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Question Posed – Is it a bige deal, to me I dont care or ever think about it.
I have read multiple books of Creation Science and listened to the debates, but is it a big deal.
From Genesis you can say creation happened in 7 days, you can even agree with Evolution and you can agree with Intelligent design.
I dont think its a big deal as it has nothing to do with salvation. You dont have to believe in it to be saved do you.
If people just diverted their energies.
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Weeeeell, It is sort of the whole crux of the “god” debate. Is there an omnipotent, omniscient creator of the universe that somehow craves my attention or isn’t there? Evolution kind of knocks a big huge hole in the argument for that creator. This is why it is an imperative for the religious to win that debate at all costs.
Yes, it is a big deal.
1. Because people are still trying to force this sort of dogmatic nonsense into schools and
2. Because it teaches bad thinking habits.
Faith, is by definition, believing is things with or without (or in spite of) proof. People that habitually believe what makes them comfortable in the face of real facts that make them uncomfortable will believe things like Global warming isn’t happening and the US government blew up the World Trade Center.
Do you want to encourage that sort of ‘thinking’? A lot of these people vote.
Since salvation is a fiction, from that point of view it is not a big deal at all. But as a proper vs. improper application of intellectual power, it is a very big deal indeed; incorrect premises lead to incorrect conclusions. Which is one reason that “intelligent design” is not taught as science. The more important reason is that it isn’t science; the proposition, being irrefutable, can predict nothing, making it scientifically useless.
Define a “big deal.”
It’s is a big deal to thousands of misled believers who are ignorant of science and fall for it.
It’s a big deal to scientists who have to waste time refuting this utter nonsense when trying to educate children, which is one reason our country is scientifically illiterate compared to many others.
It’s a big deal when people make silly arguments about their imaginary friends because they accept or don’t accept reality.
It’s a bigger deal when people murder each other over their imaginary friends.
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Scientific reasoning is very important. It may hold the answer to cures for diseases and other such scientific miracles. Creationism on the other hand is useless rhetoric.
Personally I see no point in speculating about an Armageddon either …. as it is a waste of energy.
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It is a big deal to some. So big, that they fight to get it taught in public schools.
It is a shame that more Christians can’t be like you and see that creation doesn’t have a thing to do with their belief in salvation.
i was talking to this the other day and they said similar…that it didn’t impact their faith either way, we got here somehow, does it really matter? for them, there was enough other “proof” to believe in God, it didn’t matter.
I guess people will always try and guess at their origins, and for both “sides” (athesists and christians) it is an argument either for or against there being a God. But yeh, i agree it’s totally different to salvation.
if there is a god, and he had wanted us to know definitevly how the world came about, he would have told us, i reckon.
if theres’s not a god, there could be so many other ways the world came to be. does it really matter? really?