Creationism....Honestly?
I have a lot of time to think during the run of the day, the other day my thoughts happened to wander to the constant attempts certain southern states have made to have creationism put into their schools as an alternative to evolution. So I decided to come up with a list of reasons why they should stop doing that. So in no particular order here are my reasons.
1. It's not funny to lie to the retarded
2. Making the statement that at one point they said "the world was flat", is not an argument against the theory of evolution. I'm sure at one point someone said "holding hands can get you pregnant" too.
3. The claim that evolution is just a theory and should be taken alongside other theories such as Creationism is not a valid one. It's only called the "Theory of Evolution" because the name stuck with the amount of evidence that their is for it, it most certainly is not just a theory
4. To believe the theory of creationism over evolution would require you to take the ten pounds of evidence for creationism as true and the ten million tons of evidence for evolution as false.
5. The earth is quite clearly not 5000 years old.
6. If there was a God I'm sure he has to have better things to do with his times than to create billions of years of fossils, just to test our belief in Him/Her/It.
7. I don't care how good the prank is, it's still not funny to lie to the retarded.
8. Creationism as fact would require the Bible to be taken as historical fact and that would just cause a whole new set of problems.
9. The are a lot more different theories of creationism than you would think, which are they gonna teach?, cause I don't think the kids are gonna want to hear all of them.
So that's my list of reasons. I don't want to come out and just say that Creationism makes no sense and anyone that could believe that should come over and see my pet dragon, but I just did.
posted by PugsMasterFlex at 9:13 AM
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3:32 PM
Additional points:
- "No one" ever thought the world was flat. I've got that in quotes because I'm sure someone did at some point, however, the common image of Columbus sailing off the edge of the world is just a fantasy. Scientists as far back as Aristotle knew the world was round, because -- and this is so obvious it hurts -- the shape of the Earth is clearly visible during a Lunar eclipse.
- "Theory" is the highest rank a body of thought in science can achieve. (This is because you can never prove anything in science, only disprove it. ) The Earth revolving around the Sun (properly called heliocentricity) is a theory too, folks.
- As you mentioned, the theory of Creationism has many variants, many of which are non-Biblical. Therefore, teaching Creationism would have to teach a cacophony of contradicting viewpoints.
- No matter what anyone says, Creationism pre-supposes a god. They may say we were created by aliens or something else, but who created the aliens? If they were the result of some other natural phenomenon, why have we never seen any evidence of it? Creationism forms a direct chain from its fake science to God.
3:36 PM
I still think the spaghetti monster is the best theory going.
4:52 PM
I also enjoy the theory that the world rests atop the back of a giant turtle, flying through space. This turtle is supported by another (larger) turtle, and so on, all the way down.
8:42 PM
Your mom's a turtle!
(Yes!)
5:14 PM
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