Creationists

It didn't don on me until I was somewhat recently acquainted with the term creationism that many people think the earth is only about 6,000 years old. This a huge problem, but it goes so much deeper than that.

If you think that the earth is only about 6,000 years old then you write off so many things, carbon dating for example. Carbon dating is based off of the decay of an isotope of carbon, carbon -14. It's an observation that, barring all philosophical discussions, should be regarded as fact. So, if you don't believe that this planet is older than 6,000 years then you don't believe in radiocarbon dating. If you were to isolate the two and just take someone who doesn't believe in radiocarbon dating, would it not be acceptable to call them ignorant? Well then what about creationists?

This is a weird thing to post about because there are going to be some people that read this and say, "Duh, creationists live in their own fantasy world!" and there are going to be others that will pray for me to be saved be Jesus and other such nonsense, and still there are others that would like to see me hanging from a churchyard tree struggling for my last breaths.

Creationists are the epitome of desperation, they will do anything to keep the reality they live in real. They will distort any facts and they will refute any evidence. They will never see the light of day, thats how effective brainwashing usually is.

I'd like to think that most Agnostics are like me. They grew up a relatively normal life, had religious parents and were exposed to religion and faith but instead looked to science and questions for the answers to life's biggest quandaries. I wasn't raised by some god hating fanatics, I just asked questions, and "god did it" was never an answer. You see I've witnessed a profoundly simple phenomenon. Things that are easily explainable always have answers: Why does ice expand when frozen? Because the water molecules align in a crystalline structure. And the things that are harder to explain are always attributed as god's will. Where did life come from? God did it. So, if you take into account this phenomenon and the fact that through out history as more and more things are easily explainable and god has less and less responsibilities (e.i. Lighting wasn't zeus' doing, it's the buildup of differing charges between layers of atmosphere or the earth) isn't the logical conclusion that humanity will mature beyond religion and accept the world for what it is? Yes, but I doubt it.

There is a claim that I like to make, and I have the advantage of being able to make this claim knowing that I can never be proven wrong (sound familiar?).

I believe that at the end of mankind someone will truthfully be able to say, "Damn we'd have survived this if it weren't for religion!" and the only sad thing about that is that we won't evolve to that understanding it will be the end of us. When that day comes we're all going to die.