Isn't Darwin's theory of natural selection both fundamental and comprehensible to most intelligent people?

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I think so anyway, so why do so many Christians here on YA have such a problem getting their heads round it?

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Answer 1

I think so. I don't believe the bible should be taken so literally. It is full of metaphor to instruct the people of the time. It's as likely we descended from apes as a snake talking two idiots into eating an apple.

Answer 2

Well ther eis proof of adaptation. Take those moths that when pollution came changed to a darker color. then when the pollution was reduced there bacame light colored mothes again. But keep in mind it's Darwin's THEORY, not Darwin's LAW. It has yet to be proven.

It's rediculus to think that animals would evolve beyond the earliest adaptive stage. For example a fish that would end up on land would only develope the ability to survve on land long enough to to return to the water. If a group of fish washed a shore and only those with a genetic variance that gave them the ability to survive longer with out air survied and returned to the ocean. The next generation would have that same variationnow lets say they washed ashore again. Non of them would die this time because they would already have tha adaptation to survive longer there for there would be no means for the genetic code to change and the natural selection proccess would stop.

Two other facts the disprove evolution:
1. Humans - according to evolution stupid creatures do not survive very long only the intelligent adaptive ones.

2. Squirrels - (same notation)

Answer 3

Because the fanatical belief in anything closes the mind.

There is actually no reason why natural selection cannot be controlled by God if that's what people choose to believe.

Only the lunatics who take every word of the Bible as absolute literal truth have a problem with natural selection. They forget that the Bible was written thousands of years ago by MEN, not by God and then has been edited, adjusted and altered by other MEN since. There is nowhere in the Bible where it says "this book was written by someone taking direct instructions from God"

These people need to take a reality check before they plunge the USA back into a new Dark Age of superstition, witch hunts and religious mumbo-jumbo.

Answer 4

Yes, I believe that it is a viable option. Christians believe that God created Earth and everything on it. That is their faith and you cannot prove that their fath is wrong just because you do not believe in it. Although plenty of evidence is available which would be used to show Darwins theory, no-one actually knows what is true or what isn't. Yu just have to choose the theory that appeals best to you whether it be God or Science.

In my opinion, the human body is far too complex and perfect a system for a person to have created it. every tiny cell of our bodies has its own ultramicroscopic insides - how could someone create this from nothing?

However, this does not give me the right to diss someone's religious beliefs as I cannot proove their beliefs are wrong.

Answer 5

We are all part of a Heavenly creation.
Darwin tried to disprove the Creator, and failed.
Does anyone really believe that something as complex as the human body just occurred by chance? Ignoring the Creator God is to effectively say so. And ditto for every other living thing, and then bring in to the mix the way they interrelate in the natural realm. I accept that various creatures have evolved and changed over time, adapting to their habitats or whatever, but I just don't get how anyone can believe in anything other than a Creator God.

Answer 6

Darwin's theory of evolution isn't difficult to understand at all. Quite simple in fact...that's why its inadiquate, unproven and fallable. The answer to this comes down to this one basic fact....How? How did it all arrive here as it is right now in its exactness based on random chance mutations of any kind..micro or macro? We're talking about billions of lifeforms all relying on one another and on natural systems available to them that DNA cannot extend toward as a source without first having the system in place. What came first..the chicken or the egg? How did dolphins develope sonar to utilize sound waves? How did bats develope radar? Did it only ever at one point take a few bees to cool a hive? At what point did a mud-dobber wasp build his nest in the eve of a tree a million, billion times and then finally say "oh..yeah..that's the design I needed to survive." How did the water lilly cause the water beetle to first be attracted by the white flowers and then shun it by turning pink so the same beetle wouldn't return? What about plant life utilizing the suns rays for energy and food so much so that some close up at certain times while others follow the sun along it eliptic? At what point did DNA mutate in milliscopic building blocks to form the eye in a fetus so that it would syncronystically allign itself perfectly with the optic nerve bundle that grows from the brain? At what stage of mutation did the eye become useful? Science can't and never will be able to study, discover or answer these questions of irreduceable complexity to the point that every single body from the sun, earth and moon..down to the "simple" cell (a complex little universe all its own) all serve a purpose, provide a balance that when triffled with causes grave complications and that cannot waiver from the perfect state they are set in or they will fail. The cell mutates..it dies or causes something to die. The sun drifts we all die, the moon drifts we suffer tremendously and the earth...yeah...Billions upon billions upon billions of years...yet all these fragile chaotic yet controlled systems such as our air, ozone layer, oxygin, water supply and any other element has somehow linked up with each other to arrive exactly at the right space in time to allow man to exist along with all other creation...There is no problem getting your head around the concept of evolution. The problem with most atheists is that they attribute intelligence to this theory..meaning if you don't believe it then you are uninformed, uneducated and simple minded. Yet a believer sees creation every day and realizes...that's intelligence, supremely and undenably powerfully unfathomable intelligence and I'm just meek enough not to be arrogant enough to believe I could ever figure it out...so who here is the one has the problem? I think its you. Love in Christ, ~J~ <><

