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Posted by: Code Zero
It makes no sense to allow evolution yet silence creationism because creationists might want to present their arguments against evolution but they can't because it's against the rules. So you have a bunch of evolutionists agreeing with each other yet you'll see no disagreements because all the disagreements are shunned.
And then you have all the "how did the world come into existence" topics where you'll get answers about big bang and all that, yet nothing about God, and if there is, the topic gets locked. You have all kinds of scientific topics that can be explained with creationism just as easily as they can be explained with evolution (sometimes even MORE SO) but we cannot even speak of that stuff because it's against the rules.Yes. You can explain everything very easily with Creationism. "God did it". That's an easy explanation, but a deeply unsatisfying one that is not really answering any questions. It raises more than it answers, in fact. The beauty of evolution is that it is so simple, and yet leads to such stunning complexity... And requires no supernatural being to explain it.
A thread about it could discuss possible mechanisms, how it occurs, the forces that drive and direct it... A religious input would (very probably) consist of "It's not true", "God did it", or "Explain X missing link". All that would do is derail an otherwise interesting thread (the first is flame-baiting, the second, inarguable and the third... Find link X and you now have Y and Z, two new missing links!). Without religious input, you get a thread of as you say "lots of evolutionists agreeing with each other" and discussing the science. With such input, you get an argument about its truth. Which as we've previously seen, will go nowhere; the scientific side has evidence, the theistic side, the holy word.
Ditto for the Big Bang - a highly intriguing and very current topic of discussion and debate. The same exact input from religious people again lends nothing... Everyone knows that some (many) people think God created everything we see in 7 days, but there's really nothing more they can say after that. Add into the debate with current research that disproves or questions the current theory, but don't expect to be allowed to post "I think God created the universe, as it says so in the Bible. The Big Bang "theory" is just that; and if it's not true then God must have done it".
If I turned up in a Big Bang thread and said "I think our Universe was created by a huge snake" and then tried to 'prove' my point by arguing from an old book I found in my loft, I'd probably be banned for spamming. ]: