Re: creation science vs. evolution
I am not sure where everybody is getting that evolution is an unproven science. I mean, when someone carbon dates a dinosaur skeleton to several million years ago, when they carbon date a human skeleton to tens of thousands of years ago, doesn't that kinda sorta put a damper in the whole "created 6000 years ago" thing? What about the mapping of the human genome? Maybe evolution isn't 100% understood, but the facts are still there, that living things have come and gone on this earth over a period of millions and millions of years. They have evolved to survive, the weak dies off, the strong persist. Religion has only existed since the time that humans started wondering what was after death. All religion is is the basic human desire for there to be more after death than the lights just going out and nothingness taking over. Religion exists to make people feel better about what is happening around them. For some, a tornado is just a weather occurance that killed their entire family. For others, a tornado is Gods Will, and that it was time for God to take that family. I personally do not believe there is one omnipotent being that waved his hand and all was created, but I also have no problem with a person believing in something. I tell you, if there were to be a God, he must be pretty disappointed right now, considering humans, his creation, have done the most unspeakable attrocities to themselves, all in the name of religion. Ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, 9/11, the list goes on and on. I tell you, I have seen countless amounts of proof about evolution and the way nature works, but I have seen no proof of God. Faith doesn't cut it for me, I want it where I can see it. <br /><br />My opinion on creational science? It isn't a science, keep it out of school. Teach the facts at school, and for those who are religious, teach creational science in sunday school.