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The Scientific Method Vs. The Creationist Method
April 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Printer Friendly Version
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1 Rayburn // May 26, 2008 at 3:45 PM
There are many more facts that support creation more than there are that support evolution. Think about it, everything has a beginning. Your car had its beginning at the factory. The house you live in had its beginning when it was built. Both of these things each had creators. God is the only existence that has never had a beginning or a creator. If we evolved from monkeys, how come monkeys still exist? How come the monkeys that are here today are not evolving into humans? How come nothing else that we know of has evolved? How come nothing else that we know of has had its beginning by a “big bang”? I know the Bible is true because it makes much more sense than evolution does. Everything and everyone besides God has had a beginning and a creator so I don’t see why the earth wouldn’t have had a Creator either.
It is proven that we were created from the dust of the ground just as God’s Word says. We contain 13 elements that exist in the ground! Now who created humans and the earth? Nobody, or God?
2 Ryan Adams // May 26, 2008 at 4:04 PM
I’ll try to be brief so that this response doesn’t turn into a post itself. The first half of your argument contradicts itself. You use the argument that “Everything has a creator” to say that the earth must have a creator and it must be God. But you also say God doesn’t have a creator. I think you can see the logic problem here. Everything has a creator, but God doesn’t have a creator. That means everything doesn’t have a creator.
Second problem is your understand of evolution. Just because something evolves, does mean each and every instance of it turnes into exactly that same thing. Just because some ancient primates turned into humans, doesn’t mean that that all had to.
Third problem, things have evolved. The reason you have to get a different flu vaccine each year is because the virus has changed (Aka, evolved) from what it was the year before.
Forth problem, “elements in the ground are in humans”. OK. Did you know some of the same elements found in volcanoes are in humans. I guess that proves the Scientologists are correct.
The only “facts” creationism has are the words of a few people, written down hundreds of years ago and then translated multiple time, by hand, into a book we have today. The facts evolution has are the current, modern day studies, conducted by hundreds of unique and separate individuals.
3 Rayburn // May 26, 2008 at 7:11 PM
I said everyTHING has a creator, not everyBODY. But I do believe that everybody also has a creator except God. C’mon, we all had to have started somewhere. The world didn’t get started by a big bang just as computers and cars don’t come into existence by a big bang. There’s always someone to put it together, whether it be the earth, humans, or anything manufactured. Just because God doesn’t have a creator doesn’t mean everything else doesn’t either. He’s the Father of all creation. IOW, everything under Him is created. He can’t be created because He’s the Father of all creation.
You said, “Just because something evolves, does mean each and every instance of it turnes into exactly that same thing.” Why not? What I’m saying is that the very thing people say we’ve evolved from still exists in the same original form. IOW, monkeys aren’t evolving because they’re still monkeys. If we evolved from monkeys, then there would be no more monkeys because they would have all evolved into humans. It looks like the monkeys that are still here would have evolved into something else if not all of them evolved into humans as you say. Besides, how do you know we evolved? We weren’t there to see it happen. Why would God lie? The Bible says that “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God.” This totally disproves what you just said: “The only “facts” creationism has are the words of a few people, written down hundreds of years ago and then translated multiple time, by hand, into a book we have today.” God came up with the words to the Bible, but men wrote them down. God has no reason to lie. He never lied in His Word if you’ve ever read it. Everything he ever told Israel He would do, he did. He didn’t lie about that, so therefore he wouldn’t lie about how the earth was started.
You also said “Third problem, things have evolved. The reason you have to get a different flu vaccine each year is because the virus has changed (Aka, evolved) from what it was the year before.” Just because flu vaccines “evolve” doesn’t mean humans do.
Another thing: “Did you know some of the same elements found in volcanoes are in humans. I guess that proves the Scientologists are correct.” No that proves the Bible is correct. After all, volcanoes come from under the ground. That just proves that we are made from the dust of the ground as the Bible says.
Finally, you said “The facts evolution has are the current, modern day studies, conducted by hundreds of unique and separate individuals.” The facts of the Bible have all been tested as well by many different scientists in modern day studies. The thing is that you’re against God and the Bible so therefore you go along with anything that disproves it.
4 Ryan Adams // May 26, 2008 at 9:28 PM
One the subject of evolution: I will be writing a post in the not too distant future detailing my views on evolution and covering things such as how monkeys can still exist. Please check back fro that post, and feel free to comment on it.
On everything else: You seem to be arguing (at the base of it all) that God exists. The majority of your arguments for this though, see to be “because God says so.” Do you see the circular reasoning in that? You can’t say “the bible is true and factual because God wrote it. The bible says God exists, so he must as the bible is true and factual.”
There is one point you made that I can begin to agree with: “The thing is that you’re against God and the Bible.” I wouldn’t say I am “against” the bible, but you are correct in stating I do not take its declaration of a God as truth. Even if you post 1000 comments here, I will still not believe in a God. And I realize that even if I write a 1000 articles, you will not give up your belief in God. Because of that, any further comments you make directly related to proving the existence of God will be deleted.
I hope you will understand that this is to prevent my blog from becoming an on-line religious battle ground, and not to censor your views. If you believe in a God as strongly as you claim to, I encourage you to start your own blog and clearly and articulately explain why there.