Why is it so important for me & everybody else to 'accept' evolution?

Question

is evolution like a religion ? no i'm not trying to offend anybody this is just a Q, and according to this Question i asked a few weeks ago: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AitFP3F_y0QiiJKn2MD6d1Tsy6IX?qid=20061023231503AAQRcvw
most people said evolution does NOT disprove God. so why is it so important for me to study this evolution theory in depth?

Answer 1

The media and the world want you to accept evolution. The reason everyone wants you to accept evolution is so that you no longer have a God that holds you accountable for everything you do. No God = I can do what ever I want and no consequences. You can fall into this trap or you can do your own research in both evolution and God and the Bible. Evolution is a religion because you cannot prove it. Ever. Evolution just tries to prove how humans got here, but how did the earth get here. I don't think it was the Big Bang theory because then you have to ask how did the Big Bang start. You are holding onto beliefs just because of that peer pressure of everyone else is doing it so you don't want to be left out. God says no to that. He says follow ME. He says I am the way. Everyone wants to be tolerant meaning you must accept everyone's point of view. Just one problem, you can't please everyone or you lose yourself. God says to be intolerant and follow Him and not the ways of the world. In AnswersInGensis.org, the website says how do you know that evolution isn't true because no one was there in the beginning? The answer is there was someone there. God is, was, and always is there. He is also outside of time. Time has no meaning in Heaven. If you try to find your answer in evolution you will probably find your answer. It will probably be the wrong answer, but you will have found Your answer, or you can find your answer through God and Bible. I think you will be much happier. It is up to you to decide which way to go.

Answer 2

It's not important for you and everybody else to accept evolution. People can (and will) go on believing whatever they want. If you seek the truth, however, you should study evolutionary science very carefully. It has much to say about life on earth, where it came from, how it has changed over the millenia and what pressures were acting on it. It is a very interesting and wonderous thing to study, especially if you are interested in the stunning beauty and variety of life on earth.

There are creatures that can live in thermal vents in the ocean and have adapted special mechanisms to deal with the extreme heat. Likewise some creatures live in extreme cold, high altitude, low light, etc.

Answer 3

Evolution is NOT a religion, it's not even like a religion. It's a theory in a branch of science. As such, it's not something that you necessarily accept. Science is about looking at collections of data and testing your hypotheses against them. So what you really should be doing is learning as much as you can about the theory of evolution (there is some absolutely fascinating work being done re the probabilities of life forming, way higher than anyone thought likely) so that you can form your own educated opinions about it.

But be careful, when many "Creationists" talk about "evolution", they get nearly all of their facts wrong. They make up a theory that is utter nonsense. That, of course, is easier for them to knock down. But it's so far removed for the actual theories of evolution that their arguments prove absolutely nothing.

Btw, 'accepted' in science just means that most of the specialists in that field agree with a theory. That's way different from the way the word is used in religious circles. Be careful about confusing the two.

Answer 4

It's important for you to study evolution, and related science, because some creationists are engaged in a propaganda war against science (some deliberately, some simply to prop up their 'faith', and some just because they would prefer to insert their own words in to God's mouth) and their main technique to to spread misinformation and lies about what science actually says. The only way you can see through this propaganda is to study what science says yourself. On an individual scale I guess it's only a matter of your own personal interest. But on a wider scale, the more successful the anti-science propagandists are, the more damage they will do to humanity.

Answer 5

It is not important to study the Theory of Evolution, exept that it is a study in logic, methods etc.. and theories can be questionned and can be changed. So one can sturdy a theory and not believe it. Evolution as a theory is full of errors and omissions and gaps of logic but it is a theory and not a dogma.

Creationism on the other hand as written in a Book that is supposedly "inspired by God" (not the ONE UNIVERSALLY accepted God but the tribal God of a desert tribe in the near East) is more of a "dogma" and cannot be changed, quesionned or amended. So it is not a 'science" but a "faith" issue. Let us learn science, and if we want to we can "memorize" dogmas and "cathechism" etc..

Evolution as part of life and of learning will always correct itself as new information becomes available because of new discoveries or new technology.

Do not believe anything blindly anymore...Question everything!!

We have to change so as to survive. We will mutate as we have mutated to this point and that is not "written" in any HOLY BOOK so the Theory of our evolution will change. A book that does not include Dinosaurs is hardly a credible account of life on the Planet. There is physical evidence of that.

