why are people always trying to prove evolution impossible by stating that we did not evolve from chimps?

Question

do they not know that we are just from a like ancestor. also do they not realize that their god or higher power does not exist?

Answer 1

Even 160 or so years after Darwin proposed this theory, the most up-to-date modern science has still been able to prove nothing that can take it beyond the label of "theory."

Scientists have been working with great amounts of funding and support for decades, and all they've been able to prove for certain are the reasons why it ISN'T possible. They keep trying, and keep failing. So, if this is something you'd like to believe in, have faith - they're continuing to work on it.

Those die-hard fans that refuse to refer to it as a theory anymore (and these are NOT scientists) will try to say that apes and mankind split off of an original gene pool - thus explaining why today there are both versions of the same "animal." The fact that this has been proven completely impossible also, is an item they choose to ignore.

I believe that IF anything is ever accomplished that changes Evolution from a theory to a known fact, it will probably not happen sooner than my great grandchildren's time here on Earth. And I don't even have grandchildren.

These facts have nothing to do with religion, but science. But believe what you want, facts or no facts and spread that word to the world with nothing to back you up. Gee, sounds a little like the religion you're slamming, doesn't it?

Answer 2

I don't know why our DNA would have any similarity to apes, but here is what I do know.
Scientific studies have shown us several different things:
1) Our DNA blueprints are so massively complex that without an architect, there is absolutely no way they could exist.
2) The probability that the Earth just randomly created itself is so close to zero, it's there.
3) No matter how long you left the parts to a Boeing 767 in the jungle, someone would still have to build it in order to turn it into a flyable plane.

I believe in both evolution AND religion. I believe that the Earth did evolve over several eons. I also believe that the idea that we originated as an amoeba makes sense. Would a person four thousand years ago have called it an amoeba? Of course not. To them, it would have just been dirt.
I believe that mankind has evolved, but NOT to the extent that we were once apes. We were similar, yes, but not the same.
Evolution is evident if one looks at a human being's bone structure from as little as 500 years ago. We were shorter, for the most part. Doesn't it make sense that we evolved in other ways, as well?
It's a common misconception that evolution and believing in God are not compatible. It's my belief that anyone who doesn't believe in some form of evolution is blind...but a person who doesn't believe in God just hasn't opened their eyes yet.

I am curious as to what this question had to do with the president though.

Answer 3

Evolving from a chimp doesn't bother me at all if it were possible. The part that drives me insane and set my head spinning is the Big Bang theory. People say that this happened because of a bunch of gas balls and molecules. I don't understand and can not comprehend HOW it all began without a creator.
There was a time when absolutely NOTHING existed. This includes other galaxies and universes that people say these little balls of gas and so forth, drifted from to later, cause a big bang.
But if nothing existed at one time, when everything was ALL black, how and why would a little spec just suddenly appear? There must be a cause. This is why I can not grasp evolution.
There's just no such thing as existing without a SOMEONE of higher intelligence.

Answer 4

Dear Madchap,

The first part is probably true - most people are unaware of the exact workings of evolution. However, it is a non-sequitur to say that if evolution exists, God does not. Perhaps Creationists conception of a Creator is too narrow (God might just as easily work through evolution, for instance, rather than instantaneous creation).

-j.


I think this person got down pretty much what I was going to say. I used to be a major naysayer on the topic of evolution. Now, with my own mindset and out of the church/parent thing, I can certainly see how individuals could come to these conclusions. Evolution is certainly a possibility.

However, I would not say there is no God. First of all, it's disrespectful to others who do believe. Secondly, there is just too many things I have seen with my own 2 eyes and lived through that are just too amazing to not have some unseen force involved. =)

Answer 5

Some people only have a very loose grasp on the facts. Rather than look at the evidence and form opinions based on that, they will choose to believe something completely unfeasible and then spend the rest of their lives trying to prove it to other people using the same illogical processes that lead them to believe such nonsense in the first place. In the mean time, they don't actually learn anything about the world or the people in it either because reality doesn't fit in with their views or they are spending too much time being judgemental reactionaries to be aware of anything outside their own head.

It's the sign of an inherently self-centred individual. They basically become their own god in their own head, and this alter-ego tells them that they are right and anything else is wrong. It's surely a form of insanity.

Disclaimer: I respect peoples religions, and peoples right to worship as they want. However, I do not have any respect for someone who refuses to accept reality and who won't accept even the strongest evidence, and/or who refuses to accept other people views as valid and single-mindedly believes their way to be unquestionably correct and therefore what everyone else should believe too

Answer 6

Can you prove God's non-existence? Personally I've experienced God many times in my life, so I can't deny God. As a christian, I am willing to see a merging of science and religion. I believe God created the world... who's to say He didn't start the big-bang (I mean, that HAD to start from somewhere if it's true, right?), or who's to say it isn't possible that He didn't develop people through the use of evolution? The world didn't pop into existence like some presto-earth creation, it took time and love. The universe is so amazingly balanced I don't see how people can't believe in God. Any further or closer to the sun, and earth wouldn't be liveable. So while I'm skeptical about evolution, I'm not entirely ruling it out as God's method of creation.

