Evolutionism vs Creationism

I'm happy that my opponent accepted my challenge in such a brief period. The fact that he's a theistic Evolutionist is appreciated and I have to say I am one myself. I want to point out though, that I will not go easy on him and that I don't promise that he will leave this debate in "One Piece". Since we're going to debate only four topics I'm going to focus all my attention to validate Creationism in this first round. 1. Creationism is a valid theory that can't be refuted by science with the actual knowledge and means it has at its disposal. Creationism is a religious belief that life, the Earth, and the universe are a creation of God. It is mainly associated with Christian fundamentalists and with the Genesis 1, the opening chapter of the Bible. In this chapter it is narrated how God created the universe and the mankind in his image in a few days, arguably, 6000 years ago. Nowadays there are several interpretations of this texts and many variations of Creationism. I won't lose time explaining or justifying them all. I will take the most literal interpretation of the text and explain how irrefutable and logical it is. With that in mind, I will start to invite my opponent to do a short psychological evaluation of this God that created the world where we live. I will try to assign numbers to specific characteristics. Genesis 1:26 Then God said, Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." This passage from the Genesis is a great start since it has lots of important information about God. 1.The fact that humans were created in God's image tells us a lot already about Him and it will help us deduce other things about Him. 2.We can clearly sense the narcissism and the control issues. He felt the need to create a species to rule over the other and this species was made in His image. 3. The use of "us", "our" is also very intriguing. It may indicate that He wasn't alone at the time. He might be with a friend and to entertain themselves they decided to create this world. It also is possible that He was feeling alone and was just pretending to be with an imaginary friend and then created this world and mankind to seek some entertainment and company. Or He was really delusional and really thought that He wasn't alone. Which is something unlikely, since it's God we're talking about, but in a possible scenario God was alone in the darkness since eternity! It's well known the danger it is for humans to be isolated for long periods of time and deprived of their senses. Genesis 6 7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. This sixth chapter of Genesis narrates how God got angry with men for being mean and decided to kill them all with a flood, only saving Noah. Why Noah? I wonder... I presume the same way as you pick a dog in the dog shelter and leave the others to die. Because God felt a special connection with him. Lets proceed to the psycologic analysis. 2. The narcissism and the control issues demonstrated in the previous passage are shown again. 4. It shows that God has an incorrect idea about himself and that He's not very perspicacious in that regard. He creates men in his image. Men start to kill and sin against each other. God doesn't identify Himself with this and decides to kill them, without realizing that they are acting exactly according to His own personality. 5. It may indicate a) that God has a hot temper associated with strong mood swings, which might be caused by his long period of isolation, and that his social skills are quite dysfunctional, which is demonstrated over and over throughout the Bible, through the difficulty that he shows to simply talk and address to people. b) that the Earth is just like an ant farm to God. He enjoys looking at it once in a while, but then he got bothered and decided to fill it with water. Who hasn't done that? Even if it wasn't with an ant farm, but with an anthill. You know you shouldn't do it and you pity the ants... but it's just stronger than you! 10 Commandments Exodus 20 1-17: http://en.wikipedia.org... 2. The first 5 commandments God gave people to teach them how to live their lives properly, so He doesn't get upset and decides to kill everyone again, are about Him. This completely demonstrates, again, his narcissistic personality and egocentrism. 2. After this 5 commandments He then improvises some moral rules. Respect your parents, don't murder, don't steal, don't lie and... don't be jealous of your neighbor! Which shows some irresponsibility and that what He was really concerned about was to get the proper adoration! Showing again his narcissistic character! For explaining my next reasoning I really need to paste here part of the third commandment: "(...)You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments." 2. Here we have God admitting he's jealous and in a few moments He's telling people not to be jealous. Which demonstrates that the last commandments were something that He really improvised at the last instance and that he doesn't care much about them as long as people venerate and worship Him. 6. God admits He's really resentful and vengeful. 7. He says he's going to be good and to love those that love Him and keep His commandments, half of which were completely made up on the last minute, but sounded reasonable and cool to say. This may be true and God really intends to be nice to those that adore Him or He just wants people to love him and is saying this only to persuade them. Just like you tell your younger brother that you're going to let him play with your computer if he gets you some snacks, but then you never do! This psychological analyse is already taking too long and I have enough information to prove my case. Summarizing: 1. God and humans are alike, with very similar behaviors and needs caused by certain life experiences. 2. We have a particularly narcissistic, egocentric God with control issues, which causes are not relevant for the subject in discussion. 3. God might have been with a friend when He decided to create our world, it's possible. Or he might just have been alone playing with an imaginary friend. The third hypothesis of God being delusional is not plausible, because it's God we're talking about! 4. Like most people, God is not very self aware of his personality. 5. I will take b) because the idea of a hot temper God with anxiety symptoms is not very godly like and the idea of the Earth being like an ant farm for God just explains everything perfectly. (*) 6. God is resentful and vengeful. 7. This point is not relevant for the case in discussion. Why is the ant farm analogy so perfect? 1. It explains why God created the universe. To entertain Himself. 2. It explains why God only intervenes in specific occasions. Because most of the time He's doing something else and when He is observing He doesn't like to interfere with the "natural course" of our Universe, the same way biologist and reporters from National Geographic don't interfere with the habitats they are studying ; and the same way these same reporters try to help an animal once in a while, as does God. He might also interfere just for testing how people react to certain events, the same way that biologists and scientists experiment stuff with animals. 3. Basically all of the God interactions with people, that I'm aware of, can be explained from this point of view. The Creationism vs Evolutionism After explaining the God's human behavior, his narcissistic character and His vengeful way to deal with people that don't worship him, I want to purpose my opponent to put himself in God's position. Imagine that you're this God and you've created this world. In the beginning you've tried to persuade the creatures of this world to worship you for several times. You spoke with them, you rewarded them with some miracles when they did good, you punished them when they didn't obey you. But they are narcissistic like you, so after a while everything is always again as before. They don't care about you and they live their lives, being concern about themselves and ignoring you. What do you do? You punish them in a way you can be entertained without having to worry much about it in the next future! You change some properties in the universe you have created, so that those that don't believe in you waste their lives trying to figure it out, while entertaining you with their quest. While those that believe and worship you, don't care about it, because they believe in your word that was passed to them through the Bible. Quite simple right? Even if you don't completely agree with everything, I still ask you how is it possible to science to disprove this claim? That God did make it seem that the universe is 14 billion years old and that it all started in a Big Bang, just to mock those that didn't believe and worshiped Him. About the evolving capacities of the living beings. God may have created Life with these properties right at the beginning for the sake of entertainment or He might have introduced it whenever he wanted! Because He's God! And He does whatever He wants to this world. Try to compare God to a writer. However in our story the characters have more free will... or have they not??