Why do Christians find the Evolution theory so absurd?

Question

how does Genesis reflect the proven existence of the Neanderthal species of human? Surely this proves that humans have evolved, and destroys the Adam and Eve story?

Please note before answering:

This question is phrased as above to provoke debate, NOT TO MAKE A GENERALISATION OR STEREOTYPE OF CHRISTIANS.

Answer 1

Like evolution we can make one hundred novels which are more believable than the theory. Bot none of them can give proper evidence on the origin of life and the living beings we see today.

Keep aside the evolution theory or Adam and Even story. Do you have anything that is not absurd to talk about. By creating a new story one thinks that the rest are inferior ones.

The problem is in our little knowledge. Other than evolution theory many other theories can be made from Neanderthal species.

Answer 2

Well, let's get this straight, neither evolution nor creation can be proven by scientific methods. You cannot go into the laboratory and recreate the events nor test them. Rather, we look at as if it is a legal trial. You accumulate the evidence and decide what makes the most sense. We both have the same evidence, it is just a matter of interpretation. I have examined the evidence and written on the subject and I have no doubt in my mind that evolution is the biggest hoax perpetrated on the world in the last 200 years. I can confidently state there is no evidence that tilts the scale in favor of evolution, none, zip, nadda. Space and time do not permit me to take apart this hoax piece by piece, but suffice it to say, it can be done, and has been done. A question for you evolutionists to consider, we know the DNA molecule holds volumes of information, enough to fill a library. Information cannot be obtained from matter or energy. And don't think mutations, it has never been observed that mutations increase information, it decreases it. So, information must come from a greater information source, what was that source?

Answer 3

I beg to differ.....

The idea that God created the world and life is often thought to have been disproved by evolutionary theory. Is there any scientific evidence for creation?

The truth is that the scientific evidence overwhelmingly supports creation. Let me attempt to point out just some of this evidence here. First, the scientific community is now almost unanimous in affirming that the universe had a beginning. This is usually referred to in scientific terms as “The Big Bang Theory.” Of course, this implies that someone or something brought the universe into existence.

Secondly, the universe bears all the marks of having been “finely tuned” to make life possible. For example, the elementary forces of gravity, electromagnetism, and the atom are precisely what they need to be. The earth’s size, distance from the sun, rotational period, composition, and many other factors are all just right. The chances of there being even one planet where all of these factors converge by accident are very slim indeed.

Thirdly, the evidence is mounting that life on earth simply could not and did not come into existence through natural processes in a primordial “soup.” For example, the experiments to prove that it could have happened are suspect because little progress has been made possible due to the ingenious designs on the part of experimenters.

Fourthly, the genetic code of all biological life on earth contains evidence of intelligent design. This is because the genetic code contains information comparable to the information in complex computer programs as well as information in books.

Fifthly, the fossil record continues to be an embarrassment to the Darwinian theory of evolution. The many transitional forms which Darwin predicted would be found simply have not surfaced. This fact has forced evolutionists to modify Darwin’s Theory, often in absurd ways. In short, it is the theory of naturalistic evolution which is in serious trouble scientifically today, while the Biblical teaching of creation never looked better.

Answer 4

First of all, it's great to hear you call it a "theory" and not scientific fact.

Second, I don't think it's absurd. It is very clever. It actually makes sense.

The reason I don't believe it is that I don't think there is enough scientific evidence for it. If it happened by natural selection, random mutation and the survival of the fittest, then where are the gazillion transitionary forms that should be lying around everywhere. They should be literally everywhere. Instead we're still hoping to find at least some. Sorry, I can't buy into it.

One of Adam and Eve's descendants did work with iron and usher in the "iron age" I believe. His name is Tubal-Cain in Genesis 4. I don't know about Neandrethals however.

Peace.

Answer 5

You mean Christians who say Evolution is: FROM GOO TO YOU BY WAY OF THE ZOO! (primordial soup to one-celled organisms, up through slightly higher life forms, to fish to birds to chimps to ape-like men...to me and you.

I wouldn't call the Evolution theory absurd necessarily. If one doesn't believe in God, accidental, random evolution HAS to be true. There is no other logical alternative.

However, if there is a God, a God who does SUPERNATURAL things (being, as God is definitionally ABOVE NATURE), then it isn't a stretch to see him forming the first man from clay he'd taken from the ground, like a Potter.

For me as a Christian, the biggest contradiction between the Bible and the theory of evolution is this: If God is good, then why do animals kill each other cruelly? Why is there death? The Biblical answer is that Adam and Eve brought sin and death into the world by SINNING AGAINST GOD, and the whole creation GROANS IN SORROW until Jesus arrives on earth the second time.

So how to explain the eons and eons of death that befell Adam and Eve's relatives? Believing in evolution requires all these prior deaths.

I could go on about scientific reasons why the theory of creation can hold its own against the theory of evolution. The discussion occurs many many other places on the net and in books and journals. It's a very interesting conversation between Creationists and Darwinists, when both sides can discuss it civilly. Fascinating, not absurd. This kind of discussion unfortunately, is a rarity. I hope, against all odds, that the discussion your question generates is civil. Christians telling Evolutionists that they consider the theory "absurd" burns bridges, and burns them fast.

Both sides can agree on this: we live in an astounding and (at least originally, before man chose to pollute it) BEAUTIFUL world.

Answer 6

Who says Adam and Eve didn't look like neaderthals? Did Adam and Eve wear skins? Yes. Did they use rudimentary tools? Yes. Besides, if evolution is true, stop calling it a 'theory'. I don't say, 'creationary theory'. If you don't believe in God, or creation, why question? I don't believe in evolution as to how we came to be, but I don't question it. Evolution is a process; Adam and Eve didnt' drive cars, that is for sure, so we as humans have evolved.

I don't believe in the big bang theory, but then I am not threatened by it, either. I see more attacks on here against people who believe in God, than I see attacks on people who don't. I am not saying you are attacking, but I see very few questions about evolution, opposed to creation. That tells me that people's hearts are searching for the truth, whether the keepers of those hearts want to admit it;) Take care.

Answer 7

Religion is more to do with spiritual choice for anyone who wants to believe. Science and religion don't mix because they have different views about how life began on earth. Personally I find it hard to believe Two people populated the earth. I believe in some kind of a God but not the traditional view of Adam and Eve. We where all once single cell organisms then we evolved from that, all life did.

Answer 8

Erm... hi, I'm a Christian here. And I don't find the evolution theory absurd!

Some Christians do because they believe the word of the Bible to be literal truth, and in that case the evolution theory contradicts the word of God. Personally, I don't believe this. Evolution is a strong theory with a lot of evidence. At the moment it is the best theory we have to explain how we all got here so I am happy to go along with it.

Answer 9

Because it goes against their religion by explaining how something works without using the sentence "God made it that way". Most Christians dont know their true place in this world as human beings, they want to think they are more special than a biological entity. They believe in the soul and there is no evidence or logical way of sayung this would have evolved.
Evolution states progression, religion is about adherence to certaibn social controls.

Answer 10

When you look at a painting, how do YOU know it was made by a painter?
When you look at a building how do YOU know there was a builder who built it?
when you look at a coke can on the beach. How do you know it was manufactured and didnt just come into being?

So when Christians look at the universe we see a creator behind it, just like you would see a artist behind the painter, a builder behind the building and a manufacturer behind the coke can.
I'm surprised more people dont see the creator behind such precision in the universe, more precise than a rolex.
thx steve