Do creationist beliefs encourage anti-intellectualism?

[Quartermaine]

Interesting. So there can be no theory concerning first cause nor eternal universe?

the big bang theory certainly exists

 

[Fervent]

What if the creationist Biblical interpretation wasn't true? What then?

Reason and argumentation. Questions of semantics, grammatics, historical assumptions. Is it absolutely definite Genesis is meant to be read literally and not allegorically? Nah, it just seems the stronger possibility.

 

[Sabertooth]

As pointed out repeatedly now, evolution is not synonymous with atheism.

YECs reject any model of origins that precludes God (in a literal Genesis 1 context). But our grasp of contemporary STEM does not suffer for it.

 

[Mark Quayle]

the big bang theory certainly exists

So....the BB points at God, you are saying?

 

[Quartermaine]

So....the BB points at God, you are saying?

No i'm saying that the big bang theory is a theory of "first cause" and is based on evidence and observation and can be and has been tested.

 

[AV1611VET]

I am a member of Mensa ...

I'm impressed.

We had another Mensan who posted here a few years ago.

 

[Fervent]

Intelligent design or creationism are not theories. Theories are based on evidence and observation and can be tested.

No, theories are ways in which facts are organized whether they are testable or not(in fact, if falsifiability is your criteria then evolution fails that test). "Evidence" is meaningless until it is placed in a theory that provides both a description of facts and a explanation of what those facts indicate.

 

[Ponderous Curmudgeon]

You're not answering.... ...So you are, or you are not, going to call Creationism ludicrous? After all, if God is Omnipotent... or is that ludicrous too?

this will probably depend on your understanding of what a scientific theory appropriate to teaching in a classroom is. As to the properties of God, they are not directly relevant to the ludicrosity of any particular theory in general.

 

[Mark Quayle]

Intelligent design or creationism are not theories. Theories are based on evidence and observation and can be tested.

THEORY theory - Dictionary Definition

noun
a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena

 

[Quartermaine]

No, theories are ways in which facts are organized whether they are testable or not

A scientific theory is an explanation of an aspect of the natural world and universe that can be repeatedly tested and verified in accordance with the scientific method, using accepted protocols of observation, measurement, and evaluation of results.

(in fact, if falsifiability is your criteria then evolution fails that test).

care to back this up?

"Evidence" is meaningless until it is placed in a theory that provides both a description of facts and a explanation of what those facts indicate.

and the theory of evolution does that

 

[Quartermaine]

THEORY theory - Dictionary Definition

noun
a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena

You left out the majority of the definition. Why?

 

[Mark Quayle]

this will probably depend on your understanding of what a scientific theory appropriate to teaching in a classroom is. As to the properties of God, they are not directly relevant to the ludicrosity of any particular theory in general.

word salad, or cryptic?

 

[Bradskii]

Good poll.

I voted: I'm a creationist and I think creationist beliefs do NOT encourage anti-intellectualism.

Are you being ironic? It's hard to tell.

 

[Fervent]

care to back this up?

What piece of evidence would prove it false?

 

[Ponderous Curmudgeon]

No, theories are ways in which facts are organized whether they are testable or not(in fact, if falsifiability is your criteria then evolution fails that test). "Evidence" is meaningless until it is placed in a theory that provides both a description of facts and a explanation of what those facts indicate.

Well you are closer than average to a decent understanding of "theory" but can you tell us why evolution is not a theory, or why it fails as such if that was your meaning?

 

[Mark Quayle]

You left out the majority of the definition. Why?

Because this one suffices. There are several different uses of the word "theory". Yours was only one of them too.

 

[Ponderous Curmudgeon]

Are you being ironic? It's hard to tell.

I think Alfred is both smiling and winking at us all the time.

 

[Quartermaine]

What piece of evidence would prove it false?

you are the one who claimed that evolution has been falsified...can you back that claim up?

 

[Fervent]

Well you are closer than average to a decent understanding of "theory" but can you tell us why evolution is not a theory, or why it fails as such if that was your meaning?

That wasn't my intent, but to highlight that whether "scientific" or not ID and creation are both theories, though not necessarily empirical.

 

[Quartermaine]

Because this one suffices.

suffices for what?