Do you believe in Creationism?

I don't believe in Creationism. I think it's silly to think that, because we don't understand how it all happened, it must necessarily have been God who did it.

Every new piece of scientific evidence diminishes the need for a God. I'd rather let God go with His dignity intact than relegate him to the gaps. Eventually, He'll be like the cracked and moldy mortar in a teenager's bathroom.

I don't know.

If there is a God, which is something I am uncertain about, then it makes sense to me that God would ultimately be responsible for the creation of the world.

However, I do think that Darwin and the modern geologists are probably right about biological evolution, and also about the world being 4.5 billion years old instead of only about 6,000.

I do think this is a marvelous and mysterious universe we live in, and I find both non-living and living parts of nature to be beautiful, complicated, astonishing, and fairly elegant.

I think it's conceivable that some Ultimate Cause might have set in motion a very complex process of cosmological evolution that was "designed" to produce life in the long run, or that at any rate did produce such life.

But again, I don't know. I do think the stories in Genesis are unlikely to be literally true, if only because they somewhat contradict each other.

Why is there so much amazing focus on Creationism vs Evolution, however?

Don't the world's atheists and the world's religious believers have anything better to do that argue about this issue?

We live in a world that's at risk from global climate change; human beings are grossly over-exploiting the oceans to the point where some big ocean fisheries have collapsed, and year after year the world loses large acreages of tropical rain forests that provide critical habitats -- necessary homes -- for countless plant and animal species.

Meanwhile, something like 2.5 billion people today are estimated to be living in severe poverty, on individual incomes average 2 US dollars or less per day.

Most of the nations of the world this year also are suffering through the worst economic recession in 50 years. And governments around the world are torturing people.

With all of these morally urgent emergencies unfolding around us, why are either religious people or atheists with any ethics wasting their time debating about creationism vs evolution?

From a religious angle, didn't Jesus say something once about "straining out the gnat, and swallowing the camel?"

And from a secular angle, don't many atheists normally have some sense of how to prioritize?

I don't believe in Creationism, but to dull the current depression i feel at the moment, I shall claim i do. It is evident that the world was created -- it is here. Science has nothing to say on the subject of existence, energy, mass etc. Why wouldn't it have been created? I believe that God is an infinite regress and that this is not incompatible with ... nah, sorry i'm bored of this... Creation is prolix .

I am a Christian but I don't believe in creationism because it is not biblical and it defies science and fossil evidence.

The bible states God made the world and all life in 6 days. Creationists interpret them as six 24 hour days even though 2 Peter states that a day to God is thousands of years. I think it is like Him saying "In that day" when He really means era or millenium. It is also not possible that they were 24 hour days since the bible states that the sun and moon, day and night were not created until the fourth day!

But if you think that God created the great system of things evolving from other things over thousands or millions of years then it makes perfect sense with science and the bible.

A born again Christian.

The Bible is just another book from just another faith. It has no more scientific validity than any other religion's creation story. Eratosthenes measured (quite accurately) the size of the Earth 2200 years ago, and the Bible couldn't even get THAT right.

I think Young Earth Creationists are so sad.

I'm not religious, but I've seen many of these arguments between those that support the scientific approach to understanding nature and our origins, and those that bristle and fight whenever some new fact or idea doesn't match their interpretation of their god or holy book. It always amazes me how afraid people are of opening their faith to new information.

Some creationists believe the Big Bang and evolution were the tools God used. That's fine, as it doesn't deny the realities that science studies every day.

The problem is the Biblical literalists, ID proponents or other creationists that insist animals spontaneously, magically appear when God (or the "Intelligent Designer to be named later") snaps his fingers. I think those people suffer from "small god syndrome".

"In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed!”? Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way." -- Carl Sagan

A literal reading of the Bible tells us that God conjured the world out of nothing, then conjured man out of mud, and conjured woman out of a man's rib. Nothing in the story was beyond the understanding of even the most humble people over 2000 years ago.

Science tells us that the universe came into existence through a cataclysm of immeasurable power, so strong that the heat from the event still warms the universe 13.5 billion years later. Science tells us of stellar birth and death, events so powerful they could strip the atmosphere off a planet from 1000 light years away. Science tells us of minerals created in the vast atomic forges in the center of giant stars. Science tells us of a massive, glorious dance of the heavens over billions of years, and of the creation of our precious planet among trillions of other stars and planets. Science tells us of an incredibly simple, elegant process of gradual change driven by the imperative to survive, leading to stunningly varied, adaptable, resilient life - life so vibrant and sweeping that it changed the very nature and composition of our planet.

The creation story of the Bible takes a few short verses, and hasn't changed in 2000 years. The creation story of science consumes entire libraries, is supported by warehouses of samples and evidence, and is growing every day. The creation story of science challenges the comprehension of even modern, educated man, and science freely admits the story is not yet complete or fully understood.

If someone reading this is a Biblical literalist, you are limiting your god to a few 2000-year-old campfire stories. Let science into your faith, view science as the quest to better understand your god, and embrace and learn science rather than denying it. Treat the Bible as a moral lesson, as an allegory, not as a textbook. Look at the glories beyond the Bible, and then you can truly appreciate what your god has done.

Yes , Because it is true.

Fact 1: There was a worldwide flood as chronicled in the book of Genesis . Evidence for the fact: Mass deposits of bones (Lompoc Calif., Dover England and elsewhere, Mass world wide deposits of Oil & Coal and asphalt which were formed by the pressure of the water of the flood, Seashells on Mt. Everest, the layers of Grand Canyon,the age of the Great barrier reef & the Sahara desert)

Fact 2, No historical,archaeological, astronomical, biological, or geographical fact mentioned in the Bible has ever been proved false . Evidence for the fact: No one can name one because ther are none!

Conclusion the Bible is true, has been proven true and has not nor can be proven false. Therefore the creation account of Genesis is also true .

Them's the facts pal whether you believe it or not.

I do not believe in creationism because it contradicts the evidence gathered within the scientific community.

The universe is 13.7 billion years old.

The Earth is 4.5 billion years old.

Life arose on Earth between 3.5 and 4 billion years ago.

All mammals are descended from rodent-like creatures that lived in holes 65 million years ago.

Humans have existed in their present form for several hundred thousand years.

The evidence for *all* of the above is beyond refute.

Of course, I don't. I'm an emotionally-healthy, intelligent, educated man.

Uh oh, you asked for evidence... look out for all the links to "science" websites constructed by Christian organizations.

I do.

I can't believe that life came from something that was not alive. I can't believe that all I am is the sum of my parts. Because if you took all of the elements from which we are made and mixed them together in the proper proportions, you are still not going to have life. Something will be missing.

Ok, if you think that that we all evolved from a single-cell organism, where did that single-celled organism come from? Well, one might say, that the parts of the cell all just accidntally came together, and I would answer, and where did those parts come from, and when you mention the parts inside of the parts, where did they come from and so on. Everything comes from something. Everything has a beginning and an end. As does life.