Of all the things that truly irk me and have the potential to bring it the very worst of my attitude, ignorance, ignorant "creationists" in this case, ranks up there with homophobes, racists, and people who hurt animals. Before anyone jumps down my throat calling me a heathen or that I'm going to burn in hell, I'd like to point out that I am a person of faith who was raised around the church. Currently, I'm working on a project meant to explain evolution to children. In my research for this I find myself coming across numerous websites about young earth and old earth creationism claiming they can provide evidence that they are direct and that Darwinism is false. What bothers me most is that most of the writers of the articles posted on these sites that are supposedly giving this groundbreaking evidence for whichever branch of creationism they believe in are supposedly scientists who attribute the entire theory of evolution to Darwin and label everything having to do with human evolution to Darwin without mentioning other contributors to the theory. This being said, the very basis of their argument is flawed. What is also disturbing is that someone who is allegedly a scientist, often titled as a biologist of some sort does not know something taught in a first year biology course. This then leads to another interesting question: why would someone who so fervently believes that everything first appeared exactly as it does now without change, go into a field in which this change, rather obvious changes in many cases, is embraced and studied?
In researching how I might explain to children evolution and evolutionary processes, I began to wonder how I might explain why creationism simply does not work the way creationists say it does. While the reasons are numerous and it would take much longer to explain than any child would be interested, I still find it necessary to explain that recent archaeological finds disprove the notion of young earth creationism (which places the earth's age as about 6000 years old) with ease as well as the notion of old earth creationism (which places the earth's age around 10000 years). I would delight in hearing what their arguments for the finding of a 5000 year old door is and how to explain the recently found jewellery being attributed to neanderthals is. In response to the expected response of "God put it there to test non believers" I offer the question of "why?" Why would an omnipotent being go through all the trouble to falsify evidence simply to test a group of people? I would also care to point out that it seems Christianity is the only religion that simply cannot accept evolution.