Is there really people out there who don't believe in Natural Selection & Evolution?

Question

I know it doesn't answer the question of what created the universe, but it is so obviously true for life since then

Answer 1

I believe in the Evolution theory but it doesn't explain me why the human is so stupid when it is actually the most evolved creature on the Earth

Answer 2

You're talking about two different things.

Natural Selection is small scale. i.e. If half a species is resistant to a virus, and the other isn't, and the virus comes along, then natural selection ensures the resistant population survives and reproduces, and that virus will never kill any of that species again. Only complete retards don't believe in natural selection.

Evolution is large scale, and is the long term change from one species into another, with natural selection choosing what survives and what dies. Many people do not believe in evolution. Here are a few reasons why:

1. You can't experience evolution first hand. The wiping out of half a species you could hear about on the news. But evolution is many small and subtle changes happening over millenia, and so you won't notice it.
2. The proof for evolution doesn't all quite add up. The fossils showing human evolution have millenia long gaps in them, where no-one knows what happened. Many fossils are shown by carbon dating to come from a period way before the accepted timeline of human evolution says they could have.
3. It's easy to see how a gene giving resistance to a virus could be handed down from generation to generation, but how did the eye develop? Seeing as mutations are small, it can't have happened all at once, and so how did the complicated organ evolve? At most stages of its evolving life it must have been completely useless, and so why didn't some other short term evolutionary change (by other members of the same species) mean that another advantage killed off those animals with eye shaped lumps in their head?

Answer 3

No I don't think so.

Of course, there's a lot of people who have some wicked notion about what evolution is, and then (reasonably) don't believe in that wicked notion.

But I don't think there's anybody who understands the theory of evolution and still doesn't believe it. At least, all the post I've seen against evolution on this forum were clearly written by people who have no clue what evolution is about.

Answer 4

Yeah! someone like me dont believe in evolution coz it logically fact that a beautiful house found in a deep forest could not be said to come by chance; but would be concluded that someone designed and buildt it there. similarly, the idea of natural selection and evolution lacks authenticity of logic coz historical record has shown that man was from the sand -for the instance, the achealogical discovery of LEKKY in Kenya about the ODULVA GEON (THE SKULL) what is more the scripture at Genesis Chapter 2 verse 7 proved that God used the sand from the earth to make man and the man came to be a living sould- (YOU AND ME)

come to think of it.. if u are a farmer and u planted yam, during harvest, the land can not produce corn when u planted yam, so, everything accordings to its kind OKAY.

Answer 5

There are. No problem if they are children, or voluntarily keep to reservates like the Amish (no idea whether they accept natural selection), but trouble when they try to abuse the article for free speech in order to exert censure on school curricula.

Fundamentalists have varying degrees of problems with scientific finds, such as (bracketed text giving the fundamentalists' statements)

Shape of our planet (flat, with Jerusalem in the center)
Nature of the sun ("must be able to stand still over Gilead", i.e. revolve around earth)
Age of our planet (6000odd years, according to someone's addition of lifetimes of biblical people)
Cause of speciation (specific design)

Answer 6

Yes, I am the new Messiah and if anyone should know it is I.
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any night of the week and most afternoons.
On fine days miracles will be performed in the beer garden.

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Answer 7

yes. i was in america and they had news stories about some states are going to teach the christian story as fact and not the darwins evoloution.
The newsreader even seemed to think that the scientists were the wierd ones and everyone must know that adam and eve is true.
you cant tell people the truth if they are not willing to listen and are told different every sunday that if you question the blind faith you will go to hell.

Answer 8

I don't, we were all created last week by Dave, don't you remember?

Incidentally Dave Created himself so stick that in your beardy "Darwinan" pipe and not only smoke it but eat the ashes too, then perhaps eat the resultant waste matter although that would be a matter of personal choice

Answer 9

Yes. if we evolved from apes, why are there still apes in the world? There is such a huge gap between us humans and other species, (such as Millwall supporters) that I can only guess that we are decended from creatures which came from another planet.

a la Douglas Adams

WHAT MATTERS is where we go next, not where we have been. Yesterday is history, so who cares?

Answer 10

yes there are.

i prefer the scientific theories because there is lots of proof and it makes a lot of sense to me however others prefer to just have a belief in something instead.