Creation

Perceptions of intelligence are subjective and influenced by personal beliefs and biases. Some may view creationists as "dumb" because they disagree with scientific evidence and principles. It is important to approach differing beliefs with respect and understanding.

They don't. Creationism is an ideology that crosses many cultures and religions and has many unsupported statements about human nature; most of it dead wrong and some of it just common sense observation.

The theory of evolution by natural selection has a richly supported by the evidence vies of human nature and how humans acquired such natures.

No

Answer 2

No.

Creationism is faith, based on the Creation-story of Genesis and praises the biblical god as creator of all the Universe, all Earth and all life (in 6 days).

Evolution is a theory of science (biology). The Theory of Evolution by Means of Natural Selection, first proposed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace. Evolution is part of natural science and explains the histories and diversifications of all of Earth's organisms. Evolution does not have to do with the origin of the Universe or the Planet Earth, which creationism may mention in its origins-explanations. (The origins of the Universe and the Solar System and Earth are explained by another branch of natural science - Cosmology and Astronomy).

The Theory of Evolution states that life has changed since its beginnings (abiogenesis) by Natural Selection. The main unit of Evolution is the gene. Populations genetically diverge until they are so separate they are distinguishable and may become reproductively isolated. This is an instance of speciation, the origin of species.

Evolution relies upon observation of the world to explain the world (genetics, palaeontology, comparative morphology are all used as evidence to construct the picture of evolution).

Creationism relies on the writings of biblical texts to explain the world. There is no material evidence to support the claims of creationism as creationism is faith based.

Indeed there are many contrasts between Evolution and Creationism. They both explain the same thing (life and how it came to be as it is today), but Evolution is logical and fact-collecting, a real process seen in the world today and (via fossils) in the distant past whereas Creationism is a comforting faith-based story with no backing evidence of events described in the creation story of Genesis.

Because the universe displays too much design, order and clear intent to be the product of purely naturalistic forces driven by chance.

It is mathematically and physically impossible for nothing to explode (the current size given to whatever exploded at the Big Bang is that it was so small it actually represented nothing) and then create all we observe scientifically, including the periodic elements, DNA, the laws of physics and our ability to think abstractly.

It takes a transcendent creator with a mind and thoughts to inject the design, order and reason into our universe. If you think that no thought, reason or order went into the universe then you need to wonder why you can think and reason and even type words in order! There is information all around us and in us and that took intelligence to do the programming and express that information!

If two sub-populations of a species become reproductively isolated, it means that adaptation or genetic drift can make the two populations diverge genetically. If, as a result of this divergence, upon reintroduction, members of the two sub-populations no longer reproduce successfully, the two sub-populations have become different species.

It was long thought that the earth and all the planets in our solar ssystem were formed as the sun itself was formed. However, young stars consist almost entirely of hydrogen, and this early theory would not account for the quantity of heavy elements in the earth's crust and atmosphere. In fact, an average star like the sun does not produce very heavy elements at all.

Cosmology explains how the earth was formed. At some stage, a supernova star exploded in the neighbourhood of our sun - within a few million light years from here. Supernovas are formed as giant stars die and are not entirely uncommon. And giant stars, because of their far greater mass, are able to convert their hydrogen into heavy elements before finally dying. Conversion of hydrogen into heavy elements is also well known to nuclear physicists. So, our supernova exploded and sent an enormous amount of heavy elements out into empty space. A very small part of this was captured in orbit around our sun, where it eventually concentrated into the various planets and other bodies that orbit the sun. One of these was, of course, the earth.

Lack of enough free oxygen in the atmosphere and oceans. The ability for cells to utilise oxygen was the breakthrough for eukaryotes. Before this time there wasn't enough free oxygen, but this period was the start of an accelerated diversification for single celled organisms.

Three basic components of today's theory of evolution are genetic variation within a population, natural selection acting on this variation, and the inheritance of traits that confer a survival or reproductive advantage.