Answer 7

What idiocy. Ok so we "evolved". I get that already. Whats the contradiction with the existence of God? Try this. CAn you EVEN THINK how exactly gravity or magnetism works? Exerting a pull on atoms within matter ? If you can, YOU are like God. Forget evolution, try to answer this if you can. Believe in God if you cant. Wanna dare go for it? Nah... you'd rather be comfortable with your "explanations". That's right, It takes guts to believe, have faith and trust in God. Funny thing. You can understand the way God operates this Universe, just not how its done.

Answer 8

Dear Madchap,

The first part is probably true - most people are unaware of the exact workings of evolution. However, it is a non-sequitur to say that if evolution exists, God does not. Perhaps Creationists conception of a Creator is too narrow (God might just as easily work through evolution, for instance, rather than instantaneous creation).

-j.

Answer 9

Maybe you've got it wrong and the ones who are always trying to prove evolution impossible by stating that we did not evolve from chimps actaully did descend from chimps? (I realise this is personally insulting to some, so if there are any chimps reading this, I apologise profusely but it was how the question was set)

Answer 10

okay, so I will give oyu that evolutionists don't think we came from chimps. Fine.

The FACT is there is not one shred of evidence that any species evloved from another species. Do not assume that just because one believes in god they have scrapped the idea of evolution without any reasonable thought or education. With or without God the SCIENCE just does not hold water. It is a futile attempt to hold onto an idea that you will not have a higher power to answer to one day- well, that does not change the fact that you will- true science will see behind the lies of evolution:

I cannot make you believe something that you don't want to believe, but I urge you to use discernment, reason and logic when thinking aobut evolution- all the things evolutionists accuse us of not using , but really- do the principles of evolution make sense? If this has taken place over the course of millions of years, little by little, then we are being decieved when we are told we are looking for "the missing link" we are looking for millions of missing links- besides that- there are so many common sense, scientific questions that evolution just cannot answer- no matter how you twist it.
If you are really interested in education and not just disproving something that does not fit your mold- read this article, it is fun reading but very informative and common sense-
Meet Gaspy: the lungfish:

http://www.reflecthisglory.org/study/did...

here are other bits of interesting fact for you to ponder :

Charles Dawson, a British lawyer and amateur geologist announced in 1912 his discovery of pieces of a human skull and an apelike jaw in a gravel pit near the town of Piltdown, England . . . Dawson's announcement stopped the scorn cold. Experts instantly declared Piltdown Man (estimated to be 300,000 to one million years old), the evolutionary find of the century. Darwin's missing link had been identified. Or so it seemed for the next 40 or so years. Then, in the early fifties . . . scientists began to suspect misattribution. In 1953, that suspicion gave way to a full-blown scandal: Piltdown Man was a hoax . . . tests proved that its skull belonged to a 600-year-old woman, and its jaw to a 500-year-old orangutan from the East Indies." Our Times--the Illustrated History of the 20th Century (Turner Publishing, 1995, page 94).

Science Fiction
The Piltdown Man fraud wasn't an isolated incident. The famed "Nebraska Man" was built from one tooth, which was later found to be the tooth of an extinct pig. "Java Man" was found in the early 20th Century, and was nothing more than a piece of skull, a fragment of a thigh bone and three molar teeth. The rest came from the deeply fertile imaginations of plaster of Paris workers. "Heidelberg Man" came from a jawbone, a large chin section and a few teeth. Most scientists reject the jawbone because it's similar to that of modem man. Still, many evolutionists believe that he's 250,000 years old. No doubt they pinpointed his birthday with good old carbon dating. Now there's reliable proof. Not according to Time magazine (June 11, 1990). They published an article in the science section that was subtitled, "Geologists show that carbon dating can be way off." Don't look to "Neanderthal Man" for any evidence of evolution. Recent genetic DNA research indicates the chromosomes do not match those of humans. They do match those of bipedal primates (apes).

What does Science Say?
Here are some wise words from a few respected men of science: "Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless." (Professor Louis Bounoure, Director of Research, National Center of Scientific Research). "Evolution is unproved and unprovable." (Sir Arthur Keith--he wrote the foreword to the 100th edition of, Origin of the Species). "Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever." (Dr. T. N. Tahmisian, Atomic Energy Commission, USA).

"To suppose that the eye . . . could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

A great resource for some education that is logical and common sense is called "The Science or Evolution: expand your mind" You can get this DVD from WayoftheMaster.com


The fact is there is nothing here that was not created, planned with a purpose in mind. Is there anything on this earth- not natural that just came together on its own. You can put pieces of 'stuff' in a box and put whatever conditions you choose and without a purpose and planning for that purpose, you won't get anything useful. I have yet to see anyone show matter being created out of nothing, or one species evolving into another or any proof of that happening. this world works in a clockwork type order , there is precision and purpose to everything you see - you cannot have purpose without a plan and you cannot have a plan without a planner- there is nothing that can disprove intelligent design. Period!