Most of us are taught that Evolution is the only "scientific" answer to all our fundamental questions, making us doubt the Bible. Thousands of us in recent years have discovered there's a whole movement of Christian creationist scientists working to show that the Bible is true after all. Where did you first figure out that the Bible is not a bunch of fairy tales but is the true history of the world?
For me, first I heard a seminar by Brian Young. Then I started reading Creation magazine (now called Answers). Then I started helping Dr.Lang with the Genesis Institute. What about all of you?
2007-05-28
20:43:36
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By viewpoint, I mean we ALL have the same evidence. For example, a fossil is a piece of evidence. Some scientists "interpret" it one way; some another. That interpretation is what I mean by viewpoint.
I addressed this question to "Fellow Creationists" of which there are hundreds that I see on this site weekly. We have all had the theory of evolution crammed down our throats from kindergarten on. Therefore I know that viewpoint well and that's why I wasn't asking you evolutionists.
2007-05-28
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I was blessed to attend a church in which it was always made clear that Genesis was literally true. We also had a PhD scientist, Margaret Helder, in that church who gave lectures and wrote articles on things like micro vs. macro evolution, how no evolutionists have any ideas how the very first life began, and on how life is far more complicated than Darwin ever knew. A blessing indeed. She also connected us with websites like www.icr.org and www.answersingenesis.org.
2007-05-28 21:03:18
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answered by penguineditor 2
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I will answer this question according to a Muslim point of view because we also believe in the God of the Christians and the Jews. We believe that Science proves the existance of God. The Theory of Evolution is just that - a theory - there is no proof for it. Also, the Quran told of many scientific things that noone knew at the time when it was revealed 1400 years ago. Things that didn't make sense until recent years when science dicovered what God had been referring to in the Quran. I've not heard of one single scientific thing that goes against Islam; most of them corroborate Islam. Please, check out this website for more information: http://www.miraclesofthequran.com/
By the way, I used to be Baptist and so many questions were lacking answers. I was so tired of being told that I "just had to have faith". Islam answered my questions 100%. It is a religion of God that makes sense. Everything has a reason and an answer that can easily be found. Not to mention that it doesn't have the shady history that Christianity has. I don't know how any person can remain Christian after reading from a historical point of view how the religion has been changed by the hand of man (Constantine incorporating the concept of the trinity, Christmas, and Easter, the Catholic Church hiding the Bible and removing chapters, etc.) I was appalled when I learned about these things, and I strongly reccommend that you research them too. God gave you a mind; USE IT!
2007-05-28 20:58:49
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answered by Teena 2
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I think its the big picture of adding up all the pieces of evidence that makes the case for evolution overwhelming to me. There is no objective evidence for god didit. Look at the fossil record. Its not mixed with all species found mixed in together so a flood doesn't account for the vast species extinction we see in different layers. Look at chromosome two in humans compared with our close evolution relatives. Gene fusion or chromosome fusion is when two chromosomes are spliced together. As an example, chimpanzees have one more chromosome than humans do. If the two species share a common ancestor, scientists should be able to figure out what happened to that chromosome. Researchers have found that chromosome 2 in humans is actually the fusion of two separate chimpanzee chromosomes. At the end of each chromosome is a marker called a telomere, which usually appears only on the ends. In human chromosome 2 it also appears in the center, marking where the two ends fused. Why would a deity make a 'mistake' and have the endplates also fused in the middle of our chromosome two? It does not make sense. Especially if you consider the claim we are the pinnacle of an omnipotent beings 'creation' when we resulted in part from the fusion of two chromosomes that already existed in other primates leaving the endplates in the middle indicating a random and unplanned event. Just one point. I could go on and on but I suspect its rather pointless. You have a faith based belief, as such you don't require evidence for it.You just try to argue against evidence that arises against it. I require evidence. I could never accept a book was the work of a deity through men just because it said so or that a god impregnated a virgin without good evidence for the claim.
2016-05-20 04:54:07
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answered by ? 3
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May sound weird, but in Sunday School we discussed evolution for a month or so and debated it. We came to the conclusion that evolution is possible, but creation makes more sense. You don't throw up a bunch or boards and hope its gonna make a house. It has to be thought out, built, and maintained. God thought it out, built it, and left the maintaining up to us (we really haven't done that great of a job). And as for when I found out the Bible wasn't just a book of fairy tales... I guess I always believed it, but then I started studying early religions and the such, and all of their stories were the same as ours (the Bibles) and since the accounts of Genesis had been written far before theirs, I was confidant that the Bible was the truth.
2007-06-01 02:19:02
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answered by Anonymous
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You certainly will not hear about this viewpoint in public schools. I first heard about it through watching a video series by Dr. Hovind, I have also seen the series by Ken Ham.
The macro-evolution theory is taught as if it were a fact since they have nothing else to teach but intelligent design. Scientists have spent their whole lives devoted to this lie. If they admit they were wrong, it would be like admitting they wasted their life.
Evolutionists believe there was a big bang of matter that came from magic land and it produced everything we see today. Very interesting that they believe life came from non-life, how is that science? Sounds like a faith to me. Their whole religion is built on a foundation of assumptions and bad hypothesis.
We believe life came from a Creator, yet we are supposedly the dreamers.
2007-05-31 17:22:41
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answered by Dwayne 3
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It's not a valid scientific viewpoint.
A valid scientific viewpoint would be looking at evidence and coming up with a hypothesis to suggest why or what that evidence is.
Creationism starts with a scenario and tries to fit all the evidence to that scenario. This is unscientific.
You can moan about these kind of specifics all you want but it doesn't change the fact that there is nothing scientific about Creationism.
2007-05-28 22:46:49
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answered by Anonymous
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From the dictionary. The word "experiment" is related to "experience." We are all scientists in our own right. Besides that, experience means "ex peril." All of our efforts to find safety via interaction with the outside world are science in action. This is how love works. For it, Jesus was crucified, but he conquered the world.
Besides that, science and technology, as noted in "Idealism as Modernism" has been used to increase the distance between the technologically elite and the deskilled labour force, turning public debate into merely a manipulation of signs and symbols. Therefore, I defy anybody to say that I'm not a scientist on the basis of my beliefs about the origin of the universe. They might perhaps have a case on the basis of my having drunk too much alcohol on more than one occasion in my life, but let's not go into that.
2007-05-28 20:57:48
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answered by MiD 4
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Putting "valid" in quotes is about the only accurate thing in your entire statement. It's "valid" the way that crystal healing is "valid", the way that Miss Cleo, horoscopes and the Weekly World News are "valid".
2007-05-28 20:51:54
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answered by Doc Occam 7
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A valid theory also have to be refutable. And then withstand criticism.
Creationism?
2007-05-28 23:05:11
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answered by cynic 4
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That isn't science, if you really want to know, you need to study real science. Creationism and intelligent design is not science.
2007-05-28 21:02:27
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answered by Daisy Indigo 6
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