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2006-08-23 18:33:36 · 20 answers · asked by One & only bob 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What is the benefit of prostelizing evoltuion?
2006-08-23 18:38:08 · update #1
Many of you say that it is because "they believe they are right." That's not enough, it is implicit in their assertion. Why do they think they are right?
2006-08-23 18:46:28 · update #2
This question is part of a 'wedge strategy', trying to set up the two concepts as if they were equal. This is misleading rhetoric and should be scorned.
Creationism is a religious belief, which requires faith, and has no empirical evidence backing it up. It comes with a full religion that attempts to explain everything (incorrectly) and proscribes a way of life.
Evolution is a scientific theory (just as gravity is), a framework explanation (that can be tested) that is built to explain the physical evidence we have encountered. It does not require you to 'accept' or 'believe' anything, because it has nothing to do with your opinion; the evidence shows that something is happening, and we call that evolution.
In conclusion (and in response to the additional details), we 'think we are right' because we have observed the evidence with the scientific method. This is opposed to reading a 2000-year-old book (written by people who believed the Earth was flat and the center of the Universe) and professing to understand the nature of the Universe.
2006-08-23 18:39:04 · answer #1 · answered by Michael 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think it is frustrating to anyone who has eyes to see and a mind that is open to the world of science that there are people so desperately closeminded and dull that they dismiss the preponderance of evidence of evolution as ridiculous. This without having the slightest clue what evolution means, other than some ******** idea that it means we were all just monkeys once. They cannot feature the distinct possiblity that a God without beginning or end may have used evolution in the act of creation. What is 4.5 billion years to an entity like that? For me it is simply frustration at the stubborn refusal to open their minds. Even if they came to the same conclusion after educating themselves about it, at least they would be using the brain that God gave them. That's all I would ask...
2006-08-24 01:51:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
First of all, science is the universal language that has been shared by ALL kind of people. Creationism is possible however you will have to answer these questions as creationism.
"Where god came from?"
"Who created god?"
Evolution is not a theory. whther you choose to ignore it or not, it is alive and it is happening.
Evolution is a scientific fact and it has been studied by scientific way. If you want to make a case of creationism, you need to be rational and disinterested. If you bring anything from bible or god, it just doesn't make sense.
Again!
You can ignore science.
You can question science.
You can take science for granted.
You can selectively choose science.
But you can't escape science.
Come on, science is the God and Nature is the God.
To worship God, you need to study Nature.
Be realistic!
2006-08-24 01:44:39 · answer #3 · answered by Vector_The Positivism 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The same reason creationists want evolutionists to see things their way...we all believe we're right, which is why we hold beliefs and we all want everyone else to see things our way.
Don't resist so much. Just listen to opposing views and try to learn something from someone else once in awhile. You'll be surprised how enriching an opposing dialogue can feel.
2006-08-24 01:42:58 · answer #4 · answered by vicvic* 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, to evolutionists, creationism is highly implausible. But if the creationists want to ignore science and believe we all magically appeared, then that's fine with me, but just don't teach it in the public schools.
2006-08-24 01:38:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I don't want you to "believe". The science is there. What I object to is the attempt to dumb down science in public schools by pushing creationism instead of science. Keep creationism in church, home, private school. It's a matter of faith. You can't produce world class scientists who ignore the basic tenets of science and scientific process.
2006-08-24 01:51:52 · answer #6 · answered by boo radley 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is no need to believe in evolution, just as there's no need to believe in sunrise or gravitation; you can observe it. Just look at AIDS virus; it evolves in front of you... Flu virus is evolving as well, but fortunately not as fast; this is why we have a flu epidemic every few years and a flu pandemic every few decades.
There are also hundreds of well-documented cases of emergence of new species among plants and animals; they are regularly reported in scholarly journals, such as Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
2006-08-24 01:42:11 · answer #7 · answered by NC 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What are the benefits of germ theory?
Learn to understand the world we live in and make it better for everyone. Ignoring evolution ignores what it is to be alive and conscious.
2006-08-24 01:41:39 · answer #8 · answered by Chaoboy 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Why didn't you answer my question?
"Why should we teach Science in school when we can just teach the Bible and "Know" everything there is to know?
You think the Bible has "ALL" the answers? If you do, then you are truly a fools fool. ;-)
2006-08-24 01:41:19 · answer #9 · answered by TommyTrouble 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't want you to belive in it.
I want you to except the evidence. Once you except the evidence I would love to see someone come up with a better explination.
proselytize: does not apply.
2006-08-24 01:35:55 · answer #10 · answered by upallnite 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