Creationism

I agree with everything said here! No part of it is not reasonable and beautiful. My thoughts precisely, and articulated far better than I could ever organise them into language. But the question remains unaddressed. The question is not 'Does G-d exist?', the question is not 'Does life have a Divine purpose and incalculable value?', the question is not even 'Did G-d create the Heavens and the Earth?'. Surely the very term 'Creationism' asks, or strongly implies that it asks if the account in Bereshit is literal and historical, or if it attempts to communicate unequivocal truth by way of metaphor. Can we look at the account and even speculate than man being formed from dust leaves space for a material evolution of an ape which, when G-d breathes into his nostrils AT THAT MOMENT of fusion between animalistic body and Divine Soul becomes Adam?

To me, evolution and Bereshit are not only not incompatible, they are in perfect union. Reply

I don't know, Yanki, but... ... you say, "Why do we care? Because in the beginning G-d created the heavens and the earth." We care proves G-d created. That's the proof? Reply

Creationism As a child and throughout my teenage years I was taught to value human life.It did not require much brain power to want to help ones fellow men in distress. My conscience to `do good` had nothing to do with how the world was created. I live in the present not in the past. Religion encourages Man to rely to much on G-D and not enough on developing his own
moral standards. Reply

Ask an atheist if you want to know what we believe Why don't you ask an atheist what they actually think instead of making stuff up.

"They believe that human life is purposeful -- that there is something beyond our existence which our existence serves."

Actually no we don't. At least none of the atheists I know. We aren't like hammers which are created for the purpose of pounding nails.

There are different kinds of purpose that I can think of and none of them describe a relationship between me and something outside existence.

One kind of purpose implies a goal and I don't believe my existence serves any particular goal.

I'm not sure why it makes some people feel happy to be like a hammer in this regard. I like being autonomous. With your beliefs don't you feel like a pawn being some mere cog in some uber-plan? I sure would.

It doesn't bother me in the least that Jupiter has no purpose outside existence or inside it either, not like a hammer. Reply

No, we don't You wrote:
Atheists, too, believe in G-d -- they just call Him something else. They believe that human life is purposeful -- that there is something beyond our existence which our existence serves. Rationally, a person may reject this truth, but his every instinct affirms it. And when it doesn't, the race will unanimously label him "not normal."

Point by point:
- Atheists do not "believe in G-d". By definition. We also believe you can spell the name in full in any language without any problems. I won't do it here out of respect, but millennia of experience tell us that. Oh, and give what the "thei" part of the word means, shouldn't you perhaps write it "ath-ists"
- As we don't believe, we don't give it another name. We give gods the name their believers give them. Anything else would make discussion difficult, if not impossible. Reply

The will to live. Not only humans worry about life. I've seen animals will to live even more than humans.
Animals don't commit suicide.
Animals, even if hungry and thin, do all that is possible to keep alive.
It is as if they appritiated life even more than humans. Why?
And, then, why do humans not respect life as much? Is this a degeneration of the human race?
Animals don't make wars.
Have humans become too many on earth?
Thanks for giving me this opportunity, Reply