OK. I used to believe in Creationism even after I left the dubs. But then again, what did I know? I was a braindead window washer at the time. I don't believe in Creationism now, but I do believe in a Creator and that is different.
By the way, the term "Creationism" (which is an honest term) has disappeared from the lexicon of True Believers(tm) within the last ten years and been replaced by them with "Intelligent Design" (a less honest term). No doubt the term Intelligent Design (ID) was coined to make the notion of Creationism sound more like a scientific theory than just a personal belief.
How can I believe in a Creator and call ID stupid? Let me answer that with a little story:
A scientist prays and asks to speak to God. God appears to him and the scientist tells him humans don't need him any more so God should just go away and never come back. When God asks why, the scientist tells him humans have decoded human and animal genomes, can produce creatures and organs in laboratories and can replace bad organs with good ones.
God replies, "Ok, I'll go away if you want, but will you take a challenge from me first?" The scientist agrees. God says "The challenge is for each of us to make a human from scratch," to which the scientist scoffingly laughs and says, "No problem, God. We can already do that."
God then tells the scientist, "There is only one catch: You'll have to first create your own dirt!"
To believe that God took a direct hand in the creation of every creature and plant and evolution played no part in that process would be a huge insult to any real God. This belief requires also believing that God is still busy with his creating. AIDS was unknown only 30 years ago. Molecular biologists have discovered that the AIDS-causing virus HID evolved from a relatively harmless virus found in small primates. Scientists created drugs to combat the virus, but then watched the HIV virus evolve again to be immune to those drugs. This has happened many times in just a few decades. The same thing has happened to dangerous strains of bacteria.
While Creationists insist that evolution is unprovable because it occurred over millenia which is not observable to humans, they cannot account for the fact that scientists observe live evolution with their own eyes due to the fact that an entire generation of viruses and bacteria occurs in just hours, not decades.
If one believes that God has/had a direct hand in the creation of every organism, then one must also believe that God is busy right now sabotaging humans by continuing to redesign organisms to kill us after we have found ways to defeat them.
Any real God would be insulted at such a notion.
Another insult to any real God would be to insist that God made humans the way they are. Humans are at best an adequate compromise. Big headed human babies not infrequently die or are disfigured at birth in a narrow pelvis housing a narrow birth canal that is unfortunately located right next to the filthiest part of the human body. What's with that? While having a narrow pelvis makes giving birth very painful and often dangerous, it also helps us to walk more efficiently than we would with a wide pelvis. So it's an adaquate compromise.
Why do humans have DNA for tails? What's with that? It makes sense if we long ago shed our tails while our rear ends became larger to help us keep our balance as bipeds as some scientists who study human locomotion now believe. Also an adequate compromise.
Why do we have to poop so often? A truly intelligent designer could easily come up with a way to super compress and detoxify our waste which could be stored in a bodily warehouse and we could then poop it out through the bottom of our feet in dry, sanitary pellets once a year! On our birthday!
While we're at it, why not have two arms and hands on each side of our body and longer fingers with more joints on our hands? How hard would that be for the designer and creator of the Universe?
Why do men have nipples? What's with that? What good are they?
So the human body must be an acceptable compromise, honed to its present state by millenia of trial and error.
And if you believe that crap which says all those deadly viruses and bacteria
is man's fault because of sin, then you truly believe in a sick, perverted, sadist God. You believe in a God who, even at this moment stays busy changing those deadly organisms to make sure they stay deadly after we have found ways to defeat them. And he is busy making NEW ones, too! Bird flu is one of them, but he must have a large list because we're getting better at neutralizing the ones he's already given us.
If all humans had believed in Intelligent Design including those today, we would have taken for granted that human disease was the way God intended, and there would have been no need to study biology other than to make lists of every new creature we discovered. Also, our species might have died out without any advances in our understanding of regular biology, science and molecular biology.
After all of this, why do I still believe in a Creator? Well, where did the dirt we are made of come from?
Farkel