Evolution is impossible. Why do so many people believe it?

Question

Evolution is impossible. People act like religious people are less credible because they accept creationism based on blind faith. Yet, most people believe evolution just because they read it in a sciaence textbook. Isn't that blind faith as well? There is not enough evidence to convince me that evolution happened. If life was sponatneously created, that would mean that a DNA strand would have had to be formed randomly. Just one DNA molecule is miles long, and much of it is the same in all species. Even the first DNA strand must have been at least 50% identical to ours. SO how could this have happened all by itself? Plus the development os sex organs and organs of convenience oculdn't have happened. Two organisms must have mutated opposite sex organs or organelles simultaneously in the same area for sex organs to develop. Natural selection indicates that if we were not exactly the way we are, we would have die. Why are there no species similar to human beings?Icouldsaymorebutimoutofrm

Answer 1

I can understand where your coming from but before you make any conclusions on evolution take a look at this website. It has all you need to know about evolution vs. creationism. http://www.talkorigins.org/. The reason so many people believe in evolution is that every field of natural science supports it independently from geology, biology, genetics etc. and it makes a lot of sense once you sit down and really analyze the fact. Unfortunately there is much misinformation out there so I urge you to read the information on the website and then make up you mind on evolution. Personally I feel that evolution and religion can co-exist. I feel that its a shame religious leaders exploit controversial topics in order to rally their base. The true teachings of religion are of acceptance and forgiveness and any dogmatic interpretations of the bible (or any religious text) only serve to weaken message.

Answer 2

evoultion happens, kid. Do some study of biological anthropology, or breed drosophilia for a few months (those would be fruit flies for you non-bio types), study genetics. It happens. Look at Darwin's finches, marine iguanas, etc.

"Natural selection indicates that if we were not exactly the way we are, we would have to die"? Natural selection is the survival of the fittest. Genetic mutations may be chosen for, or chosen against depending on the biological preferences of the mate. Biological preferences over time have allowed humans to go from being completely covered in thick fur to having the fur thinned out to allow us to live in warmer climates as opposed to the Ice Age. The world around us has changed and is changing. If we were exactly the same as we were in the beginning, we'd be dead. If we did not evolve, we'd be dying off as a species. Evolution is the ability to adapt to change over time.

How could this have happened all by itself? That is in the nature of the DNA and RNA replication. Mistakes get made. It's the same as a typo. Even the most perfect typist makes mistakes. Same happens when DNA is being replicated. Sometimes, this is such a strong trait that it is passed to the offspring. Sometimes the mutation is such that the animal is non-viable so the DNA does not get passed down.

Answer 3

Evolution is possible, pick up a biology book and read up. Evolution takes millions and millions of years.
Go to school and actually learn to spell.
Kid, evolution it's all around us.
You said that there was no evidence for evolution, here is evidence, Darwin's Finches.
look at all the answers that other people have written, a lot of these people are in college, taken college courses, or do it for a living.

Next, you said that creationism is blind faith, and then said that evolution is blind faith.

WRONG! Creationism is based on a book, in fact, some of those stories could be false! Ever think of that?

Evolution has evidence, Creationism doesn't.

Take a look at this site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

Answer 4

The problem with understanding evolution, as I've always felt, was that on the surface it does seem pretty crazy. In my physics studies, i came along some of the same problems; "Wait a minute this doesn't seem logical at all!" when viewing some of the problems in my high school and undergrad university courses. What i learned at that point was that you really need to start looking deeper into the subject to start understanding things. A lot of things are given to people as vague and sometimes illogical simply because the detailed, logical explanation is very complicated and would confuse someone new to the field. I personally would have run away from physics the second i recieved a quantum mechanical description of the hydrogen atom in high school if the teaching establishment so decided to do that.

Before i start to babble on, I suggest you start reading some upper-division university and graduate studies books if you truely want to learn the answers as i suspect the same problem happens for the uninitiated in biology as it does in physics.

Answer 5

What you are saying is pretty much all wrong, you need to do more research on the subject. Evolution is real and all around us, we can see it, feel its effects and prove it. Why do you think that we lose immunity to viruses over a relatively short time? It's because they mutate and EVOLVE to the point our anti-bodies are no longer effective against them. This can be seen easily with a virus because of the thousands of generations they produce in a year, thus accelerating evolutionary effects. Humans on the other hand, have around three generations in a century so therefore our evolution is thousands of times slower and less observerble but is still happening and it can be observed over a few hundred years. In medieval times our species was much shorter for example. Genetic engineering of plants would be pointless without evolution because without evolution G.E. just would not work and we could not produce disease resistant plants or increase harvest yields and companies would not be pouring billions of dollars into it. Death is there for a reason, it keeps the gene pool rotating and forever changing, without it evolution would not take place and there would be mass extinctions on this planet because life would not be able to adapt to changing environments. Obviously this is another reason why evolution does exist. On the other hand, God and religion cannot be proved and is just blind faith as you say. I believe life not only occurred all by itself (it has had 4.5 billion years to do it) but life is the default condition of matter throughout the Universe and is abundant. We don't see this because our timescale is billions of times less than that of nature and what never occurs in a human life time could be exeedingly common over 100 million years. As for your thoughts on sex organs, Plants used sex, long before animals and the reason is by mixing genetic material from different individuals it maximises the diversity of the gene pool and therefore accelerates evolution. Finally it would be impossible for life to exist WITHOUT evolution Jules, lecturer. Australia.

Answer 6

It's a fact, if you think otherwise it means your educational background is lousy. If you don't understand science, why do you hate so much people who does? If you are not convinced, it doesn't matter, you are just a believer, not a thinker. You say: " Even the first DNA strand must have been at least 50% identical to ours" but you don't say why. It's just the idea that your opinion is as good as other people's that scrambles your mind. Get an education, please.

PS: finish school and learn to spell, please!

Answer 7

Students from elementary and high school read it in textbooks. Students in college do research, do experiments, and also read textbooks. Those students become scientists who do more research, more experiments and write journals. There is more than just reading a textbook. Creationism IS blind faith. You believe stories that were written thousand years ago from you don't know who. There have been no changes since in thought or script. Things change and organisms adapt. Why can't christianity?

Answer 8

If, as you say, "There is not enough evidence to convince me that evolution happened," why should I try to convince you? If you won't accept the evidence, **no matter how massive**, you have stopped learning and stopped thinking. So it's simply a waste of time for you to be asking questions or reading the answers.

Ask again when you have an open mind.

Answer 9

Doonesbury said it best a few months ago. when you're sick with a "bug" (a bacteria), do you want the original anti-biotic or do you want one that will kill the bug you have? bacteria have evolved rapidly since the development of penicillin during WWII so that now it takes newer anti-biotics to kill some bacterial. Why, because when you expose bacteria to an anti-biotic, there is always one mutant that wasn't killed. it reproduces and all of the survivors can't be killed by that anti-biotic, either.

you can read about this in newspapers or science journals. no one would make this up just for fun.

if this can happen in 60 years with bacteria, why could it not happen with animals, including mammals and ultimately man, over millions of years? answer: it could and it did.

good luck!

Answer 10

God's word says that "the people are blinded by their own deceitful desires" They have bought the lie that the world or society sells that things, power, money, complete ability to do any/every thing with any/everything to any degree desired is your right to attain and excerise" Once attained, it creates a greed for more. Not Sustained Contentment!! for example- sex, once perverted- can not be un-perverted. What you can do is make a change in thinking first and a commentment to no longer even consider those actions, not even in thought. You see wheather we want to admit or not- Sin IS Fun!! Be careful outhere!