If not, is this why an almost unbelievable number of them still actually think there really is a God?  And if they are, what is all this rubish about creationism?  Will someone please just wake them up and explain science to them?
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I think Avatar pretty much answered why Americans believe in creationism. They're undereducated, and don't know jack about what proof science has that there is no god. Quite a lot, actually.
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That I absolutely have to disagree with. There are many scientists, including particle physicists, who believe in God. The web site below has articles by a number of them.\n\nMany of them argue against the evangelical 6000-year-old earth proposition. They maintain that the Evangelicals are driving people away from Christianity by insisting that people ignore the evidence of their own eyes.
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This is a topic that sets a lot of people off. Mainly creationism states god created everything, and the burden of evolution is, it being based on science, it must have hard evidence to prove the existance of evolution.\n\nSince Origin of the Species by Chales Darwin in 1859, moutains of evidence has come forward to prove that evolution is behind every living creature on earth. The one weak linkis that evolution hasn't yet been able to prove how life first started. It is this one point that creationist harp on, and state as their proof that god is behind everything.\n\nIt must be noted that until recent times teh age of the Earth was only believed to be 10,000 years old, this has been disproven. It can also be compared to medevil times when the world was considered flat and it was thought that the earth lay in the center of the universe. In time science will find a solid explination for everything that we consider impossible today.\n\nAs a chemist and a scientist, there are many things in science that boil down to beautiful mathmatical relationships, or theories that are very simple yet profound implications. What I believe, is that who was ever here before the universe made a very complex yet elegant system of particles and enegrgetic interactions that give us the world today. What I have against creationsim is that it doesn't seek to find the real awnser; their reasoning is that it is too complex to be understood, despite historical evidence of things being not understood only to be explained in good detail later. The people that say the bottom line in science is too complex to understand today are the same people who believed that the world was flat 800 years ago. \n\nWikipedia has a good breakdown on evolution and opinion, hope my thoughts helped
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Why bother asking a scientific question to creationists? Creationism is not a science, period, so they wouldn't know the answer anyway.
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It is called an anthropological argument for the existense of God. Why in the world do we have the urge to seek for an ultimate creator? 90% of all civilations have believed in ultimate beings (I'm not saying they were right). To say there is no God just doesn't make sense. Even secular scientist admit that after so much there is still answer for man's exitstense and for any of the universe to exist. We spent millions of dollars to find out where the moon came from but man doesn't know. All of creation screams out that there is a creator. The amont of information that is in a simple organism like R. coli would be the equivalant to 100 million pages of The encyclopedia Britannica.
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Actually, many Atheists agree with you and use this to claim with 100% certainty that no Gods exist. From this, they conclude that the definition of God is incoherent and has no definition. Something that cannot be defined cannot be claimed to exist as it has no conditional to be true or false.\n\nThis is called the Argument from Theological Noncognitivism.\n\nPersonally, I define a deity as being a supernatural, anthropomorphic entity that created the universe.
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Um, spur4eight, sorry but Creation Science is not what most would consider "true science."\n\nPersonally, I don't understand how anybody who knows anything about science can think that "scientists are lying about evolution" or some silly thing like that.  Just go and talk to a scientist.  Go to a university, better yet.  Seems to be about the only place that people actually think anymore...
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Atheists do not believe in the existence of God; it would be more appropriate to say that they believe that everything has an observable scientific rationale. What is scientific, and what not, is another question altogether. As noted by Stephen Hawking in "A Brief history of time", the more one learns about the universe, the more one is compelled to believe in the existence of God.\n\nThe theory of there being an unparallelled supreme being in control of the universe, can also be considered as scientific a theory as any other, albeit not that easily observable. But for that matter, even accepted(?) scientific principles relating to astrological phenomenon cannot be easily observed.\n\nFrom the statistics given by you, it is obvious that earth is in a very precarious position, one mile out of orbit and it would go crashing into the sun. The universe is not infinite; only the theory of existence of God can reconcile the question of why this is so, and what is beyond?\n\nAnother theory why atheists do not believe in God could be that they are afraid of accepting that their destinies are pre-written (something that is a part of most religions. The end result, however, is that the war between science and religion will continue until the day when either one of them comprehensively wins, or they realise that all this time they have been fighting the same battle, treading the same path, the path of truth and knowledge.
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Sounds like the desperate are trying something new to disprove the Bible because they figured out it is not working. No big bang, no evolution, no string. Just God created, divinely made, intelligent design, 7 days of creation that is it no other explanation, JUST GOD.
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your right, i actually cant explain it very well. I'm not defensive, i just want you to read this \n\n\nhttp://everystudent.com/features/isthere.html?OVRAW=God%20existence&OVKEY=existence%20of%20god&OVMTC=standard\n\n\nit has overwhelming info that should help you see that there has to be a God, because this world is no accident
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I've been debating creationists for the better part of a decade and I have still never heard a single piece of evidence against evolution (really, common descent, almsot all creationists accept evolution, though they hate the word and refuse to use the correct definitions).\n\nIf they had anything, we'd have heard of it by now.  Instead we just get, "If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes?" and such nonsense.  (Hint: that question has been asked on Answers.Yahoo at least ten times since I started coming here three days ago, and it has been answered for over 100 years, GET UP TO DATE CREATIONISTS!)\n\nCreationists have no evidence against evolution.  If they did, it still wouldn't make creationism a reasonable proposition.  They need explanations for the evidence that contradicts creationism, such as the sorting of the fossil record (how did all those mangroves make it to the top?).
