Arguments for and against Creationism in American schools

[Ronin]

If you can't explain something, how can you declare any possible explanation for it to be a "fanciful story" with any degree of certainty?

there is a difference between a theory based on observable facts and something just pulled out of thin air and imagination.

There are different degrees of possible "explanation".....

Scientific observation of the universe gives us clues that the universe is expanding, and by observing this expansion scientists theorized that at some point in the past all the universe was contained in one single point and expanded from there....they called this moment the big bang....this is a logical conclusion from observed facts.

where did the mater that constitutes the universe comes from? we don´t know.
what was there before the big bang? we don´t know.

....maybe someday we will find evidence that will give further insight into these questions...and maybe we won´t...honestly these questions don´t keep me up at night.

Simply going "when I can´t explain something, then God did it" is just a cop out...
it´s a fairy tale built upon nothing else but the fact that some people can´t deal with the "I don´t know" answer, for some strange reason I can´t fully grasp this freaks them out.
But the fact that some people like this "safety blanket" does not endow it with any logic value.

I could just as easily write a book about a magical creature called 'pillow-pants' and say that he created the universe and everything in it during a cosmic game of lego with his cousin 'Rashnavack'
Is this a silly and fanciful story? absolutely.... but it has as much going for it as any other God tale....