where do you stand on issues like evolution and the creation of the universe by a god?
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2007-07-12 23:48:36 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Looking at your other question, it's kinda disappointing that so many religious types hold that evolution is a "pack of lies", is simply imagination and false interpretation when there is so much observable evidence that shows otherwise.
It's like these people just don't want to accept that something could be true outside of their beliefs and are willing to blatantly lie about it to cover their consciences over.
My personal opinion on literal creationism is that it's an out-dated belief that doesn't fit with modern thinking and should be abandoned as much as a flat-Earth or Geocentrism.
Seriously, these people need to grow up and accept reality.
2007-07-13 02:46:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think creationism is a joke. I didn't dismiss it out of hand. I read "Darwin's Black Box" by Behe, read up on their claims online, and followed the major events of the Dover trial for ID and the "experts" that testified on its behalf there. Their best arguments that they have going is what they call irreducible complexity. The idea is that there are structures (particularly on molecular level) that we don't understand and appear far too complex to be explained by evolution. So therefore, we should accept that a creator probably is responsible. The problem with this is that there were aspects of evolution that we didn't understand a few years ago that we have since unraveled and there is no reason that we won't continue to improve our understanding. Furthermore, even if we don't have an answer for something simply inserted that it was a supernatural intervention by a creator is not scientific. It just means that we don't know yet. You could call it scientific if you had some concrete proof that something was created by a supernatural agent but we don't.
As for evolution theory. I was a biology major. It certainly doesn't make me an expert on evolutionary theory but I do think I have a fair understanding of the basic and I follow science with interest. I have few doubts that evolution has occured. I think scientists themselves are open to debate and still learning about the various mechanisms that drive evolution and how it occurs. I think we willl continue to learn more over time. To say that evolution is some sort of atheist conspiracy belies a mind that has shut itself off from reality. Evolutionary theory is widely accepted in the scientific community and also amongst education populations of other countries than the US (which only ranks higher than Turkey in its scientific understanding of the theory) and these individuals cover a broad spectrum of beliefs.
2007-07-13 07:03:53 · answer #2 · answered by Zen Pirate 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about evolution, it seems like a nice sound scientific theorie.
Then again the scientific world was sure the world was flat once, and that smoking wasn't bad for your health and that the earth was the center of the universe and... and so on.....
Science gives people an answer that isn't linked to a God but that doesnt mean its correct.
I think creationism is just an attempt to make religion more 'scientific' as far as that goes. What other source than the bible backs this theory up?
I think creationism is an attempt to get people back in to church in a time that people are more and more finding their own answers to spiritual questions instead of going to church.
Since everything is created with intend there must be a creator who intended it all. And thats where God comes into place again.
Furthermore I dont think atheists are a organised group as you seem to adres it. Atheists don't belief in a God what so ever and thats it.
Bottomline, I think people shouldnt worry so much as to how this world came to be or how is evolved, for what does it matter. We are here now and must make the best of things now. Dont look at the past but at the present time and try to do what is best.
And if you wan't to have an answer; look inside to what answer your guts/feeling/hart/whatever gives you and stick with that. If 'I dont know' comes up. leave it at that and accept you dont know and that we wont ever know for sure.
2007-07-13 07:43:46 · answer #3 · answered by Frank d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in God(s) so creationism is obviously a no go.
I also think that calling the World, the Universe, Life and Everything *Creation* is just a cheap propaganda trick.
If they can get you saying *Creation* instead of *The World* then they have succeeded in playing a standard brainwashing trick. It makes the subsequent statement that *creation implies a creator* acceptable as an argument that a Sky Fairy made the world simply by shouting about it.
-----EDIT-----
Buddhists are not necessarily, or even likely, to be atheists.
2007-07-13 07:07:30 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Atheists = No God.
Creationism = God.
Atheists â Creationism.
Evolution is a theory, that can be accepted by anyone, depending on what their other beliefs are and if they conflict.
The question, though being directed at atheists, suggest that atheism is an organised system of thought. The only common ground atheists share is that they do not adhere to organised religion and do not believe in the the existence of God.
I find evolution credible and creationism a fabrication.
2007-07-13 06:53:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋
I would recommend reading "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins for insight into an athiest's point of view on creationism, evolution, and theism. Read it with an open mind, with logic and common sense, and without superstition. It's a challenging book, and just reading it will exercise your mind in critical thinking skills, something I think we could all use a little more of!
2007-07-13 07:09:09 · answer #6 · answered by Jenny 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As an atheist I have no belief in God, thus I can not believe that a nonexistent entity created anything. The universe has a natural origin. Do we know everything? Of course not! But we have to look at the world with objective eyes, examining the data we are presented with without skewing it with preconceived religious beliefs.
2007-07-13 07:11:41 · answer #7 · answered by in a handbasket 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Creationism is simply a way to give christianity the veneer of scientific credibility by distorting well substantiated research so that it appears that the bible is accurate. It is a deliberately self-conscious attempt to sustain the religion, which is threatened by science, by mis-using science to bolster untrue beliefs about the world, evolution, nature and the universe, most of which are overwhelmingly supported by empirically tested evidence.
2007-07-13 07:08:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Creationism is nonscientific, false, and a complete non-starter as an explanation of anything.
Organized creationism is simply propaganda put together by professional liars.
The fact that creationism is so popular in the United States is a national embarrassment.
2007-07-13 06:58:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
When a creationist comes up with a vaccine against the virus "kind" that is 100% effective against any virus because evolution is not true, then I will believe in it. I want real world results. Biology has given them to us, why can't creationism?
2007-07-13 07:02:03 · answer #10 · answered by Rev. Still Monkeys 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