Creationism

I shall accept this exciting debate.First is Rebuttals.Rebuttal 1:"a religious theory that was made up by Bronze Age myth writers/theologians that literally copied much older creation stories and formed their own."Con doesn't list any examples. Since we can conclude that Biblical Creationism includes all of Judaism, we will began there. Judaism is estimated to be around 3,700-3,900 years old. This is when Abraham first spoke of God.(1) Of course Moses saw the creation of most the laws and other aspects of Judaism, and virtually every prophecy in Judaism that led up to Christianity, around 3,300 years ago.(2)This makes Judaism that second oldest religion on Earth, behind Hinduism, which existed outside the known world at this time. Greek Mythology is known to be older than 800 B.C (2,800 years ago) because of Homer's writings, but it's not known how much older Greek Mythology is. With Judaism being as old as 1,900 B.C, it's save to assume that even if the Greek Mythology came (or came into creation) with the Dorian's, it'd be younger than Judaism because the Dorian's Invasion took place in 1,100 BC, around 200 years after Moses and 600-800 years after Abraham.(3) The Dorian's would have no influence at this time, nor would Greece, assuming the actual Mythology is that old. Even if the Dorian's had the full religion made up before the invasion, they weren't influential enough to affect a religion forming 3,600 kilometers away, (although the Dorian's aren't known to be as old as Abraham.)Con's argument isn't consistent with religions of the time. Abraham's religion bore little in comparison with other religions. First is that it's Monotheistic. Second is an origin story. Most religions in the known world shared a similar Creation Story, where the living and breathing Earth was a life force of some form, and was viewed in a mystical way. Judaism viewed the Earth as a rock crafted by a creator. There was nothing mystic about the planet, and it wasn't a living God of some form. Judaism was very unique from other religions, which is why Greeks saw the Jews as arrogant for denying the existence of other Gods, and the Roman's tolerated the Jew's unwarranted rioting because their Religion/culture was a unique piece of history unlike any other in the region.[1] http://www.religionfacts.com...[2] http://www.jewfaq.org...[3] http://www.britannica.com...Rebuttal 2:"Please prove to me Creationism is a scientific fact"Con must prove that, without a doubt, Creationism is false. Both sides have BOP since I must prove Creationism is possible, but Con has more BOP responsibility since she is instigating the accusation.I will provide an argument in my Arguments.Argument 1: ConsistencyWhile Judaism is unique from other religions, it does share text consistent with other hysterical texts of the time. These include a Great Flood. The Great Flood Myth is, in essence, the same across European/Middle Eastern/Far Asian mythologies.(4) The stories are similarly seen in American Mythologies, and some African Mythology, with heavy consistency.(5) Such consistency is reason enough to believe they could have likely been based on an actual World-wide flood. While not provable in nature, it gives some highly reasonable merit. Historical texts with such consistency are often considered indicators of truth to historians.[4] http://www.academia.edu...[5] http://en.wikipedia.org...Argument 2: ProbabilityThe probability of Creationism is hard to determine. The probability of Evolution is near impossible, especially with Chromosomes.When a child is born with a different number of Chromosomes, called Chromosomal Abnormality,(6) it's plagued by physical and mental disorders. No menioned case has been found where the abnormality didn't negatively affect the child. Few animals share the same number Chromosomes, so for Evolution to have occurred, most species can't just change what Genes they have, but must also change number of Chromosomes. We see this between Humans, with 46 Chromosomes, and our "close neighbors/ancestors", Chimpanzee, Orangutans, and Gorillas, who each have 48 Chromosomes.(7) Such successfully evolution is near impossible, especially for the Red Viscacha Rat with 102 Chromosomes.In-between Evolution would be too. A Myriad of species kill members born with slight mutations or anything that appears to have birth defects, including Monkey/Gorilla species. Evolution would be halted, and Human's wouldn't have made it past the first one or two mutations, especially the mutations that removed chromosomes.In-between Evolution would be impossible because of the nature of a mutation. Before you got birds, you'd have creatures with awkward feathered arms with no real design. In fact most design would have required biological engineering. A bird could never have obtain a good pair of wings naturally. Nor could they have formed