Why don't some people agree with evolution?

Question

Are the just dumb or brainwashed? Or do they have legitimate reasons?

Answer 1

we don't even need fossils to prove evolution, we already have proof that things evolve. like the flu. if the flu wasn't evolving then there would be only one vaccine for the flu. because it is evolving every year there is a flu shot (for those at risk) to the new strain. people only object to evolution for religous reasons.

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in response to mr. onyxfire: the reasons nominated for dissproving evolution seems to say that evolution should eliminate diversity. and that simply isn't true. when there are alot of the same species in an area they compete for the same resources. if a mutation came along that was different from that species it would actually be at an advantage because it might not be competing for the same resources. and that is at the heart of diversity. having diversity means that some animals will develope certain attributes more keenly for example people hunting for fruit during the day value eyesight more for finding their quarry where as at night bats looking for fruit can't rely on eyesight and so they develope a different specialized set of organs. i hope that helps you understand why i think your points are incorrect
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no scientific theory which attempts to understand our world has by necessity precluded the concept of god. none the less religous theories feel compelled to preclude any acceptance of science so it's my belief that they are quite the dumbasses (not all religious but certainly alot of the policy makers). we all know how well that galileo thing panned out for them.

Answer 2

I have a few logical reasons for disagreeing with it.

1. If less effective creatures evolve into more effective creatures, why are the lower creatures still around? Wouldn't "survival of the fittest" have killed them off by now? Yet we still have bacteria and slugs and fish and whatnot.

2. If humans are the highest on the evolutionary scale, why do some animals have more acute senses, stronger muscles, faster running speeds, etc. than we do? If we're the best, shouldn't all our senses and so on be better than all the animals'?

3. Earth has some pretty complex ecosystems. If evolution was true, you'd think the world would end up with only 1 species still living on it. But animals need other animals and plants and bugs and such to survive. What'd happen if something in an ecosystem evolved to where it didn't fit anymore? Things would get pretty screwed up, that's what. (Though this is pretty much what humans are doing.)

Answer 3

They are not dumb, but they have been somewhat brainwashed by religious zealots who twist statistics to suggest the odds of life evolving are far greater than they really are. They mostly use an argument that suggests (quite correctly) that the chances of life just popping up in the complex form of an elephant, for instance, are so long as to be negligible. But of course the way evolution works in in tiny incremental steps with lots of dead-ends that are not pursued.

Imagine a piece of ivy that has grown up the side of a brick building, it's roots growing into the cracks in the mortar. The plants roots are spaced perfectly and are exactly the right shape to fit the mortar! The probability of this happening spontaneously are less than 1 in a google! So the ivy must have been designed by the Great Pumpkin.

Answer 4

The evidence for creationism is 1 page of a book written 3 to 4 thousand years ago that claims things that are clearly contradicted by the most cursory observations of reality,

The evidence for evolution - were the narrow minded willing to actually bother to look at it - is collosal. It can be demonstrated in the lab. It can be observed going on. It is recorded in fossils.

Sure, it takes place over millions of years, so it cannot be observed directly in a human life. But no-one alive saw Jesus alive. And sure, there are holes in the fossil record - but thats what they are, holes - things that have not yet been found (fossils are rare for goodness sake).

So dumb, brainwashedm arrogant, ignorant, dogmatic, bigoted - take your pick, or take all of them.

But also be fair, I know a large number of devoutly religious people who totally accept evolution as not a theory but a factual description of how life on Earth came to be. They seem to be able to accept that a 4,000 year old document written for spiritual reasons probably does not have all the answers.

Answer 5

It doesn't follow the standard model of the scientific method. Evolution has never been observed. We weren't there to record observations of the beginning of the earth scientifically. Many findings are insubstantial, incomplete, or falsified. As with the Lucy skeleton, the missing link between humans and apes, turned out to be animal bones scattered over an area.

There are no hybrid species. All there is is us, homo sapiens, and the other apes, of which none of them even compare to our intelligence and body structure. There is no half ape, half human to study. When two species mate, they produce one or more of the same species, not another new species. Dogs produce dogs, not new species.

It also fails to take into account skeletal variety. I've seen some people's faces that look burly, ape-like, such as Andre the Giant. That doesn't mean there is a new species of apes we havn't disovered yet. You've just found a skeleton that somewhat resembles say a large ape, but was all human.

Answer 6

They have legitimate reasons. It takes years of intense study to fully understand how evolution works. If you're really going to understand it, rather than just believe it, you have to have a solid background in all of the following: chemistry, physics, geology, biology, population biology, genetics, Earth history, ecology, and paleontology just to name some of the categories. It took me a long time to build enough understanding to where I finally had to accept it as a complete factual theory. I'd like to turn the question on its head, though. Do you really understand it in full or are you just believing that evolution must be true because the scientists said so? Have you investigated the evidence?

Answer 7

christ on a crutch
religiosos unite
Most who don't believe in evolution are that way because some of the very first words they ever heard were:
"God made you one day"
If that leaves you safe and comfortable, whatever...
However, some of us like to think for ourselves, and we ponder things like our obvious and scientifically proven ancestry in things that resemble humans but weren't quite up to the task of survival....
Our ponderous development from the things that are quite obviously our physical predecessors, as unlikely as it may be, strikes ME as a whole lot more likely than one day suddenly there were people, able to speak and think and create...
However (devil's advocate, here)
Evolution, in all it's beauty, does have a few holes we can't quite reconcile. There seems to be a missing link in the chain somewhere, and on top of that - the nature of life seems to be to reach a point of stability and chill there because all is well...
To imagine that a little amoeba or even a caveman was unsatisfied with their situation and sought more almost does seem to imply a larger plan of some sort...??

Answer 8

So, why don't some people agree with Gravity?

They are both powerful theories.

Science is for the strong mind, it as nothing to do with dumb or brainwashed. science is not religion.

Answer 9

Dumb or not, I would never want to admit or even accept that my ancestors are monkeys.

You must not be aware that Evolution is not wholly accepted due to the fact that, there is a missing link.

Besides, I decend from Adam & Eve.

You also need to check your spelling next time.

Answer 10

I am a christion and i am anoyed by people who say evolution is not true because god created all life, God did creat all life but he may have created animales that can change to adapt to the envirment. I dont belive the "Thery" of evoultion, for other reasons, but i belive god may have made things that way.
Evolution and Creation do not conflict at all, God could have created creatures which evolve.