Why is evolution so threatening to the belief that an adam and eve actually existed?

Question

good morning didn't realize the question has no reference to my beliefs... it's a question not an opinion...

Answer 1

It's not that it's threatening to the belief that Adam & Eve existed, it is that the two philosophies are diametrically opposed to one another.

The theory of evolution was proposed by those who were secular humanists, and who wanted to get rid of a belief in God. The two ideas, creation and evolution, are mutually exclusive. They cannot coexist. If you believe in the biblical account of creation, then you cannot believe that the Earth has been around for millions of years. The account in Genesis clearly states that God breathed life into the man who became a living soul. (Not primordial ooze, or a fish with legs, but man.)

There are those who postulate that you can mix the two, and have attempted to do so by employing "theistic evolution," where God put the parts in place and let them spin together over millions/billions of years. Others propose a "gap" theory, where in Genesis 1:1, the earth was created, but in Genesis 1:2, God judged that earth, and recreated it in Genesis 1:3, hoping that the time frame matches the scientific theory. Others will ask, "How long was a day during creation?" hoping that the answer is millions of years long each.

Because there are no witnesses to what occurred during creation, anything that man comes up with is a theory, and unable to be proven through a scientific process, which requires the scientific method.

The scientific method requires:

# 1. Observe some aspect of the universe.
# 2. Invent a tentative description, called a hypothesis, that is consistent with what you have observed.
# 3. Use the hypothesis to make predictions.
# 4. Test those predictions by experiments or further observations and modify the hypothesis in the light of your results.
# 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until there are no discrepancies between theory and experiment and/or observation.

But this is supposed to be based on observable facts. Evolution cannot achieve this using the traditional scientific method. What does that leave?

Faith. Just like those he criticizes for following myths, the evolutionist is practicing his faith. The evolutionist believes in the theory. They have their own scriptures, and apologea. And woe unto those who knowingly or unknowing tread on "holy" ground. They'll eat you alive. You'd think for all their vitriol, that you were in a church full of hypocrites.

Answer 2

Its the whole question of incest i think that abhors most people.
It is also not historically possible that man and dinosaur existed together (or fossils would have been found together) and as god made the animals that walked the earth first and man later it suggests that they shared the earth unless you opine that the days refered to in Genesis were longer than 24 hours (although Theologians agree that as god made day and night (day 2?) and daylight and nightfall is directly dependant on the earth spinning on its axis and the sun remaining where it is (which we know to be true), for the day not to be 24 hours would mean that the earth has sped up it's rotation - which is also impossible or the whole concept of gravity would have been wrong and everything would have started out really light and got heavier as the speed increased!Even if the days were 48 hours long everything would have been half as heavy)
So the question probably should read, why is creationism threatened by the belief that adam and eve did not exist.
In any case most of their decendants dies in the flood - now don't get me started on the flood! How did the dinosaurs get on the ark? how did the sloths get there in 7 days when they cannot swim nor walk on the ground? And how did they keep the food fresh for over a year? What did the carnivores eat? did they keep a few gazelles on standby?

Answer 3

Because it is a proven fact that single celled organisms came before multi-celled ones.

Hmmm chapelite av has printed absolute garbage. The theory of evolution IS supported by and BASED ON the scientific method;

There are tests that can determine whether or not the theory is correct as it stands, and these tests can be made. Thousands of such tests have been made, and the current theories have passed them all. Also, scientists are willing to alter the theories as soon as new evidence is discovered. This allows the theories to become more and more accurate as research progresses.

Most religions, on the other hand, are based on revelations, that usually cannot be objectively verified. They talk about the why, not the how. Also, religious beliefs are not subject to change as easily as scientific beliefs. Finally, a religion normally claims an exact accuracy, something which scientists know they may never achieve.

Some people build up religious beliefs around scientific principles, but then it is their beliefs which are the religion. This no more makes scientific knowledge a religion than painting a brick makes it a bar of gold.

What exactly does the theory of evolution state? The theory of evolution states that:

1. All life forms (species) have developed from other species.
2. All living things are related to one another to varying degrees through common descent (share common ancestors).
3. All life on Earth has a common origin. In other words, that in the distant past, there once existed an original life form and that this life form gave rise to all subsequent life forms.
4. The process by which one species evolves into another involves random heritable genetic mutations (changes), some of which are more likely to spread and persist in a gene pool than others. Mutations that result in a survival advantage for organisms that possess them, are more likely to spread and persist than mutations that do not result in a survival advantage and/or that result in a survival disadvantage.

