Why don't some people believe in Evolution when it is just as proven as gravity?

Answer 1

Hmmm - let me answer this as someone who does actually believe in evolution. To compare the scientific understandings of Gravity and Evolution is actually a misnomer.

Apart from the fact that even our understand on gravitational force has taken several centuries to fully appreciate (if not even yet fully comprehend), it is a concept which is visible in practise all around us. The same cannot be said for the science of evolution.

Let me explain further. Till around a decade ago, evolution was thought to be broken down into two camps - horizontal and vertical evolution.

Vertical evolution describe the way life constantly adapts and modifies in response to changes of environment, often creating new sub-species. This form of evolution is usually accepted even amid the religious camps (see creation science).

Horizontal evolution however describes the progression and development of whole new life-forms, and tends to lead to far more abstract understandings - we can't after all "see" it in progress.

Till recently we assumed that horizontal evolution ALWAYS took a reasonably linear form, with one species making the progression to new forms, humans included - we now realise that this is often not the case.

For example, evidence has surfaced over the last decade that there may have been much overlapping in the progessional development of modern humans, with there often being several human forms at any one given time. Evidence surfaced only a few years that suggests Neanderthal Man may still have been around in small pockets as little as 40,000 yrs ago, where we now know that Modern Man first appeared around 90,000 yrs ago.

Religion has had a few thousand years to weave itself into the fabric of society, where as our understanding evolution is still in its infancy. The sum total of physical evidence (at this point) has been described as being able to fit in the back of a pick-up truck. Many evolutionary scientists are quoted as saying that it still requires a greater level of faith to believe in evolution that it does in any of the established religions.

It is therefore easy to understand why many still question the legitimacy of evolutionary science, and Darwinism (which is often widely misquoted/misunderstood by even those in support of evolution I might add) in general.

Answer 2

I believe in evolution. But it isn't "just as proven as gravity", we can see gravity everyday but we can only use evidence to show how things are likely to have occurred through evolution. I accept evolution as a fact as we do not have any better theories.

Answer 3

NOTHING can ever be proven, it's all just theory...take some science classes, dummy. BTW I believe in intelligent evolution. Is it not possible that God or whatever you want to call the creative force of reality set evolution in motion as the grand plan?

Answer 4

Evolution isn't a fact. It's a theory. If it were proven to be fact, then it would be the "Law of Evolution" similar to the "Laws of Gravity". Evolution may never become a scientific law because of the difficulties in testing the theory and predicting it's outcomes.

Answer 5

Because they don't realise that, they don't want to realise that and they will forever refuse to realise that.
Evolution is the dismissal of their religion as far as they are concerned, and so, since their religion is truth, evolution must be a lie. Even if you have to misrepresent it all the way down the line.
Intelligent Design is needed to replace evolution in school, not because of any truth in it, but simply to not have generations of kids growing up critical or skeptical of their creationist truths.

Answer 6

Evolution proven Ha!!!! You are Kidding Right!!!If anything Evolution is Brainwashing material, taught in Scools as fact, proclaimed on the screens as fact, and thousands Brainwashed into believing Lies, How, can it be, proven, who proved it without being there to see the fascts? How many people alive today have been there when it happened to be able to prove it beyond all doubt?goobledegook!!!!

Answer 7

Mostly because they fear it contradicts their religious beliefs. Therefore they deny the evidence of science. The Catholic Church has reasonably come out in favor of science though. Why not? Science is really the observation of, and the attempt to understand Nature, and for those in religions, is not this Nature the Creation of God? They would do better, in those churches which deny science, to adjust their interpretations of their doctrines to include science. This way, they would know more about God's work, and be more relevant to the younger generations. Also they would end up far less confrontational, a behavior that does not speak well for their faith.

Answer 8

Just as proven as gravity? Uhhh how far have you studied, please? I don't think any science teacher would go that far. They might say it is proven to their satisfaction, but not just as proven as gravity. You see, gravity happens today. Evolution cannot be observed today. It has to be deduced as having happened in the past, and the evidence is disputed.
Elmo, I like your "intelligent falling" - Its funny. I presume you are kidding about the relationship with intelligent design? (By the way most people who talk about intelligent design believe in evolution. Those who don't believe in evolution talk about direct creation).
Too bad we can no longer debate issues scientifically and philosophically without everybody being hung up with whatever they were taught, and accusing the otherws of refusing to see evidence. It's often a problem on all sides of this kind of question.

