11-07-2004, 04:47 PM
Quote:creationism is not proved false. In fact, it's impossible to be proved false.
Alright, it's like this. New Earth Creationism is completely disproven - it's not just a theory, it's a fictional theory. Intelligent Design Creationism hasn't necessarily been disproven, but there's also absolutely NO evidence to support it (unless you count a centuries-old book of fables as "evidence").
Yes, it's a theory. But any of the various and sundry creation myths used by the world's many, many religions to explain how the Earth came to be before science came along are "theories". If we're going to teach Intelligent Design Creationism in schools, why not teach that Odin built the universe out of Ymir's body?
Really when you get down to it, evolution is not a theory. We know, from observation in labs and in the field, that living things adapt, over generations, to fit their environments, to fill niches, to survive changes, etc... This is proven. The exact course of evolution, from the beginning of life until today, isn't proven, obviously, but evolution itself IS NOT A THEORY, just as the Pythagorean Theorem is accepted as fact.