Well, I believe there's a creator, so creationism is not only a theory to me...it's a proved fact. Science is not the be all, end all. Science is wonderful...but it totally misses the mark on some things. If science is all you have, then science is all you have. Sorry, I have more.

Consider this:

Simple unicellular creatures are very different from a higher animal like a man, for instance. This is quite true...yet neither the amoeba nor the paramecium is as simple an animal as it would appear.

These small creatures have been studied for well over a century. One of the earliest and most famous investigators of their behavior was H. S. Jennings who in 1910 (mind you) published a book on his findings. He had been observing them for some years, spending hours on end with his eye glued to a microscope. His conclusions are significant.

He discovered that amoeba displayed signs of highly advanced forms of behavior which, as he put it, were they to be magnified to the size of a dog they could only be interpreted as anger, determination, frustration, hesitation, attentiveness, and according to Jennings, even intelligence!

Another early observer, J. Boyd Best, fully confirmed Jennings' conclusions, and added to the list such emotions as boredom, rebellion, and even "cognitive awareness" (which effectively is simply consciousness)!

Now, how can you deny a creator when early offerings in science such as this exist?

By protoplasm is simply meant the stuff of life, and when it is said that protoplasm appears in forms that are effectively immortal, it does not mean that such forms cannot die, it only means that such forms need not die. Protected from mortal hazards external to them, these creatures simply do not die. They just go on dividing and multiplying ad infinitum. It is only accidental death that prevents them from overwhelming the earth. They do not die of old age — as we do and as most animals familiar to us do as a matter of course, including our pets. They never die a "natural" death.

So, in the case of Adam, God evidently endowed his body with just such a property as this, a potential for endless continuance. The processes of self renewal and repair could have gone on for ever. It is clear that he could die, since we know that he did die — though not without first surviving for almost a thousand years. But it is equally clear that he would never have died if he had not sinned. If this were not true, the penalty threatened for disobedience would have been no threat at all. You cannot discourage disobedience with a threat of "punishment" in a form that will happen anyway whether there is disobedience or not.

Instead of teaching evolution alone, does it not make more sense to teach other thought processes as well? Not to the evolutionist...because that is the only theory of which he espouses. There seems to be no openness of mind to simply view any other way as scientific.

most material taken from Custance.org



[edit on 4/5/08 by idle_rocker]

Sometimes youhave to speak with the courage of your convictions. Young people in particular are taught that they are not fallen from GODs grace and that an living, intelligent enemy (satan) has not overcome them. The Darwinian Satan peddlers are uniting them all in evil against GOD and in particular against the Word of GOD, Jesus Christ.

Even though eviloutionary theory is falling apart like a cheap suit. They teach impreesionable minds they are superior to all that has ever come before them as the latest and greatest by a succession of grand accidents. The source of their pride is to them “a lucky accident” that makes each generation of them prouder than the last and more wicked than the last. Evilution is as crooked as a barrel of snakes.

Why do you think there are policemen in school hallways? teaching Evilution! Why are there school shootings? teaching Evilution! Why is homosexuality on the increase? teaching Evilution! Why is drug abuse getting worse? teaching Evilution! Why did the world trade center get attacked? teaching Evilution! Atheism on the rise? teaching Evilution! Disobeying their parents? teaching Evilution! Disrespecting their elders? teaching Evilution!

Why doesn't everyone just admit that they do not know how it all began.
They do not know how humans or anything else came to be.
Why don't they just be honest and say that it is likely that we will never know.
Why doesn't everyone just admit that neither the knowing nor the not knowing will change what we must do in the present.
After they have done that, then they can get on to more serious education matters.