Why do people who believe in evolution deny there is a God (read on)?

Question

You may deny belief in the Bible, but how can you deny an original creator of the first atom? If you believe in reason, how can evolution happen without the matter first being created?

What about the Big Bang theory? Did the item that exploded always exist?

Answer 1

Not all people who accept the ToE are atheists. In fact, most of them are theists. It's only a tiny minority of highly conservative religious literalists who have a problem with it. The largest sect of Christianity in the world...the Catholic Church...accepts the ToE. Many other Christian faiths accept evolution as God's tool for bringing us about. Only the myopic and zenophobic literalists have the problem you do.

Answer 2

I mostly agree with you. I personally believe the Bible is myth and a totally useless source of information about the universe. Science is much more useful. But science doesn't yet know what caused the Big Bang, and whether there was anything before the Big Bang or not. This is such a big open question that one should not rule out the possiblity that the Big Bang was caused by some supreme intelligence.

However, I don't find that hypothesis to be very useful, since it now begs the question: what created the S.I., and what kind of spacetime did it exist in?

In general, the most productive way for us to make progress in answering these questions is to focus our efforts on the simplest hypotheses. It is simpler to assume that the spacetime our universe is in has always existed. Note that if this theory is wrong, then the Bible claims that I will be damned for eternity for not worshiping the God that created the universe. But as I said before, I think the Bible is myth. If this universe really was created by an S.I., I fully expect that S.I. will respect me more for trying to use my rational mind to answer these questions than in for believing in what is clearly superstition.

Answer 3

I believe in God, in the Bible and in evolution. I believe that God is the eternal "unmoved mover", the eternal author and first cause of all things. Science and in particular evolution seeks to uncover how He did it. The Bible only tells you what He did not how.

Knowing more about evolution and the science of how the world came to be only strengthens my faith - just research how life changes dramatically with the mutation of a few genes or the big bang.

Answer 4

in the Universe, there are regulations. you could not destroy those regulations till you've an merchandise that may destroy those regulations. Even then destroy the regulations of the Universe isn't accessible. in case you research the Universe to a authorities that makes and enforces regulations, you could locate some relativity. you could not see the enforcers that keep gravity so that's pulling us in direction of the Earth fairly of the solar, those forces are invisible. The regulation that makes it so we've gravity might want to no longer were made up through some random risk. that's what evolution is all about; risk. there is not any regulation and there is not any order even as each and every thing is in preserving with risk. If each and every thing is left as a lot as risk, then how did we even come alongside? it might want to take longer than 4.5 Billion years in simple terms to make a human, particularly if the full Earth develop into in reality molten lava. there develop into no existence to commence with on earth in case you dealing with the Evolution idea and the large Bang idea. you could not make existence out of none residing issues, it in simple terms would not paintings. technology is the way people attempt to close out God. Charles Darwin did not position self assurance in a God or an after existence after his research even even with the actuality that he had a level in Theology. i believe that when the earth develop into made, it develop into made through the Hand of God, no longer some thing else. It makes extra sense than no longer some thing exploding into no longer some thing and therefore transforming into existence.

Answer 5

First, you assume facts not in evidence, you are the one saying people who believe in evolution don't believe in God, they are not. Charles Darwin was a devout Christian. There is not, and never has been, a conflict between between science and religion, there is a conflict between science and the people, i.e. the Fundamentalist Christian Churches, who use religion to as source of wealth and political power. It is the mark of the ignorant and closed minded to reject what they cannot understand, and that is what the fundie minority do. Science isn't about rejecting God, it's about understanding the principles on which creation is built. How can it possibly detract from God's glory that we have a greater understanding of Her works?

Answer 6

Evolution is a natural process. Studying it or accepting the vast scientific evidence supporting it has absolutely nothing to do with believing or not believing in God. That is a fallacy promulgated by fundamentalists who in utter ignorance have demonized this specific area of scientific knowledge. They figure, "since evolution is an atheistic study, surely everyone who "believes" in it is an atheist". That is plainly absurd. Scientists virtually all accept the undeniable evidence for biological evolution, and that includes scientists of every faith, as well as those of no faith. I am a professional biologist and medical researcher, and also a devout Christian family man who prays with his family, attends church regularly, and loves my Lord and Savior. I see nothing in my studies of science that conflicts with my religious beliefs. And I see nothing in my beliefs or in the Bible that conflicts with the findings of science. Truth cannot conflict with truth. If truth does conflict with your religious beliefs, then maybe you need to take a hard look at those beliefs and where they came from.

Answer 7

No scientist will deny the possibility that the rules by which the universe has evolved since the big bang were devised by a creator of some sort. However, it is obviously utterly impossible to infer anything about the nature of such a creator -- any ideas along those iines are purely speculative, with no possibility of substantiation or (more importantly) refutation. Since getting answers of that sort is not possible, scientists prefer to focus their attention on issues where answers may be obtained, such as to improve our understanding of what the rules are.

Answer 8

The foolishness that serves you as a substitute for knowledge and reason is a logical fallacy (a flaw in thinking) known as the "Argument From Incredulity"... which is a sub-category of the "Argumentum ad Ignorantiam" (Argument From Ignorance). It goes something like this: "I can't conceive of how this might have come to be; therefore, God did it."

That does not point to a limitation of nature... rather, it exemplifies a limitation of knowledge and/or intellect. Also, it is intellectually dishonest, since it does not (as scientists do) ACKNOWLEDGE the limitation of knowledge and/or intellect... it merely invokes the fanciful idea of a supernatural creator-entity to manifest the ILLUSION that your ideations map to reality.

'Faith' (wishful, magical thinking) is a substitute for evidence.

'Belief' (the internalized 'certainty' that you are privy to the 'truth' pertaining to some fundamental aspect of existence and/or reality) is a substitute for knowledge.

faith + belief = self-delusion and willful ignorance

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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance... it is the illusion of knowledge." ~ Daniel Boorstin
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"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." ~ Robert M. Pirsig

Answer 9

Actually matter is a by-product of a phenomena which occurs when two or more membranes collide within the 11th dimension causing a big bang event to occur. Seriously. Look it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory#Big_Bang

But regardless, I believe in evolution and I still believe in a higher being. Is it so far fetched to believe that evolution is God's way?

Answer 10

Theistic Evolutionist believe that God created everything through the means of Evolution...