Saying Creationism Is Better Than Science Is Like Saying Gobots Were Better Than Transformers!
Seventy-five years after the Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’ the debate over teaching evolution and creationism in public schools remains as robust as ever.
My question is simply, why?
Why is it still a question? Is there a reason why we give the biblical account of creation any credibility over another mythological account of creation? Why doesn’t it have just as much credibility as, let’s say, the Egyptian account of creation? It’s not because the Egyptian myth has been proven to be false. It isn’t like the biblical account has any more or less evidence to support it. As far as I know, they are both running neck and neck with having absolutely jack shit as far as evidence to support them.
Can I get a witness?
Every year at least one student would passionately argue against the theory of evolution—
Basically their reasons being that it goes against what they have been taught in the Bible, more specifically what has been outlined in Book of Genesis.
So?
Any book that claims that God made the sun stand still so it wouldn’t get dark outside is pretty weak on the scientific specifics. The Earth revolves around the sun not the other way around, dumb ass. If God made the sun stand still, it still would have been dark in about 12 hours.
Creationism teaches that Earth and most life forms came into existence no more than 10,000 years ago according to the Bible’s Book of Genesis. Many creationists today don’t take such a literal approach, but still refuse to accept that life could have come from non-living matter rather than an “intelligent designer.”
What the fuck does that mean? Why would they have a hard time believing that life was created from “non-living matter”? They already do. What the fuck is dirt? According to the Bible, God made man from dirt! Last time I checked dirt wasn’t a domesticated animal.
In June, the Supreme Court refused to let a public school district require the teaching of evolution to be accompanied by a disclaimer mentioning the biblical version of creation and other teachings on life’s origin. The court again deemed creationism a religious and not scientific theory.
I am seeing a pattern here, aren’t you?
Oklahoma State law stipulates that teachers who cover evolution in class can also teach “the theory of creation as presented in the Bible” — and students who adhere to the biblical account should get credit on any exam.
Not all religious people are stupid. However, almost all stupid people are religious. You’re not stupid for being a creationist, your stupid for calling it a science.
A fundamentalist ministry is raising money for a museum based on the premise that dinosaurs roamed the Earth within the past few thousand years, that all people are descended from Adam and Eve and that the Bible is a literal account of creation.
“What we really are about is biblical authority, telling people that the Bible is God’s word and the Book of Genesis is the true history of the world. A lot of people misrepresent what we stand for, we’re not anti-science. We believe in science. There’s nothing an evolutionist observes in this world that I would disagree with. We observe the fossil record; we observe natural selection; we observe mutation. We agree on all those things. The difference is the past.”
So how do creationists suggest we date objects in the world?
How long does it take to make a piece of coal into a diamond?
A week?
How long does it take to petrify a tree?
A week?
Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis, contends that faulty science incorrectly dates fossils by millions of years. “I believe most of the fossil record comes from the flood of Noah’s day,” Ham said. “The animals we have today are descendants of those that got off Noah’s ark, going back to those that God made originally. I believe God created all the animals virtually instantaneously.”
Even if that was so, I would like to see the mathematics on how big an Ark would have to be to fit 2 of every species of animals on the friggin’ planet. How long would it take Noah to WALK around the earth collecting them? Or how long would it take for the animals to walk around the planet to get to the Ark? And what the fuck they would eat or you would feed them so that they would not eat your ass while they sat on your shitkicker Ark for over a month?
Please.
