Why is evolution so hard for most religions to accept?

Question

Why do most people have a problem with believing that all life evolved from a single instance. Through 4 billion years of time (that is a very long time) and a little bit of serendipity, we evolved to ask the question, where do we come from? We are the only species on the planet to discover science and use it to understand the cosmos.

All life on our planet is made of the same basic chemistry, based on the same basic elements. Nitrogen, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Carbon. Carbon is the key, all life is based on carbon. Go one step further, Carbon is abundent in the Universe. Perhaps on other planets, life evolves as well.

To deny that Evolution is fact, you are just deluding yourself of the beauty of the evolution of life in the Universe. There is this sense of oneness with everything once you accept that simple truth. We are not important or special or unique. The entire universe is full of life, no more important than we are.

Why is it such a big deal to think that we are distant cousins to the apes? How about sharks? We are related to them as well. Shark fins and human arms and legs are made by the same genetic code.

...and believing in Science isn't a matter of faith. Science is a tool humans use to observe and learn about the Universe. Science is only based in facts and laws.

Answer 1

The answer to your question is simple.

Evolution is contrary to the Bible, which is held in higher regard by Believers than science is.

Break down all those elements that you mention...
down to the smallest molecule..., ions, atoms, protons, etc.
go smaller still.

are you there yet?
Now tell me where it came from.

Answer 2

You say that carbon is the key to life. If so, where did the carbon come from? Did it just show up one day? Did carbon create itself?" Abundant..OK. Self created..I don't think so. If creation all started from one single (I'll just say "thing") where did that thing come from? Other planet LIFE; I don't recall reading that. What planet is it on and what form of life is it? The Bible teaches that God created the heavens (meaning moon. planets, stars) too. Read Genesis 1 especially verse 28..Man was/is to have dominion over all and was created in just that way...man has dominion -thus greater brain power etc.. Questions: If the first non-plant life came from the sea, why are there still fish and other adequate life? I thought that part of evolution was over and that we had gone out, or from, that step and progressed to another If things are still evolving from sea/water life into land/plant/animal/human life why are there no half aquatic and half dry land creators? (Kind of like a mermaid) I don't think I have ever seen one and don't think I will anytime soon. I see beauty in the universe. A great DESIGN, grand master creation. Created, made, put into motion by a supreme being. Oneness? Yes all things were created by the one Creator and all men are created equal. You state that we are the only species to discover science, understand the cosmos. But then you say that we are not special or unique. Isn't that sort of contradictory? Too many holes in evolution, way too many.

Answer 3

The chemical evolution of life, is ridiculously improbable. What could improve the odds? One should begin with an earth having high concentrations of the key elements comprising life, such as carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen. However, as one more closely examines these elements, the more unlikely evolution appears.

Carbon. Rocks that supposedly preceded life have very little carbon. One must imagine a toxic, carbon-rich atmosphere to supply the needed carbon if life evolved. For comparison, today’s atmosphere holds only 1/80,000th of the carbon that has been on the earth’s surface since the first fossils formed.

Oxygen. No theory has been able to explain why earth’s atmosphere has so much oxygen. Too many chemical processes should have absorbed oxygen on an evolving earth. Besides, if the early earth had oxygen in its atmosphere, compounds (called amino acids) needed for life to evolve would have been destroyed by oxidation. But if there had been no oxygen, there would have been no ozone (a form of oxygen) in the upper atmosphere. Without ozone to shield the earth, the sun’s ultraviolet radiation would quickly destroy life. The only known way for both ozone and life to be here is for both to come into existence simultaneously—in other words, by creation.

Nitrogen. Clays and various rocks absorb nitrogen. Had millions of years passed before life evolved, the sediments that preceded life should be filled with nitrogen. Searches have never found such sediments.

Basic chemistry does not support the evolution of life.

Living matter is composed largely of proteins, which are long chains of amino acids. Since 1930, it has been known that amino acids cannot link together if oxygen is present. That is, proteins could not have evolved from chance chemical reactions if the atmosphere contained oxygen. However, the chemistry of the earth’s rocks, both on land and below ancient seas, shows that the earth had oxygen before the earliest fossils formed. Even earlier, solar radiation would have broken water vapor into oxygen and hydrogen. Some hydrogen, the lightest of all chemical elements, would then have escaped into outer space, leaving behind excess oxygen.

To form proteins, amino acids must also be highly concentrated in an extremely pure liquid. However, the early oceans or ponds would have been far from pure and would have diluted amino acids, so the required collisions between amino acids would rarely occur. Besides, amino acids do not naturally link up to form proteins. Instead, proteins tend to break down into amino acids. Furthermore, the proposed energy sources for forming proteins (earth’s heat, electrical discharges, or solar radiation) destroy the protein products thousands of times faster than they could have formed. The many attempts to show how life might have arrived on earth have instead shown (a) the futility of that effort, (b) the immense complexity of even the simplest life, and (c) the need for a vast intelligence to precede life.

