Hi my Creationist friends! I have a question: You reject the Theory of Evolution but can you please share with me your understanding of the theory? [Spirituality & Religion]
I mean seriously. Not getting in your jabs and barbs but just your honest understanding of what evolution is. I do genuinely find that most people who reject evolution also have a very limited or distorted understanding of it. How familiar are you with the evidence? What are your main stumbling blocks to accepting it? If you're being honest, are they a lack of evidence or because they conflict with your faith?
Let's be civil, let's be honest.
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Well creationism tends to refer to the idea that animals and humans were created in their present form as described in Genesis. This is incompatible with evolution. However, more and more Christians now accept the evidence that evolution has occurred and simply believe that god is behind it. This is compatible with evolution.
@Pikachu I understand both theories. But it's always a binary debate; even in the way you've presented it. I've never discounted evolution as there is ample evidence. But it explains adaptation, and change in order to survive. It doesn't explain how life originated. And no matter how hard scientists have tried, they've never been able to create even the simplest form of life in a controlled enviroment. The sequencing of DNA reads like computer code. Hard to think that occurred randomly. Maybe there is a God. Maybe the origin of life on earth came from somewhere else in the universe. Maybe it's all a grand coincidence. We don't know for sure.
Just to be clear, creationisms is not a theory. At least not a scientific theory in the way that evolution is. At best it's a hypothesis. It makes no testable predictions and is utterly unfalsifiable.
[quote]It doesn't explain how life originated.[/quote]
Certainly not. Evolution as a theory explains how life diversifies. Abiogenesis is a related but distinct topic.
[quote], they've never been able to create even the simplest form of life in a controlled enviroment.[/quote]
But they have been able to produce organic molecules from inorganic ones. We only invented the [i]lightbulb [/i]about 200 years ago. Give it a minute😉
[quote]We don't know for sure.[/quote]
Indeed. As i said, evolution has occurred and that's a fact. But that doesn't mean that a god doesn't exist.
@Pikachu [quote]But they have been able to produce organic molecules from inorganic ones[/quote] a bit of a false equivalency as there are only 4 organic elements to separate from an inorganic molecule. In the controlled studies, scientists started with an organic soup believed to be similar to earth about the time the most primitive life forms appeared. Yet, they still can't create even the simplest life form.
For sure. I'm just saying we've already made steps that a generation before that would have been considered impossible. An argument from incredulity is still a logical fallacy, no matter how incredulous you are😉
If you define god as an all powerful being which exists beyond time and space and by his nature created...you can also just apply all of those qualities to a natural force. An eternal, all powerful universe which by it's nature causes existence. Isn't that just as likely?
@Qwerty14 There are several viable and competing hypotheses, but no clear winner (yet)... all of which are better than ‘let’s just invent convenient, unnecessary, and comforting fictions'
lol so predictable. I almost changed that because i knew that's what you'd respond to😁 ...so what would be a meaningful distinction between those two things?
Just kicking the can down the road by saying everything arose from a magic being has never been intellectually satisfying for me and i don't know why it's satisfying to anyone else.
