Creationism is Make Believe
  by Dr. Charlie Webb

"There is no truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world." Thomas Jefferson.

Creationism takes the opposite view from Jefferson. The entire goal of creationism is to hide the truth of natural evolution. Why? Because evolution through natural selection does not require a supernatural (magical) creator.

There are two main types of creationism in America today. Thanks to old-fashioned religion and to widespread intimidation of biology teachers, nearly half (45%) of modern Americans agree with Young Earth creationists who still believe (I'm not kidding) that the earth and all life were suddenly created by magic just a few thousand years ago! This is like believing that Zeus still sits in the clouds and throws thunderbolts.

A similar portion of Americans are aware of and convinced by the overwhelming scientific evidence that Earth's continents and life forms changed (evolved) over billions of years. Many of these people agree with the Intelligent Design (ID) creationists who envision god (or aliens) as the Intelligent Designer(s) who used evolution as a tool. However, this more sophisticated view still misses the mark of truth.

As a physician who has spent decades trying to fix the unfortunate consequences of our defective bodies, the very idea of "Intelligent Design" is absurd. Why? Because our bodies are riddled with stupid "design" mistakes that are merely the shadows of our forgotten ancestors. To blame god for our bodies is to accuse the "creator" of incompetence! Consider:

1. Countless mothers and babies die in childbirth because we inherit the unforgiving pelvic birth canal of our smaller-brained (hence, easily birthed) ancestors. Apparently the ID never noticed the obvious safer frontal route used in Caesarian sections.

2. Chiropractors can afford nearly as many yellow pages as can churches because our recent ancestors had spines adapted for walking on four legs rather than two. Three out of four adults seek care for back pains.

3. Older men suffer terribly from urinary obstruction because the urethra (exit tube) is encircled by a prostate gland that is guaranteed to expand with age.

4. Young men suffer hernias because our ancestrally abdominal testicles must make a crazy migration through the muscles of the abdomen to reach the scrotal sac.

5. Children suffer and die from cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease because their ancestral genes created more survivors than deaths in a world where infant diarrhea and malaria were major causes of infant mortality.

Consider that the "designer" needed over four billion years to reach that great pinnacle of intelligence and self-worship, Man. Along the way he created and destroyed countless species of dinosaurs, elephants, horses, trees, flowers, and people. Somehow he just couldn't get it right. Intelligent Design creationism paints its god as an incompetent magician.

This is the bottom line: All forms of creationism are based of wishful thinking and require self-centered magic to make them come true. Evolution is science, which is based on honesty and only requires the testing of reality. Take your pick, but choose wisely.

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