If, despite virtually impossible odds, proteins arose by chance processes, there is not the remotest reason to believe they could ever form a membrane-encased, self-reproducing, self-repairing, metabolizing, living cell. There is no evidence that any stable states exist between the assumed formation of proteins and the formation of the first living cells. No scientist has ever demonstrated that this fantastic jump in complexity could have happened—even if the entire universe had been filled with proteins.

Living cells contain thousands of different chemicals, some acidic, others basic. Many chemicals would react with others were it not for an intricate system of chemical barriers and buffers. If living things evolved, these barriers and buffers must also have evolved—but at just the right time to prevent harmful chemical reactions. How could such precise, seemingly coordinated, almost miraculous events have happened for each of millions of species?

All living organisms are maintained by thousands of chemical pathways, each involving a long series of complex chemical reactions. For example, the clotting of blood, which involves 20–30 steps, is absolutely vital to healing a wound. However, clotting could be fatal if it happened inside the body. Omitting one of the many steps, inserting an unwanted step, or altering the timing of a step would probably cause death. If one thing goes wrong, all the earlier marvelous steps that worked flawlessly were in vain. Evidently, these complex pathways were created as an intricate, highly integrated system.

Evolution is a hoax, a lie. It is not science, nor fact. It is a religion, a philosophy, a world view.

Answer 4

Because, mathematically speaking, for one gene to 'evolve' into a gene of a different length (evolution of species) requires more time for ONE step (say, chimpanzee to human) than the universe is believed to have existed. To mathematically account for the diversity of gene lengths on the earth (various species), the earth ITSELF would have to be several billion trillions (10 to the 21st power) of years old, and the universe even more. Astral movement projections verify that it is IMPOSSIBLE for the earth to be even fractionally that old, and if it were possible, our sun either would not have yet existed to provide the energy required to support life, or would have been a massive blue star throwing out so much radiation it would incinerate all carbon based genetic material within several million light years of it.

To claim that evolution is 'fact' requires considerably more faith than most people are lead to believe. Everyone in the public square who espouses evolution as 'fact' seems to want to ignore the fact that genes cannot randomly change length and reproduce. It is mathematically impossible for an amoeba to even make it as far a evolving into a sponge at the genetic level, much less to have diversified into such a huge number of vastly genetically different plants, mammals, insects, marsupials, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, amphibians, fish, sharks, whales, bacteria and viruses.

Answer 5

Look at your computer keyboard. Was it created? How do you know?
Lets say you didn't want it to be created. You would need to come up with an idea of how it got there. Would it start like this? "Well about 4 Billion years ago there was this plastic goop"
Now lets watch it for a few years. It starts to decay. Wow this keyboard does not seem to be evolving at all. And we cant seem to find any transitional plastic goop things that would link the keyboard to the plastic goop.

Open any of the text you used to assemble your evolution or return to any teachers ect that taught it to you. I bet there is revisions. Another word for revision is "mistake". I think it takes a whole lot more faith to believe in evolution then creation.
You asked.
GOD bless ya.

Answer 6

The idea of evolution is no threat to my faith. My faith is based upon my own spiritual experiences. I may not know everything about our origins, and no one does, but I do know what I've lived and experienced. The problem seems to come when someone decides that evolution proves there is no God, or when someone decides that because there is a God, evolution must be wrong.

Spirituality is a matter of spirituality. No physical proof in needed for someone who has been touched by God, and no physical proof will suffice for someone who hasn't. Whether our physical forms evolved or not doesn't change what we've experienced.

Most of the conflicts I've witnessed don't really center around origins, but attitudes. Trust me, an a**hole with a fossil is no more pleasant to deal with than an a**hole with a Bible.

Answer 7

If you would look in the Bible King James version and read Genesis Chapter one it will tell you when all things were created. God created the world and all things upon it in seven days.
You can not prove that a single cell organism evolved into a living thinking human being. Want more proof? go to www.answersingenesis.com and you will see the truth.

Answer 8

Facts actually disprove the Theory of Evolution.

Natural biological evolution fails at all levels except for those species numbering more than about one quadrillion individuals with generation times less than three months and body sizes smaller than one centimeter.

Answer 9

You can believe that you came from goo and slime if you want too. Nobody is stopping you. I prefer to believe the truth that God created us out of the dust of the ground. You might have come from a monkey and fallen from a tree but I didn't. God created us in his image. (Genesis 1:26) People search and search for answers when all you have to do is look at the Bible. All of life's answers are in there.

Answer 10

I'm a christian and I beleive in evolution. Strange I know. I know tht evolution exists....I have eyes! But evolution as a theory doesn't embrace origins. Its about a mechanism by which genes are passed, how speciation may occur, its not about where life originates. And even for those who do beleive that this is within the scope of Evolution, it doesn't address where the material orginally came from anyway.