On Creationism

The underlying reason for believing in creationism is because evolution conflicts with your interpretion of your holy book (usually the Bible, but other holy books apply too). Creationist consider the text in their holy book to be absolute truth, and so that trumps whatever evidence there is in the natural world. Different creationists have different interpretations of what is literally true, and therefore wilfully ignore different sets of evidence... Pre-destined or Clockwork universe This is the belief that God set up the universe with such precision that it was certain to produce the wonderful world we see today without any further intervention. Michael Denton holds to this view, but it is pretty rare I believe. Perfectly compatible with mainstream science, which currently has no stand on what was there before the Big Bang. Not so compatible with Christianity, which claims God intervened by sending Jesus. Evidence ignored: None Theistic evolution Modern evolutionary the...

I see a lot of nonsense posted on the internet about evolution and creationism/ID, and this blog is me having my say. My aim is to post on a weekly basis, and to keep this page as an index with links to each post. To make my own position clear, I believe in evolution, and most of the posts here will be about debunking the claims of creationism. I am also an atheist (I accept there may be a God, but I find that pretty unlikely), and some posts are going to be about some of the claims of Christianity, which is, afterall, closely linked to the creationism debate. Contents: General Topics Classifying Creationism - A Spectrum of Wilfil Ignorance Character Assassination Creationists think if they discredit Darwin it must mean his science is false. Not only is this faulty reasoning, but their attempts are based on falsehoods. Racism Slavery Eugenics Links to Hitler The Genesis Account The Garden of Eden The Noachian Flood - Mechanics The Noachian Flood - Life on the Ark ...