EvC Forum: Why are evolution and creationism mutually exclusive?

Welcome to the fray twinbanj

Being a biology student, but having many friends who are church going christians, ive always wonderd why Evolution and creationism are mutualy exclusive? Why can't they both, work side by side?

They can work together, but it depends on the type of creationism. There are many christians that feel that evolution is a means of creation (see theistic evolution)

Note that there is also muslim creationism (Harun Yahah is a particularly odiuos example), jewish creationism, hindu creationism, etc. What they all include are different degrees of fundamentalist belief, up to the point of rejecting all scientific knowledge because if contradicts a part of their fundamental belief/s.

Generally, when people have a conflict, it is not just evolution, but all of science that is at odds with their belief/s.

Being from the UK, more christians muslims and Jewish people here take their respective holy book's view on a creation as a metaphor - I myself don't fall into any religious category (I'm definately not atheist, i think there is the potential for a higher power in some form).

And many people in the US fall into that category. We just have a number of "nut" sects (like Fred Phelps) as well as people in between.

Most people in the US have little more than a High School education and have not really been exposed to the concepts of evolution, and thus remain ignorant about it (or confused by poor partial education).

Fundamentalists have also been successful in castrating science education in many US elementary, middle and high schools, because we have this system of schools being run by local populations.

Isn't it possible for the energy in the theorized big bang, to be a god?

Perhaps it was god becoming the universe ... and the final words were "surprise me ... " (says the resident Deist)

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