Um, I would appreciate any feedback. And I've posted these questions on another board, in case if anyone accuses plagiarism. Thanks.
1. If God created humans and animals within a decently small timespan, why dont we ever find homo sapiens fossils from the same era as Australopithecus? We can see with hominid fossils that they come from different eras, and it just happens that as the dates approach the present, they become more and more similar to us. It seems quite mightily convenient for Evolutionary Theory that we find a similar trend throughout every fossil hierarchy. It doesnt seem to fit with the Creationist stance that God created the animals at around the same time why would they happen to exist in distinct eras with clear progressions from one set of fossils to the next?
2. Id asked earlier how creationists explain vestigial organs. More specifically, why it happens that these vestigial organs happen to have had a purpose in earlier species Evolution predicts were ancestors. Why would a Creator give animals vestigial organs in such a manner that so conveniently lines up with Evolutionary theory? Is this Creator actively deceiving us? And even in organs that do serve a purpose, Im sure any first year medical student could list numerous organs just in the human body that could be made orders of magnitude more efficient.
Indeed, many of our physical and mental traits seem uniquely adapted for survival in a hunter gatherer society, which makes absolutely no sense if you prescribe to Genesis, or any creator that would recognize we would eventually become agricultural and industrial. Evolution not only explains but expects such imperfections, as natural selection is a slow, blind process, the nonrandom selection of random mutations. But creationist theory has to perform mental gymnastics that reduce to god works in mysterious ways, or rather occams razor can go [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] itself.
3. Why dont Biblical creation stories mention Neanderthals and other sentient hominids? Youd think this would be a pretty major point, that there were once other intelligent beings, presumably also with souls. What happened to them?
4. Where are Creationisms testable predictions? It isnt falsifiable it is based on no observations and is not applicable to any other field. Evolutionary Theory can be used to explain numerous phenomena in biology, biochemistry, psychology, neuroscience and animal science, while creationism is entirely self contained in that it makes no predictions and no observations.
5. Building off of the last question, if, as with most creationists, your primary justification is some variant of the first cause argument, how do you extrapolate this to anything specific in your mythology? How do you know God created Eve out of Adams rib, or that he created the plants before the stars? Where does any of this come from?
1. If God created humans and animals within a decently small timespan, why dont we ever find homo sapiens fossils from the same era as Australopithecus? We can see with hominid fossils that they come from different eras, and it just happens that as the dates approach the present, they become more and more similar to us. It seems quite mightily convenient for Evolutionary Theory that we find a similar trend throughout every fossil hierarchy. It doesnt seem to fit with the Creationist stance that God created the animals at around the same time why would they happen to exist in distinct eras with clear progressions from one set of fossils to the next?
2. Id asked earlier how creationists explain vestigial organs. More specifically, why it happens that these vestigial organs happen to have had a purpose in earlier species Evolution predicts were ancestors. Why would a Creator give animals vestigial organs in such a manner that so conveniently lines up with Evolutionary theory? Is this Creator actively deceiving us? And even in organs that do serve a purpose, Im sure any first year medical student could list numerous organs just in the human body that could be made orders of magnitude more efficient.
Indeed, many of our physical and mental traits seem uniquely adapted for survival in a hunter gatherer society, which makes absolutely no sense if you prescribe to Genesis, or any creator that would recognize we would eventually become agricultural and industrial. Evolution not only explains but expects such imperfections, as natural selection is a slow, blind process, the nonrandom selection of random mutations. But creationist theory has to perform mental gymnastics that reduce to god works in mysterious ways, or rather occams razor can go [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] itself.
3. Why dont Biblical creation stories mention Neanderthals and other sentient hominids? Youd think this would be a pretty major point, that there were once other intelligent beings, presumably also with souls. What happened to them?
4. Where are Creationisms testable predictions? It isnt falsifiable it is based on no observations and is not applicable to any other field. Evolutionary Theory can be used to explain numerous phenomena in biology, biochemistry, psychology, neuroscience and animal science, while creationism is entirely self contained in that it makes no predictions and no observations.
5. Building off of the last question, if, as with most creationists, your primary justification is some variant of the first cause argument, how do you extrapolate this to anything specific in your mythology? How do you know God created Eve out of Adams rib, or that he created the plants before the stars? Where does any of this come from?