For those who believe in evolution, Why do you believe in it?

Answer 1

Because it's a scientific fact.

Answer 2

I accept evolution as a resonable theory for the development of life on Earth because there is an ever increasing volume of evidence to support it. I don't "believe" in evolution.

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“To believe in something is not the same as knowing something. Intrinsic to the concept of belief is (the) implication that there is an opposite to belief, disbelief. Not everyone will believe something is true, but all sane and rational people will acknowledge an observable fact.

The only way belief can be experienced is in the mind. Facts can be experienced both in the mind and by the senses...and what is more, unlike a mental hallucination, the sensory experience can be shared with others.

It is a common error of human beings to allow belief, to allow a mental construct accepted on faith, to become so important, so obsessive, that it is taken as the same thing as fact. Indeed, there are many emotional reasons why a person might be driven to do this, but it still remains that any belief is purely mental whatever it's origin, and the mind can be mistaken.

This means that all beliefs have as part of them an implied doubt. Facts cannot be doubted, they are observably real.

When belief is assumed to be fact, when this mistake is made by a mind clouded by a motivation to assume belief as fact, that belief is considered beyond doubt, just as is a fact.

Beliefs beyond doubt are inherently dangerous. They are dangerous because they are often acted upon as though they were facts, and the inherent weakness of this is that a belief is not a fact.

Beliefs can be, and often are, wrong.” (Jennifer Diane Reitz)

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Much of the discussion in this forum tries to pass belief for fact. I do not accept Creationism or Intelligent Design as reasonable theories because they rely on belief, not facts.

Answer 3

Because the scientific method that gave us the atomic theory, the theory of relativity and the theory of gravity also gave us the theory of evolution. That's a pretty impressive track record.

None of them are the absolute truth, but they all work. And more importantly, there are no competing theories that can rival these. If there is a better theory on the origin of species than evolution, we haven't seen it yet. Intelligent Design is unable to explain and predict anything, so it's a pretty useless theory.

You can still believe God created the universe and everything in it, but science is pretty good at telling us how he did it (unless God is decieving us).

Answer 4

How many educated people in sciences know the evolution cannot explain the existence of a sign cell?

Also I believe in Environmental Adaptability, I do not believe that 'evolution' can create new species, but rather that the DNA inside the organism promotes the transcription of new genes into proteins by certain environmental factors.

Those who just look a few bones and come to conclusions shouldn't call themselves scientists.

God-willing I will write a book explaining this topic in detail once I am able too.

Answer 5

Look at the facts. Everything evolves or goes away. Man is the best documented case but all living creatures do it to some degree. Evolution is not a question if but if you questions is rooted in the beginning of the human animal that is another topic.

Answer 6

I look around in the world, and it is obvious to me that dogs are like the cousins of bears, being more similar to them than they are to cats, and yet dogs, bears, and cats are more similar to each other than they are to lizards, and yet dogs, cats, bears, and lizards are more similar to each other than they are to sharks, and yet all of those are more similar to each other than they are to octopi. Having known large families of people, it's just obvious that these similarities are a matter of lines of physical relation-ship.
But that doesn't mean that I necessarily believe in the standard theory of evolution. Having learned about magick I have discovered that animals feel and think, and that in almost-not-surviving situations they can do magick as well, so it seems to me that evolution happens not from background radiation and not thru random mutations, but as a result of survival-oriented animal magicks that have only somewhat gradually changed (like goats into giraffes) over hundreds of thousands of years.

Then too science has this pesky habit of stealing a little bit from magick and then working, over and over again. You must agree that antibiotics work much better than excorcisms do, and if chemistery is somehow informed by evolution more than it is by Deific pronouncements, it lends validity to evolution.

I and the world are eagerly awaiting Religionists who are more interested in following and demonstrating their own religion than converting others to it or limiting our options.

Answer 7

Maybe it is because all available data backs it up, and none of it refutes it. It does not take faith to 'believe' evolution, just a brain.

Answer 8

i believe in evolution because of the scientific findings thus far
i believe in evolution because even something as small as a virus can change and evolve once immunity has been found
i also believe in God though

Answer 9

because unlike most of the stuff in the bible, we have something called PROOF
Why does everyone say "believe"
evolution is a fact. go check out the natural history museum or something

Answer 10

What the question should really read is...

If we evolved from apes/monkeys that got smarter, why do we still have the dumb monkeys and not the super smart ones who came in between as evolution took place?

Answer 11

It is currently the best explanation for a plethora of observed (and predicted) phenomena. And with every passing day the evidence accumulates in favor of its main tenets. In short, like many other scientific theories, scrutiny has revealed it is coherent with reality. (By the way, most major Christian religious authorities agree with it.)