Eh? Evolution is fiction?

Question

Someone just posted that evolution is fiction (in response to a quite antagonistic question from someone else). Surely even as a spiritual person you have to consider that an ancient mythical explanation of how the world was created and populated doesn't really hold up against plain science. I'm actually reading Darwin at the mo...

Answer 1

Depends on whether you have scientific or religious view of evolution. Scientific = proof and Religion = faith.

Answer 2

Evolution theory has its own pit falls.The theory depends on proposals of natural selection and survival of the fittest.If only fittest can survive and man is the latest evolution,all forms of animals and life should not co exist.Man and monkey cannot co exist as man is the "fittest".The brain and intelligence of man doesnot match with any of other animals or nearest resembling monkey.Why dinos disappeared all on a sudden?Why it became unfit on a single day and perish?What was the form of life evolved from dino that survived?Man may not have been the original inhabitant of Earth.He might have come somewhere else from the universe,destroyed other forms of life and made Earth his own.
The present instinct of man to occupy moon or mars may be repetition of history.Old Testament.Hindu scriptures,Greek and Roman classics refer to persons coming from sky.There are 14 worlds according to Hindu Mythology.The Egyption pyramids cannot be built by ordinary slaves.The big statues resembles men in modern space suits.Many ancient writings which cannot be read resembles coded computer language different from the then prevalent Hebru.The evolution theory of man seems to be fiction.The birds and animals are same examples of evolution is just foolishness.Did bird first evolve?If so how its wings went off and how it became animal?If animals developed wings and became birds why there is no man with wings?
The sudden dis appearance of dinos may be due some nuke type attack perhaps.Man might have come from some where else when the living conditions became unfavourable there.Mans occupation of earth may be a possible theory.Adam and Eve might have been sent by God(some super power)to Earth.They may be specimens sent to Earth.

Answer 3

Ok. Anybody who's watched a documentary on Chimpanzees or Gorillas has to acknowledge they're not too distantly related to us. You don't have to read Darwin to believe in evolution.
However, you don't have to not believe in God to believe Darwin. Every night when we go to sleep, whether we remember or not, we dream. These dreams are often totally convincing and real, with laws of physics and people with apparently independent personalities. And that's just in our heads! Can you be absolutely sure that we're not playing a part in God's dream? Maybe God dreamed the Big Bang and evolution?
Science can be about belief too. Have you ever seen a Quark? No? Neither have I but I believe they exist and so do most physicists.
And the Bible may not be all myths and legends either. The Noah story coincides with many other Great Flood stories from other religions. These stories approximately date back to the time of the end of the last ice age when sea levels rose by 300ft or more. There's lots of evidence that the Mediterranean and Red Sea basins would have been flooded at that time, wiping out any civilisation in them. One American archaeologist claims to have found the fossilised remains of the Ark.
And read Genesis again too. After the creation story it say:
"And the Sons of God took the daughters of men as their wives."
Who were these?
Lots of questions worthy of conversation. Saying "I'm right and you're wrong!" never settled an argument. If there is no room for belief in the mystical, magical or spiritual in your life then that is your loss. And if you are blinded by you faith, you will never see the wonder of your Gods creation in its wonderous diversity.

Answer 4

Some people get genuinely confused with the term theory. Because many texts refer to Darwin's theory of evolution, or whatever, people interpret the word theory in it's common usage, rather than the scientific context. So Theory = idea = hunch = no better than creationist ideas, IE, just one of many notions of how we got here.
In fact, evolution is an observed fact (and had been recognised as such before Darwin) The evidence is overwhelming, from the fossil record, from comparative anatomy, and most compelling of all, from genetics.
What darwin (and others) came up with was a theory to explain the observed phenomenon, natural selection. Just as Newton came up with a theory to explain gravity. Of course gravity existed before Newton, and even people who disagree with Newton's theories don't actually dispute that gravity itself is a fact.
That Evolution is therefore both a fact and a theory confuses some people, and creationalist sieze upon and attempt to exploit this.
I'm glad you are reading Darwin. Have a peak at the last paragraph of 'On the Origion of Speicies' the bit that goes 'there is grandure in this view of life..'
If that doesn't stir you, nothing will!

