Is it really so horrible to believe that Apes and Humans have a common ancestor? Your belief tells you the your god made everything, so why would the acceptance in evolution threaten that. I can understand how it might if you think the earth is only 6000 years old, but other wise what difference does it really make?
If you choose to believe that god created the universe, does it really matter how we got here after that?
Evolution does not attempt to explain the origins of life much less the origins of the universe. It is a sound theory and I simple fail to see why christians are so fearful.
2006-09-28 06:42:03 · 35 answers · asked by trouthunter 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
hey religios morons listen up.evolution is a proven scientific fact!get over yourselves i believe in GOD but im not so blind that i cant see the facts.evolution..live it...breath it...know it..
2006-09-28 06:46:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I am not afraid of ignorance
I am afraid for all of the ignorant people...
I am in a war against ignorance and biast thinking
EVOLUTION IS NOT a science..... only a Theory, a religion without God, a simple alternative to the belief in God...
THat is the reason why it has spread, not because of scientific evidence....
They haven't found any missing links...
They believe that the universe came into being, laws, light, atomic particles.... from oddless chance
All of the humaniods on the chart of mans evolution are either made from a pigs tooth, apes skull, and the neanderthal is actually just as human as a native American, that is actually what the whole neanderthal skeliton is... a native American.... out him in a suit and he won't look no different than you or me.
Yet people continue to believe this... scientist make observations in terms of evolution and then adjust accordingly...
this fossil makes this layer of earth such and such years old.... this layer of earth makes this fossil such anc such years old.
If you believe that the particles from atoms, that formed magically from nothing... could actually form a stable nucleous without any attraction to each other..... and at the same time form a stable electron orbit traveling at insane speeds..... all by oddless chance....
That is only one atom....
what great faith you have...
what did the fish evolve first... lungs, a 4 chambered heart, arteries that go to non-existant lungs, or legs?
How many times did it have to almost drown before it could breathe air....
doesn't the ofspring contain the same genes as the parent.... so then the offspring wouldn't have any advatages on land than its parent... it is still a fish.
Do you actually believe that atom by atom molecule by molecule... a living cell formed from non-life, which could survive and reproduce? If so which came first the DNA or the cell that contains the DNA? One DNA is more advanced than our best super computers...
Sure... all by oddless chance.
Evolution is a religion and Athiesm is a faith, a blind faith, but a faith.
Evolution cannot be a science because they are biased with the "facts" and fail to admit the vast problems with the Theory.... they even claim it as Fact or Truth! Surely scientist cannot make such assumptions if they are True scientist.
Enjoy the truth as you see it rather than the facts as they are.
The facts point to God
2006-09-28 07:00:13 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Agappae 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see no reason that evolution and faith are mutually exclusive...even the Bible does not define a "day." The Bible is filled with metaphors, and a "day" is certainly a metaphor. No where in the Bible does it say HOW God created man...this bunch of bunk was a convenient ruse used in the 1920's at the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in defense of Christian fundamentalists beliefs...no more, no less, and it has grown to ridiculous proportions. The old argument, "if I came from a Monkey, how is it that there are still monkeys" shows remarkable stupidity and ignorance.
All "Faiths" are built on myth....that is why it is called "Faith." There is no Proof in any of this, Evolution is a Theory, not a fact, and Faith is a system, NOT a fact. Why people consider the theory of evolution to be a threat to their faith is beyond any reasonable person's understanding. A Faith that is that fragile is not much of a faith in my book, and is little more than a cult.
2006-09-28 06:46:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all Christians are "fearful". Some have choosen not to believe in evolution, and that's their choice. It is a theory and will never be proven 100%. There are some athiests that don't believe in it as well. Kirby Hensley who started the Universal Life Church was an athiest, but he didn't believe in evolution either. My wife was raised a Buddhist and schooled in the communist school system in Vietnam, and she's never believed in Evolution. She says she knows many Vietnamese who don't. Most Episcopalians, Lutherans, Roman Catholics, etc. accept Evolution and are hardly "fearful" of it. If God want to create the earth over a period of billions of years, that was His choice. Since I wasn't there, I don't know, and it doesn't affect my life. All I know is He created it somehow. There could be a large span of time between Gen. 1:1 and 1:2, even billions of years. Some discoveries even support the Bible, depending how you look at them. Scientists agree everyone alive today is descended from one woman in Africa...they have even nicknamed her "Eve". That's what the Bible has said all along. When the "Big Bang" theory first came out many scientists were reluctant to accept it. Previously they had believed the universe had simply always existed. Even Einstien spent a good part of his carrer trying to refute the Big Bang theory, which he regretted in later years. At the time, scientists said that it sounded "too much like Christinaity". First there was nothing, then "kaboom!"everything. Now they all accept it.
