Not exact matches
Creationists sometimes try to get around this
by claiming that the information carried
by living things lets them
create order.
You feel insulted and «dehumanized» when
creationists say that people were
created in the image and likeness of God, but you have no problem with the evolutionist claim that we all evolved from slime
by a cosmic accident.
Also, when the
creationists say that god
created the earth etc in 6 days, what exactly do they mean
by «god».
The one thing I need explained
by creationists is why did God
create man to have to use the restroom?
Mastropaolo belongs to the subset of
creationists known as Young Earth
creationists, who believe that Earth and its inhabitants were
created by God some several thousand years ago - an account of which is laid out in the book of Genesis, in the Bible's Old Testament.
And you, sir, have the audacity to suggest that
creationists are dangerous to children... If we are not
created by an intelligent, loving being, then, sir, our existence has no purpose, and living without a purpose is something we can not teach our children and expect them to live a full, and content life.
On the other side are «
creationists,» who argue — against not only science but also those faiths that accept the compatibility of evolutionary biology and Sacred Writ — that the earth was
created on or around Sunday, October 23, 4004 b.c., a conclusion based on a sincere but discredited calculation
by James Ussher in the seventeenth century.
One of the issues between
Creationists vs. Darwin has been the perfection of evolution or the designs of living things, the perfection was
created by God vs. the perfection was
created through evolution.
Creationist «well, what about the origin of the universe, the fact that the universe obeys laws, the origins of life on this earth, the fact that the largest «gaps» in the fossil record correspond exactly with the organisms identified in the bible as being
created by God, namely fish, birds, land animals and humans»
And the idea that a world of high - level sentient creatures could be
created only through an evolutionary process is surely not a logical truth — as illustrated
by all the
creationists who deny that our world was so
created.11 Hasker has defended his view of God only
by implicitly giving it up.12
About
creationists: I don't have any trouble with people believing that God
created the world if that helps them facing their existential life questions (anyway I don't know whether science can ever say more about metaphysics than that it doesn't exist, based on the assumption that what can not be perceived
by the senses is not real).