"God created human beings in their present form exactly the way the Bible describes it."
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And how does the Bible describe it? You have the literalists and the figurativelists and even they disagree among themselves.
A slightly misleading question, but I'm not sure how you would phrase it to more accurately capture the essence of what people think....
And how does the Bible describe it? You have the literalists and the figurativelists and even they disagree among themselves.
Yes, there is more than one version of creationism. Which one do you teach? In my Sunday school class, all 10 adults had 10 different ideas about it. While I strongly believe in creationism, one must acknowledge there is more than one version of it. Some believe in the 4000 years things, others believe the process took longer, still others believe something else. ID is an attempt to put some science into creationism, however the basic premise is still the same--that a higher power (i.e. God) created things.
Think about that one for a minute...
The “origin of species” is rooted in the idea of a singularity: the mechanics of the DNA molecule. All species of Terran life has it. Like the singularity of the “Big Bang” theory, the two are categorically inseparable as immaculate conceptions. It only takes a mere application of logic.
The perplexing question of human origin from a common ancestor to apes is even more problematic. According to evolutionary theory, humans (homo sapiens) did not descend from apes, but from some “missing link.” Although Dr. Louis Leaky spent decades searching and found zinjanthropus and homo habilus, Olduvai Gorge gave no answers. Logic also suggests in order to “descend,” there has to be something to descend from and something to ascend to.
Evolutionary theory, rooted in the universal human dissatisfaction for mortality is a vain search for human origin(s), an attempt to rationalize a yearning for connection to something eternal.
Now, since nobody really knows the answers, it is only a scientific method that would consider all points of view on the issue in educational settings. To do otherwise would be like students dancing around totems, witch doctors proclaiming intellectual taboos and making sacrifices.
This is far worse than what the ersatz secularists accuse the creationists of doing!