It doesn't bother me a bit.
2006-09-28 06:57:54 · answer #4 · answered by The Notorious Doctor Zoom Zoom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not so much the link between apes and humans that offends christians. It's more that all of the universe and creation is an accident that drives us nuts. Well It drives me nuts anyway. I can see a combination of creationism and evolution being true. But also remember Humanity is supposed to be "man created in God's image" Some find it very offensive to GOD to say that he created an Ape and then made it better by forming it into man by evolution. This imply's that God's image is the ape... and well that doesn't float too well with alot of people.
The big problem as far as teaching kids in school... Is that they are taught evolution as FACT... Christians find that threatening because their children are taught "facts" that are contrary in some ways to their beliefs. It would be very simple to resolve if the kids were taught about theories vs. facts. They will understand the difference and then parents won't have to deal with "But teacher says that's not true" It's confusing to children to have something presented as FACT in school and then have mom and dad and pastor say something else.
Hope that makes some sense to ya
2006-09-28 06:53:43 · answer #5 · answered by Jembee1720 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't threaten anyone's Faith. We simply try to explain how ridiculous it is to us with faith in hopes you'll stop thinking it's a fact. It is still a theory and always will be! Why do people like you insist on trying to prove a theory that scientist can't prove either? That's the most annoying part of the whole. It takes a bigger leap of faith to believe in evolution than it does God. I'm actually bored with everyone of the evolution comments right about now. Copy and paste your proof of the THEORY and then we can all have a chat.
2006-09-28 06:52:33 · answer #6 · answered by Baby girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its certainly not a threat to my belief, since I don't believe it. Evolutions sole PURPOSE is to explain the origins of life! WITHOUT GOD!
How can you think it doesnt matter? If God says he created me in his image, how can you rectify that with descending from apes? Lets forget for a second that its scientifically impossible, but the evolutionary process is one of destruction and annihalation, something completey opposite of what God created. When he created it he "saw that it was good". Evolution reduces humanity to a violent world of survival of the fittest and that we are not more than smart animals, here , not by design, but by random mutational changes. This theory is so far reaching in the destruction it has caused which is WHY it is so important. Hitlers quest for a super race came completely from his belief in evolution, as did many other maniacal mass murdering dicators policies. With evolution, no life is really sacred is it? Its just particles, no soul, no eternity, no design, no nothing. And it is actually hypocritical for evolutionist to believe this and still possess any moral judgements on anyone. Anyone should be able to do anything, as they are just animals, doing their best to be the survivor and beat natural selection.
2006-09-28 06:53:51 · answer #7 · answered by Coco 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not fearful of evolution, I just don't like the way the public schools only teach one side of the issue. Is it so bad to teach that maybe a 'god' created life on earth? They USED to teach that. Even if they just present it as a theory- I find it just as sound a theory as evolution. However, I also believe that the 'god theory' is the correct one but that's neither hear nor there. Perhaps you should ask evolutionists why they feel threatened by creationism.
Have a great day!!!
2006-09-28 06:49:26 · answer #8 · answered by Coo coo achoo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You do make a good point. I come at it from the point of a Christian and a scientist. In matters of faith, it doesn't really make a difference when considering the final fate of humanity. In fact, there are many who are called "Christian evolutionists" who basically believe that when God was ready to 'create' man, he took an ape like ancestor and breathed the breathe of life into it making it a him and person before God. Perhaps this is the case. From a science point of view, the branches of ancestral trees really play out and there isn't solid proof that man came directly from an ape like being. Only amateurs think that. In the end, only salvation in Jesus Christ is what mattes. Here is a saying that is so very important to all who claim faith:
In Essentials: Unity
In Non-essentials: Tolerance
In all Things: Love
2006-09-28 06:49:19 · answer #9 · answered by William T 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it is a sound theory at all if you look into it, but it is not a threat to us and if the Bible taught that was the way things happened then we would be happy to embrace it. The problem lies with error in scriptures. We base our lives and our eternal lives on the teaching of the Bible. If the Bible contains errors than we have no assurance that what we believe is true. Evolution puts blatant errors on the first page of the Bible so what we are contenting is that God has provided a truthful and faithful witness to us in the Bible. Who cares how we got here the important thing is can God be trusted or not. Evolution tries to convince us that our God is a liar.
2006-09-28 06:48:48 · answer #10 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I laugh at evolution! I would rather believe that some alien species did some genetic experimentation to create a slave race...us that is, then to believe we're just some freak accident. If you get a chance, read the book, "The Gods of Eden." Interesting theories in that book. Makes you think.
2006-09-28 06:46:04 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