Comments on: Chinese Creationists?

By: Rafa

Rafa — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:06:18 +0000

You must not turn from God.

By: Lil Wu

Lil Wu — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:10:27 +0000

Such a nice topic and yet few people require to it.

I think there are very very few Chinese actually believe in creationism, since few care about such a meaningless theory——

If God makes us, who makes God?

By: Kee Chung

Kee Chung — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:53:16 +0000

Interesting article. I’m a Singapoe Chinese and I know Chinese Xtians who are creationists. Some of them belived in pseudoscience spouted by their preachers like Stephen Tong (from Indonesia). We also have creationists coming to give “scientific” talks in churches and Catholic schools like dinosaurs living with man. I suppose the major problem here is that evolution was only briefly taught about in secondary schools as we follow the Cambrige “O” and “A” level syllabus and not much knowledge about evolutionary biology wa required to pass those exams

By: Brian Barker

Brian Barker — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:09:02 +0000

I agree with your tower of Babel comment.

In today’s World the language problem is still relevant!

If you have time, please check http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670
as well as http://www.lernu.net

By: Shahar Lubin

Shahar Lubin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:40:37 +0000

I don’t know much about China or Malaysia as I’ve never been there, but I’ve been traveling Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. I find the claim that the asian belief systems to be non-religious to be far off, at least in the cases I’ve seen. It seems, and I heard it before, that religion is strictly defined according to judeo-christian-islam and then of course all other religions are found to be, eh, non religious.
While Buddhism and Taoism in theory might be a philosophy in reality, at least here, it’s very much idol worshiping. Statues are given gifts and sacrifices, there’s daily prayers at regular timings and there’s a complex official hierarchy of priesthood.
Buddha is very much a messianic figure. His birth was prophecized and brought truth and an offer of redemption to the world.

By: Volvagia356

Volvagia356 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:34:36 +0000

Makes me wonder is there a skeptical group or society in Malaysia.
I’m a Chinese living on Mainland Penang. I also wonder will the Skeptologists make it to Malaysian televisions. Even on Astro satellite TV would be enough.

By: Mastriani

Mastriani — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:58:44 +0000

China is a fascinating nation, and the full breadth of culture, history and politics can hardly be consumed by a single individual. I’ve always been a student of the Chinese, even the typical cliche` of starting off in martial arts and venturing into the cultural studies later.

I studied Daoism for many years, as well as Buddhism and Confucian thought systems. Admittedly, it was the historical folding of these systems into the totality of Chinese belief that was most entertaining.

The extremist faiths represented in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are seemingly no different in their effect upon the brain than the habits of crack cocaine and meth.

Sadly, I’m not surprised by this outcome for those who have remained here, but will be interested in your capturing their rationalisations for why they allowed it to happen.

By: MikeG

MikeG — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:48:25 +0000

I am very much looking forward to your followup blog entry on this subject. Although I know very little about Asian cultures, I’ve used a similar argument with my dad when debating Christianity. I asked him what about societies that predate those in the Middle East? If the Christian god is the one true god, then why didn’t he reveal himself to the older societies on earth at an earlier date? Why did they have their own separate beliefs? He didn’t like the argument. ;)

By: Richard Kong

Richard Kong — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:51:38 +0000

Same here, it’s pretty much a mystery to me as to why Christianity is so popular with Asians, I live in peninsular Malaysia myself and I see more than a fair share of people who believe in belief, as well as those who actually live by the bible. Strange.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:52:46 +0000

Surprisingly they are a lot of Christian Asian exist in Asian countries. As far as I know more than 60% of South Koreans living in South Korea are some sort of Christians. South Korea also boasts history that traces back more than 4000 years (supposedly the first society or kingdom per se was established or founded October 3rd, 2333 B.C.). Not only people living in Korea believe deeply in Christianity, but major congregating location for Koreans in the US is also a church.
My short knowledge with Korean churches in Korea and in the US indicated that Korean churches don’t necessarily teach strictly on history of Hebrews. I suppose this could be why there is no conflict in having Korean customs and believing Christianity at the same time. But honestly in my opinion, they just believe what the Bible says, because it says so without ever thinking that the Bible may contradict identities of their own selves as Koreans. I’ve seen quite a few people who say that they believe in evolution and that they believe in Creationism at the same time. No intelligent design, no hybrid. They just believe two contradicting theories like nothing is wrong. Considering how little (none at all actually) the Bible talks about Asian people (especially East Asians), I have a quite hard time understanding why Christianity is so appealing to Asians.
I’m looking forward to your follow up story. Maybe you can find some divine answers to this subject.