Why are religious people so often frightened by a discussion of evolution?

Question

If youve tried to explain evolution to a religious person you know what Im talking about. It doesnt matter the religion, I was trying to explain evolution to a Muslim the other day and 2 minutes into it he just outright told me, in a semi-irrtated semi-defeatist tone, that he "didnt want to talk about it anymore".

Ive had the same experience with Christians..."i dont wanna talk about it anymore!" Like some kid whose parent raises his misdeeds.

My sense of it is that these people, when you do a good enough job of begining to explain it, reflexively kick-out a self defense mechanism. Why do humans so often use "apes" in a derogatory sense? I think we have an innate sense of the truth of evolution and that layers of religious belief are to painful to strip away in one shot...the mind cannot handle it.

Truely, no one leaves there religion in one shot, its a process, the mind cant handle it otherwise....plato's analogy of the cave so perfectly describes this process of discovery.

Answer 1

Because they are in denial. They hate the thought of truth conflicting with their beliefs so they try to avoid it as much as possible.

Answer 2

That's easy. Its because most people don't do enough research on topics so when someone raises a point that might challenge their beliefs they have no answer for it.

If they did do research on this particular subject they would realize that to today's top scientist evolution is a joke without intelligent design.

Also, research into the subject would also make them realize that evolution could have been used to populate the earth, that doesn't mean God didn't start the process or create the earth. There is a possibility that evolution and creationism could coexist.

Finally if they really do there research they will note that no matter how the earth was created, the real issue is where one will be heading in the afterlife. A Christian can breath easier knowing there going to spend eternity with Christ. A Evolutionary, has to always wonder if he's not fooling himself into an eternity separated from his creator.

Answer 3

Wake Up call, everybody. Our physical body is chemistry. What we eat or drink effects our chemistry. Anyone out there that can predict what we will look like relative to all the chemistry we have been flooding our system with for just the last 75 years?

Nature also adapts the body relative to the environment of the time, otherwise, humans would disappear like other forms of life that are no longer here.

The Bible say, Everything in six days. So how long is six days, who's time are we talking about? We cannot see four galaxies away, stupidly insists that Earths life form is all that exist. We establish laws covering all, and we have never experienced an iota of what exist.

Go travel 20 galaxies and then you might have the background to
theorize on nature! The so called learned-ed taught the world was flat, the Earth was the center, and when I was in school, that everything that went up, had to come down! They also taught the Black nervous system is not as advanced as Whites,
and that the stomach of the horse was over 15 feet long.

Science and the Bible are the same, one say what was done, the other, with extremely limited knowledge, is trying to explain how it was done. Too, trying to define the time relative to traveling from one grain of sand to the next, instead of the length of the beach. Blind, stupid, I-Know-It-All, Arrogance.

I think that the persons concerned with apes are thoes with a lot on hair on their body.

Answer 4

I don't know any Christian that is frightened by a discussion
of evolution. It's just that when no one can prove it and you
don't believe it, you feel like it's just a waste of your time to
hear someone try to convince you. What sane person can
believe all this wonderful world happened with a huge BANG?
That is unbelievable. But believing in a God who created
everything wonderful makes a whole lot of sense. He sent His
Son Jesus down to earth to help people believe, and most
didn't until He rose from the dead which pretty much convinced
them all. He left a book called the Bible to tell us how it began,
and how it ends. In other words, the "manufacturer" left His
instructions for us all to read and follow. Now that is believable,
my friend.

Answer 5

We don't care to talk about it because there is no evidence of evolution. I could sit here with you all day and you say that humans evolved from this animal, and I would ask you where did that animal come from. You could say that animal came from another animal, and I would ask where that animal came from. You can't prove evolution because you can't prove where or when life began. Your belief is your belief and my belief is mine. Why is it so important to you to try to get a religious person to drop their religion and believe in evolution, when you can't prove it? No I can't prove God does exist. I can only tell you about things that have been found that the Bible mentions. The scrolls that the Bible were written from. How they have found where Moses crossed the Red Sea. I'm not frightened to discuss it. I've actually discussed it with people such as yourself many times. I really don't care to do it anymore because all we would ever do is go in circles.

Answer 6

Evolution is just as "impossible" as creation. It takes more "faith" to believe the theory of evolution, that a simple micro organism copied itself enough times with enough errors and mutations to bring about mankind, than it takes to believe in intelligent design.

Evolutionists do not want to believe that an all powerful God exists to create, thus the only other option is evolution. Scientists disbelief in God has lead to a belief in something even more unbelievable than the existence of God Himself, evolution.

Renowned French zoologist Pierre-Paul Grassé has made no secret of his skepticism:

What gambler would be crazy enough to play roulette with random evolution? The probability of dust carried by the wind reproducing Dürer's "Melancholia" is less infinitesimal than the probability of copy errors in the DNA molecule leading to the formation of the eye; besides, these errors had no relationship whatsoever with the function that the eye would have to perform or was starting to perform. There is no law against daydreaming, but science must not indulge in it. Grassé, 104.

Grassé, Pierre-P., Evolution of Living Organisms (New York: Academic Press, 1977). Grassé is France's most distinguished zoologist. Dobzhansky has described his knowledge of the living world as "encyclopedic."

Answer 7

I'm not afraid to discuss it, I just can't be bothered trying to discuss it with someone who holds evolution as a religious belief.
As far as I can tell evolution has held back every field of science where it is considered important compared to those fields of science where it isn't. But why bother telling those people that are being held back, they would rather not progress than change their belief.
Evolution cannot work because it relies on incremental repetitive small probability beneficial events and non incremental non repetative high probability non beneficial events.

Answer 8

Because you obviously function with people of your own thinking.
Many Christians, even Pope John Paul II stated formally that evolution is compatible with the Bible interpretation.

What is God's time composed of? Science proves that for every reaction their must be an action. God is simply this first action in all the history of the universe. Atheist have never disprove this basic scientific fact of God. Saint Thomas Aquinas first wrote on this proof centuries ago.

Answer 9

Why are evolutionists so often frightened by a discussion about God and the seven gifts of the Spirit? There's no emperical evidence for either...hmmm..maybe evolution has some truths ...things do evolve, but will you agree that God's power has manifested itself to them that believe?

Answer 10

I am not at all afraid of a converstaion about evolution- mostly I am weary of it- why ? because every time I get into a conversation with an athiest about evolution, I get a LOT of circle talk, no facts or viable evidence and a lot of hostility towards my faith and beliefs. When I present facts, generally the conversation is over or more circle talk that makes little to no sense.
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!

Answer 11

Who's frightened?

Bring it!

Any time you could present at least one good convincing argument for your theory, I'm game.

The deeper I get into the cave, the clearer my sight becomes. Deep darkness is the only thing that can truly set your senses free to explore the truth that God in his infinite wisdom and clarity created this realm and others as well.

Nothing you can say would convince me your theory is able to hold water. You'll be crying for mama when I'm through with your arguments.