Why do Christians deny Evolution when there is soooooo much evidence?

Answer 1

They say you shouldn't talk common sense to a fool. I think we must stop talking evolution/science to any religious fundamentalist.

Answer 2

How about this God Squaders...

Do you know why you fart?

It is because there are bacteria in your lower intestine that help you digest all that roughage you eat. If the bacteria weren't there you would not be able to digest much of the food you eat and your intestines would get blocked and you would go to heaven. It is the same reason some people are lactose intolerant...they don't have enough lacto-bacillus bacteria in their intestine so they don't digest milk.

So did God "create" you with the bacteria inside and just forget to put some bacteria in those that are lactose intolerant?

Hey have you ever heard of drug resistant bacteria? This is evolution at work right in front of your eyes! The exact mechanism that Darwin described has given us drug resistant bacteria in a mere 75 years. How? Because bacteria replicate every 20 minutes or so. 75 bacteria years is 1,971,000 human years.

I know I know...you say "I'm not a bacteria...what does that prove?" You are right bacteria are far more advanced than humans because they have been here since way before humans and will be hear long after.

One more suggestion:

Read a different book! Put down that Bible and read something else...really.

Maybe you could start with the now 170 year old title "The Origin of Species" written by the Rev. Charles Darwin...yes he was an Anglican priest. This is a dangerous text because it blows the concept that Humans were some how "created" separately from everything else.

Or perhaps something from the last century...you know the 20th century..that seems to have passed you by. "A Brief History of Time" by Stephan Hawking...which probably has way too much math...so I'm sure you will avoid the headache.

Ok...How about this...find some used college textbooks like "Biology 101", "Basic Physics", "Chemistry 101" and "Physical Geography 101". That should get you occupied for a year or two giving you ample time to kick the Bible addiction.

...get tuned up a little...and quit reading authors from 5000 years ago when the world didn't know sh** and people thought dreams came from God.

Answer 3

I consider myself a Christian, but I also believe in evolution. Christianity is the following of the teachings of Jesus Christ. That has nothing at all to do with evolution vs. creationism. Millions of years apart. If you could follow evolution back to the first subatomic particle to appear in a vast nothingness, what created it? Where did it come from? Creationism and evolution can coexist.

As to questions of what are we going to evolve into? Just look at recent history. Visit some of the homes built in Colonial times. Look at how short the doorways are, look how small the beds look. Look at the average lifespan then and now. humans are constantly evolving, becoming longer lived, taller and so on. If evolution did not happen, how do you explain cave drawings and other physical evidence of races of humans prior to homosapiens? The Bible tells many wonderful stories in an attempt to explain how we got to where we are. Logic at the time said a human was created by a man and woman, following that back, 'logically' there must have been an original man and woman (Adam and Eve) to start it all, but where did they come from? Enter creationism. The biggest problem I have with this is that the Bible, the original scrolls or wherever you decide the text came from, was written by people that believed the earth was flat. They defined things by the way their knowledge and experience at the time told them was correct. Evolution is not merely physical, it can be intelligent evolution as well. As we evolve we see that prior assumptions were incorrect. When someone sneezes why do you say "God Bless You"? Do you truly believe demons were just expelled from their bodies? Or do you know that it was merely an irritation of the nasal passage?

Answer 4

If by evolution you mean that all life began as a single celled thing in the primordial ooze, sorry there is no proof for that either. But if you mean the gradual changing of a species within that species well then of course there is evolution.

Roses may change colors forming hybrids, or they may change the way they grow from a rose bush into some type of vine. But they remain roses.

Cats and dogs have changed throughout the milennia but they have remained cats and dogs. Dogs did not evolve into another class entirely, nor did cats. Snakes remain snakes, fish remain fish.

And man remains man. There has been a great deal of change, adaptation, evolution, whatever you call it, within the human species but no matter what the changes were man remained man.

You speak as if evolution were a proven thing but you would be wrong. Evolution remains a THEORY because no one has been able to show any scientific proof that we all came from amoebas, protozoas, etc.

So please excuse us Christians for not believing something that is only someone's best guess. And by the way, Darwin himself refuted his own theory later in his life.

Answer 5

I'm Christian and I definitely believe in evolution. I think anyone who believes in creationism is absolutely insane. I don't get why so many people don't believe in evolution. I have a feeling a large part of them are just ignorant. It's OBVIOUS evolution is what happened, and is happening. Our DNA is less than 2% different than a chimp. Coincidence?
and to the person who thinks animals can't evolve into a totally different species- we do have proof that happens. it's called speciation and you should have learned about it in high school bio.

Answer 6

I am not christian, but when I asked a friend of mine once, she explained that she believed in a god who could make a rock a million years old at creation.

I still disagree with her, but at least as to her situation, it's faith.

(It also seems to me to be rather hysterical that literal creationists cannot believe that god had the power to make Adam from an ape (after all, animals were created first). Which would explain why there is the missing link etc. But clearly there were other forms of human before us. It would make more sense than saying evolution doesn't exist.)

Answer 7

There is too much evidence AGAINST evolution. Scholars who study evolution conclude that it cant be true but believe in it because they choose not to believe in the alternative ("God created the earth")

Of so much evidence against evolution the one that most stands out is, "if we, humans, evolved from apes, then what in the world are apes doing in the world????, because all apes should be humans now right???"

Andrew

Answer 8

I'm afraid you are mistaken.

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There is no evidence that proves Atheistic MacroEvolution (without Intelligent Design)...

I used to believe in Evolution. However, over a period of time I have grown skeptical of the claims of Macro*Evolution... this is largely due to the weakness of the evidence for Macro*Evolution, and the fact that the evidence, rationally interpreted does not support the overarching claims made by Macro*Evolutionists...

For scientific and intellectual critiques of evolution, see http://www.godsci.org/gsi/apol/evo/00.html .

Cordially,
John

Answer 9

There is also evidence that the Bible is true. Why do you not believe it? Evolution offers no beginning, no purpose, and no end. Rather scary. Seems like a lot of holes in the logic to me.

Answer 10

Evolution is an interesting THEORY, and that is where people skew the idea. It isn't a fact, but based on theory, which hasn't been proved yet. There is more adaptation in species than there is evolution. Most people who are evolutionists really don't study the theory, but rely on what people tell them....

Answer 11

1st of all there is not sooooooooooooooooo much evidence to the fact that evolution is true. There are soooooooooooooooo many theories. Second of all if evolution is true then what are we going to evolve into? Just curious because isn't evolution "inevitable" in your theories? And what proff is there that we are going to evolve into something?