over time. The wings wouldn't be as systematic as they are by random chance. Random and Systematic do not exist together, which would apply to literally millions of species that formed since the beginning. A T-Rex bloodline would have died out long before, as the odds of a mutation staying beneficial or consistent throughout a million years and a hundred thousand births and tens of thousands of mutations, are near to nothing. Unless over 99.999% of all notable mutations are harmless, Evolution would near never be successful. Consistency is also an issue. A long line of mutations would have to be consistent and complete themselves over time. This is almost impossible since close to all mutations aren't hereditary, and the ones that are hereditary would diasppear in a few generaions, especially since the mutation variant would have to eventually mate with a pure-bred variant.Evolution from Bacteria is impossible. as most bacteria will become a small colony, but long before reaching the cell count of, say, a water bear (40,000 cells), the organism would starve to death much like the ever growing amoeba which starves death once it gets too big. A species couldn't make it passed glob stage, as anything baring enough cells to hold organs would die from starvation before ever reproducing. The evolution of a working digestive system, assuming it was possible without genetic engineering, would kill off any species operating with a work-in-progress set of intestines.All this creates a highly reasonable excuse to believe Creationism over the impossible probability of Evolution. With how systemically perfect everything is, from birds so happening to be such systemic feathers AND the bone structure needed to fly with them, while close to no other species on bares similar bones... It's reasonable to conclude that everything had to be created, not random generated.[6] http://www.marchofdimes.com...[7] http://en.wikipedia.org...Argument 3: CreationismThe fine-tuning of the human species is beyond random chance. A species that can survive anywhere in the world, subtract Antarctic, with such impossible biological complexecity. No species would have evolved to became more complex than needed. The fine tuning in other species is almost equally beyond random chance. Most adaptations and mutations could only have worked if they had a co-existing mutation along side them. Lungs would required Bronchi and Trachea. The Trachea would have to have formed appropriately for the system to work, and the Lungs would have to immediately know the difference between air and other substances. The Trachea would have needed the open-close mechanism needed to keep water and food out.Blood is also questionable. Again, most mutations need co-existing mutations to work. Blood needs Veins, and Veins need Blood. Neither without the other. Adaptions like sucking lood as well. Before they could drink, they needed the anticoagulant saliva. Species with blood would have bled out long before coagulation became a common feature. Most adaptions formed through mutations to match a hostile situation would take generations to form and wouldn't have occurred quick enough to save the species. Another issue is gender. The creation of gender would have been impossible. Every species held one gender, and they had no reason to evolved seperate, and co-operating, sex organs of the needed complexicity that shocklingly operated together to form a fetus of any kind. For this, you'd need the following all AT ONCE:-Seperate co-operating Organs-Seperate co-operating sex cells-Seperare co-operating hormones-Complex fetus baring organs-Complex features of the fetus such as a working umbolical cord-A fetus that had immediately adapted to such a situationThe amount of co-operating variables and the odds of an immediately efficent operating reproducive organ that doesn't kill the child and keeps it alive and growing are close to zero. No possible mutation could have slowly added such co-existing features. The first fetus to be created in a vagina would have died immidately. The Fetus would have biologic adaptions to an egg, not a vagina.The amount of fine-tuning and systematically co-existing variables and adaptions in each species matched with the complexity of Earth would make the odds of it having happening without a creator far less than the odds of there being a creator. This also when considering how every known planet is simple in comparison to other space objects, and desolate, but our one planet can not only sustain life, but does it with such complexity of a massive intertwined ecosystem where a current in the ocean slowing down by a mph can cause an ice age in Europe and an earthquake Asia... (that being only an example.) We find the existence of a God to be as probable as, if not far more probable than, the random and impossible odds of existing without one.