Support for Creationism reaches new low

[Belsnickel]

(07-13-2017, 11:45 AM)Beaker Wrote: Interesting article which basically states that support for a strict Creationism explanation for humans and life on Earth has reached an all time low. But it goes on to explain that people are not jumping to atheism, instead they are adopting the hybrid solution...that evolution is indeed the way life proceeds, and it is how their god has gotten life to its present state and continues to shape it.

That is exactly the point I have made in many evolution/creationism debates on this MB. The evidence for evolution is overwhelming, but who is to say that evolution wasn't the way the creator wanted things to proceed in the first place? Too many view acceptance of evolution as a denial of god when the two do not have to be mutually exclusive. Hopefully this trend will continue and reduce the amount of religious input trying to influence science and science education.

Complete article:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/eeddc1c3-0229-3b07-b0fb-8a3f045e7666/ss_creationism-support-is-at-a.html

I always think about the Futurama episode where Bender floats through space and finds a being that is implied to be God. The quote from this entity is "when you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." I have felt for a very long time that if there is a God, and that God wants you to have faith in their existence, then things like creation aren't going to be obvious. It would be done within the bounds of science as we understand it.

I know that attempting to apply logic to faith can be a weird thing to do, but it's just one of those things that I have thought for a while.