Why do people believe in evolution if it's plain that it couldn't happen?

Question

I won't go in deep but I’ll just give a few examples that shame evolution to the core.
The sun is a star and like all stars it's getting smaller in size because it burns. So if you go back millions and millions of years back, the sun would've been huge and the earth would've fried. If the earth was "somehow" farther back and it just scooted closer when the sun burned down, then why isn't it doing it now?
Bombardier Beetle is a perfect example. When threatened it mixes three chemicals it stores which become active and shoot out. Three chambers lead to one room where the chemicals join then fire out. If evolution is in fact real then while all these chambers were in the making all the bugs would keep exploding. The chambers needed to be perfectly placed so they wouldn’t explode. They can’t just evolve perfect.
It must have been created by a more powerful person, God!

Answer 1

The problem is the sun isn't "burning" so it isn't getting smaller. It's a main sequence star generating energy by nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium and is in hydrostatic balance.

As for the bombardier beetle, as someone else has mentioned; just because a certain few can't actually imagine the process doesn't mean there isn't one. But if you do want a possible step-by-step, try http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/bombardier.html

Nature isn't limited by your intelligence.

Answer 2

Since there is no God, how could God have created anything? Get over it - there is no such thing as creationism - the God story is a charming myth that came about because primitive people needed something to worship and the other religions had too many so they came up with the one God concept.

IF - "in the beginning there was God" - is true - answer this: Where did God come from? Everything, even God, had a beginning. And you can't fall back on that "the Bible says its true" lie either. From whence cometh God? How did God come into being? How about evolving over the millions of years from chemical and biological reactions? Therefore, the God story is a myth and little more and evolution is a fact, like it or not.

Answer 3

Actually, stars grow as they die, and last billions of years...but anyways:

The problem with your arguement is that you're answering "God did it" without evidence, only "I don't know how it was done, so it must have been God." Someone yesterday said, "I don't know how they get the flavor in a Doritto, does that mean it was God?"

Here's what you need to understand...we don't go by what we don't know, we go by what we DO know. I AGREE with you that it does seem impossible for such complex life forms, with such specific designs to have just "built themselves that way"...but you can't claim how they were made without evidence to point that way.

So here's what we know:

- Mutations happen before our eyes. We've seen it in molds, viruses, etc. and enough mutations = evolution

- We've seen similarities between species that evolution describes perfectly. THAT'S what Darwin's theory was based on...continents apart you have similar, but not identical species. Is it difficult to believe that a dog can evolve into a wolf? That a salamander can evolve into a lizard? It only takes a couple changes.

- We have fossils 5 million years old that are apelike, 4 million years old that are apelike but slightly human, 3 million years old that are a mix of the two, 2 million years old that are mostly human, and so on.


This IMPLIES evolution. No, it doesn't prove it, but it is a much stronger case than Genesis, which has no known author, no evidence, an impossible timeline, and was chosen for inclusion into the bible by MEN.

So, we go with what we know. You can't say "God did it" just because you can't think of a better answer.

Answer 4

You obviously know nothing about stars if you think that it just shrinks in size until it's gone.

Give a source about the Bombardier Beetle proving creationism. This article says that it proves evolution: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/bombardier.html

To answer MilkWeed: Trees were only able to live if they could push the leaves off. The ones that couldn't died, thus only trees with the ability to push leaves off were able to reproduce.

Humans are still evolving. Ponder this: If God created people from dust, why is there still dust?


creationists==pwn'd

Answer 5

God extensively utilized DNA in each and every residing organism, He created something that worked great and caught with it (and in a small way so additionally the three toed ft and so on). Micro-evolution occurs, it extremely is version interior species simply by fact God created the gene with great flexibility. Galapagos finches have in no way replace into robins, nor will they ever. Scientists have brought about 1000's (tens of 1000's?) of generations of fruit flies to breed. We nonetheless don't have a single domicile fly inspite of each and every thing those generations, much less a poultry. Scientists have manipulated in fairly some procedures the hardship-unfastened beet attempting to make the sugar content cloth of the beet as extreme as achievable. It seems there's a cut back previous which scientists with all their power and intelligence can't make a beet with greater desirable than approximately 15% sugar content cloth. Hmmm. i could desire to proceed, in desire of introduction, yet i think of which would be adequate. This answer is dropped at you from a hardship-unfastened us of a preacher who has an identical earned degree as C Darwin. For homework seem on the hardship-unfastened evolutionary scheme for the pony. Now, inspect the relative dates of the critters interior the scheme. you will discover that the known horse predates all yet one member. plenty for scientists committed to good judgment, reason and the data. The alleged evolution of the pony is between the bigger myths of evolution.

Answer 6

If people do evolve then why has hate for Jesus increased amongst a so called peaceful seeking people. The things that they said about him back then are the same things they say today. What are people evolving into? You'd think there would be some good change by now.

Stars reach twice their size and implode upon themselves.

Better to use gravity and cosmic dust and the facts. The legs used on the landing vehicle for the moon had huge pods on them because science said the universe was so old that 14 feet of dust was on the surface of the moon. Look at the footage they hit solid ground with very little dust.

Sides, years ago scientist and technologist determined that the droplets of water floating around in space would have to make the universe on their most intelligent guess six days old.

Quartz dating is better than carbon dating. The oldest meteor to have hit the earth was dated at 25,000 years. The impact zone and the actual object were measured. Carbon dating would have it very old.

Answer 7

I'm sorry but you have been lied to.

There is NO good evidence of the sun shrinking - one flawed report from 1980. All other measurements do not show significant shrinkage. Typical creationist quote-mining = LIES.

'Your' description of bombardier beetles' physiology is inaccurate. There are two chemicals - Hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone and they do NOT explode when mixed.

Answer 8

What color is the sky on your planet? In as much as I was not around to see how everything came into being (and neither were you),I say, "I don't know ..... YET!" To assume that some god, my less than intellectual ancestors made up, instantaneously farted the universe into being, is absurd. God theory does not hold a candle to the fact supported Theory of Evolution. GOD THEORY - The accumulated myths and superstitions of your ancestors which have been dogmatized, institutionalized and mounded into the colossal pile of crap you call ultimate truth.

Answer 9

A comprehensive scan of the human genome finds that hundreds of our genes have undergone positive natural selection during the past 10,000 years of human evolution.
Genes are the instructions organisms use to make proteins. They are encoded in genetic material, usually DNA, and some come in different versions, called “alleles." Positive natural selection occurs when one allele is favored over another due to changes in the environment.
Researchers from the University of Chicago analyzed the genomes of 209 unrelated individuals from three distinct human populations: East Asians, Europeans and Yorubans from Nigeria. Each population contained roughly 250 positively selected genes; however, most of the affected genes differed depending on the group.
“This study addresses the question 'Are humans still evolving?', and the answer is 'Absolutely,'" study team member Benjamin Voight told LiveScience

Answer 10

Because people don't *want* to 'believe' in The Creator. For some strange reason, it scares them.

I just learned this on the news the other day,.............the season 'Fall',............people think that it's term comes from the 'falling' of the leaves. In all actuality, the stems of the leaves are pushed off from the branch. How then could trees 'evolve' this behavior? Or is it just the simple fact that God designed them to do so?

Another prime example: IF we humans 'evolved' from apes, then why isn't it still happening today?

Yep, it's from stubbornness, and fear.