Should you believe in Evolution? Your rational comments please..?

Question

According to many reference materials, including the textbook of my son in high school, the following are facts:

1.There is no designer nor maker of life. It came by chance. A strong lightning just happened to hit a group of protein. These proteins eventually arranged themselves and became simple life. Simple life then became complex life.

2.Plants and animals behave either to adapt or survive. Only the fittest survive, the weak should be eliminated.

3.Mathematicians however say that the chance for no. 1 to occur is 1/ 10 x 9 zeros.

A questioning mind would naturally ask:

1.If all life forms happened by chance, then why is it that the human sexual organ is not found in our forehead? Or, why is it that our mouths are not located on our hands. Such locations would save time and energy. Further they would appear to enhance adaptation. right?

2.If only the fittest survives, and the weak eliminated, then Hitler was correct. Since the Aryan race, according to him, was superior to the Jews then the latter should be eliminated. Correct?

3.From the standpoint of PROBABILITY, at what time should one sane person dismiss a thing as a hoax. Or, unlikely to happen?

Answer 1

where did the protein or thunderbolt come from? Nothing comes from nothing....I dont believe in evolution.

Answer 2

If you were genuinely interested in understanding evolution, you could do so, but, to answer your question, Yes, one should believe reason and truth, and scientists have a pretty good handle on these.

My understanding is that evolution is not about the origins of life (this is one of the myths about evolution), but, instead, accounts for the diversity and complexity of life. No one yet knows how the whole thing started, though there are theories.

Individual plants and animals don't adapt. The either die, or they live long enough to successfully procreate. Over long periods of time, because there are always random mutations, and once in a great while a given mutation helps a living thing successfully procreate, it's descendants who inherit that mutation also successfully procreate (more successfully, in the given environment than their peers), new species develop.

Nothing anywhere in evolutionary theory says "the weak should be eliminated" as a moral imperative. Living things that can't survive die before they procreate. That's it.

Dunno about 3, but, considering how long the planet has been in existence, the very improbable event has a lot of chances to happen. (How often does the one-in-a-million chance happen on an Earth of 6 billion people? Often.)

Since all of the things living now developed from their predecessors, they are limited to the basic design of those who came before. Hence, our sexual organs and mouths (and a lot of things about us, like lungs and eyes, spinal cords and five digits per limb) came from those predecessors.

Some changes wouldn't work, given our basic body plan. It would take gazillions of simultaneous, organized mutations to make them work. Since this doesn't happen, humans don't suddenly start being born with their mouths on their hands. (And no, they wouldn't enhance adaptation, or, survival.)

Race is a myth. Humans are all one thing. The belief that one race is superior or inferior is flat-out wrong. Thus, Hitler was wrong.

Besides, evolution speaks to "how'd this or that happen" not what humans should or shouldn't do.

"3.From the standpoint of PROBABILITY, at what time should one sane person dismiss a thing as a hoax. Or, unlikely to happen?"

Before dismissing something, you need to understand it. Otherwise your dismissal is meaningless.

Answer 3

The -theory- is that we came about by chance. We haven't worked that one out yet, unfortunately. Bit of a bummer.

Why do we have an appendix? Hair on our bodies? Yes, people are imperfect. But we dont suddenly switch our entire DNA pattern all of a sudden, except babies twisted by the effects of radiation. Changes are extremely slow. The world is patient.

Creationism flies in the face of science. Just because science hasn't made everything rosy, doesn't mean to say it might as well be disregarded. Ethnic cleansing isn't 'survival of the fittest'. Look how many species we've already made extinct.

Of course you should believe in the theory of evolution. If it's so wrong, then how come we have such techology today? This is an age of brilliant new ideas, and we need them more than ever to make sense of the world. I'm sorry you're skeptical!

Answer 4

Evolution has NOTHING TO DO WITH CREATION!!! For goodness sake grab something other than a textbook or apologetics and LEARN!

As far as Hitler being right because of evolution? That is just freakin' insane. He was a heartless human being and lets not forget how many times the bible has been used for cruelty and genocide, and murder against fellow human beings.

