(March 18, 2014 at 8:19 pm)discipulus Wrote:(March 18, 2014 at 7:02 pm)jesus_wept Wrote: I think you may have missed my point. Which is that while evolution might be "just a theory", creationism isnt even a theory. It's a failed hypothesis at best.
And how life began in the first place is largely irrelevant to the theory of evolution because, whether you believe life on earth was seeded by cosmic garbage or the hand of god, it doesn't change the theory of evolution one bit. Evolution does present quite a hurdle to the mankind was created in god's image types though.
If your worldview cannot account for the origin of life, the very thing that is a prerequisite for evolution in the first place, then as I stated earlier, Creationism is superior in explanatory scope and power.
Creationism explains nothing, instead it makes unfounded assertions.
And if you believe asserting things without evidence makes a good theory than I put it to you that a magical goblin who lives outside space and time farted the universe into existence and then created life in an unexplainable act of magic. This scenario is just as plausible as creationism.
