Something for Willifer...

Please note that this post has a lot of links in it. This is because I'm trying to back up my points here, and so that Willifer relises that I wasn't joking around when I was talking about creationism.

I've been trying to tell one of my friends that there is a group of people called "Young Earth Creationists", the group of people who believe in a literal Genesis, basically implying that the Earth is around 6000-12,000 years old (depending on how you add up the ages on all the people in the Bible). One of their most popular websites is Answers In Genesis, which has many experts in different fields of science write about why evolution (and other areas in physics, biology, geology etc) is wrong. Here are some of the claims AiG and other creationist sites like to bring up:

• The Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood.
• Any light that is over 10,000 years old was artificially created by God. This pretty much suggests that God is a deciever.
• UFOs are the apparitions of Satan.
• Evolution is the sole cause of Rasism (of course there was a lot of racism and slavery in the deeply religious south of the US a while back).
• Athiests believe morality is relative.
  
• Dinosaurs lived with man (some creationsists believe that anyway).

Of course, these guys are cherry-picking from the Bible. For example, if you are to believe in a literal Bible, you have to believe that bats are a type of bird, grasshoppers only have four legs, and disobedient children should be stoned to death. Of course, the creationists don't really believe this, so they are being hypocritical. I also got the idea that he didn't believe that creationism was going to be taken seriously. Wrong!

This is just a taster of what they believe really, but there are some other crazy beliefs worth looking out for.

Willifer, I wasn't bullshitting...