Do you believe in creation or evolution,and why?i believe in creation?

Answer 1

Evolution: consistent with every piece of evidence, a mountain of it, collected over the last 150 years and reinforced by countless findings, independently, in several branches of science-- by thousands of scientists of every race, nationality, creed, and religion. Every new discovery and new technology which allows us to learn what we couldn't before, invariably confirms the essential premise of evolution by natural selection, while progressively refining the details of the modern synthesis to a higher and higher degree of certainty.

Creation: assertion from purely religious, ancient, primitive authority and which is in every aspect that it can be evaluated, not just badly inconsistent with all the evidence, but breathtakingly, mind-bogglingly, awe inspiringly contradictory to it. It still exists because of some people's insistence that it be perpetuated as God's word. These people are constantly engaged in finding plausible sounding arguments and objections to evolution so they can spread their gospel into the public schools. They are wrong and the leaders who have scientific degrees are academic saboteurs, intellectual frauds, and right-wing fundie religious heroes.

Answer 2

Science is a field that attempts to describe the world through observations and experiments. This is done by using a very powerful tool called the scientific method. Basically you start with an idea, then you design an experiment to test that idea, you can then look at the results of the experiment and modify your original idea based on the results. The process is repeated over and over again until you have a theory that can explain all of your results. This is an extremely powerful and efficient method, and there is no doubt that human civilization is where it is today because of this method.

One very important part of this method, that is rarely explained in grade school and under emphasized, is that any good scientific theory has to be able to be proven false. This means that if I take a theory, then I should be able to design an experiment that would be capable of disproving the theory. A very simple example would be the theory of gravity, which tells us that all bodies with mass attract. An experiment that could prove gravity wrong would be me dropping an apple. If I drop an apple and it flies up into space away from the earth, then the theory of gravity is wrong. In reality the tests are never that simple but this illustrates the point.

The problem is that no matter how hard you try, you can never create a test that can disprove creationism or intelligent design. Take intelligent design, its main argument is that living organisms are so complex that it would be impossible for them to be created without the aid of some supernatural being. How can I disprove this? Even if I were to come up with an experiment that shows a human evolving out of an ape, one could still argue that god made the laws of the world exactly what are needed for a human to evolve out of an ape. Because there is no test that would be capable of disproving creationism then it can not be considered science.

However there are tests for evolution and it has passed these tests. Evolution is a science. Based on our observations Evolutions is the correct way to explain how new life forms are created and how they change over time. I can also use the power of science to argue Evolution over faith based beliefs but I can't prove these beliefs wrong.

Answer 3

Both are right!.. "What" !
Creation and Evolution are mostly the same. So then that's why after decades have past, people digging for past lost civilizations have to dig so far down in the Earth...Don't try and dig for Adam and eve past Art. You might reach the middle of the Earth.( Speed Bump ) How many times has the Earth Circled the Sun since Creation.....Now your getting smarter.... Answer: ( Evolution )

Answer 4

When it comes to science, I do not believe in believing. Those who "believe" in evolution without examining the copious evidence that supports the theory can be almost as dogmatic and unreasoning as creationists.

Instead, examine the evidence. What do stromatolite fossils three billion years old tell us? Why do we find no modern mammals in mesozoic or paleozoic strata? Why no anthophyta in either of those save a few primitive forms from the cretaceous? Did flowering magnolias outrun jurassic podocarps to escape advancing noachian flood waters?

Why, if all species were created simultaneously 6000 years ago, do we find devonian amphibians bearing uncanny resemblance to lobe finned rhipidistian lungfish of that era? Why would a Creator design fossils in such a way as to be so highly evocative of evolution, if evolution is completely wrong?

It seems by your question mark that you are not sure that you believe in creation. "I believe in creation?" This uncertainty is good. Uncertainty drives science. When people are certain of something, they seldom search for evidence to support or falsify their beliefs. They simply cling to them, like a family heirloom passed from one generation to the next that lacks any real value.

Give the matter some serious thought and research, and also, ask yourself why most of the world's scientists are utterly convinced evolution is an adequate theory explaining the origin of species. (They don't "believe" it, they simply accept it as accurate).

Answer 5

I love the end of your sentence:
...i believe in creation?
Sounds like you aren't sure.

Right now I'm looking at an Amonite fossil on my desk that is almost 200 million years old. Next to it in a small glass case is a tooth from a Hagerman Horse, it's about 3 million years old...
I agree with some of these answerers: Your questions should be in the Religion section.

Answer 6

Let's take creation and evolution and put them into separate categories for the moment........

Creation means to bring something forth into being.

Evolution means to take that created thing and improve upon it.

Now, lets look at human beings as an example of creative entities, because, after-all, that IS one of our abilities.

Throughout our history of life on this planet, since we first honed bones into tools, we have improved on every facet of any idea that has materialized within our minds.

An idea IS a possibility. Possibilities are random, derived from an infinite amount of choices.

So, the creative thought happens as a result of infinite random possibilities, and these possibilities give rise to alternative outcomes which manifest themselves in a evolutionary process by which they arrive at a final outcome, although tentative, at best.

So, creation can't happen without evolution, and evolution can't happen without creation, they must co-exist. :)

Answer 7

Creation and evolution don't have to be one or the other. The best idea I have found so far, even with all it's flaws, is intelligent design theory. It basically states that there has to be a supreme being for all the stuff that works out to work out, but He still has to follow His own rules.
In the end though, there is no solid answer. We will never be able to debate faith vs fact.

Answer 8

I believe in evolution. Look at the horse and the donkey. They clearly share a common source. Yet, they have evolved into seperate species. If they breed, their offspring is a mule. It is sterile because it is a cross of two species not closely related enough to have fertile offspring. As they evolved into speed for one and strength for the other, their genetic material changed enough they can no longer breed within the other species.

Answer 9

Evolution and creation are not mutually exclusive.

Evolution tries to explain the life changes over time and the emergence of new species - it has never tried to explain where the initial building blocks of life came from in the first place.

Answer 10

I believe in both. I believe that God created the earth and all that is upon it using the evolutionary process later discovered by Darwin.

By the way, did you know that Darwin was NOT an atheist?

I am a born-again Christian and a former biology teacher.