Why is evoulution right? why is it better than creationism?

Question:self explanitory. but creationism is the belief that god made us how we are now, and evolution is the belief we evolved from som type of ape like creature

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: self explanitory. but creationism is the belief that god made us how we are now, and evolution is the belief we evolved from som type of ape like creature

Q. why is evolution right?
A. Evidence

Q.why is it better than creationism?
A. Because its true and creationism is false.

Because there is actual scientific evidence to back up Darwins theory of evolution whereas creationism is based on blind faith and holds no scientific worth.

I have actually been researching this for several months. Intelligent design's science is not only faulty, ID is also illegal in schools. First of all, Behe's irreducible complexity of the bacterial flagellum is just plain wrong. Not only is the eubacterial flagellum reducible, but a close relative can be seen in the bacterium that caused the plague. Dembski's information based argument are saying that evolution is too improbable. However, say I shuffle a deck of cards and hand them out. Dembski would say that that order of cards that I handed out is too improbable, and thus, impossible. The logic just doesn't work. Meanwhile, in 1987, the Supreme Court ruled creationism illegal in public schools. Now that ID's science has clearly been refuted, it is nothing but dressed up creationism(which is illegal!). Hope I helped. Also I think you may have some misconceptions about evolution. We had a common ansestor that both we and apes are related to. Thus the sentace "we evolved from monkeys" is false. And if anybody say's "evolution is only a theory", they have no idea what they're talking about.

NOVA did a great show outlining the recent case in Pennsylvania when the school board tried to put intelligent design in the classroom. It goes through the full legal, social, and scientific battle. Great show and you can watch it free online at PBS.org.

Edit: Ektisang and Joseph both allude to the teleological argument, also known as the argument from design, for the existence of God, the creator. The argument is that, by whatever mechanism, the universe must have been designed because it is too complex to have arisen randomly. If you find a watch in the woods, you naturally assume it had a maker. So too should you make that assumption when you see a flower.
This argument assumes that organizing principles cannot create such intricacies on their own using very simple naturally arising rules. Gravity is such a principle which can create galaxies and solar systems and planets, etc. There are others, including natural selection which gives rise to evolution. The way evolution creates such intricate beings can be seen well in the NOVA show.

Ektisang also says that Einstein's theories are fading. I have no idea what he's talking about. General relativity is one of the two best confirmed theories in history. The other is Quantum Mechanics. Any theory, such as superstrings, which replaces those must say exactly the same things when within the domain of these well confirmed theories. This is similar to how Newton's theory still holds for everyday events. Relativity holds until the scales get too small. Quantum mechanics holds until the energy gets too great. Any new theory must reduce to quantum mechanics in small scale low energy situations and relativity in large scale high energy situations. Just like relativity reduces to Newtonian mechanics in low speeds and energies and Quantum mechanics reduces to Newtonian mechanics in large scales.

Very contradictory question! Who made you to think that all the "evolutions" are not done by the Creator? Very wrongly you've separated 'Creationism' & 'Evolution'. With respect to Darwin & his theory, let me remind you that Darwin came after Creation! He just applied his wisdom & day by day his theory fading out---the way Eienstine's theory is also fading.
Mixing these two (creationism & evolution) would never satisfy you with any perfect answers here.

I do not like to see these as opposing theories but as two side to a coin. Evolution does not explain Beethoven, and thre big WHY? any more than creationism explains the effects of natural selection. Even the periodic table is contained within Geneses if it is read by the numbers. No one will ever win this debate except those with the capacity to accept both as true in some form.

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They are not mutually exclusive, and many theists believe God allowed evolution or did it himself. That means, to them, the "7 days of creation" were days that lasted eons, and "days" is the word that was used to indicate what no man back then could grasp. They thought it was done in 7 "days" because they could not grasp "eons." AND they had no idea about the evolution science would find. They did not even know about science. They thought the world was only as old as the first generation of "men" who could be remembered in the spoken stories--just as in Alex Haley's "Roots."

But as for those of us who reject creationism, we all can point to one reason or another. Here is mine, from 2 different authors:

"Aristotle concludes, "That there never was a time when there was not motion, and never will be a time when there will not be motion" (252b 6-8).

"Existence is a self-sufficient primary. It is not a product of a supernatural dimension, or of anything else. There is nothing antecedent to existence, nothing apart from it—and no alternative to it. Existence exists—and only existence exists. Its existence and its nature are irreducible and unalterable."
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, 148

That means that "matter" has always existed, because only matter can cause "causes," so to speak.

"Existence and identity are not attributes of existents, they are the existents … The units of the concepts "existence" and "identity" are every entity, attribute, action, event or phenomenon (including consciousness) that exists, has ever existed or will ever exist."
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, 74

This means that what is found existing within existence IS the identity of existence and a non-material, supernatural cause cannot do such a thing.

And although Aristotle said what he said, like Thomas Jefferson he believed God existed, but that God is what we were heading TOWARD, not created FROM.

Evolution is an evolving theory from Scientists.
Creation is a theory from Christians.
Note however that Catholics and many other Christians believe in some 'form' of the theory of evolution.

You can't compare both the way your are trying too, and it is wrong to attempt such a comparison. Evolution has (some) scientific evidence behind it. Creation is based on faith.