Why do so many people in this day and age still believe in creationism and not in evolution?

Question

With all the evidence and research that has been done to provide evidence for evolution, how come so many people still believe that something or someone called God created life on our planet?

Answer 1

1) Evolution puts us at the level of animals, we humans like to feel special, "above" mere animals.

2) Many people learn creationism at an early age, from parents and the church. Evolution usually isn't taught until high school :(

3) If creationism is wrong, then that means the whole story of Adam and Eve is, at best, an allegory. If that's not real, what else isn't? How about Noah? Or Jesus? Questions like that make alot of people uncomfortable.

Answer 2

I hear the "evolution theory hasn't been proved" on these forums every single day. It is not even possible to definitely PROVE a hypothesis or theory, you can only support it or provide evidence for them. There are a very limited number of actual laws in science (mostly having to do with the conservation of mass and energy). These claims lend themselves well to empirical analysis and mathematic rigor so can be stated a law in that you can apply them to predict a very accurate numerical value.

The opponents often state "evolution has flaws" and make claims like "many scientists are starting to say that they can't prove it because it is bio-physiologically impossible" (I am a biologist and I have never heard this even once) and "The process is too complex to replicate and they can't do it". Scientists have very successfully demonstrated the strength of the theory countless times in the laboratory (email me if you want examples) and nature has given even more evidence. In the absence of a time machine, we cannot go back and watch it happen, therefore we cannot prove with 100% certainly that it DID happen, just that we are 99.999999999999999% sure that it MUST have happened this way.

It amazes me how these people can watch us launch satellites, split atoms, genetically engineer organisms, answer cell phone calls, and read this forum which can record people's answers within a second a world away and they refuse to accept such a simple set of postulates such as the "theory" of evolution. Instead they offer passages from a dusty book, translated umpteen times, written by semi-literate disciples 2000 years ago and filtered through the dubious and hypocritical power architecture of the medieval Vatican. (Evolution does not even contradict Christian traditions on beliefs unless those beliefs are a literal interpretation of the Bible).

"Because the evidence used to prove evolution is consistently being proved flawed and the research is constantly being proven fake." What is the citation for this. What flaws are you referring to? I read the news and science journals everday and see nothing but supporting evidence.

Evolution theory is one of the most ratified and substantiated scientific principles in biology. Obviously, it's a free country and you should believe whatever you want (I wouldn't have it any other way), just know that people all over the world are laughing at you when you hold hands with creationists.

Answer 3

For the most part it was instilled in them at a young age.It is also the easy way out. Its Gods way is a blanket excuse for ineptness.People that believe in fate are missing out on life. Education cures ignorance.As physics and the sciences explain more and more to us creationism fades to common sense. The mere facts from plate tectonics that the mountains were pushed up from the ocean floor put the Noah and the flood to rest. That started when Shepard's were finding sea fossils and shell pieces on the mountains they were feeding there herds on. Naturally to the uneducated the only way they could have been put there was by the water rising and to get that high the Earth must have been flooded.How much rain would have to fall in 40 days to fill the Grand Canyon then cover the surrounding mountains???
The bored Shepard's who told the stories didn't know that the world existed outside of there area.When ever something sounds good people latch onto it and make it real so life is a little easier for them

Answer 4

Because everyone needs something to believe strongly in.
Who is to say that our idea of evolution is true? What makes it so much better to believe this creation story than any of the other ones that exist?
Every one of the creation stories has "evidence" to support it. We have just become another culture with different "priests" in white jackets who say that this creation story is so much better than the others. Every time this happens there will always be people who hang on to their previous beliefs.
Besides that, it's nice to be able to think that we actually have a reason for being here. That it is not simply chance that some random atoms bonded together a long time ago and somehow developed into blobs which, over time, became people.

Answer 5

Maybe because evolution doesn't really explain everything that well. Even bacteria have complex structures that defy the odds of evolving by chance. The fossil record also shows that new species didn't 'evolve' over time, but appeared during brief periods of time (like the Cambrian Explosion).

All skepticism aside, people with fixed relgious beliefs and little science training have no basis with which to overturn their own beliefs. It's simply not in people's vocabulary to believe in something else, even when presented with evidence to the contrary. Link below to a solid organization that studies science and the Bible.

It's not just evolution. Humans believe in all sorts of weird things, ranging from astrology and psychics, ghosts and alien abductions, to magnetic bracelets that don't do anything for arthritis or pain. It's just human nature to believe in 'magic'.

Answer 6

For millenniums people have been taught to believe, worship and most of all fear one God or another. It was /is a way of controlling people and sometimes civilizing them. It is so strongly inbred into our culture, that even some scientists will not openly state their belief in Evolution.
As for others, there subconscious always harbors the fears of damnation, no matter how educated they are. It's been ingrained into peoples psyches for millenniums.

To disavow Creation is to lose the pie in the sky, and be a tortured soul for eternity. To disavow Creation is take a chance on never joining loved ones for that big reunion in the sky.

So they pretend to disbelieve what a whole universe points out to them. Evolution was, is and will always be the ultimate proof of our entire existence.

Answer 7

Because the evidence used to prove evolution is consistently being proved flawed and the research is constantly being proven fake.

Charles Darwin who led this phony "evolution" claim plagiarized other peoples works, claimed them as his own and promoted theories as facts.

Today scientists are more and more supporting Darwin and co. as frauds and embracing the concept of intelligent design.

The debate will go on and maybe someday all will know the truth.

Answer 8

and why are more fundamentalist Christians Republicans and trying to teach creationism in school? There is a basic difference in the foundation of their beliefs. there are a lot of things I have a hard time understanding about why people believe what they do. I believe in an All Powerful Being, but in my upbringing it is a hazy vision. i suppose others really think of God as an old bearded gentleman sitting on a throne (like Zeus). They just are unwilling to bend their minds around the idea and they just say "My ancestors weren't monkeys!!"

Answer 9

even as the opportunities may be exaggerated, the lunacy and absence of expertise displayed hourly on Y!A R&S, Astronomy & area, Earth Sciences & Geology, Philosophy and so on makes me ask your self about the state of coaching in some aspects of the international. we've examples of it answering this very question. The gentleman whose popular word seems "Evolution is baloney" is a for instance, and he's not any longer the purely one by a lengthy way. Then there is the Illuminati fantasy, extraterrestrial beings, doom in December this twelve months, HAARP and all something else of the conspiracy rubbish that some human beings look to swallow total. you could placed a number of it all the way down to trolling and a number of it all the way down to perplexed toddlers of 13 to 15, yet no longer all of it.

Answer 10

Traditions and beliefs that are passed down from generation to generation.

That's really the only thing that keeps most religions and cultures alive, is the passing down of ideas to their children. If you are brought up a certain way as a child, and you are taught that one thing is "right" and everything else is wrong, more often than not it will affect your way of thinking for most of your life.

I don't have anything against religious people, I can respect their beliefs, I just don't like when people say that one way of thinking is right and that everything else is wrong. That's called prejudice.