Creationism

[theguru]

I have a question. First let me state what little I know about Creationism doesn't work/fit for me. However, I know it does for a lot of people. My question is this, what makes so many people believe in Creationism?

 

Let me add, I am asking a honest question and I am hoping for constructive comments. Like others, I have no issues with "attacking" Creationism in another thread but in this thread I am here to learn.

 

Anyone?

[Watusi]

Creationism is a pretty broad topic.

 

What part or parts do you have a hard time accepting?

[theguru]

Creationism is a pretty broad topic.

 

What part or parts do you have a hard time accepting?

 

Not exactly what I am looking for. I am looking for the major two or three areas that draw people to it and make them believers.

[nkypete]

There is also variations. There is the Ken Ham "Answers in Genesis" version and the moderate views of those who believe in a Creator's design, but have an appropriate appreciation for the role of science in understanding Earth's history.

[kypride]

One good line I heard once: If an all powerful, timeless, omnipresent God can redeem us through a virgin birth and do all the other miracles why is it hard to believe he created the earth the way the bible says?

[BigVMan23]

I have a question. First let me state what little I know about Creationism doesn't work/fit for me. However, I know it does for a lot of people. My question is this, what makes so many people believe in Creationism?

 

Let me add, I am asking a honest question and I am hoping for constructive comments. Like others, I have no issues with "attacking" Creationism in another thread but in this thread I am here to learn.

 

Anyone?

 

In it's most simple, logical form I can think of, and have used this as a base "argument" before. Look in your house. Find the most simple, basic thing you can find. Maybe it's a hammer...a fork...a screw. Now, as simple as those things are, what do the all have in common? They all had a creator. Someone made them, they just didn't form over millions of years. Now, look around your house and find the most amazing, complex, intricate, complicated thing you can find. Look no farther than the next mirror, or maybe your son if he's in the room. Your looking at it. You/we are the most amazing thing on the planet. If the most simple thing like a fork has a creator, how can the most amazingly complicated, greatest thing to ever grace the earth have just come together by happenstance? Answer? It didn't. We have a creator as well. Made in his image. To me there's just no question about it.

[broadcaster240]

To me, it parallels the Biblical account of the start of the world...including earth and mankind. We (and everything) are here thanks to a Creator who spoke the world into existence. It is the antithesis of the theory of evolution, which explores the possibility that animal life came originally from a single cell organism of unknown origin.

[Bert]

There is also variations. There is the Ken Ham "Answers in Genesis" version and the moderate views of those who believe in a Creator's design, but have an appropriate appreciation for the role of science in understanding Earth's history.

 

Good point. I used to assume Intelligent Design was just a "newer" term for creationism but have found out that is not the case. Many believers of an intelligent designer (God for Christians obviously) feel that evolution does not disprove God or his role in creation, it simply lays out in a scientific manner how God created.

 

Many creationists feel this is flat rejecting the bible which they feel tells the earth is only 5-6,000 years old and man has been part of Earth for the vast majority of it. Some Flat Earth creationists go even further and say if you accept the bible literally, you believe the earth is flat, has a firmament (similar to a dome) over it and is still surrounded by water so space exploration I guess is a complete sham in their view? I don't know. I have only read a little on their views.

[Randy Parker]

For me it's primarily a teleological argument. An intelligent design demands an Intelligent Designer.

 

To say the universe is the result of random chance, in my opinion, is sort of like saying Mount Rushmore was the result of a violent windstorm.

[theguru]

I am going to address each post in the thread. Just FYI.

[doubledeuce]

I do not believe that everything came from absolutely nothing, so I believe there must be a creator.

[PP1]

What is left if creationism is not true? Big Bang Theory? The Big Bang Theory requires just as much faith as anything. I personally believe that the

Big Bang is probably the closest thing we have come up with that remotely explains how the creator created the universe.

[broadcaster240]

Or, as someone else put it, "I believe in the Big Bang theory: God said it, and BANG, it happened."

[PP1]

Or, as someone else put it, "I believe in the Big Bang theory: God said it, and BANG, it happened."

 

What I meant is that I believe that science is correct when it claims the universe is expanding, therefore something must have caused it to expand. God never attempts to explain to us how exactly he created the universe. If a great force is causing the universe to expand, it is logical to conclude that something had to exert that force.

[kygirl]

What makes so many people believe in Creationism....for me God does not force us to believe in him, though he could. Instead, he has provided sufficient proof of his existence for us to willingly respond to him. The earth's perfect distance from the sun, the unique chemical properties of water, the human brain, DNA, the number of people who attest to knowing God, sense of knowing right from wrong, holding a newborn baby for the first time doesn't just happen. I feel I had a innate sense at an early age that there was someone bigger than me who had a plan that someone is Jesus Christ who died on a cross, then arose so I might have eternal life. I believe that the Bible is the Word of God not simply a good read which starts with Genesis and tells how the earth and man was created.