Creationism.

[problem_child]

In my opinion, Creationism is a good example of mans need to rationalize what he does not understand into concepts he is familiar with and can control. A vain attempt, but attempted nontheless.

Billions of years of geological history and millions of years of biological history is all an irrelevant trick by scientists to delude us from the righteousness of god.

The Earth was made in seven days, and is six thousand years old, and fossils were placed in the land to test our faith.

[FrustratedPoet]

Creationism is a good example of mans need to rationalize what he does not understand into concepts he is familiar with and can control.

Delete "Creationism" and add "Evolution" and that sentence would have equal validity.

And the attempt is vain, not vein.

[problem_child]

Hmm, yes, the universe was made by a cosmic alpha-male concept who is a rigid hyrarchist and classic dictator/ruler, who created man in his own image. Non of these concepts are anthropomorthic human orientated type beleifs at all. It is the idea that the universe is vastly bigger then human history in both time, space and potential that is the true rationalization into concepts we can understand.

[FrustratedPoet]

the universe was made by a cosmic alpha-male concept

That is not a concept I understand or can control. I can't control evolution either, but at least I can understand it as a rational explanation of the available evidence.

The idea of some bearded dude in the sky creating everything is the idea that seems beyond human comprehension to me. It just makes no sense, which is why we've invented evolution to make things seem clearer to us.

[problem_child]

There you are, you have completely overestimated the nature of human reasoning. A simple mistake to make.

[FrustratedPoet]

Oh shucks. My attempt to disprove you was vein.

[Whaleboy]

I think its 3000 year old science that was valid then, but since has become a matter of religion, faith and BS. Science is no place for sentimentality, our knowledge and reason since then have evolved.

[problem_child]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
Oh shucks. My attempt to disprove you was vein.

Yes it was, I trust you will know better then to be so foolish in future.

Really I don't care about being disagreed with about this, in... five hundred million years time when the whole of human existance is just one more discolored layer in geological history, the whole Creationist thing (and all it's attendant religions) will be no more then an unremembered memory.

Unless gophers or something have evolved into creatures capable of producing archeologists by then.

elijah

[FrustratedPoet]

an unremembered memory

That'd be a neat trick.

[SlowwHand]

Poet, you're burning daylight on a pointless endeavor.

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet

Creationism is a good example of mans need to rationalize what he does not understand into concepts he is familiar with and can control.

Delete "Creationism" and add "Evolution" and that sentence would have equal validity.

And the attempt is vain, not vein.

The difference is that there is an immense amount of scientific data that gives credence to the theory of evolution, but there is absolutely nothing scientific at all that points towards Creationism.

I emphasize towards because there is evidence that contradicts the accepted theory of evolution, but there is no evidence that supports the theory of creationism.

[Shi Huangdi]

[Solly]

It would be nice to be religious but since I wasn't "brought up with it", I find too many inherent flaws in it.

But sometimes I wonder...

[Odin]

Anyone who believes in Creationist BS is a naive MORON (Yeah, I'm talking to yoy, Diplomat ).

[Spiffor]

There's another thing I wonder : why do the creationists reject the idea of evolution at all ? What is opposite to their faith to think that God created everything, and let it evolve since ? I don't see anything heretic in that belief...