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To: wastedyears

Creationism is the term commonly used for the Biblical literalist belief that the entire universe was created a few thousand years ago in its current form. ID accepts the fact that the process of creation took a lot longer but that is was a deliberate process set up by a creator.

My own take is that Genesis was not a cookbook- it tells us that God created everything but says nothing about how He did so. I have a real problem with the proponents of ID, though, for two reasons: First, science can neither prove nor disprove the existence of a creator, and second, they are misstating the theory of evolution and arguing against a theory that does not exist. The most common claim made by anti-evolutionists is that the theory of evolution proposes that all changes in a species were random, which is not true; the theory merely states that changes took place and describes some of the processes.

God said “let there be light”. Scientists talk about the Big Bang.

The Bible says God created man from dirt. Biologists say we were created from dirt.

The Bible says that man was created ~10,000 years ago. Archaeologists say that human civilization as we know it began ~10,000 years ago.


77 posted on 10/05/2007 7:46:01 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
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To: Squawk 8888

I wouldn’t know, I’ve never read the Bible nor did I extensively study evolution in high school. I don’t fully believe in Creation, ID or Evolution, as science has not been able to prove either of them.

A question everybody should ask those that promote evolution is HOW did organisms evolve.


109 posted on 10/05/2007 8:41:37 AM PDT by wastedyears (George Orwell was a clairvoyant.)
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