So what I've gotten so far is that only those who believe in God flat out think evolution is a crock of bs...

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Do you agree, or shall I continue thinking only those who substitute God for evolution don't believe in evolution (not everyone who believes in God doesn't believe in evolution, just all people who don't believe in evolution believe in God)? That's what I thought to begin with, but I realized that was an assumption and my thing is to challenge the assumptions. Can you challenge my assumption? I know there are some non-God believers who question some of the ideas of evolution and feel there may not be enough evidence to give it a 100% thumbs up, but I'm talking about those who flat out say it is crap.

Please note that this question clearly states that NOT ALL those who believe in God DON'T believe in evolution.

About the THEORY part, see the other question for some good info on that.

This is not a question about whether it is right or not, but about who believes it is right and who doesn't.

Answer 1

Yes, as far as I'm aware that's completely true. Some believers seem to think that the 'theory' of evolution exists only to brainwash people into not believing in God.

The only way to completely disbelieve evolution is to unquestioning believe a book written thousands of years ago.

Answer 2

I am a Christian, and I don't necessarily view Creation or Evolution as possible theories. I think they can both be correct, or at least partially correct. Let's play along for a minute. And, let's bypass the whole, fossils, anthropological and archeological proof about the ice age. You are God, you have been here forever, and I am man (I just figured out how to write on "paper", and no longer draw on walls. I know my family has been around, I don't know 100 years.). How would you described a million years to me, a billion years, ok, one thousand years. At that time would I be able to grasp that concept.

Also, our calendar is based on the Roman Calendar. There were other calendars. All of the calendars man has had were created by man. I am not saying that it is a logical calendar. But, I am saying, what a day is to me, may not be the same as a day to God. I could go on with this, but I will not. I do question people who believe everything the Bible says word for word. They always get a perplexed look when you ask them about parables.

Answer 3

If you don't believe in evolution then you belive in creation, or you can't deside and you're an Agnostic...

The reason why I believe Evolution is not Scientifical fact is...

How did the universe big bang itself into existance from nothing?

How did life form from non living substances?

Where is the missing link? O yeah, there has to be millions of missing links in order for evolution to be true, too bad they haven't found any yet...

Evolution cannot be a true science... science is based upon laws... evolution is a theory... an unproven theory.. accepted as truth and as science for those who cannot open their minds enough to wake up and see the evidence that God does exist... and that He created the universe....

That is why I cannot belive in evolution...

if you set a can of green beans( this can has an advatage over evolution because it already has living DNA... in evolution life came from non-living things) on the table for millions of years, a jolly green giant will not evolve and pop out of the can... microbial life will not evolve, much less inteligent life....

I am a Christian, and I am not ignorant of science as some would believe... but after comparing evolution with creation... evolution has too many holes and gaps and unexplained questions... so I just can't believe in it...

The Facts point to God... not evolution..

God bless...

Answer 4

Firstly, WHAT?

Since you go round and round I'll just say what I think your question is asking, I hope.

There is absolutely NOTHING in the Bible that says EVOLUTION didn't or couldn't have happened! Period. The reason MOST Christians don't believe it is because at one passage in the Bible it compare's one day for god to a thousand years. This is NOT a hard and set rule for God. This was just a statement. The truth is that Heaven, not being part of our Universe, can have a day of any "length" of time it wishes compared to our Earth. So, the CREATIVE DAYS could have been 24,000,000 years or 24,000,000,000 years, we simply DON'T KNOW and it REALLY ISN'T IMPORTANT! What is important is to look forward, not backwards.

Also, another "flaw" that Christians see with evolution is the ape to man. Most simply don't want to be descended from a "Lower Species."

So, while I am Christian, I at least keep an open mind.

Answer 5

The Bible says that the earth was created in 6 days, but no where does it say that these days were 24 hours in length. How long is a day to God? Many millenia, perhaps? That is how some Christians can square up the findings of evolutionary science with the Creation story from the Bible. We believe that the Bible is not meant to be taken literally, because any thinking person will read the Bible and see the many contradictions. We believe that the messages of love, truth and honor are the take-home lessons.

Answer 6

So, what you are actually looking for is not a theist who believes in evolution, but an atheist who does not?
And if you were to find even one atheist who did not believe in evolution, would that prove that evolution is not a fact?
I'm not sure I see just what you are getting at, here. If a theist believes in evolution, does that make it a fact, or if an atheist doesn't does that make it not a fact? And if the atheist says he doesn't believe in God OR in evolution, doesn't that sort of leave him swinging in the breeze? Unless, of course, he has the intelligence and/or tact to say that he honestly doesn't know?
Of course, that was my brother's problem. He was an atheist..he didn't believe in God...but as to evolution, he honestly didn't know. Now, he is a Christian...but he is still not sure about evolution.
I don't know if that helps you any, but good luck figuring it all out!!

Answer 7

No... I did not believe in evolution long before I became a Christian... all I ever hear about it is this proves it.. or that proves it... when none of them are proof... if they WERE PROOF... it would not be a theory...

and what really stops me from further investigation of the theory... is the bogus research published some years ago and now others have based their research on it and are giving the same bogus results (I say bogus because the original authors have admitted to falsifying it after some reputable research facilities failed to duplicate it)

I cannot afford the "peer reviewed publications" either in paper print or on the Internet, and I don't trust much that I read on personal web pages... so I don't bother with it anymore.

Answer 8

I am a Kemetic Pagan, and can't wrap my head around evolution as the origins of man. But are we talking about the origins of man on earth, or the origins of the human race? I think it is quite possible that man was 'seeded' on this planet from another planet.
This belief seems to be a good explanation for how similar cultures sprang up on opposite sides of the planet. Specifically, the Egyptians and the Aztecs and Mayans. This could be because of the breakup of Atlantis and the survivors finding themselves separated, but where did the people of Atlantis come from?
I submit that they came from another planet and seeded mankind on our planet. This would make sense when looking at the concept of the Great Gods of the ancient civilizations. Their Gods and Goddesses, could easily have come from the stars and therefore would seem like Gods to the simpler folk of the time.

Answer 9

what makes us diverse than different animals? we've 3 factors to the ideas, different animals have the two 2 or one. the 1st is a straightforward survival ideas, that's what keeps you alive, with out it you ought to no longer even breath. the 2nd section creates emotions, the greater progressed animals have this section. The third section that we human beings have provides reasoning into the blend. We have been curious and had to verify how, why, while, the place. yet decrease back in our early civilizations we did no longer comprehend as much as all of us comprehend at present. So we created theories, somebody with large ability would desire to have made us and the international around us. those memories that have been brainstormed helped our ancestors to wager approximately nature and study approximately it. you notice faith is early technology, till now we had kit to verify greater approximately our international we had no different clarification than something effectual accessible became in touch, and there is plenty we nonetheless do no longer comprehend through fact of this faith continues to be around, yet we are nonetheless learning

Answer 10

Okay, maybe this question is not for me because I do believe in God. The fact is just because you don't believe does not make it not true. Regarding that- I did not just decide not to believe in evolution- after much research, and anyone that uses common sense and really looks at the evidence, whether they believe in God or not, can clearly see that there is no scientific foundation for evolution. It is a grasp at straws and even evolutionists have admitted that it is a crock but what else do you have if you refuse to believe in God? We are all going to be accontable one day whether we believe it or not, whether we are comfortable with it or not, it is just the facts. And except for those turning a blind eye to the facts, true science and true research will have the principles of evolution crumbling before your eyes:


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