What insights are gained from Creationism that advance knowledge and better the condition of life? Please restrict your answer to definitive ideas or tangible benefits, not abstractions or counterarguments.
2007-09-25 10:02:39 · 16 answers · asked by novangelis 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is impossible to truly answer this without taking a position on the plausibility of the term, but I shall attempt it.
"Scientific" Creationism is a bolster to the faith of those who already accept Creationism as a valid principle; it will speak to no other. It is perhaps a hopeful sign that there are those who, being of religious mindset, are willing to investigate by adoption of scientific forms, but it is highly doubtful that any such investigation is unbiased.
That having been said, I can only give my original assertion: "Scientific" Creationism provides self-validation for those individuals who feel a need to signify the reasonableness of their faith.
I apologize, but given the constraints of the question, this is the best answer I can give.
2007-09-25 10:29:16 · answer #1 · answered by Jack B, goodbye, Yahoo! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the theory. Most versions are not very good science. They propose theories but are poor on real facts to back them up. There is within my church an effort to pull real science and the new testament together. We pretty much dismiss the old testament as far as science, since it can be proven in many cases that the old testament has many stories that were put there to make a point and not represent actual facts or happenings. But, even in the old testament there are many things that can be said to be reasonalble. In the beginning, God said let there be light. When the big bang (or rapid expansion) occured, there would have been a hell of a lot of light. When it says, God created the heavens and the earth, it doesn't speicify how. So scientific conclusions of creation are not dismissed. The time line always seems to bug a lot of people. Pleasssse! If that's all there is, let's agree to disagree on this point and find common ground elsewhere. Why is it so important whether God pointed a finger and man lay in a garden or if God slowly (over billions of years) created a garden and slowly grew man into it. The problem is in thinking that science is God or in thingking that if you disprove just one thing in the bible, then there will be no God. Both are wrong. Science is anything but perfect. It is an excellent tool towards trying to understand things. The bible is tool to help teach moral principles. However, if it were found that 98% of the bible was fiction, there would still be a God. Science can niether make or eliminate God.
2007-09-25 10:16:26 · answer #2 · answered by karate 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Creationism is a at the same time true and a mistake because they realy think that it happens in 6x24 hours.
But Peter said "Dont forget beloved that for God, a day may be thousand years and thousand years are worth one day"
This means that 1E-43 seconds (0. 42 zeros1 sec.) which is the Big Band is The First Day and 9 Billion years from the appearance of the first unicellulars life to now is 1 day too...
The second mistake is that in Genesis, a translation error happend when they say that "the spirit of God was over the water" instead of the "waves" wich means the original radiation of the black matter composing 99.99% of the Universe.
The second mistake is that God created man before woman because the woman is XX and God took a rib af the woman to make of her a man wich is XY.
Crazy, isn'it
2007-09-25 12:24:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, let's see. There's a great deal of benefit to the people who publish the textbooks, especially from the home-schooling parents who buy them, as well as the evangelical private schools. There's the churches that will have a new crop of fundamentalist preachers when those kids grow up unfit for any college other than a Bible college.
Are you getting my drift?
I consider "Scientific Creationism" to be one of the top ten oxymorons in modern language.
2007-09-25 10:42:15 · answer #4 · answered by auntb93 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I like oxymorons.
What insights are gained?
Why, that the world has a never ending supply of suckers.
As long as they can keep enough of the people in gullibility mode they'll be able live in luxury just by continuing the fraud by using the Greatest Scam of All Time ... completely subsidised by your government and mine.
2007-09-25 11:34:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's no such a thing as scientific creationism, with or without the quotations marks.
2007-09-25 10:05:58 · answer #6 · answered by Belzetot 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
'Don't follow leaders and watch your parking meters, 'cause the times they are a changin'"
Only one chapter in a book of sixty chapters, of 66 books and none of it repeated throughout Scripture. Better to study the Rock of Ages, than the age of rocks.
2007-09-25 10:10:08 · answer #7 · answered by Thomas Paine 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Between Kirk Cameron and his gay lover who's name I forget at the moment, Kent Hovind and the other quacks at AIG, it has personally provided me with hours of entertainment. They do say laughter is the best medicine.
2007-09-25 10:11:31 · answer #8 · answered by Gawdless Heathen 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Creation scientists discovered crocoducks.
2007-09-25 10:07:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
it benefits those that support it. by creating confusion and doubt of our scientists and educators it creates a focal point to promote the interference of religion in public affairs.
2007-09-25 10:17:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