Takes faith to believe evolution
What blew my mind a few years ago, was the evolutionary chart I was taught in grade school, was entirely falsified. Not one, not piltdown man, nebraska man, etc., could hold up to true dispassionate observation and testing.
There are so many facts the evolution theories must ignore, it's astounding.
Most men believe what they want to, and look for facts to back them up, then change their theories to match anything that keeps getting thrown in their face. It's difficult to avoid prejudice in every walk of life, religious or otherwise.
I'll say this, from where I sit it takes much more faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe in creation. Evolution flies in the face of the most basic principle in the universe, ie., entropy. Things go to a lower form, to lesser distribution of energy, to less complex (here someone will bring up the open and closed system principle, etc., but been there done that, not caring to argue, just voicing a pure opinion).
The only thing which seems to deny this, is life.
The fact that life exists, allow men to start with it's existence as a foundation fact. Then because they cannot 'see' God, measure him, or observe him directly, they living in this physical world without spiritual interest, assume their own intellect to be all there is, and make themselves the single superior being in existence. Evolution is nothing more than the original lie of Satan, 'ye shall be as gods'.
By definition evolution is not a viable scientific principle, as it does not fit the requirements of being observable, and experimentally repeatable and measured.
The fact that some people call evolution a scientific fact, only demonstrates it truly IS a religion to them, as they cannot even be dispassionate enough to admit a simple truth.
Quite honestly, who really should CARE what is true? Why argue it so much?
I don't mind if it were true, it would be fine by me. It's just that it makes no sense to me, and also because I feel God and have a relationship with him, so I know he exists. How he created things matters not one bit to me, but so far I find the creationist model and the biblical record fit the current evidence and knowledge. I would have to have much more faith to plug the holes evolution leaves behind. It just doesn't fit the facts.
Lastly, I think the most dishonest thing an evolutionist can do, is not admit that they are entirely ignoring that creation of necessity would require 'apparent age'. If Adam and trees, etc., were created, if the world were to suddenly have to 'work' all at once (biosphere, etc.), then they would 'appear' to have been there for a long time.
Example, Adam may appear to be 30 when he was in fact 1 second old. Plants, animals, etc., would have to have life cycles in various stages, 'already'. The light from the stars would have to be created 'en route', lest man miss out on the sheer magnitude of God's glorious creation.
I believe that's why God said, "let there be light", he didn't say, 'let there be a sun'.
David
CyniQ said:
I watched a Boston Legal rerun last night. The subject was the teaching of creationism/intelligent design in school. It got me thinking. I'm more than a little sick and tired of being abused and labeled as some archaic, backwoods dolt for believing that it is more reasonable to conclude that the earth and living things on it had a creator rather than just popped up out of nothing.
I would like to urge Grizz and the rest of you evolutionists to acknowledge the truth. YOU are religious. Science and evolutionism are religions in themselves. You have faith in science the same way that creationists have faith in God. I say that God created Adam and Eve. You say that a living organism developed out of ooze by virtue of the allpowerful "Chance". OOooh. Sounds like Oog to me. Neither of us have any "real" proof. Yet we both profess to believe... get this...
without[?I] proof. You know what we call that don't you?
So why do you insist that it is more scientific, intelligent, rational, yada, yada to have FAITH in Chance and the primordial soup than it is to believe in a creator? [we've already beaten the evolution/creation horse to death. I want to debate the difference in philosophies more than the difference in doctrine. 
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