sheppie said:
Lightknight said:
This may be hard to accept, but creation scientists don't give a witch's tit about solar energy.
Creationism is a euphemism for fanatically clinging to irrational and clearly untrue arguments.
No, creationism is a defined term for a group of people who wish to combine their religious beliefs with science. I mean, at times it can get hilarious but don't forget that the majority of scientists until more recently were religious minded individuals (monks in particular thanks to the advantage in research preserving writings provides).
How energy is produced does not fall within the realm of creationism. In fact, there are creation scientists who basically believe that God created the universe with the appearance in age and as such can accept every scientific principle. There are other creation scientists who believe that God created the universe and then eons later came to earth where life had been wiped out and reintroduced it and as such also have no problem accepting most scientific principles. All you really have to be in order to be a creation scientist is to be a scientist who also believes that God created the universe/earth.
Basically, all a creationist scientist is, is just someone who tries to apologize religion with science. To try and marry it with ignorance is stereotyping and bigotry on your part. Even for the sake of a joke that's not cool.
Consider this, that we create miniature universes all the times whenever we create a video game. We create physical rules and properties according to our own design. It is not unreasonable to think that given the technology and know-how that we are on a current trajectory to create a complex and massive universe inhabited by sentient AI who may or may not be aware of us as a creator. It is not foolish to consider the possibility that someone has created the universe and considering how frequently we currently make universes then it may even be more likely than a random natural phenomena. It's just unrealistic to think that a sky wizard used magic to do so since magic is inherently something which is impossible. But some guy one universe up who created a kick ass digital universe? Not only would he match all the qualities of a God (all knowing, all powerful, etc), but his ability to have all these qualities would be entirely scientifically explainable. Creationism does not have to be at odds with science. It's just that people have problems with the creator is more directly defined in the absence of knowledge or mystified rather than scientifically quantified.
What you probably mean to say is that creation scientists are often ridiculed as ignorant, but this is frequently along the same lines as deists and theists are mocked by atheists or how all of those are mocked by agnostics. It is a euphemism in the same way "Jew" means adherent of Judaism and/or ethnic Jewish heritage but is used as an insult. Doesn't make it appropriate to do so yourself.
