"Evolution is true because it hasn't been proven false, therefore the Bible is false because evolution is true."
"The Bible is true because it hasn't been proven false, therefore evolution is false because the Bible is true."
This logic fails. I could say that a polka-dotted pink elephant from the future has told me that evolution is false, because he has seen the past and has seen that evolution never took place, or vice versa with Creationism, and you couldn't prove it false. Does that make it true? Absolutely not. "If not false then true" logic fails.
We have plenty of physical evidence for evolution. Fossil records, genetic similarities between species... and then there's just the pure logic of natural selection. Having gone to a Baptist school, I know all the ways Creationists try to bend it around and make it look false, and I can tell you,
that is what fails.
I believe in God, but we should never blind ourselves to the world around us just because it challenges our beliefs. I did have a problem with evolution for a long time, though. The reason was fear. I'd gotten the impression that it somehow disproved God, or gave me less reason to believe in it, and with fears of my own mortality... that wasn't something I could deal with.
I always had the impression that evolution was true, though. Because of that, I avoided knowing anything about it. I didn't want to believe in it. And I see that same fear in the people who try to reason out Creationism. They don't know anything about what they're arguing against, and their own arguments are weak and fallacious. I think they're just trying to cling to their own beliefs, though.
I think belief in Creationism is harmful. People give the impression that it's necessary for God's existence, and that's simply not true. It makes people afraid to learn and ignorant, and in the end, it threatens their belief in God. Also, it makes people who belief in God look ignorant to the rest of the world, which doesn't help their belief any.
Plus, blind faith can be dangerous. How do you know the people you're listening to are right? Because they told you so? I'm not saying that Creationists are evil, but consider what would happen if you were raised to believe something else. That's how suicide bombers and the like get to where they are. Creationism is not violent like that, but my point is that you have to gather information and make decisions yourself. You have to decide for yourself what is right. It doesn't mean anything to you until you figure it out for yourself, anyway. There's a reason for... reason.
All that along with the all the previous arguments that Creationism isn't science. I mean, our science books at my old school said things evolutionists don't want to believe in God so they won't have to face moral responsibility. Come on! That's not even a
fallacious scientific argument, it's pure opinion! And not an informed one at all. I guess if they were teaching both, it wouldn't be like that, but... teaching Creationism in school would discriminate against other religions. You'd have to teach all creation myths, which would be impossible due to the shear number of them. And it's still not science.
