Reply #217: Why not, many world religions operate very nicely by taking.... [View All]

...creation as a given and then applying science and mathematics and rational thought to finding a way to live and operate in the world that we find ourselves living in. Look at the various eastern religions such as Hinduism. Even the Arab poet and philosopher Rumi over a thousand years ago perhaps said, "...the eye goes blind when it asks the question why!" I interpret that to have meant the "all-seeing eye" of consciousness and reason that is in all of us. It was the poet's way of saying accept life as the gift that is, enjoy, make the most of it and do not question what some higher power's (in Rumi's case he called God the 'Beloved') reason might have been for providing such a blessed gift.

To use the science of evolution and natural selection, it matters very little why life came into existence in the first place. Want Darwin was concerned about was what allowed some species to survive and propagate while others vanished from existence. Unfortunately social Darwinists came along and interpreted Darin's evolutionary laws as a means to assure one class or race of human beings to survive or dominate all other classes, forgetting completely that race is NOT what comprises the species of mankind, but is merely a variation in the outside appearances of man (much like colors of feathers in birds or the build of certain mammals in the wild like the speed of the cheetah or the massive weight of the lion).

That which distinguishes human beings from the other species that we share this precious planet with is our inherited ability to think, reason, communicate, work with our hands, fashion tools and so forth. In addition, what seems to have assured the collective survival of the human species on this planet has been our ability to live and work in social communities without killing one another. In the last several hundred years, that trait has almost vanished from the human species and I really doubt if Creationism is addressing that aspect of the human struggle to survive.