Human beings are a species, the best thing to keep the human species alive is to work together for peace and harmony...killing HUMANS off is contrary to survival of the SPECIES.

As for "nothing coming from nothing" well, there is nothing wrong with saying "I don't know". So far the best explanation is abiogenesis. However, why limit humanity to only two choice? God or Abiogenesis? And really, who cares, what matters is here and now on earth.

Answer 5

I doubt very much that your son's textbook states that there is no creator of life. I believe it states something to the effect that the most common theory is that of evolution.

Even if the statistical chances of life being created as cosmology now believes it did is 1/ 10 +9, the number of planets in the universe which could sustain that life numbers at least that high and perhaps higher so the probability equals one.

It's good that you are asking questions. If you are truly interested in learning about how the universe around you functions, there is ample information out there. Please don't believe what I say or what anybody else tells you is true.

FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF!!!

Answer 6

Number 1 isn't relevant to evolution. Edit number 2 and remove the words behave, too and should be -because no text book on biology ever made such a statement, what's left is a statement of fact. 3 is irrelevant to evolutionary biology. Our physiology is as it is because environmental pressures caused our species to adapt those characteristics that best suited us to survival. A hand used for grasping objects doesn't need a mouth on it. I need to be blunt-these aren't even serious challenges to evolution-they're absurd and facile. You really should just give up if that is the best you can come up with and to try and draw Hitler into the debate just shows how perverse your views are.

Answer 7

Your book does NOT state that there is no creator. It states that the primordial soup created life. There is no negative in there. Nice try.
Interesting that you should point out the commonality of almost ALL MAMMALS with humans in location of sexual organs and mouths, isn't that interesting?

From the standpoint of probability, they should dismiss the improbable when they realyl know what they are talking about. Nobody is claiming that random molecules were tossed around mindlessly for 1 billion years and bang a human was formed. We claim that amino acids were tossed around mindlessly for a few million years and created RNA, and cells. Then those cells tried to survive. The process of survival led to complex beings. Not completely random mixing.

Answer 8

Science has no data for "there is no data nor maker of life". Go look again. Even though I believe in evolution it does not address that point.

Your point #3 is wrong. I have seen numbers like that including 1 followed by 400 zeros. That would be the probability of pouring a bunch of chemicals in a vat and having a complete DNA strand form. But that's crazy. Life did not form in a flash as statistics like that suggest - it formed very slowing over very, very, very long periods of time.

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Answer 9

Ummm... you're trying to justify social Darwinism? Your "additional detail" deals with political genocide, not Evolution...

And in terms of "survival of the fittest", you've missed the boat. There is no "should" be eliminated: there is merely an evolutionary preference for successful adaptations. One can not use Evolution to justify "wiping out" something for weakness. America tried that with forced sterilizations in the 1920's under the Eugenics laws...

Answer 10

The trouble with evolutionists is - they discard the idea of a Creator straight away - and then try to find the answers for how live came about, with what they have left.
By not considering creation they therefore show themselves biased. An unbiased person seeking to find the truth about life would consider ALL the evidence before deciding - therefore making an informed choice.
Many scientists today are acknowledging that we must have been created. By studying on the molecular level they acknowledge that life just couldn't have come about by chance. They echo the Psalmist's words at PSALM 139:14

What evolutionists have to realise is that in the history of mankind, the evolution THEORY is relatively new. When Darwin expressed his views he said that in his future there would be discoveries supporting his ideas but time has proved him wrong. While there have been many hoaxes, there is no evidence that evolution is true. The scriptures, however, always prove true. :)





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Answer 11

no. you should think that a sky fairy picked up a glob of grishnakh and made earth. and then, believe all the rest of the ilogical crap in the cult book, too.

you also asked "If all life forms happened by chance, then why is it that the human sexual organ is not found in our forehead?"

i think it's rather unfortunate that the sexual organs are located right next to the place where we expel waste. don't you think that's bad enough? if it was on the forehead, at least it would be closer to the mouth... a much better design. the way it is NOW, it is chance, and rather unfortunate...