Sorry, got to add an adendum to respond to a post above that I've just read;
Darwin did not recant and find religion on his death bed. This is a mistake - what am I saying? it is a LIE promoted by theists, long since debunked. And even if it were true, so what? If on his death ded Einstien had repented of thinking that e=mc^2, e would still =mc^2!!

Answer 5

Evolution is true, but not in the way most people think. Creatures have evolved to their surroundings for millions of years and the proof is found in fossils and bones that have been found or excavated over the years. So survival of the fittest is alive and well. But even Darwin renounced his theory of spontaneous generation before he died and found religion. He could never prove that everything came from nothing, and when science failed he turned to God. He is buried in the opening courtyard at St. Mary's church in the village of Downe, England. The place where he found his faith in the later years of his life. Just a little food for thought to all the God doubters out there. Even Darwin found out that his theory needed God to be plausible.

Answer 6

Evolution is one of our most strongly-supported scientific theories, while Genesis creation is crude fiction. Science disproves much of the Bible. There is no evidence of a world flood, and the universe wasn't created in 4004 B.C. as Bishop James Ussher determined from his Bible study. The Bible says pi is 3. I cannot use that in engineering. Revelation says stars fell unto earth and the sky rolled up like a scroll. That shows a primitive belief that the sky is a dome 7 to 15 miles above us. There is nothing to roll up, and stars are too distant and too huge to fall to earth. One would vaporize it from a few million miles away. The Bible is naive fiction, but Evolution isn't.

Answer 7

Look you cannot argue with religious types.
If it was up to them we would still believe that the sun revolves around the earth.
According to them it was "inconceivable that the god would create a universe where the earth is not the center, and the planets do not revolve around it in perfect circles" and such small things as overwhelming scientific evidence did not bother them,
Nor does it bother them now.
Just don't worry about it and in 100 years or so people will be laughing at creationists just as much we are now laughing at geo-centrists.

P.S.
One religious type in this thread has mention Kent Hovind -- you should read the article on Wiki-pedia just to see what kind of people you are dealing with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Hovind
In particular you should read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Hovind#From_mainstream_critics

My favorite quote is:
Are you worried that Darwin's idea produced 'Communism, Socialism, Naziism, abortion, liberalism and the New Age Movement?' Then Dr. Kent Hovind is for you."

Answer 8

Fiction is defined as 'a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact'.

Evolution is by that definition definitely NOT fiction as it was based on observation. It is, in fact, a theory.

Note: This does not, and never will, make evolution fact. Evolution will remain a theory as will all scientific discoveries.


Note on Dr. Hovind: I've just looked up his 'Creation Seminar'. Anyone reading it can see that his arguments hold as much water as a broken sieve. My favourite topic must be "When Christians fall for Satan’s Evolution". What a hoot!

Answer 9

easily!!! It replaced into some thing greater formal, yet I used to chat to Him although the clarification and because I saved forward to my very own ambition and desires, while He gave me avertisements I saved none and did my way going into further and extra trubles! Into an end, interior a deep depresion, He saved my existence (!!!) the very 2nd I left away of all my deep desires... There, empty heart, i replaced into crammed with God's easy and Peace and Love - an entire New existence, a clean physique, a clean resourceful and prescient over the final and the destiny :) :) :) particular, he's my Saviour!!!

Answer 10

Asking this question in a scientific (biology) class, is like asking "is earth falt or rounded after all?"
A serious scientific-minded person should be really cautious when asking kind of questions, which their answers are now among the accepted scietific FACTS!

Answer 11

The 'God created..' theory doesn't hold up, because you have to ask yourself where God came from. The 'Big-bang' theory doesn't hold up because you have to ask yourself where the big bang came from. Evolution seems to be explainable by scientific 'facts'. But beware! These could change very quickly. Scientific facts have a habit of doing just that.