Further to my previous

[dreamer_easy]

Now, if y'all will follow the link like I told you, you can see some of the actual survey questions people are being asked about evolution and creation, with confusing results. Have a look - how would you answer? Could you answer? (I couldn't.)

ETA: Have a quick read of Wikipedia on theistic evolution, which IMHO is a likely explanation for those confusing survey results.

Comments

[jvowles.livejournal.com]

I tend to want to find a conciliatory middle ground, and it strikes me that there ought not to be a conflict between *whether* a god was involved in creating the universe and figuring out how the universe works.

Creationism, and in fact most biblical literalism, seems at it heart counter to the explicit instructions we're given in those documents.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

All that's confusing me is the term "confusing results". Why would anyone find it confusing?

[dameruth.livejournal.com]

Being an agnostic (yes, a real one, we do exist), but finding the evidence for evolution overwhelming, I'd have a heckuva time choosing between "evolution + God" and "evolution - God," it's true. I couldn't answer either way without having to pick an answer I don't fully believe in.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Being an agnostic (yes, a real one, we do exist)

Agnostics are far too reasonable for chat shows etc and so get no publicity. "I've written a book called, erm, God May Or May Not Be Great". :-)

[zombie-buddha.livejournal.com]

One of the few really interesting arguments Dawkins makes in The God Delusion is that the creationists are right about the theory of natural selection - it really does challenge the existence of God.

Check it, yo: We really have only two explanations for the existence of complexity on the scale of intelligent life (which is pretty breathtakingly complex). One of them is deliberate creation by other intelligent life. The other is evolution through natural selection. No other solution is really logically tenable, so far as we are aware.

So even if humans were actually designed by God, God itself would need to be either designed by some kind of uberGod or be a being evolved through natural selection. Neither of these options is particularly satisfying, suggesting as they do either an infinite recursive pyramid of creator deities (turtles all the way down) or that God is actually just a really powerful alien of some kind.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

This assumes, though, that God is a biological entity!