Do You Understand Why Many Scientist Have Trouble Questioning Evolution?

Question

Many on this site refer to evolution like it's math. They are as certain of it as 2+2=4. Most don't understand the troubles with evolution.

Go research topics like the Cambian Explosion and irreducibly complex systems in micro-biology. When you read them, don't just read half way through the rebuttle, decide it's over your head but it sounds like someone smart wrote it so just accept it as a resolved issue.

Many agree with Chris Mooney when he sasy evolution is "not just a bedrock of modern science but one of the greatest intellectual achievements of human history."

Do you see how this attitude can lead to a type of group-think amoung all scientist? Scientists aren't gods. They have their own interests and biases.

Do a little research for yourself.

Answer 1

Wow, you just posted the Christian strategy, in favor of it. I'm shocked and disgusted.

You say: "When you read them, don't just read half way through the rebuttle, decide it's over your head but it sounds like someone smart wrote it so just accept it as a resolved issue."

This is the problem with Christians. They want answers, and so they look to other Christians for answers, who give them a Christian biased answer. Many Christian organizations hire Christian scientists in an attempt to disprove evolution. This is bias and ruins the scientific method, not to mention that the Christian scientists have been debunked so many times that most real scientists don't even bother anymore. Christian scientists have become good at giving long pseudoscience talks that would confuse an amateur, and then they claim that since it looks scientific it's right.

It's really sad. The entire scientific community supports evolution, as vast empirical evidence has been found from different fields in science all corroborating the same fact.

Also, the theory of irreducible complexity is a scientific joke, and even Creationists have stopped parading it around, ashamed.

Answer 2

the research and debate took place at the time of Darwin, and many scientists questioned evolution, precisedly because some felt it denied God (which is completely wrong - why couldn't God be before the Big Bang).

all of these smart people, debating, ended up finding that evolution was the simplest, most logical way to explain species.

of course one can always imagine other, more complex, illogical ways. God could have put all species together at one point. Or aliens could have done it. But these are needlessly complex scenarios.

furthermore, evolution is regularly observed at work today. for example when micro-organisms develop resistance to antibiotics.

Answer 3

Sadly, I feel there are that many uneducated humans in the market. When I feel of the effort and time I positioned into my educating profession, after which the varieties of matters I learn on right here, it simply makes me worn out. Earlier at present I replied a query (in view that deleted) approximately the "evidence" of evolution. This man or woman rejected the medical definition of thought (if I learn a different time that "evolution is just a thought" I will show a few style of aberrant habits myself--I imply, gravity is just a thought however I have not floated off the planet but), all fossil proof, and radiocarbon relationship. Well, how are you able to end up evolution to anyone who rejects all of the technological know-how at the back of it? Sometimes humans do look critical, although. Once I replied a equivalent query for anyone who believed in "edition" however no longer evolution; this man or woman perceived to comprehend after studying the dozen or so solutions to the query that edition is facet of evolution. So, I feel it is a toss-up. Maybe humans lurking however no longer posting are studying anything. Let's wish, besides.

Answer 4

I have considered every Creationist argument. Most are instantly discardable as they ignore facts and are just empty rhetoric. Some are so esoteric as to be scientifically untestable. Every once in a while I run into one that really makes me think, but after looking closely, I have never seen one that actually contradicts evolution as the best explanation for the world wew live in.

Nice try with more rhetoric. Please come up with something of substance.

Answer 5

The thing is, Creationist arguments have been debunked over and over and over... you get kind of sick of it after a while. After all, Evolution made Creationism irrelevant over a hundred years ago. It's time to let go.

It is very proper to assume that Evolution as we know it today is not 100% correct. But any theory that replaces it must therefore be even more correct. What theory might that be? Remember, that theory has to be able to explain everything we can explain already. Intelligent Design explains precisely nothing. It is, after all, Creationism with a "some" before all occurences of "God".

Answer 6

I am a Biochemist, and a Creationist (by faith)
Scientists question for a living.
Someone who says " I have trouble Questioning....." has an obvious agenda. The Scientific Method is an unending loop until the argument is proven. The problem is, we can not time travel to actually see evolution, but there is evidence of it. There is also evidence of God. Evolution still requires faith to "believe" it.
Science does not care about your argument, only about the process.

Answer 7

Perhaps they do have interests and bias.

But you would be a fool to compare that bias to a Creationist's views.

Come on, talk about bias...

The scientific community has checks and balances. There is always someone trying to refute someone else's work. Unfortunately for the Intelijunt Desiners, their work took all of 5 minutes to refute.

No one has done so for evolution, as yet.

Consider the possibility that perhaps YOU are the biased one. Try to look at things objectively, and remove your religious inhibitions. The picture is very easy to see. You just need to take your hands off of your eyes.

Answer 8

Every claim of an irreducibly complex system I've ever seen has been disproven. Perhaps you should take your own advice and be critical of what you read, even if it's against evolution.

Answer 9

I think we like the idea of evolution mostly because it implys that we can be better than we are. The exchange of ideas is the most important thing for achieving that goal as a species. Everyone has a right to believe as they wish, the trouble comes when we start looking down on those who disagree with us.

Answer 10

Best tell that to all those tenured professors at Cambridge, Oxford , Harvard, Stamford, Northwestern and so on they obviously need your help. Just the other day my old biology teacher said that he really needed help from a Christian know-nothing on a web-site.

Do you not realise that if you could prove one tiny little bit of what you claim a Nobel prize is a certainty, same for anyone, best you get on it.