Most Christian denominations teach that evolution was simply god's tool in creating the world.
So why do people here constantly assert that evolution is atheistic?
2006-09-16 18:31:34 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've always thought it's because they really don't understand the processes of evolution. They're too focused on the incorrect idea that man came from monkey.
2006-09-16 18:34:28 · answer #1 · answered by Lucy_Fir 3 · 8⤊ 3⤋
Why do us Americans do a lot of things we do? Too much free time and not enough time spent on learning I'd guess. Like a few others said, most people can easily accept the theory if they know more about it. But some people can't be happy unless they have their own comfy narrow views, some people will just say "The Bible/God says you're wrong so you're wrong" or something similar. That's fine if they want to maintain that attitude to themselves but then they become preachers and poison others' minds or just be loud and obnoxious on Yahoo! Answers. For some reason a lot of people here love to pit science and religion against each other, some people love to be a martyr.
2006-09-16 18:45:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think you're right, but only partly. Most Christians in the world, contrary to what the ignoramuses who flatly contradicted you say, accept that evolution is the process that brought us all into being. In America there seems to be a great deal more resistance to this idea, and no inclination to find out the truth about how evolution works. There is also a powerful political and media lobby there attempting to maintain this level of ignorance and misinformation.
Remember though that most of the Christians in the world still require God to be the agent of evolutionary change, and to that extent hardcore theists will agree with atheists like me. If evolution is the answer to "how did we get here?", then God played no part and can be discounted from existing for using such a cruel and haphazard means of bringing about his most favoured beings, humans (you can tell I don't trouble myself too much with the anxieties of agnostics - like Bertrand Russell with his orbiting teapot).
So American fundamentalist theists are if anything conforming to a model of evolution more in keeping with what many evolutionary biologists hold to be true. Their (the theists') methods for refuting evolution are excessively weak and depend in large part in maintaining the level of ignorance under which it can exist (in particular, by attempting to shape the way the subject is taught in schools).
The good news, at least as far as I'm concerned, is that history demonstrates that this position is very hard indeed to maintain, and only a dictatorial political system has the structures needed to prevent truth from seeping in. While there are probably many on the Christian right in America who would sanction such a dictatorship if it ensured their views were fascisticly enforced, it is very unlikely to happen. America now is in a similar position, in terms of its acceptance of scientific theory, to Britain in the mid-nineteenth century. The sorts of resistance to evolution then are echoed in the Christian right's responses to it today. But ignorance is very hard to maintain, for America is full of intelligent and enquiring people. Eventually the weight of evidence will make it impossible for American theists to maintain the absurdity of their views, and they will adapt them. The first stage in this adaptation will be to accept evolution as God's tool. The first signs of their acceptance are already there, if hard to see. The process is inexorable. People who wish to have faith will, as they have in most of the world, accommodate evolution into their world view. Atheism is not inevitable, but the elimination of ignorance is. I wonder whether history will look back and ask if things like Yahoo Answers had any part to play in that?
2006-09-16 22:35:29 · answer #3 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think a lot of people think that evolution automatically takes God out of the equation so they're hesitate to accept evolution. I personally don't believe God exist but if I did I would still believe evolution was how he started it all. It just makes more sense for him to use natural forces than the magical "Let there be ______" words used in the Bible.
2006-09-16 18:39:30 · answer #4 · answered by atheist_2_u 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It relies upon on who you're polling geographically. the U. S. stands at approximately 50% to seventy 5% reckoning on degree of disbelief in evolution. a good scarier proportion comes from Islamic international locations. In places like Iran and Saudi Arabia, the opportunities hit previous the ninety% mark. Unreal....
2016-10-15 02:09:39 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your statement is a bit wrong.
The official stance of the Catholic church is that evolution was the method God used in creation and that the creation story in the Bible should not be taken literally. That much of your statement is true. However, the vast majority of Catholics I know disbelieve in evolution and take the creation story of the Bible as the literal truth.
If Catholics can be considered representative of Christians in general, then I don't see how your statement that the "majority of Christians worldwide believe in God and Evolution" could be true. The high ranking members of different Christian denominations who actually study evolution might believe in it, but the majority of their followers don't seem to do the same.
2006-09-16 18:41:21 · answer #6 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It depends on your view of evolution. If one believes that God had no hand in creation. If one believes that life began by chance. If one believes that his great great great garandpappy was a slimy something that crawled out of the ocean then I think your assertion that most Christians believe in evolution is incorrect.
If your view evolution is God created the world and all things in it whole and as they should be. (i.e. Humans were humans. Fish were fish. Monkeys were monkeys.) Then over time these that God created adapted to the world as the world influenced them and changed as a result of this influence but remained within their original genus and species then yes I think most Christians would agree with that concept of evolution.
2006-09-16 18:40:01 · answer #7 · answered by yagman 7 · 1⤊ 5⤋
There is only God. Not evolution. Any true Christian of Christ knows that you can't believe in both at the same time, and certainly can not believe in evolution at all.
2006-09-16 18:44:41 · answer #8 · answered by JanRose 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
They probably watch The Word Network.
2006-09-16 18:33:48 · answer #9 · answered by . 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Because these people are insane. They are mostly the door-to-door Christians bible thumpers on their time off. Of course that is MOST.....
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2006-09-17 02:51:07 · answer #10 · answered by Mr. T, formerly known as Shadow. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