Friday, November 14, 2008

Questions biblical creationists can't answer without making me laugh


Basic questions (no education required):


1. What makes your story of creationism fundamentally different from all the others that exist now, have existed before, and will exist in the future?

2. How did Noah find all of the animals and get them back to the ark? Did he bring them back one pair at a time, or did they all follow him in a line as he visited other continents to collect more animals?

3. What did the carnivores eat on the ark?

4. How did koalas get to Australia after the ark washed up on that mountain?

5. Why did your god make life that has to destroy other life, often cruelly, in order to survive?

6. If cruelty and suffering result from a 'fallen world' caused by some original sin of humans, why did your god also punish the animals for it by creating disease, pain and suffering for them too?

7. Is it just to punish all humans, including those who weren't born yet, for the sins of one? Would you punish your own younger children for the wrongs of the oldest which occurred before the others were born?

8. If humans are special creations, why do we share the traits of violence, lust, rage, tribal warfare, homosexuality, etc. with animals?

9. Why do you believe your god made only one breeding pair (Adam and Eve), instead of many? With only one breeding pair, fathers are forced to have sex with daughters, brothers with sisters, and sons with mothers, in order to propagate the species. Is this a divine endorsement for incest?

10. If all civilisations resulted from Adam and Eve, and oral traditions about the god that created them were passed down from generation to generation, why are there so many other creation stories in the world? Why didn't all civilisations keep their 'true' religion?

11. Why did your god only appear to one group of people? If it can do anything and be everywhere at once, why couldn't it be fucked to appear to the other people of the world as well?

12. Why do you get your scientific education from people like Kent Hovind, Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron? These people have no university-level education in science, and in some cases, no university education at all. Wouldn't it be smarter to trust those who are educated, and actively researching, in the field?

13. Why has the world, including government funding, science journals, reputable newspapers, education standards, etc., moved on without you, leaving your barbaric bronze-age theories in their dust? Why have we made so much progress in our understanding after abandoning religious methodology for a scientific one?


Intermediate questions:

14. Why is there at least some evidence for our scientific theories, but none at all for your creationism?

15. Why is the fossil record arranged in such a way as to suggest evolution?

16. Why are the continents shaped like they were once together, and have similar geology on what would be the common edges?

17. Why are the continents moving apart at a rate that would put them together millions of years ago?

18. If humans are special creations, why do we share the same biology, metabolic pathways, etc. with chimpanzees? Shouldn't we have been made completely differently to emphasize the point?

19. To avoid the cruelty caused by life killing other life to survive, couldn't we all have been photosynthetic organisms, using sunlight and inanimate molecules to make our energy? If you're going to say there's not enough energy in photosynthesis, why couldn't your god design a more effective photosynthetic system?

20. Why does the evidence from so many scientific disciplines, astronomy, geology, biology, physics, chemistry, all converge to suggest the Big Bang and Evolution, while at the same time pointing away from your theory?

21. Why do the mathematical models behind scientific understanding of the Universe work so well, while creationists have no mathematical models at all?

22. Does your creation model or your holy book account for things like quantum mechanics? Why doesn't it seem to contain much useful knowledge at all?

23. If your god didn't explain quantum nature for these people because they wouldn't understand, then isn't it time your god shows itself and gives us an update now that we have more understanding? Why doesn't it divinely guide some people to write an update to your current holy book? Or is it allowing us to do that through science? Is the reason we don't need an update that science is doing such a good job of answering the questions?


Advanced Questions:

24. Why does the human chromosome #2 appear to have been created by the fusion of two different chimpanzee chromosomes, complete with structures which would not be necessary if it was created as a single, unified chromosome?

25. What is the Cosmic Background Radiation? The CBR is an integral part of the Big Bang model, and is in fact demanded by it. How does your creationism account for it, ie. where does it fit in to your model?

26. Why are the galaxies moving apart? Were they once much closer together?

27. Why can we see objects in space that are billions of light years away?

28. What process did your god use to create life? Can you describe how it works?

29. Can you use your creation model to make any helpful predictions that might lead us to further discoveries or understanding?

30. What is one prediction that your model can make which could support your creationism to the exclusion of accepted scientific models, and what evidence can you find for it?

2 comments:

FV said...

You mentioned this blog is fair and balanced. I think this is not the case as creationists cannot be expected to answer not even one of these questions. In pursue of justice, I am herewith submitting some responses on they behalf.

1. If Charlton Heston movies weren’t enough, Christian creationism is the only story that is routinely made into animated films (please take into account that hieroglyphs and Aztec codices do not count as animation). Extended broadcasting of creationism totally confirm its claims. Moreover, thanks to Saint Disney, every story in the Book of Books will soon be validated by its own E-rated cgi blockbuster and thousands more will be converted. Other explanations for Genesis does not seeem to have this power.

2. Since we all came from Adam and Eve, then Noah MUST have been Steve Irwin’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, you see? No wonder God wanted him to be the Ark master. It is rumoured that Noah was about to get the dinosaurs too but then it started raining, crickey!

3. Although not mentioned in the Bible, Noah had abundantly stock-piled on God-Chow and SPAM. Thus, all the carnivores rejoiceth.

4. Thanks to the Holy Spirit awesome powers, koalas grew temporary angel-wings (this was a miracle, not a freak mutation). Given Earth’s flatness all they needed then was the right Cartesian coordinates.

5. Mr. YHVE is an angry God. He works in mysterious ways. If you do not believe this, you will burn in hell (YWBH)

6. YWBH

7. Please refer to (6)

8. Just to quote one of the creationist modern prophets: “mankind and fish can coexist, peacefully”. What makes you think that the other species, such as mexicans and the iraq, will not get along once christians show them the light of Sweet Jesus Lord?

9. [This was a low and despicable attack to creationists. Please leave their families out of this. Otherwise, they'll complain with YHVE and YWBH]

10. As per documental evidence found in The Holy Scripture, creationists hold the only true religion; everybody else got corrupted by the Evil one. That’s also why other "people" have dark skin and speak dialects such as mexican or the Iraq, and such as.

11. He is everywhere, even right here, right now!!! You can feel Him in every key of the keyboard, in every pixel generated by Windows Vista on this 16” LCD computer screen made by Samsung. He who has ears shall listen, he who was eyes shall see. Sinners and atheist are scientifically proven to have a hard ear and are blind as bats. If that does not suffice, Mr. YHVE also acts in mysterious ways.

12. Creationist distrust scientists because even they bow before the All Mighty. Take Galileo… he flip-flopped Kerry-style when he was shown the Truth by a team of inquisitors. Way to go science!!! Ergo, it is repentance or YHVE, I mean YWBH.

13. You see, morality changes gradually over time as a result of being exposed to different scenarios. This causes some moral values to prevail, while others are discontinued, thus confusing mankind with heretical ideas that do adapt to the christian belief system. This is bringing upon us Judgment Day ahead of schedule.

At this rate of moral "revolution", Armageddon will come any minute. Just hold… here it comes… almost here… hold it…

Admin said...

FV, you made me laugh, just like the post's title promised I would. :-) I especially liked #10 and #12. Thanks!