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This is my first thread on this guild, so bear with me here. sweatdrop

Suppose one day, I told you (a Christian and firm Creationist) that the world was not created by God; that it was created by my imaginary friend Bob.

Would you believe me?

I doubt you would.

So when you tell me that our world was created by God, I feel the same way you would if I told you we were created by Bob.

It seems that Christians find the idea of a God completely logical, and so they think Creationism is inherently logical.

They think that because they think Creationism is logical, others will too and that if they are taught Creationism, they will become instant believers.

Such is not the case.

To many of us, the idea of a supernatural deity is completely illocigal.

We simply cannot wrap our brains around the idea that someone is out there.

To us, God seems like a young child's imaginary friend that some people continue to hold on to because it makes them feel more secure.

And so rather than Creationism, we turn to Evolution.

Evolution and other similar theories have the logical appeals that Creationism does not; they contain, to quote a banner, "mountains of evidence", while Creationism only has one book of it.

I suppose neither the Evolutionists nor the Creationists will ever be satisfied.

Our brains work in opposite ways, and so we cannot fully comprehend the legitimacy of each others' arguments.

The best we can do, I suppose, is to teach Evolution and Creation as two seperate theories and allow the students to decide for themselves.

There is no need for making Creationists believe in Evolution, because it will never happen.

However, we cannot let them take Evolution out of textbooks, leaving people uninformed about it.

I cannot count the number of people who, due to ill education, believe that Evolution is nothing more than thinking we come from monkeys.

We need to end that now and teach everyone the full facts about Evolution; only then can we rest knowing that Creationists are Creationists and Evolutionists are truly Evolutionists.