Evolution vs Creationism

I will start off by answering questions you had from round one, with arguments interspersed. I assume that with your belief of evolution, you believe that the world was created via the Big Bang. The Big Bang states that there was energy, then an explosion, then everything (1). Energy cannot be lost or gained, just transferred ((Law of conservation of energy)(2). And obviously, since there was no matter, and energy is not matter, energy could not have made everything. It's just common sense! However, it makes more sense that God would knowingly place everything into place for a purpose. And being all powerful, this would be perfectly possible for God to accomplish. Clearly, it would make more sense to have an all powerful God create everything with a purpose, rather than everything being randomly put into place by a process that could never happen! Radiometric dating also has several faults to it. "For example, when the fresh lava dome at Mount St. Helens was only ten years old, it showed a radioisotope age estimate of 340,000 years! Many such examples cast doubt on the entire dating method," says the Institute for Creation Research (3). Another article of their's shows many other instances where dating has been wrong as well (4). I apologize for not being clearer with my statement, "Also, only intelligent creation would be able to create the many things that 'prehistoric' people could make," as you pointed out, "Which things? As far as I can tell, most prehistoric artifacts are very primitive, and could have been easily made by prehistoric people." However, many objects have been found in coal, coal dating to be millions of years old! An organization called 6,000 Years has some surprising discoveries on the matter, as well. "One of the most prodigious lava flow in the history of the world occurred in the Pacific Northwest. The lava spread over an estimated 200,000 square miles in depths up to 5,000 feet. In 1972, a competent geologist stated that the eruptions took place a mere fifteen million years ago. Much of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and portions of neighboring states was covered. The immense age of the deposit "can easily be imagined by the fact that the Snake River has cut canyons through the deposit to depths of up to 3000 feet. Still, there are several curious things about this lava flow. Many competent observers have commented on the remarkable freshness of the deposit, as though the eruptions took place in very recent times. A startling find was made in 1889 near Nampa, Idaho. While workers were boring an artesian well, a small figurine of baked clay was extracted from a depth of 320 feet. Above the figurine, the drill, inside a 6-inch tubing, had cut through fifteen feet of basalt lava and many other strata. The find has never been challenged except to say that it was impossible. The conclusion is unmistakable. Before the basalt flowed, sophisticated humans lived in the area (Velikovsky, 1955, p.87; Pensee , May 1972, 2:2, p.18). Ancient men lived in California. They worked the hardest stones, fabricated perfect granite mortars and dishes, used a circular, skillet-like vessel made of lava, hard as iron, which had three legs and a spout, made polished stone axes with perfect holes drilled in them for a handle, and fashioned ladles, disks or quoits. They were able to bore into the bowels of mountains for gold and silver," they state. Another source, from the University of North Carolina, also speaks of the datings' unreliability in an article(6). 6,000 Years also says, "if conventional dating is followed, ancient man seems to be far more ancient than he should be. In fact, he must have been thriving before he is supposed to have evolved. Second, ancient man was a very sophisticated person. There is no indication that his brain gradually evolved. Both of these conclusions, obviously, are completely opposite to evolutionary theory. One ancient shaft was drilled 210 feet down into solid rock. An altar for worship was found there. Other finds include the following: a mortar for grinding gold ore at a depth of 300 feet in a mining tunnel, a mortar and pestle weighing 30 pounds, beads, perforated stones, a 40-pound oval granite dish. One human skull was found at a depth of 130 feet under five beds of lava and tufa separated by layers of gravel. Man came before the lava flowed, and deep canyons have been cut by rivers since the lava spread. An amazing number of stone relics have been found. The finding are almost always in gold-bearing rock or gravels (Victoria Institute , 1879, 15:193-198)." they say (5). I'd read the whole article carefully, there is much to learn about early art. (1) http://www.merriam-webster.com... (2) http://www.energyeducation.tx.gov... (3) http://www.icr.org... (4) http://www.icr.org... (5) http://www.6000years.org... (6) http://www.cs.unc.edu...