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Originally Posted by Buffy
On the contrary, Creationism is *much* easier to believe....
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I have to admit I get a little weary of this straw-man argument model. I have been a Christian for a long time, I have had hundreds of evangelical friends over the years, and I don't think I have ever met a Creationist as you decribe.
Among folks that are academically trained, those folks that are theists do not assume that the earth is 4000 year old, or that the flood put fossils into place, or any of the other false-association arguments. Theists believe that God made man special and gave him some capability for free will. After that, there is quite a range of opinion, just like among evolutionists.
To suggest that Creationism is the only alternative to the widely accepted set of evolution-related theories is untrue. This would be like saying that evolution is impossible because science has shown that fins cannot evolve into legs by fish climbing onto land. Some folks stilll think that happened. But no one (informed) has thought that in over a hundred years. It can no longer be used as an argument against evolution.
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