By definition Creationism is the religious belief that life, the Earth, and the universe are the creation of a supernatural being (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism). In that context one has to examine what a super natural being is...In ontology and the philosophy of mind, a non-physical entitiy is a spirit or being that exists outside of normal reality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural_being). Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. .... (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke).
We are not gods. Maybe, someday we will become gods, but till then we are not. But does it take god to make different forms of life? look at how we make genetic engineered foods, animals, and now organs. Now advance us to the point where we are gone and an alien race sees our work. How would they know what we did? How can they know? The closest in time some thing is made, the more likely it can be told if it were made by a living being, the further, the more likely it is seen as natural process.
A good scientist never discounts any theory, no matter how repugnant, cause a scientist does not know everything... A Scientist is in pursuit of knowledge, not to know it all, but the enjoyment of learning. That being said there is substantial evidence that evolution exists. Causality is the basis for it, as well as everything in the Multiverse (that we know of)... and there in lies the rub/// what do we really know? according to theories of evolution, causality and the age of the universe, we should be crawling with aliens. thus why are we not ? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox). there has been sufficient amount of time, of growth, and of space for life to be everywhere. Yet where is it.
Then there is the other question.. why is everything so similar? There is evidence in evolution that things were not always similar heck all one has to do is look at an insect or octopi to see this.look at the Precambrian Era and see the fossils that exist from then to now. not one creature looks even remotely like anything existing today. How does evolution work that out? there is evidence but it is not rock solid, that efficiency is the guide there... the less use of energy, the more likely to survive (tortoises come to mind) yet here we humans are, the most expensive energy uses of all evolution (so far discovered).
Then there is the universe itself. if one thing in the basis of the cosmos were different, we would not be here ask these questions.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe)
My philosophy is christian. I believe the best way to live my life is by living how Jesus would have wanted me to. This though does not cloud my perception on how the rest of existence is. I believe in science will find answers that make sense I believe the human race evolved from apes. I believe a "BIg Bang" created the universe (as we know it). None of this is in any doubt. but what is, lies in the details. None of existence precludes a "Creator", just because it doesn't follow what some writers two thousands years ago described how it happens, (even though we didn't even know the existence of DNA till 50 yrs ago) doesn't mean it is wrong. Just like how science says the way our aircraft fly doesn't preclude a bubble-bee from flying also.
Everyone is a scientist who seeks answers, its whether we are open minded enough to see the answers for what they are, not what we want them to be, that makes us Great Scientists.
