Great ... the public is concerned with evolution vs. creationism, but getting top scientists into the debate is like getting the fbi to bust up a kegger. Then again, getting someone who has thought long and hard about the nature of faith -- I won't say religion -- to speak about the illusions of modern science would be a similar situation. Of course, the media is very concerned with having some sort of head-to-head confrontation, and people like Richard Dawkins are very concerned with the most superficial of all human charasteristics, the 'belief' -- and THAT seems to be the biggest lie of all. That is, that politics would be so shallow.

How do other religions feel about creationism, intelligent design, and evolution ?

It makes my life so much more fulfilled knowing where I came from,

NOT.

It's funny how people argue over stuff like this LOL.

I'd just like to be the first to say, not only is creationism unprovable, its stupid.

This entire debate tends to be very narrow from two different sides. Creationists are pretending to be certain apart from science, and Evolutionists are pretending to certain beyond their own limited knowledge.

The Creationists attempts to reconcile science with Scripture and theology. Bad diea. While the Evolutionist ignores everything about man that is non-cognitive. Bad idea.

God cannot be proven by sceintific method, period. Creationist need to stop trying to hijack science. However, Evolutionists are trying to hijack all things "not known".

Science tends to pat itself on it's pack for the things it has discovered. Yet, there still remains many things to be discovered, things that already exist; things that are already true. It's just that we have not yet discovered them.

It is quite possible that in the great expanse of the universe there may be scientfic discoveries that may imply more vividly the possibility of a Prime Mover; an Uncaused Cause. At that point, it may seem more reasonable to believe that. However, it still will not "prove it".

In my own opinion, it is still at least philosophically reasonable to believe in God.

BTW, this video implies that all scientists who excel in their field do not believe in some sort of God. That simply is not true.

The truth of the matter is, that many sceintists that happen to be Theists are scared of being abused and bullied by those in the scientific community who disagree with them.

However, I do agree with the statements made about public education and how mid-America tends to dumb themselves down a bit. It's important for people to be educated. However, I think that it is equally important that people be allowed to "believe" without being called idiots.

So there's really a debate?

I think the main problem is giving creationism too much attention. It's not that science knows everything, any good scientist knows there are always exceptions to everything we know and that science is subject to change when proven wrong. That's why we choose to accept it, because it works.

In my opinion the biggest problem is the advertising creationism gets, those things that work are enough to say, for starters, that the bible's chronicles aren't literal. IF they are philosophical/metaphoric that is different but a thought nonetheless.

Bottom line: you don't "believe" in science. Science is a collection of facts that are explained by us in such a manner that we can predict future situations. We should get those scientists off these shows and into something meaningful, instead of trying to convince people that they've been deceived.

The problem with Creationism isn't that its wrong, its just impossible to know. I couldn't tell you that Creationism isn't true, but what I can tell you is that nobody on the entire planet can PROVE it is true, and therefore it will never compete with Evolution. Evolution, though a theory, has a lot of evidence to back it up. Creationism has none, and before someone says Bible, saying its true doesn't make it so.