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Originally posted by Tbor
Glophead,
You're certainly not the only person who believes in creationism. And what's more it's not a ridiculous position as many people would have you believe. Pennington is right that creationism is unsupported by science, but he's framed it such that the two are mutually exclusive. I think that's a little unfair. It's true that many creationists think that there's no such thing as evolution. But the point of issue between creationists and evolutionists could be reframed as an argument over the *origin* of life on earth, rather than how it progressed from there. If you are a creationist, why not agree that a god capable of creating everything is also capable of devising an ingenious system of evolution.
I'm not a creationist myself. I think it makes perfect sense that we should spring into being, given that the universe in which we exist is nearly infinite. Given infinite time and nearly infinite space, eventually we approach a limit the likelyness of such an event. But that's just my theory.
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Creationism and Evolution
ARE mutually exclusive. Sure some people claim that god "created" the big bang, in the knowledge that life would evolve, but that is NOT creationism. Creationism states that God specifically DESIGNED and built humans, in the same way that we would design and build a pocket-watch or a jumbo jet.