Evolution v Creationism

[Rhyfelwyr]

Rhyfelwyr, are you american?

Yes. My repeated claims to being Scottish, the order of flags in my sig, are all lies. Further, Methuselah made up the myth that I am Welsh, and later Cornish, just to further hide the fact that I am in fact American.

OK sorry for being sarcastic but I have a sore head, no I am not American.

1) Life is self-replicating

2) This replication has variants through mixing (sex) and mutation

3) Not all life replicates at the same rate


Voilà. Neither of these three maxims is in much serious dispute. Just take it from these three. One can even deem '3' superflous.
It follows that evolution is one of the strongest, most elegant explanatory theories of science.

I wasn't arguing against that, and so I probably haven't defined my terms as ATPG suggested. Creationism as I used the word meant that God put people on the earth at some point seperate from the animals, and so we don't have any ape-like ancestors. No need for it to be just 6,000 year ago either, or the other stereotyped young earth creationist stuff.

So are you trying to tell me that you woke up one morning, having never heard of christianity, never been exposed to the bible and decided that it would be nice if you became a christian?

Why not a hindu/moslem/buddhist/zoroastran/b'haism/scientologist/moonie/jew/sikh/jainism/baal?

For a start, only Christianity and Islam (and Judaism, but I'm not Jewish) offer the idea of a God anything like the one I imagine. Islam is about weighing up your good against your evil, meriting entry into Heaven by good your works. Christianity is about admitting you are sinner and no man could ever deserve to see Heaven - I know which one is appropriate for me at least.

Also, from your point of view, cultural influence is hardly equal to brainwashing.