EugEnE ([info]keeblerx) wrote,
@ 2009-01-11 18:10:00
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Creationism
I have several Christians in my friends list who are all intelligent and consistent.

How many of you (christians and non-christians) believe in a creation story or believe generally in creationism?



I mean, don't get me wrong, I like the analogy for the world being created. I like a lot of the parables and stories that come from the dozens of creation stories, myths, and legends I have heard.

I also like imagining any of them being a symbol for the way things actually went down.

"Yeah, first there was nothing, then there was something. Then there was water. Then there was land. Then there were animals and then there were people. Then god(s)/goddess(es) took a nap."

I am not a scientist. I don't care how long each of these things took. I am inclined to believe it wasn't a handful of days. I am also inclined to believe that if one animal is similar to another, that it's possible that we are related.

I was not there when the Earth was created, however... I think you'd have to be gullible or stupid to believe that it's only 10,000 years old or less (barring intervention from some deity). Though that's not what's obvious. What's obvious is that Dinosaurs are really awesome.

I also don't care what sparked any sort of big bang or any thing similar. I don't care if god(s)/goddess(es) guided any sort of evolution.

I don't know where else I am going with this.

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[info]btoblake
2009-01-14 03:17 am UTC (link)
I'm going to take a bit of a conversational walk around the block. Bear with me, a few analogies will make my point much simpler, and much more fun to read.

So, some topics, my brain isn't built to get. Subatomic physics for example... if I sat down with a textbook on it, and read it in an afternoon, I think my brain would explode into a pile of strange particles.
Oddly enough, I did once really enjoy learning it. An author wrote a lovely book that borrowed Alice's wonderland.. and because it was a fairy tale, I was fine with a particle running away from alice and running through two tiny holes in the wall at once.

The odd fairy tale was the fastest way to explain the idea, and even gets it through to me fairly accurately, and in a way I can almost remember years later.

To swing back in a more relevant direction...
I think that if an all knowing being showed up on the best college campus on earth, invited a few of the smartest people, and offered a semester long course of the physics of the first few minutes of our universe.. none of the students would be able to pass the first quiz. The concepts alone would be too complicated, we wouldn't get the math at all, and trying to understanding it would drive us batty.

So, if you were an all knowing being who'd been there since before time, and your kid asked you where'd the universe come from? Why not tell a story? Kids can learn a lot from stories.. and they might even remember it halfway accurately.

If the story is really good, they might write their favorite parts down in crayon.

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