creationists, although i disagree with you, i respect your right to believe, but?

Question

when you say that logic leads you to believe in creationism, which definition of logic are you using? non creationists generally use definition #1.

1. the science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference.
2. a particular method of reasoning or argumentation: We were unable to follow his logic.
3. the system or principles of reasoning applicable to any branch of knowledge or study.
4. reason or sound judgment, as in utterances or actions: There wasn't much logic in her move.
5. convincing forcefulness; inexorable truth or persuasiveness: the irresistible logic of the facts.

brian - i think it's perfectly fine to just believe that's what happened. what i don't like is when creationists say they use "logic" to come to their conclusion. thanks : )

iwantu2wantme - what does that have to do with this question????

Answer 1

When you completely remove the notion of God from scientific plausibilities, your interpretation of creation is clearly very different from the biblical account.

Take for example Carbon-14 dating...
The bible says that God separated the waters above from the waters below. This is significant. These waters, perhaps ice crystals, surrounded the earth, would have created a greenhouse type effect. Lush plantlife flourished from pole to pole, which is becoming increasing evident with recent discoveries. The massive plantlife greatly increased the atmosphreric oxygen content, supporting long lives and even dinosaurs we find today with inexplicable small nostrils and lungs. The amount of carbon-14 was "diluted" by the increased oxygen, and the vast plantlife ingested proportionately less of it. This perturbation has been hypothesized to be very significant in skewing the accuracy of the results of carbon-14 dating from thousands to millions of years.
Further, it was this water "above" that came down (as well as water from below, according to the Bible) during the Flood. Evidence of a massive Flood has been found from silt in the Arabian penninsula to northern Europe. In fact, our oxygen content has been recorded as diminishing from the time records have been kept in the late 1800's.

This is but one plausible hypothesis of one aspect of Creation. There are plenty of scientific papers on the subject as well. Of course, you will not find these in publically-funded schools...the same ones that produce minds that think Creationists are closed-minded.

Answer 2

There are a number of different varieties of creationism and some are more rational than others.

Those that insist the Universe is a few thousand years old are clearly either deluded or lying.

But others are content to suppose that the creator cooked the books at the start to make the appearance of life and intelligent life somewhere in the Universe inevitable. After that, no further action was taken.

Answer 3

I am not sure if I am a creationist. I am a Christian and believe the world was created by God, but I am not sure about how exactly it went about. Science may be the answer or a mixture of science and God could be the answer. I believe it to be a mix of science and God, as God created science, of course. I just have a hard time believing that we came from nothing. I never could logically figure out how things just appear, thus my belief in God and that we were created. I don't force my beliefs on anyone and I surely respect all those theories that science has. It is ultimately our own personal decision on what we believe in.

Answer 4

Logic I use.A painting must have had a painter.A building must have had a builder.And,creation must have had a creator.
What logic do Evolutionists use?Big bang--nothing exploded,and created everything?We slowly went from being a monkey to a human?That is logic?

Answer 5

Not a creationist but remember that a system of beliefs can be internally consistent (logical) but based on false or misguided premises or axioms. That doesn't violate the precepts of logic.

For example, to someone who believes the Bible is the Word of God, a structure of argument based solely on the Bible as the Word of God is logical. It *may* be based on a false premise - perhaps the Bible is NOT the Word of God - but it may still be logical.

Answer 6

you are able to have faith in God and evolution whether this is not person-friendly to have faith in the Bible and have faith in evolution. you quite ought to have some form of inconsistency on your theory equipment. for occasion, how can God say that it become very stable whilst it arose with the aid of a mechanism of opposition of the fittest (i.e., the dying of the not worth)? additionally, Jesus says, "in the commencing up He made them female and male", not "in the commencing up he made a primordial soup .....". So the two he's stable and we've been created with the aid of God or he's inaccurate and for this reason this is achieveable that evolution is genuine. maximum Hebrew pupils have faith that Genesis is written as a historic document (no remember if or not they suspect it or not) and that it potential that the international become created in 7 conventional days. this is achieveable to interpret this as seven longer classes, whether it does pass against the plainer meaning of the text fabric. some human beings have hollow theories and progressive creation theories that attempt to accommodate evolution, yet those theories have their own problems.

Answer 7

Creationist logic usually starts a sentence with "The Bible says"

enough said.

Answer 8

So basicly why do we believe. I believe because God showed me that He was real. I used to not believe, and just believed in nothing but kind of thought that yea there was a God but didn't really know (agnostic I guess). But than one day I asked Him to prove himself. After so many events I just said this can't be all coincidences. But even at that point I wasn't a full believer, it took hearing the Word. Seeing what God does in people's lives, the miracles that He performs. Curing diseases that can't be cured especially from little children, ones that aren't strong enough to fight it. There really is more to it, it is hard to explain it is one of those things that needs expierencing. If you witnessed the things that we do than you might believe as well. Also of course the bible, is another proof for us.

Answer 9

Point primarily for simbha:~

Internal consistancy is the basis of all knowledge.... for all axioms have roots in our own senses, and we know them to be unreliable.... wherein even one flaw could potentially imply the fallacy of all that is based on it.

Certainty in anything but uncertainty is unfounded.

Answer 10

I have heard some tell me in person that creation is true because god said so and that you can find what god said in the bible. After hearing that I laughed and walked away