Why creationists are so confused.?

Question

Creationists keep asking why they do not see natural selection and recombinant DNA happening right before their eyes. I think I figured out why. Creationists think the world appeared about 6000 years ago. Unless you are a supporter of Bishop Butler who insisted that the universe was created 4004 years ago on Oct 12 at 8:30 AM. It was a Tuesday. Evolutionists think the world started 6 to 8 billion years ago. Those numbers have to be put into practical applications to be understood. If you change it to inches, 6000 inches is a 50 story office building, half the size of the late World Trade Centers. 6 or 8 billion inches is a third to half way to the moon, 125,000 miles. Could that by why they are so confused? They don’t understand the times involved?

Answer 1

No, it's just because thier eyes are closed.

Answer 2

Very well put, and you've hit an important point.

The durations involved in evolution are HUUUUGE - long enough for all manner of complications, variation and changes to be brought about by nature.

Creationists are forced - because it's right there to be seen - to accept things like that new bacterium that has evolved to eat explosives. They call it micro-evolution.

But that a new bug in the space of a few decades! Consider what that process can do in thousands, millions or even billions of years. We can't even conceive of a century with any accuracy. A millennium is utterly impossible to imagine with any real accuracy. Evolution routinely operates over many thousands of millennia.

It's a failure of imagination as much as anything else.

CD

@angelgirl: you are demonstrating precisely the error he's talking about!

Answer 3

Well, its because they believe they must see it with their eyes for it to be true, which is a petty argument to suggest it must be wrong by trying to make the idea seem ludicrous (not a method of scrutiny they have applied to their own beliefs). They do not accept that the theory could be produced from other evidence which does not actively show the process happening. The evidence for evolution is found by the fossil record, which uses carbon dating and layers of strata to determine the age of remnants of organisms. What creationists expect to see is actual living organisms changing and becoming more successful than their relatives by periodic observation. However, perhaps they are unaware of certain diseases, which actually evolve inside the body for a relapse. Given the proper information, I really can't see how they could think that way, reach leads us to the conclusion they just have not checked before forming a opinion.

Answer 4

I'm a Christian. I have Christian friends who believe the Earth is only 6000 years old. I do not agree with them. I believe the Earth is somewhere around 4.5 billion years old, which I learned in Astronomy class. This doesn't "prove" that the Bible is false. It proves that the Bible has stories meant to be taken figuratively. I don't believe that we evolved from monkeys. That's ridiculous. But I DO see other things evolve and adapt, like insects and germs. So I believe in both, to a certain degree. Science explains some things that God has done. It is possible to believe in both and not be a "bad Christian" or "godless scientist." Go ahead and give me your thumbs down. I don't care.

Have a nice day! (Seriously!) :-)

Answer 5

I think from a scale standpoint, you are correct. There is a limited belief in certain denominations of Christianity that believe in a literal interpretation of time. If only creationists were to open their minds a bit to allow for a figurative account of the creation story, then evolution could be incorporated into the creation story...this lack of foresight continues to atrophy the memberships of many Christian institutions (excluding the Southern Baptist nutso...but they don't count because they're in the South).

Answer 6

Creationists are confused because they do not read science to understand it but rather to make it conform with their own beliefs. This entails selective reading and a less than critical eye.

Conversely, I can say with a great deal of probability that secular scientists do not do science to disprove God but rather for the advancement of knowledge and a sincere desire to learn about the natural world.

Things get muddy when you have an agenda like so many creationists seem to have.

Answer 7

Pardon me, but we're hardly confused in that manner. What we don't get is how most people who support evolution completely discount the idea that maybe God had a hand in it. How the Freak do you explain all the once in a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 coincidences that we just happened to be along and function properly without including God? And how do you explain the lack of evidence that we are changing still? Or are we "perfect" enough to not need to change? That's what we creationists don't get about your theory.

Answer 8

> They don’t understand the times involved?

You have to cut them some slack on this. In the bible, life spans were hundreds of years. They obviously didn't understand the times involved there either. At least they are consistent.

Answer 9

It is NOT accepted by everyone that believes in God that the world is only 6 or 4 thousand years old!

And saying that we don't accept some man's theory doesn't disprove God either.

Answer 10

I see a contradiction. All of the evolutionists that I have talked to claim the earth is 3 billion years old. Some say 4.5 billion years old. Wait, you say 8 billion. Some say 6 billion.

Maybe evolutionists are confused because they don't have an agreed dating time...

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I love when I get thumbs down whenever I point out obvious contradictions to the atheistic viewpoints. You poor guys...

Answer 11

When I was a kid I asked our Southern Baptist preacher why dinosaurs werent in the bible if the bible starts at the creation of the earth and he told me not to question god, Does that help you out any? I think that was the day I switched to my dad's religion.