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And why must creation theory by definition be "religious?"

And after so many posts, we again circle back to the crux of the whole "debate." (fyi, I always put the word, "debate" in quotations because in the real world, there is no debating the facts of evolution...) To date, all creation myths have been religious in nature. Until recently, creationists were pretty forthright about this, but since the late 80's or so, someone somewhere got tricky and began realizing that by cloaking their inherently religious viewpoint in new terms like "creation science" or "intelligent design," they would have a louder voice. BUT, as has been shown time and time again, creation myths ALWAYS come down to 2 things; the infamous, "goddidit" line of thought and what you will surely admit to, faith.

whereas science isn't afraid to show its current inadequacies with comments like, "I don't know," (with regards to say, the beginning of time), religion supposes to know these things with wonderful statements such as, "God made it so." That may be fine for some, but I for one, am a bit more curious. Which is what it all comes down to: The curious versus the incurious, simple as that.

whereas science isn't afraid to show its current inadequacies with comments like, "I don't know," (with regards to say, the beginning of time), religion supposes to know these things with wonderful statements such as, "God made it so." That may be fine for some, but I for one, am a bit more curious. Which is what it all comes down to: The curious versus the incurious, simple as that.

Very good point. I've been trying to get this through to gore3000's head for about 1500 posts. Suprisingly, he doesn't seem to want to come on board. He firmly believes that if he asks people on free republic to answer an evolution/abiogenesis/beginning of the universe question and they do not know, then he has disproved any scientific theory related to said question and proved his own creationist theories....

"Whereas science isn't afraid to show its current inadequacies with comments like, "I don't know," (with regards to say, the beginning of time), religion supposes to know these things with wonderful statements such as, 'God made it so.'"

I really don't see how the assumption that "God made it so" changes the reality of what exists. What difference does it make if one says "God made it so," and another says "No, He didn't. There is no such thing as God?" Do either of these points of view change reality and how we learn about it? What's the big deal?

in the real world, there is no debating the facts of evolution...

Alas, we finally agree on something! There is no debating the 'facts' of evolution because there are none! That is why evolutionists need to resort to insults, rhetoric and religion bashing.