Why do creationists assume that disproving evolution would prove their biblical creation account?

Question

Why do christians/creationists suppose that if evolution is false, their particular biblical creation account by an allegedly omnipotent, omnscient perfect creator exists, and is valid?

Answer 1

Believing in creation by God is just that believing, having faith.
Evolution is based on empirical evidence.
So arguing about faith versus empirical evidence is ludicrous.
One cannot truly argue over these two matters, that is creation versus evolution. There is never going to be an end result.
One side will go on arguing for faith, and the other for evidence.
The real argument is over is something true if we believe it, or is something true if we have empirical evidence for it.
The creationists believe that if they can make people not believe in evolution then they will believe in creationism;
which is faulty reasoning on the part of creationists. People could choose or find something else to believe in for instance, or to not believe in. Possibly creationists don't understand what science is really about, and what empirical evidence is.
Evidence to creationists could mean something entirely different than it does to evolutionists. Evidence to creationists is what is said in the bible.

It's faulty reasoning to even argue over faith versus empirical evidence.
But then we are back again to faith versus empirical evidence, and reasoning isn't really part of faith.
One paradox, which creationists overlook is that it is possible to be a scientist and evolutionist and believe "God."

ps. apes. not monkeys. we are apes. Primates in fact.
DNA close to Chimpanzees who are also Primates. NOT monkeys.
everyone back to biology class now. :D

Answer 2

I think the assumption is that since evolution theory appears to contradict the biblical account (taken as "literally" as a 5 year old would take it), they'd better try to disprove it anyway. They've given up on the geocentric theory - most of them - but they're sticking with Young Earth and Intelligent Design and "dinosaurs roamed the planet with humans because the Bible talks about Leviathan" (it's staggering how many grown adults actually believe that).

Anybody who could write "Let's see who's right by testing the science, and so far the creationist have a substantial lead in this debate" simply lacks even the flimsiest notion of what "science" is. You'd be laughed off the stage by every scientist in the world for saying that. I seriously don't know where you people get off - and by the way, it always seems as if you're trying to prove religion by claiming that it's science, and to disprove science by claiming that it's religion, which is practically a tacit acknowledgment that science is legitimate and religion is not.

Answer 3

Well they don't think that evolution is true in the first place despite the mountain of evidence for it and don't actually have any kind of scientific theory themselves.

Stuff is really complicated therefore god is not a scientific theory

and have you ever noticed how when asking (what they think are clever) questions about evolution such as - if we evolved from monkeys why do monkeys still exist they do in R & S and NOT biology. That speaks volumes

Someone must have forgotten to mention to worlds scientists or the world press for that matter that evolution had been completely refuted seeing as how I've not heard word of that book.....

Answer 4

I'm intrigued by the idea that some kind of debate or argument is ongoing- evolution of species is an indisputable fact and creationists know it but don't like it. There's no argument as creationists can never provide any valid challenges, just rhetoric and misinformation. They used to cling to the propaganda of Hovind until he was exposed as a lying con artist.

Answer 5

Because both sides of this argument have made certain that it's an either/or fight. Either evolution happened and proves God is false, or creation happened and proves God is true.

Then there are those of us who believe in both. We get no side in the argument because both sides immediately dismiss us in favor of arguing the either/or debate.

Answer 6

It's kind of a two sided argument. I suppose you are right in a way. The other side of it is that people who are fighting to prove that evolution is true (and creation is false) are fighting to prove that there is no god. You believe there is a god, or you believe that there isn't. Either are beliefs. Humanism is religion too.

Answer 7

All it does is eliminate the contradiction to the literal interpretation of the Bible in chapter 1. This means the pastors get to continue thinking for the sheep.

Answer 8

Good question! but if evolution is proved correct, we've still have the puzzle of design. Something with no intelligence as evolution is claimed, evolved creatures that were designed to perform physical tasks such as flying, walking, swimming, with thinking thrown in as well!!!! So got any ideas on that? Have a good day.

Answer 9

Well, I have news for you!!

Author-scientist, Denis Towers, recently made a discovery and reported his 9 year study and evidence of it that proves the Adam and Eve Biblical story and categorically disproves evolution simultaneously, in a book released this year via Xulon Press.com [apparently, also available through amazon.com].
It's called 'TWO BIRDS ... ONE STONE!"

Answer 10

This is due to their reading of the bible as an historical document, not as a spiritual text to be read as metaphor. We're also dealing with a case of "mental frigidity" in which any thought that challenges their thought must be automatically rejected lest in penetrate the fortress.
It begins with a posited statement that God is perfect; this is the statement of a nomadic tribe. For most other religions, a god is in nature and we are part of that. The omniscience statement allows the tribe, and eventually practitioners of western faith, to elevate themselves above natural law. So to question in any form their view (this includes ALL other faiths) their status would fail.