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First off i'm jewish, but I don't really believe in any god. I do believe some magnificiants things happened thru out history (like the flood maybe), but the whole creation theory - gemme a break. The world created 5000 years ago? blah. Have some common sense people.
I tried to restain myself but I just can't....
Obviously, if there is no God, there can be no Creation.
So, to explain the origin of the universe, the Earth, and life we have the Big Bang and evolution. The theory here is that some random event, without cause created the universe out of nothing. Or if there was something before, some (again random) event caused that to explode and our solar system and our planetary system was formed out of the chaos.
So now, you have Earth full of gases, chemicals, and stuff. Again, through time, chance, and random processes some elements get together and turn into a living thing. Over time that living thing evolves and becomes more complex all through time, chance and random processes. This is the theory of evolution and everyone with a scientific mind and any common sense must accept the proof that this is how it all happened. You can prove that this is the case.
We can dispell this theory quite simply. You don't even have to look to the Bible for answers, science refutes this itself. Everything in the universe tends toward chaos. Try this simple experiment. Take red, white, and blue confetti and throw it into the air. It lands in a random patter that is not likely to repeat. Keep doing this over and over and over again. When does the confetti arrange itself into the shape of the American flag? The odds are astronomical that this could ever happen. Now consider how much evolution, through time, chance and random processes it would take to go from a single cell, simple organism into a modern human being. You'd be more likely to arrange the confetti into the shape of the flag thousands of times.
It doesn't take much "common sense" to see that this is completely ridiculous. (And, yes, I went to public school where evolution is taught as "fact", complete with transitional forms, ape-man, and fish that turn into birds.)
Evolution: fast forward to where we evolved from primates. The idea is that we are so similar in every way that we MUST have evolved to better adapt to our environment. OK, let's say you build a bridge. It works well and gets you where you need to go. You look at it, and "it is good". Now you want to build another bridge. You certainly wouldn't abandon everything from the first design but you would likely incorporate what you learned before into your new design. So your new bridge looks a great deal like the other one only with some improvements.
Now, which seems more likely? We evolved from simple, single cell organisms that appeared out of nothing or we are the product of intelligent design of a Creator who is above all that is created (everything).
Sure, all of this is just theory and it can never really be proven because the only real proof would require either someone to have been there to witness it or for it to happen again, repeatedly.
You say it takes a lot of faith to believe in God. Ok, granted. How much faith does it take to believe in evolution?
The biggest reason people don't want to believe in creation is because they don't want to be accountable to the Creator. If there is a Creator (God) than you can't just do whatever you want.