Why don' some people believe in Evolution when DNA testing and fossil records prove it is real?

Answer 1

two words- "against beleifs"

Answer 2

Because neither of those things prove anything. Scientists bring presuppositions to their findings and draw the wrong conclusions.

For instance when fossils are discovered archeologists look at the sediment layers to try to determine the age of the fossil. They observe how sediment layers are formed today and how long they take and they calculate how long it would have taken to form all of the layers above a fossil.

The presupposition they bring to this dating process is that the layers were all formed under normal conditions. Then we had Mt Saint Helens erupting in the 1980's and voila! In 4 hours massive mud slides formed sediment layers that according to the accepted methods of dating fossils would have taken 12 million years to form. If the mountain had erupted 1,000 years earlier and an animal had gotten caught in the mud slide and it's fossil preserved today's scientists would have concluded that the animal was 12 million years old.

Another method they use is radiometric dating. They presuppose a certain amount of material in the original object and they calculate from the rate of decay how old the object might be. When they used this method with diamonds they came up with some extrodinarily high figures in the 100's of millions or billions of years. Unfortunately when they run these same tests for helium in diamonds knowing that after 10,000 or so years there should be zero helium present they find that the diamonds are about 4-6 thousand years old.

Getting back to fossils, we know that when plants and animals die they almost always decay and leave no traces. It is only when some extraordinary circumstances are involved that fossils are preserved. The Bible says "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. Genesis 7:11

Notice the phrase "all the fountains of the great deep burst forth". We don't know exactly what that entailed but it certainly sounds cataclysmic. Vast portions of the earth's surface were disrupted and just the conditions needed to form fossils all over the planet would most likely have occured.

Scientists look at the Grand Canyon and they theorize that millions of years ago a river was running along the surface of the earth and over time it eroded this massive canyon. Similar but smaller "canyons" were formed when Mt Saint Helens erupted.

Answer 3

Because some religions require their followers to be biblical literalists. So by definition God could do anything including faking the fossil records. The bottom line for them is that the bible must be flawless, they can make any excuse why the evidence is worthless.

Basically their god is a guy with a long white beard and a toga who does godly magic, only cares about planet earth, and can't stand anyone doubting the literal interpretation of his book. A god who was there at least before the big bang, a god who is lives outside of time and encompasses at least the entire universe is too alien, too big, too scary for many. But the more we learn the bigger god gets.

Answer 4

If a Christian admitted evolution to be real then Creation, Adam and Eve and Original sin would be unbelievable.
The biggy is Original Sin.
Without the original sin all unavoidable shame and everything goes out the window and the need for Salvation, Jesus, Crucifiction, etc is gone. Their religion would basically collapse in on Itself.
That is why they fight it so hard.

Answer 5

Evolution is real only for certain things. Second, if you are referring to the big bang even evolution testifies that there is a creator that started it. Second, you and I are not random creatures. Can you imagine how random we are to be typing on this computer?

Second, God is very real, even if evolution is true. And second, 4.5 billion years is a scientific number acquired with precision instruments using an ASSUMPTION. That they don't teach you in high school biology.
And the best second of all,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,read what Jesus says and you will feel what the "absolute truth is all about"

the truth is very simple to feel, but very difficult to accept since it keeps you from having your way...............God walks with you.......someday you will realize that it is time that you walk with God.......

Answer 6

Because so many scientists have proven DNA testing and the fossil record are doctored evidence.

Answer 7

People choose to believe the way they want to. Some are straight bible readers and what is written is what is right, and others look at the world from a scientific point of view. Just another way people are different.

Answer 8

Even the evolutionist question the possibility that humans could have possibly come from apes, they are just trying to make it look that way to keep their jobs. They need to do some real science if they truly want to do that.

Anyone that questions their own ideas aren't going to get me to believe them either. I think most of them are trying to prove Bigfoot exists now to determine if he is ape or man.

Answer 9

Does it prove why 30,000 years into the process of the evolution into homo sapiens the process for some reason seemed to speed up "unnaturally"?

That's why neither Evolutionists or Creationists are completely correct:

http://adamthemissinglink.com/

Answer 10

DOnt you like Meg responce? The posiblities are endless?? She must of not read the Bible..Christians canot posibly beleive in evolution because the Bible doesnt say it that way..They are a group of close minded people. And when presented with a question like yours they reply with "the posiblities are endeless" hahaha

Answer 11

Which fossil records???
How much do we know about DNA?