Of course the Bible first proposed young earth creationism on account of their being a fairly strict chronology given in scripture. The descendants of Adam along with the number of years separating the patriarchs and a apporoximate time for the kings of Judah, includes a rough estimate of when the earth was created and when the Great Flood occurred. It was beginning in the mid-nineteenth century when various British theologians considered the possibility that the Bible should not be taken too literally and that the geology and science contradicted the scriptural record. The travels and subsequent ideas of Charles Darwin convinced many they were on the right track. (Of course, some only believed in an ancient earth after Darwin's book was published.) Ironically it was mostly clergymen on both sides of the Atlantic that promoted the idea of the earth being many millions of years old. It is also ironic that almost 100 years before scientific dating, Charles Lyell, came out with his classic geology text that amazingly and accurately (!) already accounted for the many millions of years separating our currently accepted geological eras. Modern belief in a young earth arose in the late 1950s and 60s with the classic apology for young earth creatiionism, The Genesis Flood, by Henry Morris and John Whitcomb. Here was a text of over 500 pages that invoked selective scientific evidence for a young earth, in many cases from the writings and abstracts of evolutionists themselves. For some, the history of our earth and universe seemed to make sense for the first time and the inerrant accuracy of scripture was once again restored. The impact of The Genesis Flood cannot be underestimated as it exposed a soft underbelly of evolutionism many had never considered before. Perhaps it was from this point onward that a real threat to established scientific convention began to emerge and many scientists began classifying creationism as pseudoscience while believers readily saw evolutionism as a religion on its own called scientific naturalism. The Intelligent Design movement is not necessarily a young earth creationist movement but rather a movement emerging from the university environment that tried to uncouple creationism with the Bible and its largely Baptist roots.

Creationism was "created" in the 20th century to give a 'scientific' justification to the Christian religious belief that God created everything. There are several problems with Creationnism.

- It is generally not supported by scientific facts.

- It too often focuses on the unknown or or unexplained gaps in the theory of evolution claiming those "unknowns" are evidence for God's existence. Roughly, it is a "evolution cannot disprove God, so they are wrong, therefore God exists" argument.

The primary source of evidence proposed by scientists to support the theory of an ancient Earth is radiometric dating of rocks and fossils. By measuring the decay of radioactive isotopes within these materials, scientists can estimate their ages and establish a timeline for Earth's history that stretches back billions of years.

There are no holes in evolution. Evolution is a scientific theory -- which is the strongest and most certain classification - it means that it's been proven and withstood countless years of challenges. A scientific theory is not like a casual theory, it's not a guess, it's not hypothesis. A scientific theory is a model that explains observed phenomena. A scientific theory must make predictions that can be tested and all those predictions and every test must have been successfully verified.

A scientific theory also has to have a method by which it can be disproved (like finding a human fossil in the pre-cambrian).

Some people claim that evolution has holes because there are "missing links", but it's unlikely that scientists will find the fossils of absolutely each and every species which has ever existed. Paleontologists have found far more than enough fossils in precisely the predicted "order" to validate the theory. Each time a new fossil-species is found, then two new "gaps" are created to each side.

Some people claim that there are no transitional fossils. Technically, every species is transitional. Paleontologists have found thousands of different species which are "between" other known species.

Scientists have even predicted where and "when" other expected transitional species should be found, and that has provided researchers with Tiktaalik.

If any defects were found with evolution, the model would lose it's "theory" status. There are countless people with vested interests in overturning evolution, but to date, none have come up with a single provable or verifiable or testable challege. And they'd absolutely win centuries of fame and the Nobel prize.

By and large, evolution does not really affect people since it takes very many generations for even a minor evolutionary change to occur.

The most obvious exception is the evolution of viruses and bacteria. Because these micro-organisms have such short lives, many generations occur in less than one year. So, micro-organisms can sometimes evolve - or mutate - into something rather different to last year. For example, we may have built up immunity to last year's influenza strain, but find we have no immunity to this year's strain. Similarly, it the avian flu was able evolve in such a way that it could survive and even proliferate in humans, jumping species from birds to humans.

The four stages of evolution are mutation, natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow. Mutation introduces new genetic variation, natural selection acts on that variation to favor traits that increase an organism's fitness, genetic drift refers to random changes in gene frequencies within a population, and gene flow is the transfer of genetic material between different populations.

Creationism, as a belief, a philosophy and a mindset, would be defined as an abstract noun; creationism as an event or a process would be a concrete noun.

Nouns have no opposites; you cannot get "negative-creation" in the same way as you can get 1 and -1.

Two species evolving alongside one another, each one adapting according to selection pressures from the other one; a good example of coevolution is between a parasite and host species, and between predator and prey. If a prey species develops a way to better escape a predator species, that predator species, in response, will have to develop a better way to capture the prey.

Evolutionists study and accept the scientific theory of evolution, which explains how organisms change over time through natural selection and genetic variation. They believe that all living organisms share a common ancestor and that evolution is driven by processes such as mutation, gene flow, and genetic drift. Evolutionists view the fossil record, comparative anatomy, and molecular evidence as supporting evolution as the best explanation for the diversity of life on Earth.