I mean, come on! It's only a THEORY. And don't give me that crap about 'gravity is a theory too'. Ever heard of the law of gravity? LAW. And thermodynamics says that things become more chaotic, but evolution says they become more ordered, and thermodynamics is a LAW, got it? So this LAW says your THEORY is a lie!
Answer that!
2006-09-22 19:19:54 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My interaction with dog nuts is none of your business! I repented and accepted Jesus into my heart and he cleaned me!
2006-09-22 19:24:45 · update #1
judith r: Our days are not his days! Can you tell me you think life just "evolved" when it's so perfectly designed? Look at your eye, how can you explain that coming into existence by random chance?
I'll be praying for your soul. God bless you!
2006-09-22 19:27:58 · update #2
Liza: Evolution is not a fact either. God created the world fully formed in six days! Not six periods, not six thouand years or six million years, six DAYS. Anyone who denies it is so denies that they are saved and is going to Hell! Do you think Evolution is fact enough to save you from God's Justice? "Go away from me, I do not know you," is what God says to those who don't confess Him, and the only place to go away from God is HELL.
2006-09-22 20:03:56 · update #3
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2006-09-22 19:22:15 · answer #1 · answered by Slave to JC 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Oh my goodness, a Creationist! I thought you were only a myth!
Quoting the second law of thermodynamics, which I assume you are because you seem to be going off Dr Duane Gish's arguments, "In a closed system, all things tend towards entropy" - Oh, you didn't know about the closed system part? That's because if you do go off Dr Gish's arguments, he conveniently leaves that off, seeing as it negates what he's saying. To explain it a little simpler, I will turn to Dave Gorman:
If you put an apple in a dustbin and leave it there, it will eventually rot. It becomes more disordered and chaotic. The apple is in a closed system, it gets eaten by bacteria, the bacteria die and decay themselves. The apple is gone.
Put the apple in the ground, however, and the apple will grow, becoming more ordered and less chaotic. The apple is NOT in a closed system, because the sun shines, the rain falls and the earth nourishes.
Now, you've either decided to (or been brainwashed to) ignore the closed system part of all this, or you've defined the world as a closed system. If it is the latter, you must have then ignored the FACT that there is a vast universe that surrounds us, which is obeying the law of thermodynamics perfectly well.
Okay, now that part's out of the way, where is your proof? I choose to believe scientific fact such as ancient fossils and the like, other than believe a book written by a bunch of people based on stories that supposedly happened a few thousand years beforehand. People lie. Facts do not.
2006-09-23 02:35:27 · answer #2 · answered by actor_girl_1986 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
How can you possibly believe in God? Some magic fairy that has just "always been there and always will be" wriggled his nose a few times and all of the Universe just appeared? Nobody has seen him, there is no proof he is real but real proof he is not, the bible is full of contradictions, supposedly because man translated incorrectly but if there is a god shouldn't he be able to find someone who can write a book correctly? or even one that makes sense?
EVER HEARD OF THE LAW OF PHYSICS? THIS LAW SAYS YOUR GOD IS A LIE!!!!!! and evolution does not state that things (whatever they may be) become more ordered, it actually demands that things become more complicated. So thermodynamics agrees with evolution. And the "law of gravity" is a term used to describe the theory of gravity. Thanks for proving evolutionists right.!!!!
2006-09-23 06:55:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know where you got the idea that evolution is a theory. Fact and theories are two different things. Facts are data and theories are what is used to interpret and explain the facts. Evolution is a fact but Darwin's theory of natural selection is not. Natural selection is the theory that tries to explain how evolution came about. Natural selection may or may not be true but that doesn't change the fact that evolution in and of itself is a fact. Darwin continually emphasized the difference between his two great and separate accomplishments: establishing the fact of evolution, and proposing a theory (natural selection) to explain the mechanism of evolution.
2006-09-23 02:58:39 · answer #4 · answered by Liza 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WHYDO STUPID PEOPLE ASSUME EVOLUTION HAS ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING TO DO WITH RELIGION? evolution isscience, religion is just that a belief sytem. why can't you understand that God does not live by a stupid 24 hour clock. His days are eons long, making evolution something that could be, and is correct. There is too muck proof for evolution to only be a theory. it is as proven as gravity. it happened, get on with your life Get over yourself, and realize that the scriptures were written by uneducated people to help ignorant people to understand some of the mysteries of life, sort of like the fairy tales
2006-09-23 02:26:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Wow, what a good question asker. I mean, how can you believe in the THEORY of god??? Wait.....you can't. Eh, at least evolution has evidence.
2006-09-23 02:24:03 · answer #6 · answered by Steve-O 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I am not necessarily speaking on behalf of non-believers. Its just that this question keeps coming up over and over and over again.
