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Why Creationism Is Wrong

by enrico

Fourty-five percent of the American population believe that God
created humans and placed them on the Earth less than 10,000
years ago. It is an incredible statistic. That's 135,512,978
people in the USA who believe the Earth is 10,000 years old,
twice the population of the UK.

The question of faith has always been a contentious, and
interesting one. Causing more wars than anything else in history,
religion has certainly been one of the more interesting phenomena
that humanity has created for itself. The dominating religion in
the Western world is Christianity and it is certainly hard to get
away from it.

As scientific thinking and theories have improved over the last
couple of hundred years there have been those religious fanatics
who have chosen to reject reasonable ideas and logical thinking
and cling to their spiritual beliefs in the wake of overwhelming
evidence to the contrary.

What got me thinking about religion and it's conflict with
science was a particular branch of Christianity; Creationism.
Creationism is the belief that evolution is a myth and that
everything was created by an intelligent designer. In this case
the designer is God. Strangely it isn't actually the theory of
intelligent design that irks me here, I like to think I'm fairly
open to new ideas and generally accepting of religious beliefs,
even if I do not agree with them. What does bother me is how the
creationists present their views, and how they have such a large
population completely brainwashed into the belief.

The creationist argument is that life and the universe as we
understand it is so complex, infinitely so, that for it to have
happened by chance is ridiculous. They believe that the Earth and
all the life that lives on it has been designed and placed there
by a divine creator, a God. Obviously this flies in the face of
evolution, the theory with millions of years worth of hard
evidence.

A common theory put forward by well known creationists is that
the banana presents the 'atheist's nightmare'. They say that the
banana is perfectly suited for a human hand, is colour
coordinated to show how ripe it is, has a bio-degradable wrapper,
is good to eat and is perfectly shaped for the human mouth. They
say that with all these things taken into account it is so
obvious that the banana has been designed for humans to eat and
hasn't just occurred by chance. What they fail to mention
however, is that the wild banana is quite different. Filled with
hard black seeds it is completely inedible. The banana that we
know has been genetically modified over thousands of years into
it's current form. In fact the designer of the banana is Man
himself, hardly proof of a divine creator.

They then go on to compare various man made structures to
naturally occurring phenomenon. They say that to say a building
has no designer is ridiculous, and so therefore it is also
ridiculous to say that nature has no designer. What they fail to
mention is that everything that is naturally occurring has had
millions, or billions of years to evolve and come into being. To
say that an eye has naturally evolved does initially seem far
fetched, but when it is backed up with billions of years of
chance it suddenly doesn't seem so hard to believe.

Imagine playing the lottery every day for five billion years.
You'd win quite a few times wouldn't you? Well this is how
evolution works. Over such massive time frames tiny chances of
things happening become almost certain to happen. I would guess
that religious believers have difficulty in comprehending the
vast amount of time that existed before Man. The problem with
religion and creationism is that everything is so centered around
our own species when really we've only been around for an
astronomical blink of an eye. Even in our own planet's history we
are quite insignificant, we've been around for 200,000 years as
opposed to the 500 million years that fish have existed for. To
say that a God has designed everything just for us seems entirely
implausible to me.

Of course one could never be 100 percent sure that there was no
God. You could never say that without having absolute knowledge
of everything that exists, has existed or will exist. In this
regard I am open to the fact that a God may exist, although I do
not believe that one does.

I think that fabricating beliefs based on an old book and
presenting them as fact is wrong, however. Surely science and
rational thinking should be the basis on which opinion is formed.
The purpose of science is to find evidence and present theories
based on it. By turning yourself over to a religion you are able
to just explain everything away with 'God did it'. Against such
an point of view it becomes difficult to construct an argument.
Inevitably they will ask some questions that science does not
have an answer for yet, and then they can answer it with 'God did
it'. Science does not pretend to have answers for things it does
not understand yet, but preset facts based on real evidence and
testing.

Organised religion and faith are relics from the past, unneeded
in today's society. They were used to govern primitive people and
give answers to things that people could not understand yet.
Essentially ruling people with the fear of going to Hell,
religion is no longer needed now that we have organised rules and
police forces. By perpetuating the falsehood of creationism and
presenting religion as fact these people are slowing the
scientific advancement and development of our species.

Religious evangelism needs to accept science or cease spreading
its lies, for the good of everyone.

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