Why don't people believe in evolution?

Question

The rare question I'll post about this subject, it's your lucky day.

We did not evolve from apes. Humans and apes evolved from a common ancestor. Apes are not the parents. The parent was neither ape or human.

Why do people say we evolved from apes? We evolved with apes, yes. But we also evolved with every other creature on earth.

Do people think it's shameful to be related to "lowly" beasts? Do some people just feel the need to be higher and something special?

I don't think it's shameful to have evolved from something lesser. We're evolving, not devolving. And I think every living thing is noble or genius in some way. It's the balance that they bring to bring to nature that helps us survive. It's like an older person feeling ashamed to be younger. It makes no sense to me.

I'm not trying to start a fight or anything, I'm genuinely interested.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Because there are so many missing links, and it goes against it self. Like they date rocks by the geological column, but they date the geological column by the rocks. What's up with that? Another example is that they say it takes million years for a fossil to form, but then they tell us that it takes more than a quick burial. There is so much that is totally off with evolution. It's NOT true science. Trust me, I wrote a paper on this, and boy was there a lot wrong with evolution.

Answer 2

The furthest my lineage goes back is Adam & Eve in the Bible. All of God's creatures are beautiful...there is none "lowly" because we all have a purpose...from you and me all the way down to an amoeba....each creature helps the next to exist. If evolution were true, why wouldn't plants and animals still be evolving? In recorded science...why would there be absolutely no change in the genetic structure of any plants or animals? We are evolving, right? So why is there no proof of that either. If you ask me it takes faith to believe in either creation or evolution.

Answer 3

I'm assuming that you mean the 'theory' of evolution, and I would say that people don't believe it for the same reason that it is only a 'theory'. There just isn't enough to prove this idea, that's already far fetched. Especially in modern civilization, we have become accustomed to having hard evidence before we we make claims and that's not a bad thing.... If we were to consider what we find in the dictionary, I don't think that there are many people who deny the fact that we evolve, in the way Webster calls it. I don't think people are afraid to say that they came from a lesser intelligence, I think its quite the opposite. We know that we have become much more advanced than those who came before us, and this only exemplifies our progress. I think a lot of people just feel its silly to say such a thing with little more than a dream to support it. - - - - -Einstein, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Mendel are all famous scientist who were very indicative of our actual evolution and all of them were proclaimed Christians. I have personally been impressed with present day, Kent Hovind. He's got a lot of very interesting things to say about the role of science in Christianity so of course he talks about evolution. Check him out on the web.

Answer 4

Gaps in the fossil record disprove evolution, The fact that some transitional fossils are not preserved does not disprove evolution. Evolutionary biologists do not expect that all transitional forms will be found and realize that many species leave no fossils at all. Lots of organisms don't fossilize well and the environmental conditions for forming good fossils are not that common. So, science actually predicts that for many evolutionary changes there will be gaps in the record.

Also, scientists have found many transitional fossils. For example, there are fossils of transitional organisms between modern birds and their theropod dinosaur ancestors, and between whales and their terrestrial mammal ancestors.

The evolution theory is incomplete and is currently unable to give a total explanation of life.”Evolutionary science is a work in progress. New discoveries are made and explanations adjusted when necessary. And in this respect, evolution is just like all other sciences. Research continues to add to our knowledge. While we don’t know everything about evolution (or any other scientific discipline, for that matter), we do know a great deal about the history of life, the pattern of lineage-splitting through time, and the mechanisms that have caused these changes. And more will be learned in the future. To date, evolution is the only well-supported explanation for life’s diversity.

Scientists have even examined the SUPPOSED “flaws” that creationists claim exist in evolutionary theory and have found no support for these claims. These “flaws” are based on misunderstandings of evolutionary theory or misrepresentations of evidence. Scientists continue to refine the theory of evolution, but that doesn’t mean it is “flawed.” Science is a very competitive endeavor and if “flaws” were discovered, scientists would be more than glad to point them out. Evolution is observable and testable. The misconception here is that science is limited to controlled experiments that are conducted in laboratories by people in white lab coats. Actually, much of science is accomplished by gathering evidence from the real world and inferring how things work. Astronomers cannot hold stars in their hands and geologists cannot go back in time, but in both cases scientists can learn a great deal by using multiple lines of evidence to make valid and useful inferences about their objects of study. The same is true of the study of the evolutionary history of life on Earth, and as a matter of fact, many mechanisms of evolution are studied through direct experimentation as in more familiar sciences. And Darwin’s idea that evolution generally proceeds at a slow, deliberate pace has been modified constantly
to include the idea that evolution can proceed at a relatively rapid pace under some circumstances. In this sense, “Darwinism” is continually being modified. Modification of theories to make them more representative of how things work is the role of scientists and of science itself.

Thus far, however, there have been no credible challenges to the basic Darwinian principles that evolution proceeds primarily by the mechanism of natural selection acting upon variation in populations and that different species share common ancestors. Scientists have not rejected Darwin’s natural selection, but have improved and expanded it as more information has become available. For example, we now know (although Darwin did not) that genetic mutations are the source of variation acted on by natural selection, but we haven’t rejected Darwin’s idea of natural selection—we’ve just added to it.

Answer 5

One reason I believe in the bible creation over evolution is the fact that evolution seems to rely more on chance than anything else. In the bible it all happened because God created it. In evolution it all happened almost by accident. I'd have a more difficult time believing that this all came together by itself rather than being put together by an intelligent creator(God).

Answer 6

Because it didn't happen.
They are looking for a missing link.
Note the key word "missing".
Life is related one way or another through genetics/dna.
No need to feel higher or ashamed because we and everything around us were created with a plan.

Answer 7

well is evolution actually a fact? and if it is where is it proven...by the age of rocks?most scientist believe you can tell how old a rock is by how much helium is in the rock,and they say alot of helium is still in most rocks but at the rate that helium leaves rocks which is very fast if the earth was millions or billions of years old there would be no helium in rocks at all.Do the RESEARCH

Answer 8

Scientist cannot even prove evolution, accoding to the latest reports most scientific experts involved in proving evolution have said they have no possible way to even prove that evolution took place.

Answer 9

Because of Swedenborg's scientific theology.

http://www.mechanicsburgnewchurch.org

Answer 10

I feel that people who dont believe in the bible, tend to believe in evolution; otherwise where would human come from?