How is possible thatsome people do not believe evolution given the vast amount of evidence for it?

Question

Some people deny evolution in favour of religion when they have absolutely no evidence to support their belief

Answer 1

You should get much insight from answers you get to this question. In my sister's case, she was brainwashed all of her life with Christianity and believes it's wrong to even question it. I got the same routine, but my IQ is much higher than my siblings', and no one can make me stop questioning everything. She doesn't want to see evidence for evolution. If I mention it, she has a tantrum and insults me to divert the issue away from something that upsets her by perhaps causing her to doubt religion when she believes it's a sin. The creationists try to divert us from seeing they have no evidence at all to support their naive beliefs by attacking evolution. There are unanswered questions about some mechanisms involved, but no reputable scientist doubts that it is essentially true, for there is just too much evidence to support the fact of Evolution. Creationists exaggerate such things and take statements out of context. This is lying! What they don't realize is that even if one could disprove evolution, he wouldn't automatically prove any other theory, and there'd still be no evidence at all for Genesis creation. A tired chant is, "Evolution is just a theory". This shows pathetic ignorance, for a scientific theory is not a preliminary, unproven hypothesis but an idea that has much evidence to support it but still has some details that need to be completed to make it a law of science.

Answer 2

It is important to distinguish between evelutionary fact and evolutionary theory. The fossil record shows that gradual development toward increasing complexity (ie: evolution) as a historical fact. Many educated people before Darwin accepted this. BUt, they thought evolution was guided by God.

Darwn cam up in with a mechanism by which evolution could proceed via entirely natural causes - natural selection operating on random variation. But, this is still just a theory, not an observed fact. Yes, bacteria have adapted to antibiotics, and moths have turned darker a s camaflague against brighter days. Critics do not deny evolution works in this way. THey want to know if Darwin's theory can account for how there came to be moths and bacteria in the first place.

REad Darwin's Black Box, fo the other side of the controversy.

Answer 3

I do not deny certain amounts of evolution. One only has to look at the human race and notice we have different colours and features. However the amount of evidence which proves evolution is really scant at best. Add to this some in the scientific community persist in presenting "proofs" which have already been disproven and rejected. The work being done in the DNA code has been causing allot of people to think the evolution theory over. The microscopic DNA contains over 3 billion codes for the human genome. Just as a computer has to have a source of information to run, where did the DNA information originate? I have noticed that some people do not want to believe in a God for personal reasons. Understandably if we accept thee is a God we cannot accept that we might be accountable for our actions. Finally there is the fact of the Cambrian explosion which shows that most of the life forms appearing suddenly at point in time. i don't claim to have all the answers but I can assure you the evolutionists are equally divisive on many issues, but some are honest enough to admit they don't want to allow the divine foot back in the door. Is this not evidence of their own bias?

Answer 4

There a alot of whole in the whole evolution theory especially "Lucy". The skeleton was actually found miles a part and then placed together. Grand Canyon...the deepest part of it is in the middle so if its was a river wouldn't the deepest part be at the beginning or end?
Just because I don't believe that I came from a monkey doesn't mean I don't believe in different part of evolution either. I believe things change in time through natural selection.
But can you honestly say that you have HARDCORE proof for evolution?
Just because someone doesn't hold the same beliefs as you doesn't mean that you need to get up set about it and be mean. I am not running around calling people that believe in evolution idiots. People have different opinions get over it.

Answer 5

I used to believe in god, because that’s how I was raised, you get more from your parents then you might think. I always had an interest in science, especially life sciences. I think I believed in god and evolution, because I didn’t fully understand evolution, I had a firm grasp on what god and religion was all about. I started reading many different science books on evolution and zoology, watching programs about it and searching the net, etc. I also done allot of reading about primates and human evolution, and realized that god was a lie. Science doesn’t answer all questions, no one said it did, but it answers more questions then the bible, religion and god ever did or will, and it has evidence to back those questions. The biggest problem is that people who don't believe in evolution don't understand it completely. Or it contradicts what thier religious beliefs say, and they shun it away all together. I think people need to open their minds to different possibilities.

