In thy humble opinion, does the Creationism-movement make a great disservice to Christianity?

Absolutely.

Though I prefer the terms “intellectually lazy” and “philosophically dishonest”.

Yes it does, but I think that’s a good thing. Creationism does a better job than I could ever hope to do.

No, I don’t think so. Creationism is a major part of the bible, Genesis.

Many Christians believe in creation. Many believe in evolution.

Please do not behave like a child, and resort to name calling, simply because some people do not believe what you believe.

Yes it does. It makes them all look like idiots when most of them aren’t.

Many, but certainly not all, Christians are indeed ill-educated. However, creationism is probably seen by most Christians as a step in the right direction. I don’t think it would be seen as a disservice.

Top of the day to you, my friend.

i think thats a good thing

I, a sophomore in college, am an uneducated redneck? Can my neck even be red? I consider myself to be quite educated (even if it is under a hegemonic system). And plan on furthering my education in areas such as the Bible so I can better explain to people like you what it means to be a Christan and believe what I do. Maybe I’ll even learn to speak your ignorant language.

I am confused by your analogy.
How does Creationism portray anyone as a redneck?
Rednecks are educated too. I grew up in redneck country, I should know.
Christians can be rednecks and be educated at the same time.

Creationism is a fact. So, really, your question needed a better defense if you were trying to make a point.

Quite. But if you reseach the Wedge Document there is also a sinister agenda at play.

Not only Christians, creationist fundies make all Americans look like morons.

I don’t know if inherent belief in creation does a disservice to Christianity as I firmly believe in everyone’s right to believe and worship as they so choose. However, I do believe that those that follow this belief create a lot of ill-will when they attempt to cajole local school boards to teach that belief in school.

Btw, using the term “uneducated redneck” also has the potential to create a lot of ill-will. I don’t want to criticize too sharply because I used to use it myself. However, as a transplant from “redneck country” to NYC I find myself continually affronted when people assume I’m a member of the aforementioned category when I express an opinion outside of the majority.

Yes to the first part, but I don’t agree with the second (though that is a factor).

In my humble opinion, the Creationism movement (assuming you’re talking about the efforts to use science to provide evidence that supports the creation account in Genesis) does a great disservice to Christianity because its goal is completely inconsistent with the message of Christ!

Jesus made it clear that he wants people to come to him on faith alone. He repeatedly demonstrated that evidence, even the miraculous evidence he provided to his disciples, did NOT lead to faith. He repeatedly chastised his disciples for their lack of faith. I think “creation-science” is an attempt to provide evidence to make it easier for people to believe…and Jesus demonstrated the futility of such efforts.

To put it simply, faith is a choice…a choice to believe something without regard to evidence. Belief based on evidence is fleeting, it changes with each new bit of evidence…but belief based on faith is unmovable. By trying to provide evidence to support belief, the creation science movement is undermining the whole point of Jesus’ message. Jesus made it quite clear that faith is a prerequisite for accurately perceiving anything about him or about God…without faith, the evidence you find will never convince you 100% and may even lead you to the wrong conclusion.

I think so. And what’s even worse is that they claim to be educated. Willful ignorance.

creationism is not really putting down christianity it is just a more general term for any religion that has a god. but creationism has several interpreters just like Christianity. just like any other religion they make their religion better by putting other religions down.
but out of all mainstream religions christianity is one of the newest coming out around the dark ages (1330′s) but hey scientology takes the most guff out of it all

Yeah, absolutely. The creationists are a very vocal minority, and some people who don’t have much to do with Christianity of other kinds assume they’re all like that.

Having said that, perhaps more Christians should come out and say that they are not in agreement with the ID brigade so that they’re also doing their bit to dispel the myth that all Christians are young Earth creationists. I know some do, but not enough, or so it would seem.