Why do Evolutionists. . .?

Question

Why do Evolutionists seem to find it hard to believe that two people (Adam and Eve) could have populated the planet? If that is hard to believe, then why is is so easy to believe that some primordial ooze mutated to become all life on the planet? Each new species would have to have a male and female to start the population. When humans supposedly evolved from monkeys, you have to belive that a genetic mutation caused a male and female to be born that created a new species (meaning they can not breed with the species they evolved from) they would have to then go about populating the world. Since the chances of a genetic mutation occuring at the same time in two different pairs of monkeys is very unlikely, those mutations would have to be freternal twins. How is this easier to belive than beliveing that somehow humans were created by something/someone else? Is there another possible theory than Evolution or Creationism?

ev·o·lu·tion ( P ) Pronunciation Key (v-lshn, v-)
n.
1. A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form. See Synonyms at development.

2. The process of developing.
3. Gradual development.

Biology. (This is what kind of Evolution we are talking about).
1. Change in the GENETIC COMPOSITION of a population during successive generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, and resulting in the DEVELOPMENT of new SPECIES.

Once a new species is created, it can not interact with the previous species. Even in a gradual process, at some point a new species would emerge that can not reproduce with the previous species. This would have to occur in more than one creature at a time. The assumption that several pairs of some species reproduced a new species at the same time is nearly impossible. That would have to mean that one pair produced a male and female.

I understand that not all species have a male and female pair. I generalized since I am focusing more on humans than any other species.

The answers I have received only go to show you the truth of what I mentioned in my last qustion: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ao1MnFpBmCDKQz91ncyi9Z7sy6IX?qid=20060727121216AAxvnUq

Answer 1

You don't seem to have a good understanding about mutations. The theory isn't that one mutation in an ape caused her to birth two perfectly formed humans. It is described as a slow process taking millions of years, with small changes within an isolated population (able to mate with each other with each subsequent generation) that would eventually disassociate it from it's parent species.

Either belief could be hard to swallow. The difference between the theory of evolution and creationism is that evolution is falsifiable, and takes physical evidence to formulate a theory that is always changing with new evidence. With creationism you have to accept it on faith alone.

Answer 2

Because they are in denial even though science has repeatedly proved the Bible to be correct. One example…they have found the destroyed cities of Sodom & Gomorrah.

http://www.bibleplus.org/discoveries/sodomfound.htm

http://www.arkdiscovery.com/sodom_&_gomorrah.htm

Some believe we all developed from some primordial soup. Ha! That is just absurd. Why have we not been able to recreate life from NOTHING then. We cannot manage to build anything without first using something that previously existed. Where did a Hydrogen atom come from? If an atom is made of protons, neutrons, & electrons, where did these 3 things come from? What makes up a proton?

As far as the blood type (Rhesus factor)…

Creationists don’t all discount evolution, we just understand that human life did not begin that way. Maybe Adam and Eve did have the same blood type. They were kicked out of Eden and had started to eat Animal Flesh after that. Maybe Adams blood type evolved to make himself a hardier person to be able to farm the ground and hunt for food. (unless you don’t believe in Evolution…) So lets say that Adam mutated to an ‘A’ and Eve stayed as a ‘B’, their children could become any of (4) blood types…’A’, ‘B’, ‘AB’, & ‘O’. Once ‘O’ type was created, that opened the door to all the other varieties that came about.

Oh yeah, if anyone believes in the big bang, what started the big bang? Something had to put the events of the universe in motion. You cannot create something from nothing.

Gravitational Singularity

Based on Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, some believe that the Big Bang was produced by a gravitational singularity. Many physicists and astronomers believe that the universe is, and always has been, expanding. If this is true, then if we go back far enough in time, we eventually reach a time when the universe was infinitesimally small. When this size reaches zero, it is said to be a "gravitational singularity." According to this model, time began at the same "instant" that this singularity exploded in the Big Bang, so there was nothing "before" the Big Bang.

But where did this gravitational singularity come from? What caused time to begin?

Faith

Some say that there does not need to be a cause. We know it happened because we are here. But that answer is based on faith, not science.

The Big Bang is not science--it is an article of faith.



When a non-believer can intelligently answer these questions, then we can start to talk about Evolution.

Answer 3

It is plain that you have absolutely no understanding of how evolution worrks. To find out, go to the library and find some actual SCIENCE books on the subject. Judging from your question, it seems like you are getting your misconception from your own imagination, or you are getting information from one of the infamous Liars For Jesus (LFJ) web sites, such as answersingenesis.com. It is their job to keep you blind, stupid and uninformed, in order to protect their overriding business interests.

