Why do Christians think Evolution is incorrect?

Answer 1

That's a generalization. There are some christians who think that way, because it is a theory (although gravity is too). It conflicts with their own personal belief structure.

There are also christians who claim that evolution occured, and that Adam and Eve are the first true human beings, just like there's christians who believe that the bible is not really a factual book, but a collection of stories...it goes round and round.

Answer 2

Most (not all) Christians think evolution is incorrect because Christianity promotes willful ignorance and organized, institutionalized stupidity as a matter of policy... and discourages rationality and critical thinking

Evolution is not a matter of 'belief. I keep reading in here that "... evolution is just a theory... not a fact." That, as it turns out, is true... although the word 'just' is inappropriate, and misleading... and it indicates that people just don't understand what a scientific theory is; they seem to think that a theory is just an 'idea'. Nothing could be further from the truth.

In science, a theory occupies a higher stratum of importance than mere 'facts'. Theories EXPLAIN facts. The theory of evolution provides an explanatory framework for the OBSERVED FACTS that the genetic makeup of populations of organisms changes, over time (in some cases, over distance)... and that over an extended period of time (hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of generations), the accumulation of those changes can result in speciation. It explains the OBSERVED FACT of transitional species found in the fossil record.

Theories live or die on the basis of their explanatory power, predictive power and falsifiability. Theories, as an explanatory framework, allow one to make predictions which can subsequently be validated by way of experiments or future observations. That means that in order to be valid, a theory must be falsifiable... and all that it takes for a theory to be falsified is ONE INSTANCE where an experiment or future observation achieves a result that is CONTRARY to what the theory predicts.

Evolution, as it turns out, has NEVER been falsified... in nearly 150 years. Further, all findings and observations to date... in molecular biology... in genetics... in paleontology... have SOLIDIFIED the explanatory power of evolution... NEVER detracted from it.

For those that say that evolution does not account for new species... horseshit. Examples abound, both in the 'world' and in the laboratory. One of the most interesting examples, and the most enlightening, has to do with a kind of bird (plovers, if my memory is correct) that occupies adjacent habitats all the way from Siberia to Britain. Because of environmental differences in these adjacent habitats (topology, food availability, competitor species, predators, vegetation), natural selection has produced genetic differences between the populations in these adjacent habitats. Birds in adjacent habitats can still mate with each other... the genetic differences are small. However, the birds from the Eastern-most reaches of Siberia CAN NOT mate with those from Britain. Over the reach of MANY habitats, the accumulation of genetic differences makes them a DIFFERENT SPECIES.

Answer 3

As you can see from the answers, many Christian posters don't really understand, or have never actually read about, Evolution.

Perhaps their opinion is based upon ignorance of the subject.

But then again, when you point that out, most will point to a fairy tale involving an invisible friend and insist "religion is true because... it... says it's... ummm... true."

Answer 4

Because the idea of evolution goes against the truth that God really was and is powerful enough to create ALL THAT in six 24 hour periods. AMEN

Answer 5

See:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52166

Answer 6

Many Christians don't, especially educated ones. Those who do think that way simply reveal their inability to interpret the Bible correctly.

Answer 7

Tell me this is not a serious question! Read the Bible and look around you! Evolution is just a way for science to try to disprove God. The wonderful thing is, they can't!!! No matter what they try or what theory they come up with they will never be able to prove there is not a God!!!

Answer 8

Some believe that it conctradicts the story of Genesis and the theory of creationism.

Answer 9

Macro-evolution is an incorrect belief because there is no evidence for it. People have been asking evolutionist every day for proof here but none is provided. Macro-evolution is a myth.

Answer 10

Were the scientists there to see evolution happen?