Why do people reply with insults when I ask questions regarding the moral relativism & fallacies of evolution?

Question

People say that I am a bigot when I deny evolution because I believe in creation. I used to believe in evolution until I did research on it and found many flaws. How can I be biased when I'ved evaluated both sides of the issues? I think that people who insult christians are the true bigots because they dont look at both sides of the issue. what do you have to say about that?

Answer 1

Belive it or not there is such a thing as a stupid question.

Answer 2

The fact is that Evolution is a theory. Why does everyone assume that non-believers are required to believe in evolution? It is not black or white. I believe more in evolution than religion because there is more proof for evolution and none for God. But I don't beleive in it dogmatically like most theist do with religion. When will people understand that sometimes we just don't have an answer to some questions. Religion served as an explination for the unknown throughtout history, but it is illogical and man-made. Right now evolution seems to be the best explanation for the universe but someday we may find that to be false too.

You can live your life questioning the unknown and always questioning. You could live your life beliving what anybody tells you and believe it is the only truth. Or you could believe in what makes sense to you, be comfortable with it, and always leave a space for something new to enter through.

Answer 3

You didn't find any flaws in creationism? Hmmm....sounds like you had your mind made up already, and didn't genuinely look at evolution as a possibility....
And no, that doesn't make you a bigot, but the tone you're using makes you sound like a jerk.
Glad you took 15 mins to look into the whole evolution issue. I guess that's more than some people do.

Answer 4

“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind”

A quote by the most influential person of the 20th Century.

Another by the same person,

“Two thing are infinite: the universe and human stupidity and I’m not sure about the universe”

Another,

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as the judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of Gods”

"Isn’t an unanswered question better than a questioned answer?”

I do not know who did the above quotation but it makes sense, or it did.

I find it so funny when Athiests claim to be more intelligent! Maybe they are, but what comes with intelligence, except more ignorance?

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education”

Einstein, again.

What was the question? Oh people reply with insults the same reason a dog licks its ****

Around 150,000 years ago from South Africa thats where humans began, from the same place, well thats what they say now anyway. We also share 50% of our genes with bananas.

Excuse my hardline stance but Darwin was a prick, he spawned a new generation of radical thinkers, and the philosophy is flawless is it not? evolution solves the problem, we evolved into these things called humans and insult good people. Good luck, and Godbless.

Answer 5

Western society (i.e., states which are not theocracies) are based upon logic and the scientific method.

To imposes a religious answer upon a society and an economy that depend on the scientific method for its structure and law and for the resolution of doubt is to introduce, indeed impose, chaos.

Already the U.S. educational system is burdened with accomplshing impossible tasks: at the expense of pure academic learning. The scientific learning of American pupils is already behind much of the rest of the world; its output of graduate scientists and mathematicians inadequate. The U.S. electorate makes its choices, now, over irrelevant issues that often have no bearing on the lives of those voting; and because the electorate does not understand the real issues, it pays dearly for its ignorance: people vote against their own interests.

Thus: elections in the US are won and lost over: teaching of evolution, abortion, school prayer, gay marriage, flag burning, Willie Horton, the mental state of Terri Schiavo. and often by lies and innuendo: sound bites.

You "did research"! Close to 100% of scientists (that's people who spent up to six years getting a Ph.D.; the dissenters probably cheated or got mail-order diplomas by answering one of those spam e-mails) agree that creationism is hokum. And you "decided"! No you did not. You made a faith-based decision. You have the right to be a fool. With apologies to Hans Christian Andersen, you do not have the right to be surprised when others tell you that (1) you are not the Emperor, and (2) you are not wearing new clothes, you are naked.

Answer 6

As long as you thoroughly researched the subject and have come to your own conclusion, you are entitled to your own opinions without being called a bigot. People insult others in situations like this because the other person believes in something outdated or generally considered as uneducated.

Although I do not agree with your belief, I respect that you actually looked into the other side-- something that few people would do.

