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I have to say that virtually everyone I know is a Creationist, although only my best friend and his former room-mate have actually tried to make me into a Creationist. My best friend never presented any evidence for his claims- he has just told me that evolution is wrong and that we are "created in the image and likeliness of God."
It bothered me very much because he expected me to think something just because he told me too.
Has anyone else been pressured like this in real life?
Last edited by Captain Jackson; 12th December 2003 at 10:44 PM.
When I was growing up in England I don't think I ever met a Creationist.
I remember in my first year physics class at the U. of London we had a poll on these questions and out of 206 of us only 35 people admitted to being Christians and 1 person was a Creationist.
I live in Illinois. Based on comments people have made, I'm pretty certain that just about everyone around here is a Creationist, and we're not even in the Bible Belt.
Here in central Canada, I don't have any Creationist friends. Even throughout nine years in the Catholic school system, I'd have to say 90% of them rejected Creationist beliefs.
Nope. I'd never even heard of creationism until a year and a half ago. It was a bit of a culture shock to find out how many Americans supposedly believe in creationism.
All I could think of was, "don't they teach science down there?"
__________________ Creationism has not made a single contribution to agriculture, medicine, conservation, forestry, pathology, or any other applied area of biology. Creationism has yielded no classifications, no biogeographies, no underlying mechanisms, no unifying concepts with which to study organisms or life. - Botanical Society of America's Statement on Evolution
I agree with everyone else, up until a year ago, I didnt really know what a creationist was, let alone know any. The closest I came to knowing was in my HighSchool biology class, a student sat out of the evolution section for "religious reasons" thats about it.
I believe in the Creation.And everyone I know believes in Creation.
I don't see how people that believe in evolution aren't ashamed of coming from a monkey. I feel more comfortable coming from God than coming from an evolving monkey. And I don't see how people can believe in evolution, because if evolution is true, then why aren't we still evolving???
(Please don't be offended by this post, I don't want to offend anyone, I'm just posting what I believe.)
1) creationism and creation are two different things. Creationism is science, creation is philosophy. Creationism has been falsified, creation can not be falsified.
2) We did not evolve from monkeys but from a common ancestor.
3) We are still evolving and so is everything else in the world. Look around the forum or ask questions and you will discover many many observed evolution of many different animals.
When I was growing up in England I don't think I ever met a Creationist.
Same here, the first outspoken creationist i came across was in fact a stereotypical fudamentalist al qaeda supporting muslim (a member of the unpleasant islamic group al muhajiroun: http://www.muhajiroun.com/). The parallel between this sort of extremist 'muslim' and the sort of extremist 'christian' who would be able to be a creationist (extreme fanaticism, rejection of contadictory evidence and logic, extreme dishonesty etc.). There certainly seems to be a common psycology (pathology?) operating.
I believe in the Creation.And everyone I know believes in Creation.
I don't see how people that believe in evolution aren't ashamed of coming from a monkey. I feel more comfortable coming from God than coming from an evolving monkey. And I don't see how people can believe in evolution, because if evolution is true, then why aren't we still evolving???
(Please don't be offended by this post, I don't want to offend anyone, I'm just posting what I believe.)
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