I've never understood the sense in how it is politically or socially viable to entertain the delusions of a group of people who really *are* stuck in a time-warp. The Creationist viewpoint is full of hoary old nostrums that Thomas Lyell and Charles Darwin debunked 150 years ago. The Creationist worldview is as follows: 6,000 years ago God created
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All creationists are wrong, but some, the young earthers, are wronger than others, and it doesn't do any good to tar them all with the same brush.
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Even here however, your argument only applies to biblical literalists and not to creationists in general. The majority of creationists are not biblical literalists but rather see the Bible as an allegory of creation "dumbed down" for the minds of bronze age shepherds.
What you are missing is that one can be a creationist and completely agree with modern evolutionary biology and astrophysics because contrary to what the ID crowd tries to peddle creationism answers the question WHY the events occurred the way they did and science answers the question of HOW it occurred.
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45 percent isn't exactly something to sneeze at:
According to a 2001 Gallup poll, about 45% of North Americans believe that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so."
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The why question is frankly childish. Also, it eventually begs the questions what created the designer, what tools did he/she/it use? What created those tools, etc etc etc. It answers nothing.
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No. These questions, much like "What is the size of the color red" or "How much oxygen does free will have?," all derive from category mistakes and rely on unsatisfied presuppositions.
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I feared this would happen quickly. You're talking above my head.
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