Why is creationism so controversial?

Answer 1

The purpose of creationism is to create controversy. In fact, without controversy, creationism would cease to exist.

Creationism evolved as a group of related, but sometimes highly inconsistent concepts that its proponents hoped would be taught in schools alongside science, and thereby bolster literal belief in the biblical creation stories. The concern was that, as the Theory of Evolution became more and more widely accepted, not only in the scientific community, but in general society, people would begin to see the biblical creation stories as allegories rather than as history. And the fear was that if people no longer believed the biblical creation stories, they would cease to be Christians.

Major denominations say that creationism is not central to Christian faith, and scientists say that creationism is not scientifically valid. So, creationism needs controversy in order to be noticed.

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Answer 2

Because, like Evolution, it deals with some of the major issues of existence such as how and why we are here.

According to the theory of the Big Bang followed by evolution, the Universe (and this Earth) resulted from random events stemming from natural laws, and life then developed by random processes, especially mutations.

The narrative of Divine Creation, which is contained in Genesis ch.1 and 2, states that God created the universe. This teaches us that God exists, that our lives and the world are not random, and that the created things may be assumed to contain vast wisdom in their beautiful and purposeful design. (In recent decades, this wisdom has indeed been partially revealed, through increasingly powerful microscopes.)Evolution through random mutations, on the other hand, may be understood as implying that life is an accident, that perceived beauty and wisdom are ultimately purposeless, and that our instinctive yearning for the Eternal is just an electrical impulse in our brain.

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Is there evidence against Evolution