11-23-2004, 07:07 PM
Arpi, you are acting on the belief that (as Sir O so wrongly previously stated) that creationism has been proven false. It's just not true.
Sure, many parts of the biblically produced creation story are wrong (like the earth is 5,000 years old and that Dinosaurs existed), but the more broad concept that mankind did not evolve out of a single celled organism has not been proven false. The parts are there that show that it's more than merely "probable" that humans did, but there are very major parts of the evolutionary chain that have never been discovered and therefore it's at least possible that those chains don't exist and somehow, someway, different species don't all go down to same starting point.
Objects at rest stay at rest, etc, so given a big bang creation of the universe, what was the catalyst? What was the energy source that started it? Science has been trying to explain why this happened forever, with no luck. An energy source/God would be a very clean answer as to the beginning. And until science can prove it another way (like the earth being flat, the atom being the smallest thing on the planet, and the sun revolving around the earth) why not at least offer it up as a possibility to students where they can decide?
I'm not talking about teaching the bible, the Arc and other myths to explain the earth. Take out the bible; take out the catholic church and it still remains a scientific discussion.
It's not merely priests and rabbis who think that some form of creationism is possible.
Edited By Galt on 1101236922
Sure, many parts of the biblically produced creation story are wrong (like the earth is 5,000 years old and that Dinosaurs existed), but the more broad concept that mankind did not evolve out of a single celled organism has not been proven false. The parts are there that show that it's more than merely "probable" that humans did, but there are very major parts of the evolutionary chain that have never been discovered and therefore it's at least possible that those chains don't exist and somehow, someway, different species don't all go down to same starting point.
Objects at rest stay at rest, etc, so given a big bang creation of the universe, what was the catalyst? What was the energy source that started it? Science has been trying to explain why this happened forever, with no luck. An energy source/God would be a very clean answer as to the beginning. And until science can prove it another way (like the earth being flat, the atom being the smallest thing on the planet, and the sun revolving around the earth) why not at least offer it up as a possibility to students where they can decide?
I'm not talking about teaching the bible, the Arc and other myths to explain the earth. Take out the bible; take out the catholic church and it still remains a scientific discussion.
It's not merely priests and rabbis who think that some form of creationism is possible.
Edited By Galt on 1101236922