Why should I believe in the faith called Evolution?

Question

What created the microbes, why weren't they burned by the heat of the newly created earth? How am I to believe that birds come from reptilian(mammal?) beasts? Could you prove or show HOW the microbes were created?

What is the chemical formula needed to make these microbes so I can become RICH. Just because eveyone agrees with an idea doesn't make it a fact. Some believe in God but there's no proof. So one cannot trust that either.

Yet again, NO ONE has explained where these microbes come from. Yes, some scientist recreated a few amino acids which THEY believe the first microbes originated from(Where did they get the material to recreate those said amino acids?) If life came from space, what created it IN space? If you(they) don't know then it's FAITH! SADLY, the faith of Evolution has to depend on "Spontaneous Creation". Where life must come from nothing. It required a catalyst like Religious faith!

Answer 1

Hey, evolution is not a "faith" so to say. I can see where you are coming from with you question. I almost agree with you. I think, instead of "mammals come from reptiles," what scientists mean to/ought to say is "it is not impossible that mammal might have reptile ancestors, and we have very strong evidence for that."

Yea, it's not impossible that mammals are from reptiles...Also it is not imposible that microbes were created by chemical reactions. I am not saying that they were, just that it is not impossible. Check out the Miller Urey experiment http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/Exobiology/miller.html
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If you mimic the primitive eath atmosphere, you can make many biomolecules, which are the lego blocks of the cells. Giving the age of the earth, it is not impossible that, even randomly, these lego blocks could have agregated to make a biotic being (cell).

Again, I am not saying that's where we come from or anything, I am just saying that it's not out of nowhere when people come up with these hypotheses. For the God part, I can't convince you to have faith, bro.

Answer 2

Here's your proof for evolution: dog breeds. All dog breeds originated from wild dogs, usually wolves. None of those original animals look anything like the dog breeds we have today. Would you believe that most dog breeds were created in the last 100 years?

If humans can select an animal and create an entirely different looking breed of dog withing 5 generations based purely on aesthetics, then nature can create an entire new species based purely on habitat conditions.

Case in point, did you hear about the grizzly-polar bear hybrid that was found during a hunt in the arctic? That didn't have human intervention, but was an entirely natural event. More grizzlies are entering polar bear habitat, increasing the chances of more hybrid bears. Imagine if a few of those hybrids occurred, and then they came together and mated. You'd have an entirely new species that was created simply by changing habitat conditions.

Scientists have created the amino acids in a lab that that the first microbes originated from. They haven't yet figured out how that spark of life occurred, but speculation is that it was caused by some electrical event - static or lightning.

What you're missing is that God can still have a hand in all of this. Just because evolution is a distince possibility doesn't mean that it's a godless process. Life isn't black and white, you know, but shades of grey.

Answer 3

Evolution says NOTHING about creation. It only refers to biodiversity and complexity. How did it start? Who knows.

We find life in the most extreme environments today, including ocean vent communities at places known as 'black smokers' (see link below). Life thrives here in mineral-thickened, 600 degree water at immense pressure.

How do we know birds come from dinosaurs? Because we have an entire progression from raptors to Archeopteryx in the fossil record. Also, T-rex had feathers.

Evolution is a worldwide accepted theory by scientists for well over 100 years now. There has NEVER been a article published in a peer-review journal that could discredit evolution. There have been modification and revision, but the theory as a whole stands as strong as gravity as a theory.

People who say there are missing links or holes in the theory have obviously never studies it. There is a clear, unarguable progression from the Cambrian (~550 million years ago) to now with no gaps at the Family or Class level. There are some strange Genus or Species, but these are rare and easily explain by the incompleteness of the fossil record.

People also tend to try to discredit radiometric dating in the process, another worldwide accepted and applied scientific fact.

We study science. That means we make hypotheses and observation. Religion is based on faith, something that has ZERO part in science. You can believe, or have faith in, whatever you want, but to not accept evolution as the cause for modern, past, and future biodiversity is just ignorant in the true sense of the word.

One more thought: if science COULD prove evolution wrong and creation right (and thus God as real), it would have been done. That would be the single greatest scientific discovery of all time. Not only do scientists love glory, but they love to show each other up. If creation could be prove, it would have been done a long time ago. Science can not prove creation because that is based on faith and faith alone. Science has no place for faith (except when it comes to funding).

Don't say science has faith in evolution. The people who need faith are the people that can't except it, because only faith can draw you away from the immense evidence. See the AAAS link for more info.

Answer 4

Well there's more proof for that than there is for God. Microbes didn't just form right after the world was created, it took like a billion years or something. Birds have similar skeletons of reptiles that lived long ago and they are a completely different thing than mammals. The microbes you speak of were formed by chemical reactions taking place or something.

Answer 5

Abiogenesis does not concern evolution in the least that is a chemistry question. Evolution is defined as a change in allele frequencies from one generation to the next. Faith does not have evidence to back it up and is the antithesis of science.

The evolution of birds from theropod dinosaurs is supported by many lines of evidence eg feathers found in both groups, evidence of brooding behaviour in dinosaurs (Oviraptor), anatomical similarities such as hollow bones a semi lunate wrist bone, the arm structure the head structure and many more.

Answer 6

Evolution isn't a faith. It's a scientific theory created by Charles Darwin. Creationism is a faith.

Answer 7

If you study is properly, you will see the similarities of creatures and other logical reasons to do so.

If you are lazy to study - the best option is to go to a church and believe in the theory of god creating earth and the creatures in it - that is my friend the easy way out !

Answer 8

No you can't really know but we do know it started with single cell organisms which kept adapting and adapting unto us, if you want to be egoist and believe you were everything was created for you magically then that's your choice ,

( there is even another theory that life was seeded from space)

Answer 9

The theory of evolution is NOT based in faith. It is a scientific theory based on confirmable evidence. Creationism IS based solely on faith, and there is not one shred of evidence that any of it is factual.

Answer 10

Because you are a step over your mother and father. Their body texture is not exactly you but a more subtle form of you.