Why do fudamentalist christians believe in creationism?

Question

Comeon its hilarious that people , even well educated people sometimes, in the 21st Century believe in creationism. "because its written in the bilble" come on people think about it! The bible was written over a period of centuries by many different people who didnt have any scientific answers so made up stories.

Its good to have 'faith', i have faith in a higher being of somekind, call it god, call it the spagettii monster or whatever.

Its like some people have forgotten the ability to reason or think for themselves!

Answer 1

Because it's written in their book of fairy tales.

Answer 2

It is deductive reasoning. Everything that can be historically proven in the Bible by secular means has been. I remember a movement that said that Pontius Pilate never existed because they could not find Roman records of him. Later a monument was found that had him all over it. People have desperately wanted to eliminate Jesus from history for a very long time. That is why there is such solid proof of his existence through Hebrew and Roman records. There are hundreds of ruins and other findings that match up exactly with Biblical facts. The Smithsonian uses the Bible for reference on finding digs. I am 41 years old. In high school I was taught Evolution because it was absolute facts, yet today 99% of what were absolute facts 25 years ago are no longer facts at all. There have been hundreds of revisions. Revisions are mistakes and corrections sometimes to flat out wild guesses. My Father was taught Nebraska Man and Pee King Man were absolute facts and both have been exposed as hoaxes. I believe Nebraska Man was a pig tooth. I challenge you to pick any new Evolutionary theory (there are many) and then look for other view points from other Evolutionist sources. You will find that the opinions are shaky at best and fluid most the time. The Bible and my relationship with Jesus have taken me from miserable confused Atheist/Humanist to content Christian with a clue. I have no problem betting my life on things that work. I do not have near enough faith in our scientific community to even entertain their absolute facts anymore.

Answer 3

I think that fundamentalists are afraid that if people are allowed to read some of the bible as figurative, they'll want to take less and less of it literally. Also I think that humans like to see things in a simpler black / white way. No shades of gray. Too much thinking!

But seriously brother Jonathan, show some common sense, I'm be much more surprised if these books were written at the same time! With a quick trip to the library, I might be able to come up with a version of Macbeth, that is word for word the same as Shakespeare's. Wouldn't that be amazing!

Answer 4

So a spaghetti monster is reason and intelligent for you?

The ancients were not so dumb. In 1800 BC the Babylonians solved quadratic elliptic equations. The Egyptians moved 200 ton stones to form the pyramids. Ancient Americans even moved a 400 ton stone. A female Sumerian doctor performed surgery on the cataract of the eyes nearly 4,000 years ago. Aristotle even left a remark about a spherical earth 400 years before Christ.

Answer 5

We believe that God is all powerful and did exactly what He said in the Book of Genesis.

True, the Bible isn't a science book per se, but have you found any contradiction between the Bible's scientific responses, and science proper?

You are right about the time lapses between authors, books, and so on, but really--look at the unity among the various books and so on. Moses wrote some things hundreds of years before Isaiah and Jeremiah, but there is no contradiction! What other type of book could do that? Only one inspired by God Himself!

Answer 6

It takes a certain amount of higher education to understand evolution, organic chemistry, ecology, genetics, geology, astrophysics, etc. Even most high school science teachers cannot correctly answer a multiple choice question on the definition of evolution.

People will little depth of understanding of scientific notions react with fear and disbelief when confronted with scientific facts and theories. They believe they can dismiss it all with erroneous notions such as "why are there still monkeys (or apes)," "DNA disproves evolution," "the mathematical probability of atoms randomly combining," and "footprints of man and dino walking together."

Answer 7

Only creationism is compatible with the notion of literal truth of the bible. But there are any number of discrepancies between the bible and known facts, so to object to this particular discrepancy is foolish. In any event, evolution is now a proven fact, so advocates of creationism are members of the Flat Earth Society.

Answer 8

You basically answered your own question.

A fundamentalist reads the Bible for what it says, no biased interpretation, no additions, no deletions.

The Bible teaches creationism and if you proclaim to believe the Bible, then you must believe in creationism. There is no room in the creation week for evolution. There is no room in the Bible for private interpretations.

Answer 9

How true! The point is, you don't have to believe the world is flat to be a christian.
From the point of view of faith, the important part is the belief that life is not a blind, meaningless occurrence, life has a meaning, a purpose.

Answer 10

Check out this lovely diorama (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:CreationMuseum15.png ) in the Creation Museum (http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/ars-takes-a-field-trip-the-creation-museum.ars ) showing Eve sitting in a very sexy frock next to an over sized velociraptor.

I also love the photo of a parent hoisting his child onto a saddled tricertops (http://media.arstechnica.com/news.media/400/526893292_e95eb57c10.jpg ).

Answer 11

Well, let see, the bible says it and the bible is true. With God all things are possible. It takes more faith for people to believe the big bang theory.