Darwin's theory of evolution & creationism are mutually exclusive.

OutlineI. IntoII. Could an all powerful God exist?III. DeismIV. ConclusionV. SourcesI. IntroSeems we have winnowed the issue to two main points. Could an all powerful God exist, and if so this God would not be bound by the laws of nature and secondly, deism. II. Could an all powerful God exist?"4. An all-powerful God is not limited by the laws of nature that He created." BeaneThe problem is we are doing a sort of reverse engineering. If an all powerful being existed, he/she wouldn't be bound by the laws of nature he/she created. That's true in my opinion, with the "if" condition. Here's the problem, such a being doesn't seem possible. Especially considering the nature of evolution. Simple unicellular organisms evolve and become multi-cellular, multi-cellular become more and more complex until mammals are evolved, rinse and repeat until you get primates and finally homo sapiens. The pattern is easy and predictable. From simple to complex. Like a one way road leading only towards complex. God creating the universe is backwards. An extremely complex being creates a simpler being. God creates man and man creates the wheel. The wheel invention, which is much simpler than man, no DNA for starters. The entire train of thought is reversed when thinking of God creating compare to evolution. The religions where man is created in God's image exemplify this point. In these religions man is more or less a devolved version of God. A magnificent creature creates the lowly humans. The reverse is in evolution, primeval creatures slowly evolve and in a matter of speaking create humans. In evolution lowly creatures create the awesome humans. We can always imagine what life would be like if it was different in some drastic way, yet this doesn't mean its right. It doesn't mean we have evidence to support the conjecture. We could imagine an Earth with 4 suns and 8 moons. Yet, its not that way, in fact such a solar system would most likely over heat the Earth and we wouldn't exist to ponder such questions. Impact: An all powerful God must exist first before he/she is not bound by the laws of nature he/she created. If we follow the logical and evidence based route this basic truth will always gnaw away at us. How do we know this God exists? This seems to conflict with evolution, and so forth. In brief, the logical mind will eventually view this as conjecture and turn to other explanations other than God. III. Deism Deism seems less contradictory at first. Yet, the main problem is that first argument I brought up earlier in round one. "and just plain old different mindsets." stupidape r1While certainty appealing more to the rational mind, deism ultimately is still a hybrid. God created the universe and for all intents and purposes disappeared and let Abiogenesis, evolution, and so forth take place. Yet, the question will still nag at us once we start down this logical and evidence based mind set. Well, how do we explain evolutionary psychology then? That its pan-human to believe in God. My favorite explanation is as follows "yet another explicable feature of religion is signs of expertise in occult knowledge. If you're the one who knows mysterious but important arcane knowledge, then other people will defer to you. " [5] At the same time, wouldn't we look for evidence of such a deism God? How about the multiverse theory? [6] Which makes more sense, which has more evidence? As science unearths more and more about the nature of existence, even such a remote God as a deism God comes into question. Basically by believing in Deism we set the rational mind to turbo and quickly figure out the multiverse theory and evolutionary psychology, which conflict with Deism. Meanwhile, the irrational part of is unhappy. Shouldn't we pray to this deism God? Therefore, while the rational part of our mind quickly find conflicting evidence between Deism and science, the irrational part of our mind wonders if we should worship such a God. Again, you end up in conflict. Which is it Deism or multiverse theory? Deism or evolutionary psychology? How could such a powerful being ever exist in the first place? Did this God make a few exceptions for Earth and put the idea of God into our heads, or the science route, did natural selection encourage genes which promote appearance of occult knowledge? The questions will be endless with a Deism hybrid. The underling problem with a supreme being in general is its easy to cheat with our imagination. We can imagine flying, hovering, extra limbs, casting fireballs, teleporting, and so forth quite easily. When lighting a campfire we could use two solutions, the first is to take some dry leaves and kindling, rub some sticks together creating friction, which will generate a spark, and then hopefully the kindling will catch fire and we can throw some logs onto the campfire. The second solution is to cast a fireball to light the campfire. At first the second solution seems simpler and easier. Why go to all the effort to find sticks and kindling when we can just fireball the logs? Yet, when put under scrutiny, the fireball solution creates more questions than answers and becomes incredibly complex. Person A: How could a person cast a fireball? Person B: Well, magic duh. Person A: Where does magic come from? Why doesn't the person incinerate himself/herself when casting the fireball? Is there a limited supply of magic? Why can some cast magic and not others? How do you create a larger or smaller fireball? What temperature is the fireball at?Person B: Ummmm, you talk too much. Anyways, you get the point the fireball solution is not only impossible, it makes no sense. Person B can't answer the questions and results to an ad hominem attack. Well the same is true on a grander scale with God. Just because we can easily imagine a being or action, doesn't make it true, credible, likely, or even possible. In contemporary culture with easy access to science the rational mind won't be satisfied until it finds the most likely answer, in this case atheism. It seems arbitrary to stop at Deism. You already have a God that hasn't interacted with us for over 10 billion years. Why, stop there, why not go one step further? Deism is like a song with the last note missing for the rational mind. At least with creationism with mainstream religion you get to worship with others. As humans we are social creates and need to interact with each other. Deism is the loneliest path. You won't fit in with the rational atheist nor main stream religion. Impact: Deism creationism and evolution conflict because a person logical and evidence based train of thought is already developed if a person thinks both are true. The logical part of our mind will gnaw away at Deism until we find that atheism is more likely, simpler, and more logical than Deism. Therefore, Deism creationism and evolution are mutually exclusive. To top this off the irrational part of our mind won't be satifised with a nameless diety. IV. Conclusion While imaging somebody can cast fireballs is easy, such ideas don't hold up to scrutiny. The sames is true of God. The rational mind will not be pleased until it finds the best solution. Once the rational mind gets a hold of both evolution and creationism it will follow the path, until it deems atheism as the better solution. The irrational part of our mind won't be happy either, questioning scriptures or in the case of deism be uncontent with a nameless God. Therefore, evolution and creationism are mutually exclusive. Thanks again for accepting this debate and reading. V. Sources5. http://ffrf.org...6. http://news.nationalgeographic.com...