Proven. Next...

Answer 4

Actually, evolution is no threat to Adam and Eve, Evolution is as yet an unproven hypothesis masquerading as fact. Not one viable transisional form has been found.

Natural selection and mutations, usually hyped as evolutionary channels, cannot change a dinosaur to a bird or a monkey into a man.

Evolution is completely contradictory to the account of Adam and Eve given in the Bible.

The Bible states that death entered the world as a curse for Adam's disobedience to God's command not to eat the forbidden fruit.

If evolution is true, then death and bloodshed were in the world for over a billion years before Adam bit the fruit. Thus, death would have been an established fact by the time Adam came to be. Also, the hebrew for day with a qualifying number and "the morning and the evening" establish that the days of genesis were literal days, ie six literal days of creation and one day of rest.

Evolution is diametrically opposed to the Bible, and where churches compromise on the age of the earth and the creation account, the church will decay spiritually.

In response to an above post, the Bible was used to discover the ocean currents, called "the paths of the sea' in the Bible. The book of proverbs was written by the wisest man to ever live, and contains much wisdom. Christianity has been called a 'rational religion.' Our founding fathers' established this country based on the "inalienable rights' that were "endowed by our Creator." the public schools used to begin each day with prayer and bible reading, the first wildly successful public school material, the McGuffy reader was saturated with biblical references. Webster, the founder of the now standard Webster's dictionary was a devout Christian, even translating the bible into the vernacular english of the day. His original dictionary was filled with Biblical references and the usage examples usually came from the Bible. Some of the greatest Americans who ever lived were devout Christians.

With the abolition of prayer and bible from the public schools, the stage was set for the sexual revolution of the 60s and the casting off of the prevailing social mores. Now, in our thoughly secular and humistic society, inhibition is a thing of the past. Life, whether of the unborn, or the disabled (as in Terri Schiavo) or of students in a school (as in Columbine) is now dispensible. Now that we view humans as just another animal, how much easier it is to justify things, to rationalize them away.

Upon evolutionary precepts, rose Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Evolution, while obviously not literally to blame for the above, established a foundation upon which the above were able to take place; Undermining the authority of Scripture, devaluing human life, and placing mankind as the author of "right" and "wrong"

Stephen Gould, a devoit Athiest and Evolutionist called darwin's theory a "universal acid" eating through (christian) values.

Answer 5

Because evolution means Adam and Eve couldn't have been created literally like the bible says, because there couldn't have been any one definitive couple that were the first modern humans, it would have been a whole tribe (or what passed for one in the primitive times). And then you couldn't have original sin, which is supposed to be why we reproduce and don't live forever. But if you don't take it literally, it shouldn't be a problem at all.

Answer 6

Youre question is backwards, evolution is threatened by adam and eve. This is because it threatens the concept that there is no absolute truth, which is an oxymoron in and of itself. People who embrace evolution hate God and the idea that there is a price to pay for living like a heathen.

Answer 7

Because the idea that evolution happens as fortunate accidents doesn't sit well with the idea that God has a plan. Plus biblically speaking Adam and Eve were put on Earth as humans and didn't come from monkeys. Personally I think Darwin is more plausible but that's just me.

Answer 8

because that would mean Adam and Eve were monkeys (or something)

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Wow, don't believe blkrose65 (below). Evolution has actually been around for 150 years and many different fields of science have been trying to prove it WRONG for that time, and it's never succeeded in proving it WRONG. There is no need to find every single "missing link" to prove that the chain actually exists. We know where evolution led to, we have snapshots throughout time of where we came from. You don't need a snapshot of every single second in your life to prove that you've gotten older. (she's clearly regurgitating something she heard somewhere else, not doing the research herself).

Answer 9

Evolution is a Mack truck, and the "Adam&Eve" belief is a hen's hatchling in the middle of the road. It doesn't threaten it. It squashes it.

Hope the analogy fits your narrow mind.

Answer 10

It depends on ones definition of "evolution". Whereas evolution COULD mean a God-guided process, it normally means to most people a God-LESS, random process. And going by that definition, apes would have gradually evolved into humans, thus making it impossible to have two PERFECT humans with Genesis accounts.