Do you think the Evolution VS Creation debate is important or are you just engaged in it to antagonize the?

Question

the other side of the debate?

Answer 1

The debate itself is of little importance. What is important is making sure that Christianity does not get its claws into legislation and stop scientists from study. The debate allows us to strengthen and reiterate our point but also keeps the Christians in check so that science can continue its noble work.

Answer 2

The educated masses would dismiss this topic as absurd. They think they are so matter-of-fact that to them reading between the lines in the history of the earth is not matter-of-fact, so they disregard the Bible as another potential recorded evidence and believe any person in a white coat.

Many people who think they know it all are willing to guarantee you that evolution was the mode of species diversification. To them, what the scientists say are matter-of-fact, forgetting that scientists are still people; within the realm of posssibilities, scientists can behave like your average excited fool. In fact, many of what they conclude is far from having undergone and exacting process.

And they tell you that the Bible is baseless, fictional, and whatnot. But then the Bible has proven from time to time many historical accounts too. Isn't that science too? It just happen to have a non-scientific air to it. In contrast, what about the times when scientists expected a certain form of an animal which fitted in a timeline, yet upon carbon-dating it pointed to a time more recent to than what they expected. Then they decide not to publish it? Do you think it doesn't happen? And is that still science?

Since nothing is conclusive with regards to this topic yet or ever, no one has the right to judge as wrong the opinions of others. So, if you put in on primetime TV, many people will find it entertaining, although hilarious too for many. For the people who are more serious about it, i think they'd watch (if not participate in) a lively debate about it.

Answer 3

It is probably the most important subject for young people today. Most scoff at creation because its the popular thing to do. In their ignorance they are not aware that there is absolutely no evidence for evolution at all-none. Yet, they swallow it, hook, line and sinker. Those who "honestly" investigate it-become believers. If it was not important-it could not make a non-believer into a believer.
I took a course in college several years a go called "History of Life". This course looked both at evolution and creation. I was shocked at some of the problems with evolution. I investigated, seriously. I "know" that evolution is a dream, not fact. Creation is not popular, and there is no concrete scientific evidence for it. Evolution is very popular-but no evidence either. When everything is put out on the table-creation seems to be the best explanation for our origins, evolution is just a bad joke.
Dig it up for yourself-all the info you need is available, and understandable.

Answer 4

It is very important, in fact it is vitally important to the people who have been changing our culture. The culture war that is going on in this country is between the traditional American Culture, which like the culture of Europe, was based on Christian values.

There are people who have been working for decades to change that. The Supreme Court rulings about school prayer, and legalizing abortion, the move to legitimize homosexuality, and the elimination of laws against obscenity are part of it.

The idea that we, as individuals, are loosing our Second Amendment rights (the right to keep and bear arms) is part of it. Easy divorce, and the state replacing the father in many families, is part of it.

Belief in evolution gives a person a whole different world view. An evolutionist believes that he is just an animal, accountable to no one. Evolution was at the heart of the Nazi state as well as Communism.

Racism looks to evolution to explain the "advanced" races. Nothing good comes out of evolution, but the belief in evolution is vital to become a willing slave.

Answer 5

to me, this is a very important debate because i would like to see my children grow up in a world where only real things exist and real people with real problems who seek real solutions with reality based methods are responsible for setting policy for the real world. i know this is a very long way off, but secular mentality has been making steady progress for the last five hundred years and with modern technology being what it is, i can certainly foresee a time when this becomes the way things are. in the meantime, creationism MUST be exposed for what it is, or shall i say what it is not, science. and because creationism is not science, it cannot be allowed to undermine real science or real scientists! that is precisely why real scientists refuse to even raise creationism to the level of debate! so far, everywhere the creationists have tried their hand at 'legalizing' or mandating through law, the teaching of creation science as a science class, has met with defeat. you see, reason will always trump myth in the end!!!

Answer 6

I do not engage in discussing evolution to antagonize those who don't believe in it.
However, there is no real debate - a debate requires both sides to present and defend logical positions, and the illogic of creationism does not hold up to the evidence for evolution.

Answer 7

I don't engage in it. I am not enough of a scientist to do anything but quote the opinions of others, so I stay out of scientific debates. To me, evolution vs. creation is a time-wasting verbal battle- nearly all the combatants are just quoting things they have read. Some do their reading from Darwin, and some do their reading from Answers In Genesis. They come up with all manner of unlikely scenarios. I believe in creation, because I believe in the Bible. But I will not play armchair scientist, knowing that I lack the firsthand knowledge to do so.

Answer 8

I don't think it's that important, because no matter what you believe in, including me, I'm a Christian, in the end, you don't know for sure what happens after you die.

Actually, most of the time, I defend evolutionists if I say anything at all, because it seems that some Christians have a huge misunderstanding of evolution.

Answer 9

Reality, truth and sciences are *always" important. ToE rules. BTW, it's a debate only in the States; ToE's a *fact* elsewhere.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K Dickens.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. – Richard Dawkins

Answer 10

It is entirely unimportant because no one will ever know the answer. No creationist was alive 6000 years ago and no evolutionist was alive 10,000,000,000 years ago to witness the event of their choosing.