Not perfect, no. But if the assertion is right that most people in the world believe in creationism, I'm willing to bet the reason is that so many people have so little education.
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Not perfect, no. But if the assertion is right that most people in the world believe in creationism, I'm willing to bet the reason is that so many people have so little education.
CELTICEMPIRE
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all creationists are stupid
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I never said that. Just that I don't think that most have had much of an education. It's not impossible to have an education and believe something that all the evidence rejects. But it's easier to reject all the evidence if you've never had a chance to learn any of the evidence.
CELTICEMPIRE
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what "evidence"?
Everything that science has turned up. It's really conclusive for those who are willing to look at it.
all creationists are stupid
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Sure, there are a lot of creationists with science degrees. Almost as many people named Steve with science degrees.
One of the flaws I see creationists make is, "wow this smart person -- smarter than me! -- believes what I believe, thus I must be right!" Science doesn't work on one smart guy. It works as fields of smart people figuring things out. One eccentric doesn't make you right, anymore than HIV-denialism is correct because it has a really good retrovirologist who won't admit he's wrong.
CELTICEMPIRE
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yes, but these people have good arguments for their positions.
Perhaps, but not scientific arguments.
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Genetics, fossils, the fact we can see natural selection at work, carbon dating, etc. The fact you can ask questions science doesnt have the answer to yet doesnt erase the evidence it does have.
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I view evolution like I learned to view geology. The variable is time and the constant is the elements working on that particular example of specie or geological sample.
50-55 million years ago I would be sunbathing on the northern shores of the Indian Tectonic Plate. Today those very same marine sedimentary rocks make out the top of Mount Everest.
I know geology isn't biology. But I know that the 3.something billion years, estimation of the first fossilized organisms/bacteria, is a mighty long time for time to affect the hundreds of millions of generations that would be altered by the elements working on them through life. What is so hard to imagine? We've seen "real time" evolution from one island to another due to varying living conditions. We don't even need fossils to see that.
Our world is fantastic, and if you combine what your eyes tell you, what your logic hints at you and finally what science reveals to you there is a great show of wonder to be had - and a real urge to learn more and wait what science will show us in the future. I feel sorry for the people who use a single book to decipher the world they live in.
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What I find interesting is that, underlying the attacks on evolution, the default position is that Book of Genesis is correct. That's the fallacy of the false alternative. If we reject evolution, there are an infinite number of other possibilities, only one of which is that a supreme being created man in his own image.
At Celtic's instigation, I did a quick search earlier and very quickly I ran across a site where the author was laughing at "evolutionists" for having fixed, preconditioned ideas and manipulating facts to meet those ideas, which is obviously the height of irony considering what the religious alternative is.
There are several things that annoy me:
1) It always seem to be creationists who have to resort to some "smart" website to base their criticism on, never the other way around. If you're so certain about it, tell us your reasons in your own words, and not someone else's arguments on why they're so certain about it.
2) The notion that evolution is everything that rejects the creation myth or even the so called "creationist theory". Often, the theory of evolution, the theory of the development of life and even the Big Bang are lumped together as if they're all part of the same narrative. That's not true. Want to attack evolution, address the points that it actually makes.
3) Refusing to choose the battlefield. By that I mean that you can treat evolution as a scientific theory and thus question it. But that means that a) you have to conform with scientific method and b) allow your alternative to be analyzed just the same way. When someone puts creationism into question and the answer is "that's faith, mysterious ways, yada yada", then you refused to show up on the battlefield you set up yourself.
1) It always seem to be creationists who have to resort to some "smart" website to base their criticism on, never the other way around. If you're so certain about it, tell us your reasons in your own words, and not someone else's arguments on why they're so certain about it.
2) The notion that evolution is everything that rejects the creation myth or even the so called "creationist theory". Often, the theory of evolution, the theory of the development of life and even the Big Bang are lumped together as if they're all part of the same narrative. That's not true. Want to attack evolution, address the points that it actually makes.
3) Refusing to choose the battlefield. By that I mean that you can treat evolution as a scientific theory and thus question it. But that means that a) you have to conform with scientific method and b) allow your alternative to be analyzed just the same way. When someone puts creationism into question and the answer is "that's faith, mysterious ways, yada yada", then you refused to show up on the battlefield you set up yourself.
ParadigmShifter
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Well, never bring a sword to a gunfight 
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Very well done video. Thanks.
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Sounds like begging the question.
Maniacal
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Man, some internet trolls really put a lot of effort into their websites.
bathsheba666
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Yes, we have the capacity to realize.
Shall we send help?
Also, can you prove that most of the world population makes things up?
And why do you want to be like them?
Well, never bring a sword to a gunfight
Most of the creationism 'debate' is more like a crapfight, and based on that, they're bringing exactly the right thing.
I could answer the questions too, but that's been done multiple times already with much the same things as I'd say.
What hasn't been mentioned yet is one thing that creationists don't seem to realise. 'I don't know' is an acceptable answer. In fact, 'I don't know' as the answer is the primary thing that has driven science for a couple of thousand years. Someone with a scientific, intellectually curious mindset finds an 'I don't know' question, such as how sex originated, their response is to think it's interesting, and see what they can find out. Someone with a creationist mindset sees an 'I don't know' question, and they view that as evidence for all the related, partially or fully known answers that they don't like being wrong.
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