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Creationism is the religious belief that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe were created in their original form by a deity
So you do not believe in evolution? The bible says the Earth is only 9000 years old....so do you think that Dinosaurs are a myth or that they lived with man?Yes, I believe in creationism. It is also called "intelligent design".
So you do not believe in evolution? The bible says the Earth is only 9000 years old....so do you think that Dinosaurs are a myth or that they lived with man?
I'm curious as to your beliefs. Thanks!
I dont' think the bible says the earth is 9000 years old. It's obviously millions of years old, perhaps billions. No one knows for sure.
If by for sure you mean no one can put an exact year on the age of the Earth, you're right. If you mean that we can't make an educated assumption to the approximate age of the Earth you're wrong.
We can make an educated assumption with our current technology, but no one knows for sure how old the earth is. I'm right.
We can make an educated assumption with our current technology, but no one knows for sure how old the earth is. I'm right.
Today's accepted age of Earth of 4.55 billion years was determined by C.C. Patterson using uranium-lead isotope dating (specifically lead-lead dating) on several meteorites including the Canyon Diablo meteorite and published in 1956.[25]
Some meteorites are furthermore considered to represent the primitive material from which the accreting solar disk was formed.[26] Some have behaved as closed systems (for some isotopic systems) soon after the solar disk and the planets formed. To date, these assumptions are supported by much scientific observation and repeated isotopic dates, and it is certainly a more robust hypothesis than that which assumes a terrestrial rock has retained its original composition.
Nevertheless, ancient Archaean lead ores of galena have been used to date the formation of Earth as these represent the earliest formed lead-only minerals on the planet and record the earliest homogeneous lead-lead isotope systems on the planet. These have returned age dates of 4.54 billion years with a precision of as little as 1% margin for error.[20]:310–341
1. The act of taking to or upon oneself: assumption of an obligation.
2. The act of taking possession or asserting a claim: assumption of command.
3. The act of taking for granted: assumption of a false theory.
4. Something taken for granted or accepted as true without proof; a supposition: a valid assumption.
5. Presumption; arrogance.
6. Logic A minor premise.
How old do you think the Earth is, walleye?
At least a billion years I suppose. Like I say, no one knows.
I think I can set the matter straight:
First of all, I believe that it is quite possible that the idea that god created the universe and that life evolves can both be true.
I also believe that what the creationists/intelligent design people are saying is that god created things, including life, perfectly and as they are right now. Their position is so untenable it is even hard to define. For example, and on the simplest level, they don't account for change even though change can be seen with the common eye. How can you believe that the design of anything is the only form it has ever been in, if it can be proven empirically that something or some part of a thing has changed.
Intelligent design/creationism, is a false theory, which talks us out of our own eyeballs (senses), to further a political agenda. Namely, if we can destroy science in the name of religion, than we can also destroy bipartisonship and make everyone see things the same way, the Christian Fundamentalist way.
There's the belief that the earth was created by god some indeterminate amount of time ago and that god directed evolution.
There's the belief that the earth was created by god some indeterminate amount of time ago and that evolution happened naturally.
Read Hatuey's post. Scientific theories are not just assumptions.
I read the post. Am I supposed to believe this is the final word? That's funny. Science has not come to the final word on anything. To think so would be very foolish.
Einstein was probably the greatest mind we have ever known and he believed in intelligent design.
Einstein was probably the greatest mind we have ever known and he believed in intelligent design.
- Albert Einstein, letter to an atheist (1954), quoted in Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas & Banesh HoffmanIt was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
If I remember correctly Einstein only ever said he believed in God in Spinoza's sense. Someone on this site has a signature quote of him saying just that.It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
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