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Since Creationism is still not prove in 2014 ( they've had 4000 years) isnt it time we embrace the facts?
Creationism is the product of faith; it proceeds from an account of the world and expects that the world conforms to that account. In other words, the conclusion is already held to be true. Creationism and science essentially work from the opposite ends, and this difference is what makes it the case that the two parties end up talking past each other; they are not even really having the same conversation
Evolution starts with life exists and creatures are here, well how did all the species come about. Below are refutations to creationism.
Marine Fossils
The continents are, on average, covered with sedimentary rock to a depth of about one mile. Some of the rock (chalk, for instance) is essentially 100% fossils and many limestones also contain high percentages of marine fossils. On the other hand, some rock is barren. Suppose that, on average, marine fossils comprise .1% of the volume of the rock. If all of the fossilized marine animals could be resurrected, they would cover the entire planet to a depth of at least 1.5 feet. What did they eat?
Varves
The famous Green River formation covers tens of thousands of square miles. In places, it contains about 20 million varves, each varve consisting of a thin layer of fine light sediment and an even thinner layer of finer dark sediment. According to the conventional geologic interpretation, the layers are sediments laid down in a complex of ancient freshwater lakes. The coarser light sediments were laid down during the summer, when streams poured run-off water into the lake. The fine dark sediments were laid down in the winter, when there was less run-off. (The process can be observed in modern freshwater lakes.) If this interpretation is correct, the varves of the Green River formation must have formed over a period of 20 million years.
Disease Germs
For numerous communicable diseases, the only known “reservoir” is man. That is, the germs or viruses which cause these diseases can survive only in living human bodies or well-equipped laboratories. Well-known examples include measles, pneumococcal pneumonia, leprosy, typhus, typhoid fever, small pox, poliomyelitis, syphilis and gonorrhea. Was it Adam or Eve who was created with gonorrhea? How about syphilis? The scientific creationists insist on a completed creation, where the creator worked but six days and has been resting ever since. Thus, between them, Adam and Eve had to have been created with every one of these diseases. Later, somebody must have carried them onto Noah's Ark.
Biological evolution has nothing to say on the origin of the universe. Science builds its theories in order to comply to observable facts. It is theoretical and open to revision as fact dictates. The theory of evolution describes the emergence of new species from preexisting species. Evolutionists believe that natural selection is the mechanism by which new species may arise over time. A good scientist would reject or revise the evolutionary theory based on the facts that are progressively presented. In fact, evolutionary theory has been revised many times over and will continue to be revised in the future as the facts demand.
I hope this helps.
The vast majority of the scientific community and academia supports evolutionary theory as the only explanation that can fully account for observations in the fields of biology, paleontology, molecular biology, genetics, anthropology, and others. An expert in the evolution-creationism controversy, professor and author Brian Alters, states that "99.9 percent of scientists accept evolution.
Nearly every scientific society, representing hundreds of thousands of scientists, has issued statements rejecting intelligent design and a petition supporting the teaching of evolutionary biology was endorsed by 72 US Nobel Prize winners. Additionally, US courts have ruled in favor of teaching evolution in science classrooms, and against teaching creationism, in numerous cases such as Edwards v. Aguillard, Hendren v. Campbell, McLean v. Arkansas and Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.
The majority world rejects Creationism and are advancing well past the US in genetics, biology and science in general.
The majority of the government rejects creationism, and has passed legislature in favor of evolution.
Even the vast majority of theistic people understand and accept evolution.
The Theory of Evolution as a whole is not yet proven. The evolutionary process has been observed as fact. Experiments confirming evolutionary occurrences have been completed and the evidence is available.
I went to the Smithsonian, I just visited the website and you Sir are misinforming and skewing the information.
"Humans are primates. Physical and genetic similarities show that the modern human species, Homo sapiens, has a very close relationship to another group of primate species, the apes. Humans and the great apes (large apes) of Africa -- chimpanzees (including bonobos, or so-called “pygmy chimpanzees”) and gorillas -- share a common ancestor that lived between 8 and 6 million years ago. Humans first evolved in Africa, and much of human evolution occurred on that continent. The fossils of early humans who lived between 6 and 2 million years ago come entirely from Africa."
"Most scientists currently recognize some 15 to 20 different species of early humans. Scient
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- Anonymous7 years agoFavorite Answer
God said that He's the creator and He's not a liar end of story.
- Anonymous7 years ago
It's always the high school dropout that says this stupid thing about facts -- WHEN SCIENCE SAYS THE OPPOSITE>
Science is NEVER taught as a fact. How dumb and without learning you must be to think that. That Creationism should be taught is different from 'as a fact'.
Do you know anything about science.
Great scientist and friend of Einstein's, M. Polanyi
"a series of observations which at one time were held to be important scientific facts, were a few years later completely discredited and committed to oblivion, without ever having been disproved or indeed newly tested, simply because the conceptual framework of science had meanwhile so altered that the facts no longer appeared credible."
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The data is the same for all parties. I have never heard anybody dispute that. Facts are what the theory is built on. Evolution can never be a fact, even if it's true.
You are what is called a naive realist. As Bernard Lonergan put it, "some form of naive realism seems to appear utterly unquestionable to very many." But to the philosopher, it's bull.
This is a super-naive position. One of the major philosophical enterprises of Bernard Lonergan was to address this mentality of equating reality with the "already out-there-now real" and that knowing is just a matter of "taking a look at it."
http://www.amazon.com/Insight-Understand...
There is no less defensible philosophical position than yours. Judgment always intervenes. There is no raw facts that you and a dog both see.
There is no Direct, unmediated personal experience. A theory sits on top of facts.
- HikerLv 57 years ago
Thanks for a short summary. I look forward to possibly a short item on the essential differences between a fundamentalist and a scientist?
However, a problem exists in your phrasing in the last paragraph. Not that it is wrong, but unfortunately stated.
The theory of evolution (Creationists insist on ascribing an inappropriate interpretation to the word "theory") has been revised, but only in the same sense that automobiles have been revised in the past 20 years. Incrementally, and in increasingly smaller details, and increasingly better, but the main structure remains - the tires, engine, place for driver and fuel. Whereas Creationists would present it to listeners as if these changes are more like shifting from a train to airplane to submarine to canoe &c.
It is true the two sides talk past each other, but when one side has decided from the outset not to change it's opinions, no matter what data, facts or logic, the whole thing is a waste of time.
The better track is to talk to the public, not to them. Second, do a better job teaching science and reasoning skills in our schools.
- Anonymous7 years ago
except that creation says that God created the universe. It does not say God instantly created all life on earth. In fact, unless your specifically using a literal interpretation of Genesis 1, it doesn't exclude the possibility that God created the universe and used evolution as a tool to create and diversify life on earth.
The entire argument of "creation vs evolution" is completely stupid because the conflict is between Young Earth Creation and a particular theory of evolution which says all life originated from a single organism.
So basically you typed up a big block of text for a nothing.
Its not likely that science will ever tell us what initiated the Big Bang, even in a million years, and therefore Creationism can never be ruled out as a possibility.
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- Serene ELv 77 years ago
Funny. The article IJust read in the Smithsonian says there are still big gfaps in the evolution of man. Doessn't sound like they've got all the pieces to the puzzle to me.
- 7 years ago
Pretty sure evolution hasn't been proven ... hence the term THEORY
- Anonymous7 years ago
No we can't handle the truth
