Do creationists ever stop to consider that their anti-science beliefs are detrimental to mankind?
"But an understanding of evolution doesn't lead to anything that could benefit mankind!" The Creationist will say.
That would be like saying, after mankind discovered electricity, "We shouldn't study electricity, it won't lead to anything." But electricity did lead to things, it led to computers, refrigeration, better medical equipment, better home heating. IT SAVED BILLIONS OF LIVES; people who would have died from starvation, or lack of heat, or one of a million other things.
When a Creationist actually takes the time to study evolution and biology (biology being a study which would collapse if Evolution were false, but of course it is not) then they would realize that within the not to distant future, an understanding of evolution will likely lead to the eradication of all disease, and it will allow us to grow new hearts, and limbs, and organs, for the suffering and downtrodden through a complete understanding of DNA. One day we will be able to write DNA, like a programmer writes computer code; but not if we don't understand how DNA evolved, and continues to evolve to this day.
Those two examples are just givens, they WILL happen, once we completely master evolutionary study, and with it all of biology. Who knows what else we will accomplish for mankind. like I said, who knew that electricity, that blue, fleeting, painful substance, would one day lead to defibrillators and artificial hearts.
Let me give you an example of how evolutionary study will eradicate disease. To eradicate AIDS it will require an understanding of how the virus mutates; the virus mutates a full 1% of its DNA every year. Of course, mutate is just another word for darwinian evolution. There is no difference between the two. Viruses mutate according to natural selection. Not only will it require an understanding of how AIDS evolves, but also how it evolved. We can reverse engineer the virus using markers in its DNA. Viruses leave DNA markers every generation, like the rings on a tree. We can follow these markers back millions, if not billions of years, to figure out when it evolved its most potent characteristics. But of course, if we believe that the Earth is only 6,000 years old, then what good would it be to reverse engineer a virus back a billion years to when it was harmless?
What else could we do with a complete understanding of DNA? We could program drug addiction out of the human race. We could literally make it so that drugs do not give people a buzz, and therefore drug addiction becomes a thing of the past.
What sickens me most of all, is that when science does find these cures, the creationist will be the first in line to benefit. Count on it. Just like how they benefit now from our understanding of a round, rather than flat earth. Just like they benefit from the latest neuroscience that examines the human mind as a physical entity, rather than an intangible soul. Just like how they benefit from oil that was discovered with an experts knowledge of the location of ancient bogs and lake beds a billion years into the past.
I wonder if every time a creationists fills his or her car she takes the time to acknoledge that the gas was found only because an expert out there studied what the earth looked like, not 6,000, but 1 billion years ago, and earlier.
I could go on with my thoughts on creationists, but believe me, it would not pass the Yahoo decency test. They are really not intelligent enough to comprehend such things and instead really on their own nonsensical beliefs and the ramblings of madmen. Creationism can't explain 99.999% of anything, its just a fictional story which makes no attempt to explain how things happen, it just tells some fairy tale which is not even good as a bed time story lol Creationists don't hate mankind.
Creationists aren't against science either. A creationist is just someone who doesn't believe in the theory of evolution ... personally ,I don't see how anyone can really believe creationism but I don't understand why you think they would hate mankind . "They know not what they do" I think it's unfair and somewhat slanderous to call all Creationist 'haters of mankind'.
I think they are entitled to their point of view, even if I think (and I do) that it is incorrect. If they try to enter scientific discourse with claims of 'creative design' we should gently remind them that their hypotheses contain an irreconcilable amount of assumption and have not been constructed in the tradition generally accepted as the expected method in science (that is, reaching a conclusion from facts rather than asserting unprovable truths and attempting to fix the evidence around them).
Other than that, they should be entitled to believe what they want. Let it Be
The Beatles (Lennon/McCartney)
When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness
She is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.
And when the broken hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be. Yeah
There will be an answer, let it be.
And when the night is cloudy,
There is still a light that shines on me,
Shine on until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be,
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be
I dont really care what people say, I know what makes sence and only one kind of sence exists in this world and thats the trueth. People who dont face the truth are cowards and will die as cowards.
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