Why should I believe creationists?

Question

The vast majority of the scientific community agrees that evolution is the best theory to explain the variety of life on Earth. There really is no debate in the scientific community. None. The only opposition to the theory of evolution is coming from the evangelicals. I can choose to believe the guys who worked their tails off for 8 years to get PhD's and then worked their tails off for many more years studying the subject in an attempt to solve the riddle of life. My other choice is to believe a group of people who have no background in science, who claim God did it because somehow the Bible, a painting, and a banana is proof of God. Your asking me to choose between those 2 groups. Who am I supposed to believe?

Answer 1

I like how Esther put evidence in quotes that made me giggle.

You can't argue logic with the illogical.

Answer 2

A creationist does not have to literally believe that God created the world and all its animals in 7 days... just that God is the source of this creation. I personally believe that the Old Testament is not a literal story of the Earth's creation but rather a symbolic one.

That said, science is far from infallible. Science is a product of man and as such is due to human error. I was shocked the other day to learn paleontologists now believe that Brontosaurus never existed (it's theorized that it was actually pieces of two dinosaurs). I still don't know whether eggs are good for me or if Pluto is a planet.

To contend Evolution, there are roughly 10 million animals on this planet and there has been life on this planet for approximately 600 million years (according to the current scientific theory). If evolution existed, shouldn't we have witnessed some form of evolution within the past 60-100 years. I have never seen or heard of a report where an animal changed/gave birth to a different genus or species (let alone a larger classification). Don't misunderstand, I fully believe in adaptation; that stronger animals strive and the weaker dies, that creatures with a physical advantage become more plentiful. Natural selection does make sense, but fish growing/born with legs or animals turning into other animals, until there is proof all you are doing is taking one man's theory and replacing it with another.

Maybe my thoughts here will change as I am reading parts of the human genome project.... but rather than taking the easy way out and simply scoffing at religion as some far fetched make believe, perhaps you will open your minds to the possibility that every century everyone believes their science is correct and every passing century seems to disprove the truths of the past as we gain a better understanding of the world. That, and you should read some real scientific proof rather than water-downed explanation in your text book or newspaper headline.

Answer 3

HOW nutty is the so-called "Creationist"/"Intelligent Design" crowd? THIS nutty: nearly all of them are wacko enough to think that the earth is only 6,000 years old, and that humans coexisted with the dinosaurs. CLUE, guys -- the proofs are overwhelming: the last dinosaurs all died out 65 million years ago, when a well-documented asteroid strike took place, and humanity goes back 7 million years or so, tops -- but at least a million years or more.

And those loons actually want to spew their mindless swill into the ears of our public school kids? It's bad enough that they're dumbing-down their OWN home-schooled and parochial-schooled kids in so blatant a manner. That's like hiring math teachers on the promise that they WILL teach kids that 2 + 2 does NOT always equal four!

So did God create the universe? Almost surely. Somewhere around 15-20 billion years ago. And did He ALSO create the evolutionary process thats been ongoing on earth from the dawn of its first life, around a billion years ago? Also, almost surely.

To the "Creationists:" I don't know about YOUR god... but MY God is omnipotent, omniscient, and intelligent enough to have done all of that.

The pseudo-Christians and (unfortunately) the lower-IQ actual Christians who've been deluded into believing the RRR Cult's mindless tripe) stand as some of the very best evidence that half the population has IQs below 100, and that around 5% are below 70 (the threshhold of mild retardation.)

RRR Cultists happen to comprise 5% of the USA's population, and when one listens to the idiotic nature of the cult leaders' propaganda, it's easy to see that the lower-IQ folks are their unfortunate targets. Few intelligent people would want anything to do with that sociopathic cult or any of its mindless and very UN-Christian, anti-personal-liberties agendas. The leadership of the Religious Radical Right are the best snake-oil salesmen in the world, and they DEPEND upon being able to CON the most ignorant, and thus the most gullible. People less able to weigh the facts, and then challenge their veracity.

