If you don't accept evolution, what is it that you specifically find wrong with it?

Question

I want specifics. What in particular, do you find difficult to swallow? Any anecdotal evidence? I am an evolutionary biology major, and I am truly curious.

I DO believe in God, so don't preach. I want reasoned answers. If you need an example of a reasoned answer, look at Neptune's. That is exactly the kind of rational response I am looking for.

Answer 1

that is great difficult to swallow, that is exactly the problem . in the last 3000 years man has done a good job of recording us physically. and yet people are still born with appendix, yet no longer has a use in human bodies. (believed useful for berry eating.) because of shoes toes are not as important. finally the human brian we have to learn more now then ever before , but people are not born with bigger brians then before.

also the founders of evolotion Darwin and Huxley both preached that this would destroy Christanity. and Dr. Dawkins today is making this his personal crusade to destroy faith. here an intersting article for you to read if you are willing. the writter is neither an id or evolutionist.

http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.18132/article_detail.asp

and a quote from a Dr.

One of the reasons I started taking this anti-evolutionary view, was ... it struck me that I had been working on this stuff for twenty years and there was not one thing I knew about it. That's quite a shock to learn that one can be so misled so long. ...so for the last few weeks I've tried putting a simple question to various people and groups of people. Question is: Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, any one thing that is true? I tried that question on the geology staff at the Field Museum of Natural History and the only answer I got was silence. I tried it on the members of the Evolutionary Morphology Seminar in the University of Chicago, a very prestigious body of evolutionists, and all I got there was silence for a long time and eventually one person said, 'I do know one thing -- it ought not to be taught in high school'." Dr. Colin Patterson, Senior Paleontologist, British Museum of Natural History, London Keynote address at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, 5 November, 1981



and a final thought from the founder of modern sceince.
A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.". . . Sir Francis Bacon

Answer 2

Plain and simple, there are no transitional forms that have been found as fossils, therefore, both Creationists and Evolutionists base their beliefs entirely on faith. I, as a Christian, have faith in God, and what the Bible says. That does not mean that I disagree with ALL evolution, just macroevolution. For instance, I can see where one cat might evolve into a different sort of cat, or a bigger cat, or a cat with longer fur, as we know for a fact that humans used to be shorter, and stuff. I do not believe, however, that a bumblebee could turn into a lizard, a bird could turn into a monkey, or a fish could turn into a person. That seems, in my mind, to be really far-fetched, and there's absolutely no proof that it's true. I also can't see why, if monkeys became humans, there are still monkeys, and why none of the monkeys have, in human history, become humans.

In short, EVERYONE with an opinion on this issue has faith-based beliefs, because there's no proof either way.

Answer 3

1) No one has found any true evidence of an evolving animal or person in the fossil record. All of the evolving forms of "man" are from small fragments of a skeleton and can be classified as either monkeys or human like us.

2) The different forms of life on earth are very complex and detailed. The odds of life becoming this complex by just random chance are astrinomical.

Answer 4

Evolution makes a whole lotta sense but when you think of that first atom that started everything.. where did THAT come from?

One more thing, people ask why did the human being stop evolving, simply because we reached the top, the human body does not need to get any better according to the environment we're in.

Answer 5

Evolution is STILL a theory. The "missing link" between ape and man has not been found YET. I was taught in science classes (in the US) that until a scientific theorem has been proven through experimentation and thourough investigation, it's just a theory. Evolutionary biology has given us "primoridal soup", a lot of bones and no one YET has been able to... recreate the ENTIRE evolutionary process on a SMALL scale! on one species, on one critter.....

Answer 6

The only part that seems counter-intuitive and to me unpleasing is the fact that no one can explain (at least thus far) how inanimate material was capable of transforming into live form. I've heard theories about random chains of proteins forming parts of cells, but never a full explanation on how it happens. Also, how does only 1% or evenless difference in structure make us humans more capable then other beings?

Answer 7

Well, for starters, Darwin himself wasn't fully sold out to it. Also, if man has been around for thousands of years (we have check your history books), why aren't we still evolving into something else? I mean, shouldn't we have wings by now, or be like 20 feet tall or something. Why would it stop? Answer: Because it is a lie to distract people from the truth, and excuse their immoral behavior, and to keep them thinking less of themselves than they should. It's hard to believe you have power and have faith in your words if you came from a monkey or slime. But I know I am a child of the creator of the universe, and my words spoken in faith multiplied by the power of my awesome Father God, get things done! Period!

Answer 8

Such things like how life would just come into existance without anything giving life to it.... how our bodies would produce things like tear ducts and eyes if we never had them before. How birds would have produced wings if they were lizards before and never needed them. Why we never see anything in the fossil record half way or 3/4 the way between evolving from one animal to the next. Why if we all started in the sea, we lost our ability to breath in water since everything that moves goes back to it. You know... common sense things like that, that science cant answer either.

Answer 9

Darwin said.... "Natura non facit saltum"
Which says..... Nature does not make jumps.

Wouldn't he had been more accurate saying.... " Natura solum facit saltum" ?
Which says nature only makes jumps?

My skepticism comes from the fact that transitional forms are absent from the fossil record at the basic level of phylum and rare if present at all in class. Only after basic body plans are well established are fossil transitions observed.

Answer 10

The theoretical evolutionary tree must have been eaten by worms. I can't find any real connection. Variety I accept.