how much do you believe in the theory of EVOLUTION?

Answer 1

evolution is a "theory" in the same way that gravity is a theory. if i dont want to believe it, i dont need to, but that doesnt change that its still there.

Answer 2

Pretty close to 90% being a graduate in biology; The point about an established theory like evolution, gravity or Germ theory is that it works to predict things that actually happen, and gives testable possibilities. Admittedly, evolution is not perfect but it is better than most other theories.

The most telling comment on evolution versus the Creationist variants on the Bible comes surprisingly from a 12th Century writer in both Science and Religion William of Clewes IIRC( Think I got the name right) who said " (Fundamentalists ) say that such a thing is because 'God made it that way'. The Fools! God could make a cow into a tree if He so chose, but is there any evidence He has ever done so? Either say the reason something is so, or stop saying that it is so."

Evolution is a mechanic as to why things are so; Several men of God have described this as the way God works. One can choose to believe waht one wishes about motivation, however, the way they happen is observable and testsable on the Evolutionary model.

Answer 3

It's more appropriate for me to say that I accept Evolution as a scientific theory and as a real process. And that acceptance is 100%.

Belief implies that if I stop believing in it, it ceases to be true.

I think the common mistake that religion's make with respect to evolution is that God doesn't use evolution as a natural process to get things done. If God did indeed make the entire universe, then every process in it is according to the design of the great Creator and therefore is natural and according to what God wishes. There is nothing in the Bible or any religious text that has said that God didn't use the evolutionary process to create humans and the rest of the species on Earth.

Regardless of my little aside, scientists have done very well in proving the case for evolution that should not be lightly discarded. Unfortunately those scientists putting forward the theory of Intelligent Design have not been thorough enough.

Answer 4

It's only referred to as a theory because sound science takes the stance that nothing can be known for certain. That nothing can be proven absolutely. Theories can only be held up as our best explanation until they are disproven. That being said, its a semantic issue in this case. The evidence is overwhelming, and not from a don't look don't find prespective.

In my experience, the only people who don't believe in the Theory of Evolution are people who don't understand it for various reasons. Such as the conflicting schemas of religion. Denial makes for a lousy scientist . The 'arguments' I've heard against are so weak as to be laughable. Things like 'It's too complex to have happened on its own'. As if billions of years aren't enough time for some environmental stability and the creation of one micro-organism somewhere, anywhere. In a sterile environment (as earth once was), a micro-organism would not require defences against predators or competitors of any kind. It could be extremely small and simple, and that one organism is all it would take to lay the foundation for all life on earth today. Another argument against is the false alternative fallacy. Such as, 'We say God created dogs, Darwin says one day a dog jumped out of a pile of rocks.' I've actually seen a preacher on TV use that one.

Without the theory of evolution we'd have to create a very contrived theory to explain many phenomina.

Oh, 100% in the overall concept. Life is a system of default. No hand guides it or balances it. It's just where things fall when you add vast expanses of matter and energy and a few billion years. Too bad it doesn't mean anything.

Answer 5

100% acceptance. I don't believe facts. I don't believe in gravity, but it is there the force of gravity is G(mM)/r^2 no matter what we do.

Evolution is pretty much scientific fact.

The tetrapods are glowing evidence for evolution and to people that deny it, I really don't like them. I honestly don't. It is pathetic when some population that is an Islamic country is the only country that has a lower acceptance of evolution and 99% of their population is Islam....america is radical. I find it hilarious we believe in a magical being making dirt into humans in a second yet don't accept changes over a huge amount of time.

And to the guy that said where are the evolved species there is NO NEED FOR THEM. You obviously don't understnd the theory of evolution the weaker beings die off. We didn't evovle from monkeys we have a common ancestor. It branches off. That common ancestor had a common ancestor and those common ancestors had cousins like we are to other primates.

So back to tetrapods, creationists and 10,000 year old young earth creationists you make me laugh. Your side denied the tetrapods evolution, because the missing link, but Tiktaalik the "missing" link was found and it was exactly what evolutionists said it would be.

When 99.85% of earth scientists/life scientists subscribed to evolution as reported in a newsweek in the 80's when there was many missing links...people need to accept facts.

Answer 6

I have 100 percent faith in evolution. For me, it just makes sense. I have always had an uneasy feeling about the Bible. I could not base my entire life around a book that could have been fabricated. Just like religious folk cry that no one has proof for evolution, does anyone have proof that the Bible is really what everyone thinks it is?

Answer 7

personally i do not believe in the theory of evolution because if you are going to calculate the probability of having a beneficial mutation and how many time has elapsed scince the beginig of the world you will discover that evolution as it is can not exist

Answer 8

It is established science, which means that workers in the field rely on it to make accurate predictions. See a question in this forum asked by haterhater and answered by Emily Rose last May for a discussion of the relevant evidence.

Answer 9

It's monkey business !
where are all the "evolving" creatures ? why is it that we cannot witness any links between man and apes today ? or any other transformations of evolution for that matter, isn't it that evolution continually evolves ? if so, we should have abundant examples of evolving creatures all around us, but instead we have distinct and specific forms of life within their own kind except for some rare freaks of nature but should we base the validity of evolution on scarce mutant freaks of nature ?
If evolution were true, evolving life forms should be commonplace everywhere all around us, but yet all we see are creatures of their own kind as the bible so states.

Answer 10

i beleive in evolution but not all of its principles or concepts.

i believe that for organisms to survive, it must make some kind of adaptation to its environment for its survival.

what i dont accept with evolution is the concept that all we have now are from chance. evolutionists say that the universe was from the big bang then it results to our universe now. how can a very organized universe (all under laws of nature), our bodies with its amazing processes, life can be from chance. do you expect a nuclear bomb detonated will create life. i dont think so.