Let's look at your question:

* Why do Evolutionists seem to find it hard to believe that two people (Adam and Eve) could have populated the planet?

All of Genesis is mythology. NOTHING in Genssis really happened.

* If that is hard to believe, then why is is so easy to believe that some primordial ooze mutated to become all life on the planet?

You are referring to 'abiogenesis'... this has nothing to do with biology in general, or evolution in particular... it is more closely related to organic chemistry.

* Each new species would have to have a male and female to start the population.

Evolution describes how the genetic makeup of a population of organisms changes over time. Random mutations of genetic material occur all the time. Sometimes, an individual is born with a mutation that provides a procreative advantage... perhaps an ability to run just a little bit faster, and be able to escape predators just a little more easily. Not getting eaten increases the chances that you will be able to reproduce... and so will your offspring. That is how natural selection works. Over time, the genetic makeup of that population will come to contain more individuals with the 'run faster' gene. That population will then differ from other populations of the same critters. Over time, other mutations will be similarly selected... and at some point in time, the one population may have accumulated sufficient genetic variations such that they are no longer able to mate with critters of the original type.... which may still exist... or maybe not. These changes do not take place overnight, or within one generation... they take place over hundreds of thousands, or millions, or tens of millions of years, depending on the lifespan of the critters.

* When humans supposedly evolved from monkeys, you have to belive that a genetic mutation caused a male and female to be born that created a new species (meaning they can not breed with the species they evolved from) they would have to then go about populating the world.

First of all, nobody says that humans evolved from monkeys... except Liars For Jesus who are dedicated to misleading and misinforming you. Human beings and modern apes (Chimpanzees, Bonobos, Great Apes) have a common ancestor, that existed hundreds of millions of years ago. We are primates... apes are primates. We are cousins.

* Since the chances of a genetic mutation occuring at the same time in two different pairs of monkeys is very unlikely, those mutations would have to be freternal twins.

That is a totally whacky idea. Nothing like that happens.

Now, if you are thinking of asking something like "If we evolved from apes, then how come there are still monkeys."... please don't. That is functionally the same thing as asking "If the first American colonists were English, then how come there are still Englishmen?" You can how stupid that question is... can't you?

Answer 4

"When humans supposedly evolved from monkeys, you have to belive that a genetic mutation caused a male and female to be born that created a new species"


... you have no idea how evolution works. A few changes does not an entirely new species make. I don't know exactly what criterion scientists use to decide when a creature has changed enough to be classified as a new species, but it's not one change, or two, or three. They're still capable of breeding with other members of their species, and passing on whatever change they carry... Why am I even explaining this? You're not going to listen, you backwater scum.

Answer 5

You are misunderstanding evolution. There is not a sudden jump to a new species--it is a gradual process. For a long time the "new" and "old" species can cross-breed. So you don't need 2 single specific monkeys--you need a group of monkeys who change over time as those who reproduce more (because they are more "successful"/"fit") automatically produce more children.

In essence, you are completely wrong about what evolution means.

Answer 6

you do have a good point, but why is it so hard to believe that evolution is not possible. if you have two of the same creatures but one has an advantage like it can fly faster or see better than it should live longer therefor have more offspring that may share that same trait to some degree, eventually they will more and more of the ones with the advantage and those with out it will fall by the way side until they separate completely in to different species. of course this takes many hundreds of years so we don't notice it.

Answer 7

Because we have lots and lots of proof for evolution. We see it occurring over many years in fossils, and in short time in microbes. But there could be a gray area that involves both creation and evolution. What if God created the Universe and set up the genome to mutate in its wonderful ways? And everything since has mutated the way She intended? Unlikely, but still pretty cool. Your theory is not so good.

Answer 8

The reason that it is utterly impossible is two fold.
First. It's a myth, nothing more.
Secondly, Eve was created from Adam's rib right? Then she would have shared his blood type. And from two people with the same blood type, the emergence of 4 main blood types (A, B, O and AB) is utterly impossible. Let alone the dozens of sub-types that result from the Rhesus factor.
See how actual science trumps mythology? Happens every time.

Answer 9

how can you believe every animal comes in male and female pairs when some creatures reproduce asexually or are able to change sex or can have genetically different offspring without the need for the opposite sex?

there's a lot more to science than meets the eye.

Answer 10

Why do creationists find it so hard to believe that more than two people were on the planet to begin with?

Or if God did it, couldn't he have MADE the primoridal ooze na guided it's development?

Of course that would have made Genesis too long to quote everytime Science rears it's ugly head.