Answer 7

Maybe it's all in the way you ask the question or make a comment. You are entitled to your belief, but then so are they. If both sides of an issue would respect that right there would be no reason for insults. I do have to admit unfortunately there are those few, who are so deeply rooted within their own fears that they cannot see both sides of an issue. So out of that fear and lack of understanding they revert to using insults!

Answer 8

Well first everyone is biased in some way. That's okay...it is what makes you....well you. People who insult in any way have a problem. Whether they are insecure, grumpy at that moment...whatever, but it is their problem. Also don't take it personally....it's online ya know! It's not personal! As an agnostic, I find flaws in the bible and xtian beliefs and in evolution and the atheists beliefs. I am still learning and prefer to say "I don't know" and I get slammed for that! Don't worry...just do what you do...with respect and kindness and let the chips fall where they may!

Answer 9

It just depends one what type of person you are. One who believes there can be one unifying creator, or if we are just a result of random events over vast amounts of time. Unfortunatly, the people who take to either side usually think completely differently, which will inevitably end in feuds. And moreover, you shouldn't take what more people here on yahoo!answers say to heart, I've noticed a high level of imaturity and closed mindedness. There is really nothing you can do but keep any from those people who insult you and stick with those who are like minded.

Answer 10

I understand how you feel. I actually come to this section to help people learn the truth about spiritual things, and hopefully guide them away from God and religion altogether so they can lead happier lives.

You should see some of the vulgar perverted sickening replies I receive from religious people, but then I understand that these people suffer from mental illness and lack of intelligence, and so, perhaps their behaviour, although irrational, has a rational explanation. I hope the following helps ease your pain and suffering.

Atheists are more intelligent than religious believers.

My own observation and analysis of the various posters on Yahoo Answers clearly reveals that Atheists are without any doubt, far more intelligent, thought provoking, and capable of holding sensible debate compared to their religious counterparts.

My private research studies indicate that religious people tend to be below average intelligence, and also have a tendency to be more violent than non-believers. This also seems to be supported by profiling various YA religious posters.

Science suggests that religion is a mental illness and that religious people act irrationally because they are genetically predisposed to the “religious or spiritual” gene. Statistics indicate that the higher your education, income, and intelligence, the more likely you are not to believe in a god.

In general terms, this summarises as Atheists are intelligent and religious people suffer from madness.

Answer 11

My complaint with you is that I hear you claim to have studied evolution and found it to be an imperfect explanation. Although we have ample physical proof of its validity and all of the Intelligent Design critiques have been successfully refuted. SO I suspect what you studied was an apologist's critique written by a crackpot to discredit evolution with psuedo science, because otherwise you'd have a grasp of scientific method which I am quite certain you've never even read the definition, let alone learned to apply it.

One of the anti-evolutionists posting his agreement reveals his complete ignorance of the topic when he asserts that evolution purports we evolved from apes. Clearly he did not evolve from an ape, because apes don't pretend to knowledge they don't have. Evolution makes the claim we evolved from a less evolved primate than ourselves, not from apes. We are actually genetically more similar to chimpanzees than apes. Read a science text for crying out loud, or should we all crawl back into the caves because science makes your head hurt and disproves your delusions and myths?

Here we sit with all the fossil evidence of hundreds of millions of years of evolution and natural selection, and no evidence of a magical god, let alone that your particular magical god is the real one and all the others just faery tails, but despite that proposition is nothing but holes you accept it without critique.

So my complaint against you is over your intellectual dishonesty, lack of objectivity, inability to think critically and your applying less science to your notion of the creation of the universe than you apply to picking toilet paper at the grocery store.

Galileo was tried for heresy because he said the earth was round. He was lucky he wasn't burned at the stake for saying, "The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church."

If anything could convince me that humans are not evolving, it is the determined backward march of religionists.

If being called stupid offends you, then stop thinking like a kindergarten drop-out and we'll show more respect.