Questions tagged [creationism]
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Why aren't creationism and natural science on the same intellectual level?
In the infamous creation museum a strategically very shrewd exhibit, where a scientist and a biblical scholar both study the same fossils, is being presented:
The sign says
“different scientists can reach very different conclusions, depending
on…
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What is the purpose of the universe?
There are two extremes known as creationism vs evolutionism. Let's consider creationism for a moment, and imagine that God exists, and he/she has created us. The question that obsesses my mind after that is simply, why? What was the purpose of God…
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Is it possible for something to have no cause?
Bertrand Rusell writes in his essay "Why I Am Not A Christian":
There is no reason why the world could not have come into being without a cause; [...]
Warren Rachelle, however, states in his response:
To simply state that "there is no reason why…
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Does Intelligent Design (ID) entail an infinite regress of designers, and if so, is that problematic?
We can arrive at an infinite regress of designers as follows:
Suppose that X is so complex that it's considered to show evidence of design. Accordingly, we infer that an intelligent designer must be behind X. Let ID1 be this intelligent…
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A Timeless God and His Will to Create: Contradiction?
Many God believers say, God is timeless, or atemporal, he exists outside spacetime. Where there is no time, there is no change. But in order to create the Universe, God would have to have an impulse, the will to create it. However this and the very…
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What are philosophical arguments for the position that Intelligent Design is nothing but "Creationism in disguise"?
I would like to start this question quoting one of the comments to this answer to the question Does Intelligent Design (ID) entail an infinite regress of designers, and if so, is that problematic?.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach_the_Controversy…
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The conflict of creationism and evolution. How can we know the truth?
the demands of evolution and creation cannot
be reconciled with each other because they represent two
fundamentally different, mutually hostile, and mutually
exclusive systems. They do not represent various aspects of
the same truth,…
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Is it right to say that pseudoscience confirms the past?
I was watching this video which compares Freud's and Einstein's theories, in reference to Karl Popper.
Instead of looking backward and using past data to predict the present (like Freud), he (Einstein) was looking ahead and predicting future state…
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What is the purpose of a high in terms of it being created or intended by a creator
I Believe God is real, if believing God is real and that he created the universe and everything it it, what is the purpose of a high? (produced by weed or any other drug)
Why would God create a high? What benefit does experiencing an odd phenomenon…
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Was Plato influenced by Moses?
The 2nd century Christian apologist Justin Martyr is known for defending Christianity to the Platonists of his day. In his First Apology, he claims that Plato's understanding of the creation of the world depends on Moses:
And that you may learn…
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Pandeism vs. Atheism vs. Darwinism: Do they achieve the same result?
Is there any conceptual difference between "Pandeism" and "Atheism" and "Darwinism"?
It seems they achieve the same result about the universe's creation. I mean Pandeists achieve the same result about the universe's creation that Atheists or…
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Where in the evolutionary chain did morality start to evolve?
One could argue that there is a common moral standard in dominant cultures, and most atheists conclude that morality is a social need gradually evolved in organisms. But at which stage of the evolution did morality started to evolve, e.g. monkeys,…
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Why does Philo skip Genesis 1?
In Νόμων Ἱερῶν Ἀλληγορίαι, (Legum Allegoriæ), Stoic Philosopher Philo of Alexandria sets out to make an allegorical commentary on Genesis 2-3. Why does Philo choose to pick up with chapter 2 instead of also addressing Chapter 1 of the creation story…
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Is science inherently naturalistic?
For an assignment, my philosophy of science professor had us read Phillip E. Johnson's "Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism" and then answer the following question:
What is Johnson's support for asserting that evolutionists who…
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In idealism, how can you prove that God is the One who created the Universe?
In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that
reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental,
mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically,
idealism manifests as a skepticism about…
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