Oh, Kelli (see answer below) creation scinetists do not claim that science proves creation. They say that science supports creation. One of their arguments is that science can not prove either evolution or creation empirically because it cannot be reproduced and observed. What one believes eventually influences how we interpret the evidence.

Answer 9

Evolution is not proven at all. Please visit Haroon Yahya on this topic. The God All Migthy has put built in surviving techniques and modifications. If you do exercise yourmuscles will get stronger or if you go into sun, you will acquire more pigment. There is not a single solid argument in favour of evolution. The God All Mighty has created every thing with perfect design. the more you know, the more you know Him as Quran says that only scholars fear Him the most. There is no a chance of creation of even one mollecule by random phenomenon let alone so many diffferent creatures etc. Evoltuon is a total lie and its dying now very fast. Only yellow media is keepin its alive. It is a form of sceince terrorism.

Answer 10

When there is solid evidence proving something, that is what we should all believe, isn’t it? It wouldn’t be realistic to reject something that has been fully proved to be a scientific fact, would it? . . . I have here some comments of scientists that are very interesting regarding this point. Is evolution really scientific?

The “scientific method” is as follows: Observe what happens; based on those observations, form a theory as to what may be true; test the theory by further observations and by experiments; and watch to see if the predictions based on the theory are fulfilled. Is this the method followed by those who believe in and teach evolution?

Astronomer Robert Jastrow says: “To their chagrin [scientists] have no clear-cut answer, because chemists have never succeeded in reproducing nature’s experiments on the creation of life out of nonliving matter. Scientists do not know how that happened.”—The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe (New York, 1981), p. 19.

Evolutionist Loren Eiseley acknowledged: “After having chided the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create a mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.”—The Immense Journey (New York, 1957), p. 199.

According to New Scientist: “An increasing number of scientists, most particularly a growing number of evolutionists . . . argue that Darwinian evolutionary theory is no genuine scientific theory at all. . . . Many of the critics have the highest intellectual credentials.”—June 25, 1981, p. 828.

Physicist H. S. Lipson said: “The only acceptable explanation is creation. I know that this is anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but we must not reject a theory that we do not like if the experimental evidence supports it.” (Italics added.)—Physics Bulletin, 1980, Vol. 31, p. 138.

Are those who advocate evolution in agreement? How do these facts make you feel about what they teach?

The introduction to the centennial edition of Darwin’s Origin of Species (London, 1956) says: “As we know, there is a great divergence of opinion among biologists, not only about the causes of evolution but even about the actual process. This divergence exists because the evidence is unsatisfactory and does not permit any certain conclusion. It is therefore right and proper to draw the attention of the non-scientific public to the disagreements about evolution.”—By W. R. Thompson, then director of the Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Ottawa, Canada.

“A century after Darwin’s death, we still have not the slightest demonstrable or even plausible idea of how evolution really took place—and in recent years this has led to an extraordinary series of battles over the whole question. . . . A state of almost open war exists among the evolutionists themselves, with every kind of [evolutionary] sect urging some new modification.”—C. Booker (London Times writer), The Star, (Johannesburg), April 20, 1982, p. 19.

The scientific magazine Discover said: “Evolution . . . is not only under attack by fundamentalist Christians, but is also being questioned by reputable scientists. Among paleontologists, scientists who study the fossil record, there is growing dissent.”—October 1980, p. 88.

A point of consideration: How many believe that everything on this earth was created in six days? There are some religious groups that teach that God created everything in six 24-hour days. But that is not what the Bible says.

Genesis 1:3-31 tells how God prepared the already existing earth for human habitation. It says that this was done during a period of six days, but it does not say that these were 24-hour days. It is not unusual for a person to refer to his “grandfather’s day,” meaning that one’s entire lifetime. So, too, the Bible often uses the term “day” to describe an extended period of time. (Compare 2 Peter 3:8.) Thus the ‘days’ of Genesis chapter 1 could reasonably be thousands of years long.