Arguments against Creation

Distinguishing Between the Explanation and the Concept Contained Within the Explanation:

People often argue that the most rational explanation for the complexity of the universe, laws of physics, human morals, human intellect, etc is a supreme intelligent being; but they ignore that the existence of such a being itself is paramountly irrational.  We must learn to distinguish between the explanation and the concept contained within the explanation.  While an intelligent being explanation may seem warranted, a supreme being itself is completely imaginary, contains grossly hypothetical elements of its own that need explanation, and just is highly unlikely to exist.  The convenience of an explanation does not make the explanation any more likely to be true.  It would be similar to saying that the construction of the pyramids would have been much too difficult for the ancient Egyptians on their own, so its reasonable to assume that they had outside help from aliens, while ignoring the fact that there is no proof that aliens even exist, or have visited this planet, and ignoring that the distances between stars would probably prohibit extraterrestrial beings from ever visiting earth.  The concept of God is just irrational on its own, regardless of how nicely the concept might explain things.

Questions to Consider:  

Why would God make birds that can’t fly (the Ostrich, the Emu, and others)?

If God made all the species, why do some go extinct?

If dinosaurs lived in the time of Adam and Eve and later, they why are there no ancient drawings of them?

If the earth is only 6,000 years old then why is there any evidence at all that’s it is much older?  Why would God be trying to fool us by making it seem to be billions of years old?

If God has always existed, then why did he wait so long to create the universe, which is only about 15 billion years old, or even a much shorter 6 thousand years old to creationists?

If God spent so much time and effort in creating the earth, then what of all the other planets?  Are we to believe that he created each star and planet individually one-by-one, like how he created the earth?

Why would God make other planets without life?

If believing in evolution is like believing you could put the parts of a bicycle in a barrel, shake it, and get a bicycle out, then why doesn’t God create bicycles?

Do you really believe that there is no evolution?  Did modern day birds like blue jays and sparrows ever share the sky with the now extinct Archaeopteryx.  No current bird has teeth.  No current bird has claws on its wings.  No current bird has a reptile head, or a long bony tail.