict hard solid evidence.

Evolution can be proven by reason; Creationism can be believed by unreasonable, but never proven.

Answer 3

I think the reason there is such a clash between Evolution and Creationism is that they are polar opposites. You're either in one camp or the other and if you're one of the people that splices the two together then quite frankly you don't know which camp you're in...

Creation has Man bringing death into the world whereas Evolution has Death bringing man into the world.

There is absolutely no way of confirming anything that is supposed to have happened millions of years ago it is all simply a huge amount of guesswork and assumption. The Bible is supposed to be eyewitness accounts in a lot of cases from various parties throughout history which even though potentially just as gregarious is more than can be said of Evolution....

Answer 4

from what i understand: evolutionists believe that we 'developed' from microbes and such. a procedure time-honored as macro-evolution. creationists believe contained in the creation tale written contained in the Bible the position God creates the international in seven days. a great number of people get perplexed as those beliefs are not any more thoroughly seperate - some people believe in a mix between both (the position adam and eve are cave adult men) in my opinion i elect to believe the creation tale, its straight forward and plausable (as im a christian). extremely i dont imagine it concerns too a lot why we are right here, it concerns a lot extra what we do right here.

Answer 5

Evolution explains the fact of the fossil record. The order life appeared can be determined by stratification of the fossils alone. The order of life is a fact and has been proven. The only debate possible is about the mechanism.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/fossils/succession.html

Answer 6

You don't have to believe in evolution. There is no need for faith when there is evidence.

You could say that you don't believe in gravity, but it won't make a blind bit of difference should you decide to jump off the empire state building.

You could say that you don't believe in relativity, but if we didn't take the effects predicted by it into account, then we would never have landed safetly on the moon.

You could say that you don't believe in quantum mechanics, the computer you are using now relies on it.

You could say that you don't believe in evolution, 47 out of the last 50 nobel prizes in medicine and biology used the theory of evolution in their papers. The TB vaccine you have is updated to take into account of the evolution of strains of the disease.

Evolution is a fact.
The fact of evolution is explained by the theory of evolution (which has stood up to every test put to it over the last hundred or so years and passed every single one).
Creationism is not even a hypothesis (it cannot be as it is not testable).

Answer 7

Heres a really good one:
Evolutionists attempt to exclude the possiibility of the existence of God by proclaiming that life occured randomly, and that new species developed by gradual changes through mutation.The discovery of a rapid explosion of new cratures during the Cambrian period has become an insurmountable problem for evolutionists theorizing gradual development. Even Darwin recognized this problem in his book On The Origin of Species indicating that his evolutionary theory precluded such rapid development of new varieties. The Cambrian fossil beds reveal the abrupt appearance of all of the existing known animal phylea except two-- All in a space of time considered far too short for evolution to operate. Other analysis of the fossil record reveals many other major problems with theories that species evolved, most notably the "gaps". In addition to the Cambrian problem, Darwin was also troubled by these. He theorized, however, that eventually fossils would be uncovered to fill in these gaps. In Darwin's day there were relatively few fossils available, which perhaps justifies his theorizing. Today though, it is estimated that virtually all of the known fossil species have been uncovered-- And we still find missing links throughout all species' chains. Even many leading evolutionists reluctantly acknowledge the problem of the fossil record. Noted evolutionist Steven J. Gould stated,

"The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed are inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution."

There is one very logical and viable explanation for the gaps in the fossil record and the sudden appearance of a wide diversity of life in the Cambrian period: That the fossil record is actually evidence of creation according to the account in the Bible.

Answer 8

Rubbish. Evolution of species is a proven fact-only the biological mechanisms involved are theoretical. Evolution is witnessed in laboratories- instances of speciation in insects are observed all the time.

Answer 9

Look under your skin. There is evolution. Its happening RIGHT NOW! YOU CAN SEE IT! THAT"S WHY U GET E NEW FLU SHOT EACH YEAR!!!!!!!! I don't mean to be rude, but yes evolution is proven as well as anything can be in science. That's why it's the cornerstone of all biology, not to mention practically the same thing as genetics.

Answer 10

Evolution has been proven. Why can't christians believe that their god used the big bang AND evolution as the method of creation? I have christian friends who believe this. I would have much more respect for christians if they would just accept science as their god's way of creation.