Thoughts on evolution?

Question

I'm just looking for what, if anything, you believe about evolution. For example: believe in all evolution, micro-evolution, no evolution what-so-ever, etc.

Please do not just answer that you believe in God or God created everything as that does not actually tell me what you believe about evolution.

(i.e. many believe God uses evolution)

Answer 1

Below you will find three blog titles and links to my 360 for those blogs.

The first is a direct refutation of when some say that evolution of species is fact.
The second is a collection of my YA responses to questions comparing creation to evolution.
The third is a response to theistic evolutionists.

Evolution: Theory or Law - My Thoughts On

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-2FqeP54lbqS5XOaGUBEv9fw6UaUICEgbdTk-?cq=1&p=21

The Creation vs. Evolution Discussion - My Thoughts On

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-2FqeP54lbqS5XOaGUBEv9fw6UaUICEgbdTk-?cq=1&p=17


My Thoughts On - The Day/Age or Gap Theory

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-2FqeP54lbqS5XOaGUBEv9fw6UaUICEgbdTk-?cq=1&p=32

This comprises the best summary I can give on such an involved topic.

Answer 2

Gravity is a fact, not a theory. Isaac Newton had a theory about gravity. It was pretty correct but not complete and has been improved by Albert Einstein. That's science working.

Combustion is a fact, not a theory. Becher and Stahl had a theory about combustion. Lavoisier had a better one. It was fairly correct but not complete and has been improved. That's science working.

Evolution is a fact, not a theory. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had a theory about evolution. Charles Darwin had a better one. It was fairly correct but not complete and has been improved.That's science working.

The evidence for evolution covers hundreds of library shelves in publications like Journal of Biology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Science, Nature, Comptes Rendues, Proceedings of the National Acadamy of Science of the USA and hundreds of other journals in English, French, Russian, German, Japanese, Chinese, Italian and Spanish just to name some. These cover every geological, biological and medical topic known to humans and are chock-a-block full of facts that support evolution directly or are consistent with it.

The evidence for creation consists of an old English translation of a 2500 year old book written by people who had never been outside their own country and now thoroughly misinterpreted by a few, mainly American based pastors whose education is mostly in a peculiar form of theology.

The physical evidence cited by creationists such as the bombardier beetle, the Paluxy footprints and a few dozen other phenomena has been thoroughly debunked many times since the 1980s if not earlier. In some cases the "evidence" has been concocted and at worst is no more than a direct lie. Most of the material they cite as evidence for intelligent design is nothing of the kind and in some cases actually shows that the the design is faulty. The human eye is a glaring example.

Some creationists have claimed that there is conspiracy against them and that scientists are hiding the truth. Sheer paranoia and no different in kind from the nonsense promoted by alien abduction ratbags. There are millions of scientists of one kind or another today. If the truth were being hidden by scientists there must be thousands of them in on it. Some must have come out with real testable evidence that the truth is being hidden by now. The only secure conspiracy is a conspiracy of one.

The poor mugs who actually believe the creationists have been warned to ignore counter arguments as the work of Satan. Of course. If they saw they were being sold a bill of shoddy goods their financial contributions might peter out.

Answer 3

Imagine a world at war-and the religious right is taking control and pushing their views into the households of every person demanding compliance or surrender-and yet a group of scientists have developed PROOF positive methods for continuing life-and knowing that they are about to be persecuted send a rocket into orbit around a planet that as of yet is underdeveloped-however this rocket contains a capsoul for all of life as it is...Their planet is thrown into chaotic upheval-the wars continue and then ALL IS LOST-except for the life that was sent forward by the Love of those who believed that life can continue-This planet was Venus and the men there sent a rocket to The Earth-that was just about where Mars is now and We will do the same thing soon if RELIGIOUNS are not brought into perspective and the madness is allowed to continue-PROVE THERE IS A GOD-and you OWN The world-Prove otherwise and you place a target on your back! Aw JeZues CHrist!

Answer 4

I believe in all evolution. Not just the biological theory of evolution, but also the evolution of information. Biological evolution reached a point when homo sapiens (that would be us) such that the information capacity of our minds exceeds the information capacity of our genes. Couple that with our ability to create tools and to manipulate our environment, and biological evolution has probably come to a halt. But the evolution of information is still continuing, and at a pace far greater than even the most rapid biological evolution. Cambrian Explosion??? That took 30 million years! Consider how much evolution of technology there has been in just the last 30 years. Now consider that we will probably see as much evolution in technology in the next 10 years as we saw in the last 30.

If we don't kill ourselves in the mother of all holy wars, then in 50 years we'll be designing new life, something that supposedly only God can do.

Answer 5

Fiction-Evolution is a myth.
God created the world in 6 days and rested on the Sabbath day as stated in Genesis ch. one.
In the beginnng God created the heaven and the earth>Gen. 1:1.

That's what the good book (Bible) says, and I believe what God says!

Answer 6

I do believe in evolution or at least the theory of it. There is a natural and explanable progression for many parts of the theory of evolution. At the same time we have yet to discover the missing link between man and ape and interestingly enough the same scientists that claim it is out there somewhere also scoff at bigfoot because no one has actual proof. I have a bit if a hard time getting from one celled sea creatures to dinosaurs but the theory is not without merit

Answer 7

I've always believed that evolution seemed like a way that a being infinitely bigger, smarter, more patient, and more creative than any human would use. I believe that the Divine is the ultimate artist, the ultimate in creativity. And artists go through phases. Why can't any God out there?

Answer 8

I believe wholeheartedly in evolution. Micro, macro, every bit of it. There is scientific proof which can be tested over and over again, to the satisfaction of the scientific and educational community.

I believe in the "big bang," the expansion of gases and dark matter/energy in the vacuum of space that cooled and became planets, the goo that was on this particular planet formed molecules and atoms, cells that became life. Life mutated and evolved over time into many species, one of which is man.

All of these has been theorized (that's the SCIENTIFIC definition of "theory" which means verifiable facts, not just a guess) and tested over and over again, then verified and published. It has been verified by many scientific communities, not just one person who then spread the word and everyone believes it.

Answer 9

Not at all. I'm a Christian, I believe in what my Bible tells me, first book, first verse, first five words says it all.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God CREATED the Heavens and the Earth....

Answer 10

I do not believe that life can come from non-life and I do not believe in evolution between species. I do believe that there are changes within a species and adaptations that occur.