What does Creationism mean to you? For those who consider themselves such.
How much involvement did the Gods have in the creation? Was this direct or indirect involvement?
Does this mean anything with regards to science and the scientific method to you?
Bonus question:
Are the Gods still creating?
What Creationism means to me is that our universe is based on logic and reason, and not throwing dice. Einstein said, he did not believe that God chose to play dice with the universe. The random tis more connected to the quantum world, but the macro world is more ordered. The macro scale sun does not disappear periodically; throwing dice. It is very logical and reliable. But to casino science they will calculate this odds and fool themselves.
If one assumes intelligent creation, that means everything is planned, and will connect, allowing us to reverse engineer the creation. An iPhone has a logic to the internal hardware and software design that can be dissembled and reverse engineered. We should not get stuck by the assumption, that anything goes, in a dice based universe, that has no logic, but only chance.
When humans create anything tangible; a bridge, it requires planning and logic not just putting on a blindfold hoping something works after you throw everything in the air. The image of a creating God, makes my mind work in an image of planning and reasoning God, who gets to an integrated paradise. It is not just a force throwing objects in the air, until something happens.
The Age of Reason was about the superstitions of the whims of the gods being replaced by reason. Blood letting had no logic but could pass the blindfold test. Too much of science has regressed back to the whims of the Gods; statistical methods, where you are in the black box of darkness, with an irrational math oracle, thinking for you, based on whims and chance. That is a weird universe to me. I see order in my universe which can be reverse engineered and expanded upon.
From an applied science POV, reason is needed to create something new, since reason works better for assembly of parts. But from a pure science approach, putting your head in the dark sand, may be good enough; let the data talk. The idea of Creation made me take an applied science path for a career, so I could go outside the box where creation occurs. Those in the box can be more whims of the gods; correlate what you see. Do not try to think, obey. They do not need to use their own correlations to create anything. Dice may be enough to make new ones.
If you were to personify statistical type creation with a God mascot, that god would be drunk and blind. He walks along in the dark and where is falls or bang into something, causes something to happen. We can all place bets where this may happen, but nobody can know when he will bump or fall all the time. It is weird religious image that does not agrees with me; god of casinos in a padded room of parts, so he does not get hurt, but can do his work, forever.
My personification is more like God with a large box of parts for a 3-D puzzle, who can makes all the parts connect on the first try. This give me hope in terms of learning the truth of nature, after I dissemble the 3-D puzzle and put if back together. I do not expect things to disappear or appear, out of the void of a black box.
