Ok, anyone who incorrectly assumes that "creationism" automatically means "6000-year-old earth" is not up to speed on the different camps that make up creationism. Not all creationists believe that the Earth is only 6000 years old, so the vast majority of you who are jumping straight onto the "lol creationists r n00bs"-bandwagon need to quickly educate yourselves before making such foolish statements.
As expected (in regards to my earlier post), people are saying that "it takes a different kind of faith or lesser faith to not believe in God that to believe" or "while it takes faith to believe in an unprovable God, there is no faith involved in not believing in something that can't be proven." I think you're missing something.
Anyone who has had a lengthy discussion with a creationist on the topic of the origin of the known universe will know that creationists love to talk about statistics and probability... and for good reason. (See "fine-tuning argument".) When you look from the perspective of a scientist at the universe, it looks as if it knew we were coming. I won't get into the exact numbers, but our life-sustaining planet is unbelieveably rare. So you can either believe that it was all by chance, or that it was done on purpose. The ultimate question is, which is easier to believe?
Consider this analogy: in a poker game, the dealer deals himself twenty straight hands of four aces. As the other players are about to kill him for cheating, the dealer says, "wait, you can't prove I'm cheating; there are a trillion parallel universes and we just happen to be in the one where the chances of dealing twenty straight hands of aces has been realized." Technically, he's right--it is possible that there are trillions of universes and that this is the one universe in which all those aces are dealt. But the other players still kill him, because, after all... which is more plausible: that he is lucky, or that he is cheating?
Or this: If someone broke into your house through a living room window one night intending to steal something, and you came and saw them standing in there red-handed, and they said to you, "unbelieveably, while i was walking down the sidewalk outside your house, a car struck something on the road, which then hit me on the head and made me crash through your window", what would you believe? Did this unlikely thing really happen, or did the person purposely break into your house? And which would you do first: call the cops, or give this person medical attention? (haha)
