Are we just looking for an answer and grasping at straws? I'm so glad we no longer make human sacrifices..
2006-09-10 20:43:27 · 13 answers · asked by dyer7275 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Umm. Evolution has a lot of evidence to support it. God has none.
I do not "Believe in Evolution" I agree that it is plausible and supports a lot of evidence as well as works with many other theories.
2006-09-10 20:45:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
We use the one thing that sets us apart from animals and that's our brain. It's the most highly evolved brain on the planet. You need not look anywhere but in your own head to see what a wonderful gift evolution has given you. The ability to reason, analyze, day dream, fantasize and create are functions of the highest life form on the planet. You. It's ok to be glad that you are a human being. Take advantage of the opportunity. Remember, life on this planet would still go on and in fact it would thrive and become a paradise, if human beings were to become extinct. What then would be the purpose of the god of religion?
2006-09-10 21:03:41 · answer #2 · answered by CHEYENNE 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Possibly the best way to answer that question is to think: "What actually works?". Religious people have a history of thousands of years of making claims about gods and goddesses, demons, souls, angels, an afterlife, heaven and hell, and much other supernatural stuff... but they have never, in all of human history, demonstrated that any of it is real. No-one ever discovered any verifiable fact about reality through religious belief or divine knowledge or whatever.
Rational investigation, however - the reliance on reason and evidence - has brought use everything we know about the world. All our science, all our technology, all the understanding of physics and biology and chemistry and other fields, is built on the principle that knowledge is acquired by reasoned argument and objective evidence. We can be confident that this is a valid route to truth because, unlike religion, it demonstrably works.
The choice is yours.
2006-09-10 20:59:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We need an explanation for everything we observe or can think about.
Gods and supernatural beings provide an "explanation" for things we don't understand.
If we are ready to learn more, then, when we learn, we remove some of the "explanations" Gods provide and replace them with knowledge.
The best way to describe it is a picture of a volume of space which is lighted and there is darkness beyond, slowly the lighted volume grows - the lighted volume is the part we know and the darkness on the fringes is the part we believe.
Evolution is something that can be understood and tested for validity, there is no need to "believe" in evolution
2006-09-10 20:53:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Faith has nothing to do with the scientific method. Faith is by definition belief without proof. People don't "believe" in evolution, it is a theory that best fits the facts available at the moment.
Oh I don't know there's a few world leaders I'd like to see have their hearts cut out atop a ziggurat!
2006-09-10 20:48:54 · answer #5 · answered by Roger G 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Though religions do seem (to me, at least) like people are grasping at straws based on nothing but tradition and superstition, evolution has its roots in scientific fact. Even if it isn't how we really came to be, it's a step in the right direction.
2006-09-10 20:47:28 · answer #6 · answered by Not Allie 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Those who have evolution as their religion have their own (humanity) as their god or stated differently they are rebelling against God and using evolution to attract followers in their rebellion. Evolution is a theory and not even a sound one. There is no sound evedence of mutation actually creating a new species (verticle change) only change within a species (horizontal change) and those changes as far as I know are just the favoring of existing genes over others and no surviving traight changes that have created a better species who would then be subject to survival of the fittest and so on.
2006-09-10 20:51:41 · answer #7 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
1. I worship only one God;
2. I believe in Evolution; and evolution is designed/created by God.
3. I don't listen to religious figure for sceintific opinion. It's like asking your dentist for your clogg sink problem. Of course they can answer it, but there are better person out there who is more suitable/reilable to answer your questions.
** oh. talk about human scarfices, wanna visit Machu Picchu?
2006-09-10 20:49:00 · answer #8 · answered by Yiu T 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I suspect there is no God.
Some believe that the God(s) used evolution as a tool to create life. Navajos are devout evolutionists because of their religion.
2006-09-10 20:48:56 · answer #9 · answered by Mere Mortal 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Human sacrifices? What?!
Most people are grasping at straws. Most of us know that there is more out there than just what we see. Most of us have a higher spiritual enlightening that helps us see that there is truth out there. (and I'm not talking X-Files either).
The truth is, there is One God, One Faith, One Baptism, One Truth, One Gospel.
Our job is to find it.
And that doesn't mean one for each of us, but one for all of us.
2006-09-10 20:47:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