Once you introduce the word “faith”, you have moved away from testable and falsifiable, and therefore creationism is not science.
Predictable “evolution is faith too” replies in 3…2…1…
PS When science is wrong, it’s exposed…often brutally.
That’s why the scientific method by and large works…because it is self correcting.
Not all the time, and sometimes it takes mounds of contradictory evidence for people to break out of existing paradigms, but science has been our best way to understand the workings of our universe precisely because when it’s wrong, theories are amended or changed.
Science doesn’t say anything about ultimate origins which is why many scientists also believe in God. The question of why there is something rather than nothing may be ultimately unanswerable.
Although I personally would challenge the notion as why people believe something existing is more improbable than nothing existing.
People believe tons of idiocy, the issue is teaching something on the same level of flat earth theory in schools and then wondering why China is blowing past us.
What are the tenents of creationism? It’s so nonsensical as a scientific theory it is totally worthless. It provides no understandings of anything and spits in the face of rational thought.
Creationism start at a conclusion and then cherry picks, misrepresents and outright lies in order to try to get there.
And STILL fails so it resorts to attacking ToE using misconceptions to create a false equivalency that somehow both “theory’s” have merit
This is why I’ve always appreciated the Catholic approach.
“Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason. Since the same God who reveals mysteries and infuses faith has bestowed the light of reason on the human mind, God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever contradict truth.” “Consequently, methodical research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God. The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are.” CCC159
For me personally. To believe in Creationism, one must believe in a trickster God. A deceptive God, who created a deceptive universe, with inquisitive beings. Inquisitive beings who would want to know all about their universe, and would find all sorts of evidence for the universe being billions years old, the evolution of man, etc. All of it, being a purposeful lie.
IMO, that is the creationist god, a deceptive one, who gave us inquisitive minds, and doesn’t want us to use them. And if we do, eternal hellfire due to his purposeful lies, and not having the blind faith.
I never got why faith is considered a positive trait. I didn’t have religion forced down my throat as a child and when I was like 14 and started looking into what it was not appealing at all.
Science isn’t interested in the why. Only in the mechanics of our universe, so that we may better understand it. The why is for theologians, and philosophers.
So was the oddesy? That just invalidates it even more, why would you think people who thought that demons made you sick and that drilling holes in your head was how you got them out