So if the scientists who believe in creation are in the minority, what makes the common atheist...?

Question

smarter than the scientist who does believe in creation? Why consider creation a fairy tale when some intelligent educated geniuses do not?

And is not an attack on an opponents belief system by belittling it a non intelligent argument itself?

Answer 1

This reminds me of an old joke.

They say that 9 out of every 10 doctors prefer Bayer asperin over any other kind. What does the 10th doctor know that the other nine don't?

Answer 2

1) VAST minority. Like 0.001% or something smaller.
2) I'm an atheist AND a scientist. And scientists will tell you they don't have any scientific, intellectual reasons for believing in creation - if they do, they just wanna.
3) Intelligent educated geniuses? You do realize there are probably a million scientists in the US alone, right? Do you really consider .3% of the population geniuses? Have you ever MET a scientist?
4) So? If you believe in something stupid, the fact you believe in it doesn't make it any more credible.

Answer 3

Well first of all the evidence is overwhelming for evolution, no quesion about that. But at the same time; the mechanism that causes the change that is so perfect as to allow a new species at the same time, from lower level to higher level to seemingly appear overnight is what beffudles me as a believer in the creation story. And I suppose this is what creation scientists (which I am not) in general must wrestle with.

What I mean perfect and overnight I mean the evolutionary ratio of "trial and error" is statistically nonexistent. There seems to be a perfect leap forward in the adaption process of a simple complex organism evolving into a higher one.

All these types of questions aside it would appear for the creation scientist that he has nothing to hold onto and that in the end his work can only be based on faith. Even the creation of the first human beings Adam and Eve appear to be just as you suggest a fairy tale.

And I am saying this as a believer in the Genesis Account.

So why do I believe in the creation story in spite of the overwhelming data on evolutin versus the creation story it being a myth ? Because of the salvation message of Jesus Chirst. The creation story cannot be taken seperate and apart from the salvation message. Since it is man's first parents that sinned and caused all mankind to be born in sin. Man needs to be reconciled to the God who created this entire universe and man's earth and all things on it. And God sent Jesus Christ into the world to save man kind from himself.

Creation scientist have a knowledge that compliments science. They acknowledge the Genesis account that God is the one that created the changes and that allowed all of man's earth to have life. For God knows perfectly what each speices and new species requires to have life. This is why the "trial and error" statistics from new species to new and different species is nonexistant. When God created new levels of new living things. God saw that it was good.

Answer 4

Sorry, but science isn't about being intelligent, it's about the scientific method -- studying physical processes with a dedication to the evidence.

Creation is about believing in the literal interpretation of Genesis. You can be smart and still be dead wrong.

99.6% of scientists support the theory of evolution. The remainder (however small) are trying to place their religious beliefs into a scientific world view, which is not good. They start with a fixed conclusion that god created everything, and then they pinpoint things with pseudoscience to attack evolution and the pursuit of knowledge -- like claiming that the eye is "irreducibly complex" and requires a supernatural force. But in science, the evidence is the only thing that counts -- there is no scientific alternative to evolution. Many people are resistant because they equate evolution to atheism, so it's a social issue for them.

Still, I don't think many smart people believe that a universe with a trillion galaxies is less than 6,000 years old, which denies cosmology, astronomy, biology, physics, etc. You must produce these "intelligent educated geniuses" for us. (light sarcasm)

Answer 5

Here, here!

Some Atheists are just Atheist fundamentalists and don't make much more sense than most of the more radical Christians that fail to use logic as well.

Of course, most people do understand that Creation and the Big Bang are competing hypotheses for the same event that we will probably never understand fully because we can only toy around with ideas about it and not actually observe it. Maybe once there is a functioning time machine, some can go back in time and realize the hard way that if you try to go even slightly earlier than the start of everything you completely cease to be. Fun stuff. Of course, we'll never know what happened. Or maybe we made the Big Bang thanks to the time machine accident...

Answer 6

Scientists are guessing, like everybody else -- it's called "faith". Scientists also know that as soon as Earth was created, its destiny was ordained -- five billion years from now, which is a short period, astronomically speaking, it will be consumed by an out-of-control expanding sun. Realistically, though, an incoming comet or asteroid will probably take mankind out long before the sun dies. Perhaps, even more likely, mankinds' own destructive activities have already set us up for gamma-ray extermination as our protective ozone layer disappears. God's marvelous creation, 'man' was designed, evidently either a little too smart (inventing the means of our own demise) or a little too dumb (inventing the means of our own demise.)

Answer 7

In a word: evidence

There is evidence for evolution. No evidence for creation. The scientific method is to gather evidence and formulate a theory to explain the facts. Creationists start with the theory and the manipulate the evidence to support their theory. That is why they do not get respect from the scientific community.

Answer 8

I'm sorry, but my dog is smarter than people who believe that
1) The Earth is less than 10,000 years old.
2) Believe that a magical, invisible, supernatural being (for which there is not one single scrap of evidence)"poofed" everything into existence.
3) That there was a real man named Adam who was made from dirt, and a woman named Eve who was made from a rib, who lived in a garden, and were driven out of that garden by a furious God after eating from a magical tree because a talking snake told them to.

Answer 9

There is allot of evidence to support evolution, There really is none to support creationism.Scientists are detectives they can only rely on observable evidence.Creationists that believe in a "young earth" are ignoring all the evidence presented.Having a degree and then putting your religion before science does not make one a scientist.

Answer 10

People who believe in creation are not scientist. The two terms are contradictory. Creationist ignore evidence, Scientist base their beliefs on evidence.