Why do people laugh at creationists?

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Ah, I see. Well, the broadest definition of creationism includes all theists, and strictly speaking is not mutually exclusive with evolution. However, most people (including most self-described creationists) are referring to something much more specific when they say "creationism." Most people take creationism to mean (at the least) that God created all life in its present forms. Thus, creationism denies the idea of universal common descent of all life.

The main attempt I have seen at reconciling creationism and evolution is theistic evolution, but most creationists would reject even this as contrary to a literal reading of Genesis.

EDIT: The "extreme creationists" as you call them claim to interpret all of the Bible as literally true. They just conveniently ignore select passages.

Not all Creationists are biblical literalists or Young Earth Creationists.

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A significant proportion of scientists believe in God... so I think you're argument is a little weak there. No evolutionist can honestly say what caused the big bang, but we can say what happened right up until that point.



Creationists honestly believe this is the truth. That's the whole problem.



I think you're mixing up the scientific process here. The scientist develops a hypothesis which must be falsifiable, then conducts empirical experiments to determine if the evidence supports the hypothesis or not. If they already had their mind made up, then why do the experiment? They go through these lengthy and rigourous processes not for the fun of it, but because they really want to learn more and these lengthy and arduous processes are the only defensible way they can move forward. Upon drawing any conclusions, these must be reviewed and be repeatable.

This is entirely different to the method of the creationists. The creationist adopts his position without any empirical evidence, a position that is not falsifiable, that is, a position that cannot be disproven by evidence. His position is not subject to review. It is not subject to new evidence. It is absolute.

I agree that the bible may have been a relatively accurate process of how things came to be 1000s of years ago... but there is no need for humans to carry on those beliefs now. It's like people still believing the Earth is flat because it was written in some book 1000s of years ago... or that the Earth is the centre of the universe... and even the Catholic Church has acknowledge Copernicus was right after 100s of years of redicule and persecution. It will only be a matter of time before Darwin is acknowledged as being accurate along with a number of other scientists... will probably be hundreds of years away given the ignorance being spread around.

I got no problems with Christians either, but to seriously hold on to these rediculous beliefs...

It was viewed as accurate. It's no more accurate back when than now.

The catholic church as already recognize the validity of the theory of evolution.


Its not suprising, considering that the Hebrews do had contact with the mesopotamia. The babylon captivity might be the best exemple. It's generaly considered that the flood myth come from mesopotamia.


It must be coming from some pseudo-science crap, I don't give much credit to things like that....

I agree with you one a point though. Even if I'm not a creationist, I do find the video quite irrespectul and condescending.

Creationist ‘Controversy’
Superstition rears it’s ugly face, from it’s hiding place
From all nooks and crannies, every dark spot to hide
These folks value humans so high, yet so very low
They feast upon the ignorant, selling their snake oil
They are indeed parasites and vermin

Wonderful tale.

Is that derived from an old Scandanavian myth of some sort to scare little children from believing in santa or the unicorn?

of course i think god is an alien. wich the sumerians talked about, made myths about and everyone else copied. especually the flood story, the creation of man etc. men tend to describe things that they are familar with, to what they are observing, so if you lived thousands of years ago and you saw a ufo you would call it a flying firey chariot. or a wheel whithin a wheel. the reason why "god" doesnt show up now is because almost everyone has a predetermined opinion about who god is and how he behaves, he showed up so much in the past because man wasnt as connected to everyone else, have nuclear weapons, and tons of people just itching to kill in the name of god. so "god" the alien lays low for now but im shure he will come back one day and lay the smack down