Do christians have any real reason not to believe in evolution?

Question

Or is it just because it doesn't agree with their story book? Or are they just too ignorant to find out for themselves to they just listen to the guy in church? And don't say there is no proof as there is I've put it all nicely on my website http://www.saynotojesus.tk
Oh and if you are going to call it a theory remember you believe in the creation STORY meaning it is even less likely to contain any truth.

Answer 1

well on one hand you have a made-up story about apples and snakes... on the other you have irrefutable evidence and facts... hmmm tough decision

Answer 2

First, the notion that in toto the account of creation presented in Genesis is presented as a 'scientific fact' is not correct. All the Bible says is that the origin of the universe is from the actions of the Deity though a process.
Second, I do not doubt that a significant part of what is put forth as evolutionary theory may very well be true. But, remember that this is a metaphysics.
It is basic logic that a proposition to be true must have several qualities: it is empirically verifiable and logically possible. Technically, discussion of evolution or modern cosmology is verbiage because it is: a] not an observable phenomenon as stated [adaptation only theoretically accounts for species transition] and b] it is logically contradictory in that it falls into either a reductio ad absurdum fallacy by stating the universe is without beginning or ex nihilo by stating the universe created itself out of nothing without a cause.
The point is that we don't know. Unfortunately there are many pseudo-intellectuals high on their own hot air like our questioner here who gibbers nostrums and wears a philosopher's cloak when he is but a fool.

Answer 3

They have plenty of reasons. For example, there's the fact that failing to believe in evolution helps them to build a sense of community with others who fail to do so. There's the fact that failing to believe in evolution helps support the notion that they are good and others are evil (that is, it provides a scapegoat).

What they don't have, of course, is any legitimate scientific response to evolution. It doesn't take much time reading creationists' anti-evolution arguments to see that they come in just a few kinds:

1 - Cutting-and-pasting of bad arguments from creationist organization websites (e.g., the macroevolution nonsense).
2 - Strawman arguments (arguing against some silly creationist version of evolution - something that scientists would never actually claim, like the idiotic "then why are there still monkeys?" stuff).
3 - Simply asserting that evolution is false because they believe that the Bible says it is.
4 - Other logical mistakes.
5 - Mistaken beliefs about the nature of science and evidence (e.g., the standard confusion about the word "theory", or the insistence on "proof").

Answer 4

I don't think so that's why I believe it as a Catholic, which I realize many "Christians" here don't even acknowledge that I am a Christian. I know evolution is still a theory just like creationism, but evolution is more plausible. I just don't understand how some Christians don't think that God could allow evolution to occur as well as Adam and Eve. He's God! Why isn't it possible that God allowed the world to evolve naturally? So long as you believe, as I do, that God is responsible for having created everything, how he did it is more or less irrelevant.

Answer 5

let's put the christianity thing into it's perspective: those who believe in it, believe that Christ was born as Jesus, to a virgin.

that's only one thing to believe.

now lets look at evolution: those who believe in it, believe that:

A) the earth formed from the molten remnants of the big bang.
B) all of the good liquids and gasses just happened to gravitate
to the earth.
C) multiple proteins bumped into each other and became a single
celled animal.
D) this single celled animal evolved into a fish, then an amphibion
and then a lizard.
E) somewhere along the line, this lizard layed an egg, and from
it, a chicken-thing hatched.
F) this chicken-thing then bred only other chicken-things, for no
other reason than the fact that evolution stopped for just it?
G) then when all was going well, BAM!!!! a huge asteroid hit the
earth and destroyed all life on the surface.
H) then the poor little one-celled animals started evolutin' again
and became fish, amphibions and finally lizards laying chicken
eggs (again) and finally, the common ancestor of the ape and
man.
I) then all of a sudden, the evolutin' stopped for no reason?

c'mon, admit it, you are just a little lost child who cannot get over the fact that there is a higher being and for that, you start your own website and want people to come look at your "evidence".

come back when you are in the same scientific (i.e. open) mind as you would like us to believe, little child.

-eagle

Answer 6

I grew up believeing that evolution was the complete truth and there has not ever been a clear scientific proof that I, my ancestors, your ancestors, or any other human ancestors evolved from apes.
the missing link has yet to be found in the fossil record, and if your only objection to creation is that you're ticked off at the church, then, you and I are just on opposite sides of the same coin. show some concrete skeletal or genetic proof of evolution. besides, I believe in INTELLIGENT DESIGN.

Answer 7

you're delusional. Even the most respected of scientists agree that evolution IS just a theory. the bible on the other hand contains proven facts... with evidence found of it's validity both historically and scientifically.

situations beyond what you can comprehend scare you. that's the only reason you've chosen to attack those with faith in something that you have decided is unfathomable.

and no, i don't listen to a guy in church... i do my own research.

i suggest next time you take your blinders off before you ask such an ignorant question.

Answer 8

If there was evolution, wouldn't we see 1/2 man/1/2 apes walking around? Where are they? Every person looks like a person; the same with animals. There aren't any in stages of growth.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. I tend to believe the Bible - works for me.

Answer 9

First of all, I don't believe in the literal story of creation, so your little request for me to remember what I don't believe is irrelevant. Kind of says a lot about where the rest of your reasoning goes as well. Darwinism is a theory. In order for you to see how mankind has developed, you'll have to love your neighbor to the point where you can develop your psychic gifts and then read it off of the memory of nature. Good luck.

Answer 10

I think it depends on their particular brand of christianity. certainly most of the folks I've come across have no problem incorporating it into their beliefs - after all it's hard to argue with the evidence for evolution without getting incredibly silly.

It's really only those with a more literal take on the bible (genesis in particular) that seem to have an issue.

BTW - man did not evolve from monkeys. We share a common ancestor ;).

Answer 11

Because you don't like it doesn't make it any less true. Christians reason is because it is against their religion--now if you don't like it, sorry, but it's the reason. Similarly, scientifically evolution has never been proven. Macroevolution, anyway. Even if you provide missing links--it still does not show that the fossil had any children, and you don't know what kind they were anyway. IN short, no direct proof of macroevolution. Also, it doesn't jive with basic laws of thermodynamics; like the second one. Those are my "real" reasons.