Answer 6

There is still a flat earth society,it has a website! We have orbited the earth in our spacecrafts,we have taken photgraphs of it, we have filmed it, yet they still insist on saying "Nope it is flat,it always was it always will be".

I have had a look at some of these creationist websites that deny evolution. Even an amateur fossil hunter and geologist like me can see their knowledge of science is woefully inadequate. There is even one website that says that all the tectonic plates actually float on water,(eh?) that is where all the water for the biblical flood came from!
It is as plain as the nose on your face. The deeper you dig down, the more primitive are the organisms that you find in the rocks That is an undeniable FACT.The average 10 year old can see that. As one eminent scientist said when asked what would persuade him that evolution was false he replied :"Someone finding the remains of a Pre-Cambrian rabbit!
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Well look what was on the news today ! ( no, not a Pre -Cambrian rabbit, quite the opposite )

Answer 7

There are lots of reasons why people do not believe despite overwhelming evidence (e.g. evolution):

1) They are too small-minded or lazy to be bothered to read the evidence or incorporate it into their world view
2) They have vested interests in an alternative belief system
3) They were brought up in a bigoted peer system with threats and violence and are trained to be dumbheads
4) They are unable to think logically. These are the chaotics and do not believe anything much.
5) A people with a blindness to abstract concepts. Its a square world.

Although this issue does not come up in England and much of Europe (Ireland is an exception) similiar blockhead lack of thinking causes much of the social misery and distress. The petty Hitlers and lunatics in positions of power.

Answer 8

There is evidence for evolution of some sort, but the theory is very far from complete. There are definitely some things that cannot be explained by it. For instance, how did the single-pump heart of a fish suddenly experience a mutation into a double-pump, fully functional heart where one pump is connected to the lungs and another to the rest of the body? I don't believe our current theory of evolution, not in favour of religion, but because of the ridiculously big holes in it.

Answer 9

I must say i was successful in probing your thoughts in my earlier prompts . I will answer you briefly and precisely

people do not believe in evolution because of the scientific theory itself , the basic LAW of living things flies straight into their faces , the Law that living things can only come from living things , meaning in reverse living things cannot come from nonliving things no matter what .

many agree with the Law , it can be demonstrated easily because you cannot create bacteria from steralised glass . science is good it can be proven and has laws that can be demonstrated .Thus when prompted to explain the origins of life look how the Law changes , we are now told after the big bang and the cooling off of unstable elements ( non living ) they interacted in certain unknown conditions to form Living matter ( cells ) .How was it possible for such an interaction to defy the Laws of Science , well we are then told to shut up , how ingnorant we are and refered to read more books written by now defuct researchers and scientists.

We are then refered to new undisputable evidence on how similar our genetic coding is to a bacteria with differences in certain few bases .There are plausable evidence of similarities in animals and people appreciate the evidence but simply cannot believe the whole story.

The Mutation Theory that supersided Darwin,s theory of Natural selection hit a hitch , cooled off and was replaced by the theory of mutation . It also had its Law that states that Mutations ie deviations from the norm will always die or perish , if true how come Evolution in reowed papers promote the survival of these mutants .

Again the historical unfaithfulness of our researchers and their regulating bodies did do us a disfavour . Remember tha manipulation of data and evidence in the past and now the japan Professor of Genetics and reproductive biology and his fake cloning experiments . manipulation of the scientific method and the power of presentation that even fooled the best minds of the field ( The regulating bodies ) . They all had come to " believe in the Father of the Gene theory" the dolly creator and forgot in his own words that he also is " simply human " makes mistakes and needed a holiday . Try answer my next probing question it might enlighten your belief .

What then is Evidence my friend ?How is it different from manipulation ?

Answer 10

People do not deny evolution in favour of religion, they deny it in favour of creation and it can be proved but the answer would take too long here but I'll tell you one fact for you to get your head round. National Geographic published a graph showing the projected rise in population. Get hold of the graph and project it backwards until you arrive at only two people. How far back would that be, 4000/4500 years ago, the time of the flood and Noahs Ark.
Think of this, carbon dating a live snail gives a date of now, carbon date it's shell, it's age, 2,000,000 years. That's because snails eat lime to grow the shell. Confused now eh?