For this blog, create your own discussion about this debate. Where do you stand and why? What critical criteria have you used to consider this issue (if at all -- maybe it's the first time you've thought about it)? Where does this issue stand among the issues of the day?

I'm sure I will get bombarded for this but I am not one who believes in religion, therefore I do not believe in creationism. However, I do understand the appeal and need for religion by the masses. Religion gives people a sense of community, belonging and guidance. Creationism is based off of religion and I have a hard time believing in anything that is built off of religion.

When you look at the Bible and it only goes back so many years and the fossil record goes further there is dilemmas in me excepting and believing in it. When the big bang theory defies genesis I have a hard time believing it. When the bible attacks certain people because of their religious stand, skin color, or sexual orientation there is a problem. When someone tells me that I'm a sinner when I have done nothing wrong there is a problem. When the bible gets rewritten because science or culture says otherwise there is a problem. One of my favorite reasons, when someone who rejects at least hearing theories about science and says it was put there by the devil to test our faith there is a huge problem. When............well you get the idea. As a logical person, I can not take into account all of these points and put all my belief and faith in it. Not to mention the total lack of real evidence supporting anything the bible portrays. Anyway, I personally do not believe in religion but accept it for the support it gives people. The bible itself has a lot of false things said but the idea of religion and the sense of community it supplies is great.

Changing gears into a partly more neutral area, Social Darwinism is not much better in my eyes. The belief is based off of religion and evolution combined to form the perfect example of pseudoscience. The belief is almost asinine yet at thee same time can not be argued with to the same extent as religion. While politics, Hollywood and other big money makers out there are based off of "old money" people who are smarter or better looking typically get into the field. If you try to say that they just know how to play politics then they are technically still smarter because they are capable of getting the job. However, the elitist ideas of social Darwinism is ridiculous. The idea that there is a superiority and hierarchy of the races is ridiculous.