There is a new wave of people claiming that evolution is a hoax and ...?

Question

that the lineage of primate skeletons are fake. Who is spreading this? It's all there. It does not rival the Bible or disprove the exsistence of God. What is the mix up here?

Answer 1

Yep, it's being pushed by the Machiavellian "Discovery Institute" in the USA in an attempt to push Christianity and society to a more fundamentalist, conservative position. It's all propaganda, deception and lies, targeted at the general public. There is no debate what-so-ever in science. But unfortunately the propaganda is working.

Answer 2

I don't know what the mix up is. It is really hard to fathom. Before Darwin, no one from any church tried to enforce a completely literal interpretation of the bible. No church officials denied that evolution took place. It was obvious, as Europeans began to encounter the rest of world, that the millions of species of animals on earth could not have fit aboard Noah's ark. Even if the story of Noah were literally true, various animals must have evolved from the original stock aboard the ark. Evolution occurs. Darwin did not create the theory of evolution. Darwin came up with the idea of Natural Selection to explain the mechanism of evolution. This is what set the church on edge. If selection were the work of some intelligence, say God, then no problem. We see human selection causing evolution among animal and plant species all the time. Surely God could be doing the same thing. And humanity was the end result of God's planning. However, Natural Selection doesn't require God's intervention (although it doesn't rule out God as the prime initiator of life, either), and we aren't necessarily the end result of evolution's efforts. We are just the result of genetic drift, random mutation, and natural selection. But look at it this way. The ancients not only knew the world was round, but were able to calculate its circumference with a fair degree of accuracy. Even so, for nearly 2000 years after Eratosthenes figured out just how round the earth was, most people still believed the Earth was flat. Even to this day there are flatworlders who think space photos are hoaxes. Don't spend too much time worrying about those people who cannot accept reality.

Answer 3

every generation since darwin has these,

the different reasons? well if you think something is wrong then what do you look for,

Some people have convcluded by following the list back to god that the earth is only few thousand years old. Saying the earth is million years ago is different than this.

Also earth created in 7 days and man created with that. Evolution etc contradicts that.

Answer 4

if evolution is real then christianity and creation couldnt be, the bible says that God created man, not some ape thing (and actually "lucy" the austrolopithecus found was not an upright walker as later fossil evidence has shown.) that evolved into man. scientifically, the earth couldnt have been around even 20,000 years ago if the electric currents that make up the earths magnetic field, the heat generated would have dissolved the earth kinda hard to be millions of years old if you think about it.

Answer 5

It really doesn't matter. In the case of evolution, it all had to come from somewhere, every cell, every molecule and atom. It has always been in a particular order one way or the other. The mix up perhaps is how scientists measure the age of remains or the species that existed in the past. The scientific findings are not always consistent because of new methods of testing etc.

Answer 6

nicely in the starting up, your idea of ways evolution works is a touch askew. Evolution does not "tell" mutation something, animals collect traits by mutations over huge numbers of generations, and if the mutation is functional, it sticks. the first cells did not favor to understand what sound replaced into, because sound did not play a area of their survival. Sound purely performs a area in macro-aspect animals as a attitude to survival (eg. listening to a predator). The mind of route developed first, because its necessary for such a good number of necessary applications. The ear purely extremely performs a area in listening to and stability. The primitive eardrum likely stared out as a attitude to detecting rigidity in water and developed to be able to detect sound. you think sometime we did not have ears, and then sometime we did, yet this honestly befell in very small steps over 1000's of thousands of years. We amassed a mutation which replaced into some variety of primitive kind of our ears, which replaced into effective, then we saved amassing mutations until eventually 1000's of thousands of years later, we've the ears we've.

Answer 7

I really don't know. Isn't it ridiculous. All you need to do is look at any living thing, and you can see that it did not just "pop" into being!

It got to where it is little by little. Through stages of growth, which could also be called stages of evolution.

But I do not really mean to call the beliefs of others ridiculous.

I think in most cases, they don't really believe it themselves.

And I agree with you. Scientific beliefs do not rival the Bible in any way.

Answer 8

It's nothing new.

Christians believe that God created man as he stands today. that there was no evolution at all. God created Homo Sapien Sapien, and Homo Erectus, etc etc.

Evolutionists believe that we evolved slowly over time from apes to become the thinking man we are today.

I personally go with DEVO on this one:

"God made man, but monkies applied the glue."

Answer 9

If man evolved then there is no God and I don't have to be good to my fellow man. But no matter how many or how long or how strong people believe a thing can not change the truth.

Answer 10

Evolution has all the evidence on it's side. Creationism is a lie that Christianity has been caught in. The christians will lie and delude themselves but the evidence is there. The refusal to acknowledge the truth, is the primary reason I can't stand the Christian religion.