You disagree that
1 - Species evolved over time?
2 - That evolution doesn't logically imply the absence of God.
3 - That "creationism" doesn't imply the idea that God created life on Earth pretty much as it is today (except for some species going extinct since this time of creation)?
1 is a scientific issue, 2 is a logical issue, 3 is a semantic one.
I understand that you disagree with #1 (or at least I think you do). We obviously disagree here, but that wasn't the point I'm making. I haven't been trying to convince you that evolution happened. If that's are only disagreement, than fine lets just agree to disagree.
If you use a different definition of "creationism", don't let the choice of words get in the way. I'd just have to find another word or term for disbelieving in biological evolution of species, or we could just view it as a meaningless semantic issue and drop it.
But if its #2 that you disagree with, well I just don't see how you could do so logically. Believing that species evolved over time, says nothing about God, the creation of the universe, the creation of Earth, or the beginning of life on earth.
Or is this a semantic issue to? Are you taking the term "evolution" to mean "big bang, followed by purely natural cosmological evolution, followed by the Sun and Earth and the other planets forming from/after the collapse of a molecular cloud, followed by abiogenesis with no connection to God or any supernatural force, followed by biological evolution of species over time? When I'm using the term "evolution" I'm only speaking of that last step. |
