Posted by Smurf [Smurf] on November 29, 1999 at 04:40:11 {DGglKT6Uj21vMkeTU9QQ1U4ozdDO/w}:
Evolution versus creation and do God exist? These philosophical questions have still not been answered in the sense that most people have a common understanding. We all (almost all) accept that Earth is a sphere traveling around the sun, because of all evidence and the explanations which can be accepted and understood by us all. Today this is not an issue for debate, despite that the common understanding was so different not to long ago. Philosophical questions concerning God and creation are much older, people have struggled and invented numerous explanations but none good enough to get a common understanding. Even if most scientists today may agree that the Genesis is a myth comparable with other creation myths, they have not been able to find such a good and trustworthy explanation credible enough to be accepted as the truth for common man.
To argue against creationist is often a simple task, as a lot of posts on this board have already shown. Crackpot science, which refuses to accept archeological evidence or argues for a reality with very flexible natural laws, applicable when it suits their model and in other cases cease to exist, at least for a moment, are not so trustworthy.
To argue against atheistic evolutionists is a little bit harder because they are often using some kind of "circular reasoning" and sometimes also admits that they are not so sure. They often resort to some kind of agnosticism and for the moment admits that the questions are not solved. In the next moment they start again arguing for the view that god does not exist and explain that the answer is evolution.
I believe that we just don't know, this is a simple statement, but can we handle it. Can we feel any comfort in the fact that tomorrow is unknown and that we know so little of the past? Both creationists and evolutionists have written and oral stories about the past and the future and we all might have some comfort in believing and in faith. But the truth is that we just don't know for sure. In my opinion, this is true for both the Creationists and the Evolutionist.
/Smurf