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the question is terrific\ni as you know accept evolution\n\ni ponder practically every day "is there a god"\n\nas you know i feel the bible was written by men,\n\nso for me the question of "is the evidence of evolution showing me how god made me?"\n\nto all who said they dont like your question, they are crazy crazy
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Actually, all that stuff is too confusing for the average Joe to consider. I think it actually takes more faith to believe all that stuff than it does to believe in creation. Of course, that's just MY take on the whole matter. It's almost like believing a junk yard blew up one day, then came back together to form a cadillac. It's just too much to believe for me. <*)))><
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Do u believe I exist???\nwell U never saw me, but here I am!!\nAnswering ur question!!!\n\nI say, I can believe that some one the SUPREME ONE, THE GOD, exists because I can see many of his creations.....\nHE left signs for us to observe his existance.\nHe dosent need to be in front of us....\n\nwell there is someone who created u, BUT who??\nIts GOD ofcourse !\nwho is multiplying ur cells dayby day[that u r growing older]???\nGOD is!\n\nWho created the mountains???\nGOD!\nWho created universe??\nGOD !\nDon't u think how is it possible with out any superbeing, that every planet is moving in predefined orbits from long ago.\nwhy don't they collide with each other....\nObviously someone super-being is controlling all this..\n& THAT is GOD!\n\nI can see all these things & lot more...\nSo I say that GOD exists......\n\nAll these things which athiests qoute that the planets are not colliding with each other coz there is centripetal & centrifugal forces which keep them in their orbit....\n\nBut don't u think where those forces came from??????\n\nWho created those forces among planets????\n[I say that those forces are actually created as signs to understand how the planetary system is working]\n\nThe athiests say the storing of large info in DNA is just a creation of evolution...\nI am quoting from a website,\n\n.       http://yourgodisimaginary.com/i37.htm\n\n"As we saw in Proof #25, however, there is no "creator" for DNA. The creator is evolution. No intelligence is required to encode DNA. Instead, the information in DNA is the result of natural selection acting upon random mutations, rather than the actions of a "being" like God."\n\nit says\n"NO INTELLIGENCE IS REQUIRED TO ENCODE  DNA."\n\nIt means that any MAD man or even an infant can creat DNA & encode large info in it ...\nHell man!!!\nNOT even a single greatest SCIENTIST dead or alive could ever generate a single DNA from scratch....\n\n\nwho can do this??\nONLY GOD....\n\n \nSO Why do the athiests think that way????\nWhy do they deny GODs existance???\n\n\nBUT now I come to some conclusion...!\nAgain from the same text, from the site, which says in between that,\n"  however, there is no "creator" for DNA. The creator is evolution  "\n\nWhat do these athiests want to display???\nthat they are unsure ....????\nof what they are uttering out of their mouth???\nremaining within senses???\n\nfirst they say "there is no creator", then they say "the creator of DNA is EVOLUTION"...\n\nThe athiests are not clear in their own minds whether there is some creator or not....\n& afterall they actually BELIEVE in their heart, that there is some creator[ofcource GOD] atleast, who created DNA[from scratch].\n\nI think these athiests actually BELIEVE that GOD exists, \nBUT they name their GOD as EVOLUTION.....\n\nBecause their forefathers have been saying that GOD dosent exist,, & they now know that GOD actually exists ,BUT they don't want to be humiliated in front of the world... So they keep on saying that "GOD osent exist....\nEGO problem...!!!!
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If Creationism was correct and science could definitively prove Creationism (and thus the existence of God), why would they not? That would be the greatest scientific discovery in the history of the world. No one would pass that up to maintain the 'status quo'. There is no conspiracy to hide creation evidence. Anyone who knows real scientists knows they are glory-mongers first. They love to prove others wrong to enhance their own standing. And if any scientist could prove Creation/God, it would've been done a long time ago.
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Yeah, the only people dumb enough to think you were really arguing for creationism were evolutionists.\n\nBecause your stupid question is exactly what evolutionists think creationism/Intelligent Design is about.  \n\nToo bad you people won't do any independent reading because we all know the public schools aren't going to broaden your knowledge of the topic.
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No, I don't automatically assume a person who asks about God believes in God. I assume this is a person who wants to know about God. The fact you ask at all, tells me you doubt there is no God, and are willing to explore there really is a God.\n\nI do believe in God, I always have and I always will. I look at life with all of its intricacies, diversity and complexity, and i just can not accept we came to be on Earth any other way than by the Hand of God. There are just to many "just happens to be" to say evolution, and not God's creativity put life on Earth.