The hope is that the rituals of religions that are "war-mongering" and who glorify killing, with God as the "reason" for the killing will eventually disappear. They will not change. The old Greek and Roman myths and their pantheon of gods has not changed but are now in "history" as they once were "memorized" and "immortalized" as "dogma". Religions do not die, they just disappear into "HISTORY"...

Cyril Borg, the Cyborg

Answer 6

Well, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter, and you are right, Evolution doesn' t disprove the existence of a god or gods. It doesn't prove it either, it actually makes no comment on it at all. Evolution is actually open for debate, it doenst' have a catechism or dogma that is fixed and unchanging and unchangable. It currently is simply the best scientific, naturalistic explanation of why life as we know it, IS the way we know it. If a better explanation is hypothesized, and answers the questions better, then evolution will fade into history as a nice idea that didn't quite work....like Newtonian physics when Einstein came along.

It does however absolutely refute the claims of the biblical story of creation ,and fundamentalist christians, who take the bible to be the literal word of god, are offended by it. Other christians who don't take the bible quite so literally, but still think of man as a "special creation" are offended as evolution really says that humans aren't that special, we are just another kind of animal.

The most fundamental question all humanity has is where did we come from, why are we here? In pre-scientific times, the answer was provided by religion. Now we know better, and it is simply that why should you go on believing an erroneous belief system, when there is a better explanation? We don't still believe that there are witches with magical powers (well, some of us anyway) because we have scientific explanations of what used to be called witchcraft.

Your constitution guarantees you the right to believe creationism in the privacy of your own home. Where most of us atheists have an issue, is when you want to teach creation in the schools to impressionable young minds. It is not factual, it is not scientific, and it has been clearly shown in the Dover School Board decision to be non-constitutional as well. Your right to believe in weird things stops when it impedes on my childs right to have an evidence based science education, free from religious dogma masquarading as science.

It is creationists who have made this an issue in R&S, not the atheists. We just try and explain it. I have no problem with creation being presented along with OTHER religious creation myths as part of comparative religioun study. But it doesn't belong in a science classroom.

Science is so poorly taught (especially in US schools !!), and so poorly understood by most of you jesus-heads, that our explanations are usually wasted, however, I keep trying. Science is not simply a collection of facts to memorize and spout back on a test. Science is simply the best, most unbiased and objective way we have ever invented for exploring and answering questions about the world.

Answer 7

If you accept the idea that evolution doesn't disprove God, then why wouldn't you accept it or study it? I don't understand how you wouldn't be interested to know how exactly God created life on earth, if you do indeed take the approach that he was the one who kickstarted the evolution process.

Answer 8

Evolution is not a religion, it is science and it has been proven. Evolution continues and can be observed and tested. It is unfortunate that the truth contradicts some books of mythology that some still hold to being "the word of God".

Religion will evolve someday and drop it's attack on evolution. As more become educated, the more ridiculous it will be to continue attacking evolution. It wasn't too long ago religious fanatics believed that the earth was flat and that the sun revolved around the earth.

Answer 9

Of course evolution is a sort of religion,and of course evolution's followers will deny it as being such.They are as religious in preaching evolution as Christians are at preaching God's Word. Only thing is, only one side can be right. Only time will tell.
I have to address this to wonder weirdo and John S.
As non-believers in God I can understand why you don't want your children taught Creation Science in school,but I am a Christian and I believe it should be taught,because I don't want OUR children taught what WE don't believe in. Creation Science is also science with scientific back-up. So,why are your rights more important than ours? I've seen many atheists say that they don't influence their children's decisions on what and what not to believe. How are they going to have the choice to choose for themselves if they only hear one side of the issue? And please,don't use the lame excuse that creation science is based on a religiuos belief in God only,because that's not entirely true. Creation Science is also a science that deals in proven facts, just like you all claim evolution is.

Answer 10

i do no longer think of you're an atheist, you only do no longer understand what to have faith and understandably so. seem on the selection of religions obtainable, each and each claiming to be "the only". i'm no longer religious and that i do no longer flow to church, because of the fact i can't detect a faith that i think of is "the only" i'm very religious, I pray for various issues...I pray our squaddies to come again residing house risk-free and quickly, for the homeless, for the elderly that stay in poverty. i think of i'm praying to God, i'm undecided the two. yet i comprehend i'm praying to a extra physically powerful being than me. What he's named is immaterial it nonetheless the comparable being we are all praying to in spite of your faith. in case you're undecided only seem around and sweetness on the wonders of nature.