Why is Young Earth Creationism still alive and well?
By John Welford
@indexer (4852)
Leicester, England
October 9, 2015 2:58am CST
On the face of it, the idea that Planet Earth has only been around for about 6,000 years is as absurd as believing that the planet is a disc that stands on the back of four enormous elephants!
Yet there are still people around who really DO believe it (the 6,000 years bit, not the elephants!). Not only that, but they want schools to at least leave open the possibility that it is true, and to treat the teachings of Geology and Evolution as being "only theoretical".
They base their beliefs on the Book of Genesis and get their figures by working out the generations listed in that and other books of the Bible. These texts are - in their world view - given far higher prominence than the evidence provided by looking at the rocks under their feet and the fossils they contain, which in turn offer irrefutable evidence that species evolved over millions of years into those that are alive today, include H*mo Sapiens.
Surely it is high time that these people were given their marching orders and not allowed to confuse children by muddling their minds with this Young Earth nonsense. I am all for free speech, but when it comes to education, I want to see truth and reality taught in schools, not mythology masquerading as reality.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
9 Oct 15
It reminds me of a post over in Bubblews where there were a group of creationists that were posting how men and dinosaurs lived together at one time and how awesome that must have been. But then god decided they weren't necessary. Or something.
I have a friend that was trying to tell me how it worked, in her version there was a giant ice sphere around the planet and we lived there, while the earth had the dinosaurs on it. During the flood the ice sphere melted and killed all the dinosaurs. And she said all of this completely serious!
It's all I can do to hold in the laughter.
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
5 Nov 15
People don't study. Both the evolution theory believers.. and Bible readers. Otherwise they'd know the answers. All lands have legends of a flood.. And a mother 'god'/memories of Eve.
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
9 Oct 15
@indexer I asked her where the water went after the flood and she said that god made it go away. Okay, why not...
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
11 Oct 15
What difference does it make in the virtual-reality streamed into YOUR mind?
@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
9 Oct 15
My faith does not blind me to the facts that evolution and science prove a lot. I cant imagine a world where I would never have learned about geology and science and mans progression along with all other sorts of things!
What an ignoramus I would be.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
9 Oct 15
The problem with Creationists is that they try to force schools to teach this nonsense in Science classes, for example by insisting on Evolution being a "theory" and not proven fact - thus misunderstanding the meaning of the word "theory".
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@TheHorse (205805)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Oct 15
I know someone who is a member of a church that teaches that stuff. They spend more time trying to figure out arguments against scientific evidence than they do discussing the teachings of Jesus Christ. I worry about their kids.
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
5 Nov 15
Cause it hasn't been totally outlawed yet? There's many ways of dating. The powers that be choose the one that best fits their theory. This isn't science, but preconceived.. If all life evolved from one original (string of 113 amino acids perfectly lined up, a mathematical impossibility the best mathematicians have said). Where might all the gazillion transitional life forms be? both living and fossil? You assume there is solid lines of fossils. That's blind faith honey!
I am all for free speech, but when it comes to education, I want to see truth and reality taught in schools, not mythology masquerading as reality. If a teacher brings up one of the many, many holes in the theory they will lose their job. We have a state enforced belief. Isn't that enough for you?
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
6 Nov 15
There are no "holes" in the theory of evolution, because no evidence has ever been advanced that stands in its way. The mythology is what is contained in the Book of Genesis.
