Evolutionists, why has violent crime skyrocketed since 1963...?

Question

which happens to coincide with the very first year evolution was taught in schools? Only one logical explanation,people finally found a way to leave God out of the equation,meaning they could live their lives as they chose to with no answering to ( they think) to a Higher Being.

http://www.evolution-facts.org/worldviews-violence.htm

ok kids, read the chart CAR-FUL-LY.. the ratio of violent crimes in proportion to population growth has gone way way up. (see the source,btw. under the chart.)
The vast majority not agreeing only makes Jesus' words truer than ever( wide is the path to hell, narrow is the path to heaven)

In Christ,
Jeff

ERI....um...where is this Utopia you have found and how do I get there? (rolls eyes)
School violence gone DOWN since the 80s?! Tell that to the parents of the victiums @ Columbine,Jonesboro and many MANY other victims of school shootings in the past 10 years.

Answer 1

I think you gave your own answer there.....but I agree with you

Answer 2

Crime rate goes up with the density of population. Happens everywhere. The cities have become more dense as time goes on.

You could also blame it on courts deciding to rehabilitate rather than punish. That was also a 60s thing and it is more likely the cause. I could suggest other causes like the criminalization of drugs, welfare, government housing (which concentrated poverty), increased reporting and awareness, etc.....

The problem with the argument you are making is there are many factors and you give no supporting evidence to tie it to religious beliefs. How would you explain the disproportionately low percentage of atheists in prison populations?

Answer 3

sorry you are wrong.

True that crime in the US started to spike in the 70's and 80's, but started to fall dramatically in 90's and is still falling. We have similar crime rates per thousand people as the early 60's and much lower than in the 19th century (OK we can only really know the murder rate in the 19th century and not the overall crime rate).

Maybe you are taking about absolute numbers. The number of people who live in the US has increased over the past 40 years so more overall crime. That being said the crime rate per 1000 years has been falling since 1990 or 1989.

Answer 4

1.) QUIT calling us "evolutionists"!
2.) This is what is known as a correlation without causation. That means that there are two events which may be correlated, but it is impossible to decide that one caused the other.
3.) Violent crime is actually on the decrease. Evolutionary theory is still being taught in schools. So... there goes your theory, bub!

Did you know that in the 1950s teen pregnancy rates reached an all-time high in the U.S.? That was also the time period "under God" was placed in the Pledge of Allegiance. Only on logical explanation--pledging allegiance to a god makes teens have unprotected sex.

Yeah, see, it doesn't make much sense when I do it, either. Try again!

Answer 5

In the time that has passed since you asked that question, I've spilled some coffee, my neighbors are playing really loud music, and I think I've sprained my ankle. Coincidence? I think not.

PS. What's this about God being out of the equation? Great, finally I can go on that killing spree I've always dreamt of!

Answer 6

That's funny. Do you realize school violence has gone down since the 80's? Dramatically? That's about when we took god out of the schools.

How does that change your stats? Or did you know how to interpret them in the first place? I'm guessing not. Ever heard of correlation vs. causation?

Answer 7

The fallacy in your argument is that generally crimes are committed by ADULTS, and evolution was being taught to children. The impact of teaching evolution would not be the crimes would immediately spike, because the criminals were taught in the pre-1963 schools, but that it would rise that age cohort would become adults.

There is certainly more than one logical explanation, but good try in trying to frame the debate as saying there is only one logical explanation...

Answer 8

You've been listening to too much Dr. Dino nonsense... in the same tape he tells you how to get out of paying taxes... which has him currently awaiting a jail sentence.

Correlation and causation are 2 completely separate things. If you are trying to blame a rise in violent crime on knowledge of evolution you are way off base. I'm sure the rise in crime doesn't exactly begin in '63 as you claim, and by singling out one factor you are ignoring thousands, even perhaps millions of other factors that either alone, or in conjunction with one another could actually have a causal relation to the rise in crime.

Answer 9

Oh, brother. You really are reaching on this one.

Violent crime skyrocketed for a variety of reasons, none of which has to do with evolution being taught in the schools. Try the availability of drugs, the release of social controls due to a reaction against the repression of the McCarthy era, ever-increasing overpopulation and the societal ills it brings... there's so many other reasons that it isn't even funny, and evolution isn't even on the list, much less at the top of it.

Answer 10

It's a meaningless statistic. There are plenty of factors that could contribute to the rise of crime. Population growth. Overcrowding. Cross culture immigration. Also consider that before 1963 it was considered socially acceptable in many ways to beat one's wife and children. And now it is less so. So many such crimes went unreported, and wouldn't fit into your graph.

Answer 11

Actually, I notice that the population of the U.S. "skyrocketed" between 1963 and today as well. The percentage of people committing violent crimes has gone down.

So, I guess, by your logic, teaching evolution in schools has made violent crime go down.