People who have faith shouldn't spend so much time trying to disprove evolution and instead should try to consider that there's the chance it doesn't necessarily conflict with religion (but, yes, there would be some thinking and figuring out to be done in order to reconcile the evolution and religion - but it can be done).
There are also times in science when what may appear to be chaos is actually order that is yet to be understood/witnessed. In fact, there are all kinds of things related to science that are yet to be figured out or understood.
It is also entirely possible that the theory of evolution explains the "main idea" of the process but there may be more to learn about the finer points. Maybe that's why its still a theory. Scientists can see that there is more to be understood. (Got it?)
Even if someone accepts your premise about thermodynamics, it doesn't necessarily say evolution is a lie. It may simply say it is not yet completely understood. I can look out my window and tell you whether its cloudy or likely to rain in the next hour, and that would be based on what I see and know from experience. I cannot, however, tell you whether it will rain tomorrow by looking out my window. That's because I do not have the instruments/tools needed to predict tomorrow's weather. It doesn't mean, though, that what I say about the next hour will not be correct, and it doesn't mean that if I'm surprised by snow tomorrow that what I said about today was wrong.
It is beyond me why people would spend so much time trying to refute a fairly easy to understand scientific theory that can only serve to improve man's understanding of life; and that, for all anyone knows, may well take man closer to seeing evidence of a higher power as likely as it may do the opposite.
Having a solid understanding of the process of evolution (not just a surface-level idea about it) is actually more likely to make a person begin to see that a higher force is probably at play. Accepting the idea of evolution isn't just for atheists. Many people of very strong faith see the scientific realities of evolution and just assume that God gave people the minds and eyes to do just that.
Some people who accept evolution as reality may even wonder if there's the chance that the Adam and Eve story occurred at some other beginning or somewhere other than Earth. They may consider that the story could have occurred before the end of one life and the beginning of the present life.
Many people who believe in God don't take the Bible literally. They see its words as symbolic and may take those words seriously - but not literally. Some people don't believe that God magically made Adam and then either came down to Earth and cut out a rib (what a horror story) and magically created Eve out of it or else just did some remote magic from heaven. Neither do they believe whatever incestuous little set-up had to be going on in order for there to be descendents of Adam and Eve. Many people find not only more sense in the idea of evolution but actually may find a little more spirituality in an idea such as that all of life began with light or began in one awe-inspiring explosion.
Some people may wonder if "all of life" didn't begin on Earth at all but somewhere in the universe and that Earth happened to be the planet that was most recently "fertilized".
Some people who understand and accept evolution may imagine how God could be sitting out there somewhere and thinking, "I gave mankind intellect to find the answers, and look at how hard they're working to seek out those answers." Some people who accept evolution believe that they are using the intellect and quest for answers that they've been given in order to find the answers that are there, if someone just looks hard enough.
Some people believe that the only thing that can possibly be a truth in this life is one that offers a universal explanation of life and that doesn't exclude one group who doesn't believe in Adam and Eve or another group who doesn't believe in "72 virgins after people die" or another group who hangs black cloth over their mirrors when someone dies. Searching for and/or finding answers that apply to all people and all of life may just be the best way to carry out God's work and honor the life that we have been given - so don't think you have a monopoly on faith just because for some reason you refuse to accept evolution.
You know what? I just may be the study of, and better understanding of, evolution that may turn some atheists into believers; so I suggest you believe what makes you happier to believe and don't attack evolution because you think its only for atheists. You might also want to consider the possibility that God might actually want you to open your mind and search for your own answers rather than just accepting some stories that only some people in this world believe.
As I write this I have the PBS program about Newton on, and they are mentioning how he incorporated his science with religion and other fields as well. They have mentioned that it was at first believed that gravity was some occult thing he was dabbling in.
Later, the world figured out otherwise.
So I "answered that"! Got it?
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2006-09-23 03:54:36 · answer #7 · answered by WhiteLilac1 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Please, anything that is based on only faith and belief is only a theory to...so really there is no point in arguing because if we dump one we have to dump both and then we are left with nothing.
2006-09-23 02:39:45 · answer #8 · answered by Indigo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Since when do all Atheists believe in Evolution?
I had no idea that I believed in Evolution...
2006-09-23 02:26:44 · answer #9 · answered by Rachel S 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I am an atheist and don't believe in evolution.
Life has always existed, as has the universe.
So, what is your point?
2006-09-23 02:33:59 · answer #10 · answered by Left the building 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, I'm catholic and I believe in evolution.
2006-09-23 02:39:05 · answer #11 · answered by AbaraiRenji 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