[VadeRetro]

You find fossils in a particular strata and if you believe in evolution you assume those fossils were the ancestor of something. If you don't believe in evolution, you might consider that those fossils belonged to something that never evolved but went extinct. Or you might think some evolution occurred but it is still basically the same creature as one still with us.

A scientist finds a fossil and he has questions for it. A creationist finds a fossil and he has dismissals for it.

Creationism has nothing to teach us.

[grey_whiskers]

"Creationism has nothing to teach us."

Don't let yourself in for a cheap shot with a line like that. :-)

Cheers!

[Tribune7]

A scientist finds a fossil and he has questions for it. A creationist finds a fossil and he has dismissals for it. . .

Questions are fine but declaring conclusions as unquestionable is not fine.

Creationism has nothing to teach us.

I think you are placing many, many different world-view philosophies under that rubric, and the word should be restricted to the belief that Genesis and the calculations based on Biblical genealogies should be unquestioned.

If you use the world broadly, however, as in "we are endowed by our Creator" creationism can teach us much.

You say you are an agnostic. What's more important to know -- the existence of God or the age of the Earth?