Answer 4

I disagree. Only about 55% of natural scientists believe in Darwinian evolution. That's hardly "the vast majority". Those guys who "worked their tails off" to get PhDs were working under a lie, just like the people in the earlier half of the 20th century who wrote their dissertations on "Nebraska Man", "Java Man" and "Peking Man" only to find out 40 years later that they were hoaxes!
The only real scientific evidence that the evolutionists have ever worked with are things that are also completely compatible with creation science. Anything else comes completely from the imagination and has no science to back it up.
All Darwin ever observed, and all that science has ever observed is that animals bring forth after their "kind". This is a Biblical truth as well as a scientific fact. Nothing outside of this observance has ever been substantiated.
Creationists use the exact same scientific evidence that evolutionists use; the only difference is in the interpretation of those facts. Two people can look at the same thing and come away with two opposing views of how that thing came to be. It all comes down to where are you going to put your faith?
Since you mentioned a banana, I just wanted to tell you a story about two brothers. The older one would tease the younger one by telling him that bananas are made from dead, moldy spiders. When they died, their legs would fold inward and hang there while the banana flesh grew around them. To "prove" this to his brother, the older brother cut the banana in half and showed him the black spots inside. He would say, "See, that's where it's legs are!" Thus, the little brother is convinced that his brother's explanation is true.
Evolutionists use the same techniques to try to convince the world that evolution is true by showing them natural things that actually have a better explanation than what they offer.

Answer 5

I feelt that you do not have to choose between the two groups. I am a Christian who believes in evolution whole heartedly and I do not believe that creationism should be taught in schools either. The only thing that I have a hard time about evolution is the part where humans evolved from apes, if this is true then why didn't the othe apes evolve too? I however do believe that species evolve to adapt to there changing enviroment. The Bible says that the world was created in 6 days and some interperate that literally but I believe that we do not know what God thought of as a day. I hope that this helps you and that it shows you that not everythning is black and white.

Answer 6

First, brush up on your history, up until Darwin, the vast majority of scientists WERE Christians. Either side you take requires a leap of faith and evolution is the "religion" of humanists. And don't kid yourself, the evolutionist scientific community is HARDLY unified except to oppose creationists and have been found to have fabricated evidence to "prove" their theories on many occasions. It requires a leap of faith either way because no one was there to see the beginning of the universe, whether that was the "big bang" or the speaking of it into existence by God. There are just as many creationist scientists out there as those in the evolutionist camp, but guess who gets the liberal media attention. Do a serious web search on Creation Scientists/Creationism before you jump to the conclusion that we follow blindly mush-brained something that can't be proved. The evidence is very strong for a creationist point of view if you care to do a little research (or are you folowing blindly, mush-brained by what your liberal, government schools are teaching)?!?!?!

Answer 7

Evolution has less facts then creationism. Recently; the foremost authority on Evolution from Cambridge University stated that He is tired of believing in Evolution in by faith. He stated that he is now a Creationist. Britians answer to this was to place it in their schools under religious studies eventhough Evolutionist PhD's usually lose debates to Creationist. Evolutionist are usually those who come with the answer they are trying to achieve and "Do the research". Many of modern "Science" is based upon this technique.

Answer 8

Obviously, if a thousand-year old book with unclear authorship says so, it must be true! Especially if that book is full of allegory and metaphor designed to teach a lesson and not be taken literally! Evolution is just a theory, the evidence is unclear. Creationism has lots of evidence. Just look at a squirrel. Somebody must have designed because ... because ... they're cute! That makes lots of sense.

Thanks for posting, that's what I think too.

Answer 9

Being an Atheist, I do not believe in creationism at all, but xtians that do not believe in evolution are just purposefully ignorant. Thankfully many christians know that the bible is not word for word truth. Especially the farther back in time you go (like noah flood and Adam & Eve). These are the xtians that I like. They have open and logical minds that apply science to their faith.

Answer 10

I think I would go with the ones doing the actual research. Everything I have seen from the Creationists so far have been lies. They are even willing to lie about what their bible says.

Answer 11

I know of PhD's and MD's who whole-heartedly believe in creation science. Why do they believe? Because they studied the same stuff evolutionists studied, BUT, they did not buy the "bridge".

GOD bless