Answer 7

You'll notice that there are quite a lot of uneducated Christians. Ignorance begets fear which makes them seek comfort in a world that is just too complicated for them.

Crowster86.... read a book.
Man did not evolve from apes... man and apes were decended from a common primate ancestor... not Adam and Eve. Maybe when you turn 13, you'll be able to enter a comment here without looking like a total idiot.

Answer 8

a lot of darwin's theory was stuff he made up based on someone else's findings. if he was right it was only by accident.
the reason some christians have such a problem with it is because they don't want to think of themselves as part of the animal kingdom. they would rather pretend that they were created special, just as they are then to think that they could have descended from monkeys, or worse yet, a primordial soup.
i do have one question, because i just don't know, hew did the monkeys evolve from the dinosaurs?

Answer 9

Faith Is Needed
Since it is not possible to scientifically demonstrate either evolution or special creation, faith is required to accept either teaching. But faith in the right thing is not wrong. The Bible says, "But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him" (Hebrews 11:6). "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). A British wit once described "evil lution" as "the substance of links hoped for, the evidence of fossils not seen." How right he was!
Broadly speaking, people fall into one of three categories:
Creationists: Those who believe that a supernatural Being (God) made the universe as recorded in Genesis chapter one. The Church of God International, along with millions of Bible-believing Christians and Jews, falls into this category.
Evolutionists: Those who believe that the universe came into existence billions of years ago and that life on earth evolved of its own accord by some inexplicable power. One does not have far to look to find many who hold this view.
Theistic Evolutionists: The theistic evolutionists attempt to integrate the two doctrines. However, the doctrines of creation and evolution are so strongly divergent that reconciliation is totally impossible. Theistic evolutionists believe that God was involved in the creation, but that He took thousands-perhaps millions or billions (do we hear "trillions"?)-of years to do so. Although many hold this view today, such syncretism reduces the message of the Bible to insignificance. The conclusion is inevitable: There is no biblical support for theistic evolution.
Does It Really Matter What One Believes Concerning the Origin of the Universe?
It matters a great deal what we believe concerning the origins of the universe and of life itself because if the universe and life on earth evolved over billions of years, then:
The Genesis account of creation and the hundreds of Bible verses that refer to the creation are pure fiction. In other words the so-called Holy Bible is, itself, riddled with the very thing it strictly forbids: lies, suppositions, and superstitions.
Virtually all the Old and New Testament writers were deluded-because they all believed in the creation. This would include all the prophets of old, all the apostles, and even Jesus Christ Himself.
If life on earth evolved of its own accord, it would mean that man is not accountable for his actions to a supernatural Being, and that we could make or break so-called "moral laws" with impunity. After all, "if there is no God, there cannot be a Judgment Day. So why bother about moral behavior: let us eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die."
In the final analysis, if evolution is true and the Bible is false, there would be no sin, since there would be no God, no Lawmaker, and no laws to break. It follows that, if there were no laws to break-and the Bible defines sin as "the transgression of the law" (1 John 3:4)-there would be no sin. If there is no sin, we would not need a Savior to redeem us from the penalty of breaking those laws (Romans 6:23) and Christ would have died in vain. In short, evolution is a complete denial of everything the Bible stands for.
These are the inevitable conclusions that will flow in the wake of a society that rejects the basic teaching that God created the universe. The matter of origins is very important because society's behavior and destination depend upon it. In his book, Evolution or Creation? (page 2), Henry M. Morris, Ph.D., confirms this point. He writes:
"Each person needs, more than anything, a sense of his own identity and personal goals, and this is impossible without some sense of his origin. What a person comes to believe about his origin will inevitably condition what he believes about his destiny."
Lenin is quoted as saying that religion is the opiate of the people, but the truth is that evolution is the opiate of the atheist!

Answer 10

I think its the fact that you guys say that this is all there is to life on earth ,when you die there is nothing else,seems rather pointless.We might have come from monkeys but what about everything else created on earth,surely someone gave it some order and sustains it.cheers