Don't understand why some people believe evolution is contrary to religion?

Question

I just don't understand why some religious and non-religious people believe that evolution is not compatable with Holy Scripts.
I just don't get it. I feel the same about stem cell research and coloning. This is a free for all forum, I respect freedom of speech and have positioned myself in a learning, open minded position.
Thank You people of all beliefs and preceptions.

***To Flandago: Definition of Some

Being an unspecified number or quantity: Some people came into the room. Would you like some sugar?
Being a portion or an unspecified number or quantity of a whole or group.

You sure are mad. You sure get offended by things that have not base for offending people. I took a netural stance, but I guess ignorants like you will seek reasons to get angry and profess that he or she knows what all religious people believe. It must be a great responsibility knowing everyone and having all the statics to all religious people view on evolution.

Answer 1

That's because these people are literalists. Which means they believe that every single thing written down in the Bible is true, as is, with no room for interpretation.
So if it says God created the world in six days, they think it's six days, not six days and four hours; six days. The ark was 40 cubits long, not 42, not 38; 40.
If you ask me, that's a pretty narrow view of things and it misses the point entirely (there's nothing spiritual about it), but that's how these people think.

Answer 2

You can go a lot of ways with this. See, the word for day in Genesis is the word 'yom.' But see, the word 'yom' is used in over three hundred other parts of the Bible to mean not a day, but a specific period of time. A lot of evolutionists will argue that this implies the possibility for each of the six creation days, and the seventh resting day to be more than a day, maybe even millions of years. This is more than likely not true however, because when the word 'yom' was used in Genesis, it's used with a phrase 'yomeched' which means "The first day." There's also a phrase for the second day, third day, etc. Every other place in the Bible where the phrase for the first day, or the second day, etc. is used, it implies a literal 24-hour day. This is strong evidence that the genesis days are literal 24-hour days. Since the account of the Beginning seems to be accepted by most creationists as just over six thousand years ago, I think it's more like 7500 years..but, that's from my own gatherings, it suggests that the earth is very young, within 10,000 years at the most.

Answer 3

Evolution is a problem for people whose religion requires them to make a strict and literal interpretation of the Bible. In the Bible God makes humans from dirt in their present form along with other animals and plants. So evolution contradicts this. It also takes many billions of years and according to their Biblical calculations the world can't be old enough. I don't think they have to necessary contradict either but it depends on your perspective I guess.

Answer 4

Couldn't agree more. A few months ago I saw a survey in the journal of Nature that said 40% of American physicists, biologists and mathematicians believe in God--and don't think Science and Religion have to contradict one another. Here is one of my favorite quotes from that article.

"As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency - or, rather, Agency - must be involved. Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being? Was it God who stepped in and so providentially crafted the cosmos for our benefit?"
-George Greenstein (astronomer)


"I want to know God's thoughts,..... the rest are details.."-Albert Einstein

Answer 5

I agree. The only disagreement comes from people who have not studied the theory of evolution or Darwin.

The book-burner mentality.

People who say the Bible is exact, infallible and the perfect word of God have two problems to overcome.

1.) They have made a god out of a book, which is idolatry.

2.) according to Revelations, the second coming of Christ was a thousand years ago.

Answer 6

The Bible says that God created Heaven and Earth. It also says that He created man----He didn't form him from some single celled organism that crawled from the sea- but from the earth (dust, dirt) and breathed air into his lungs. He created woman from the rib of the man.
He also created each of the animals of the land, fowl of the air, and fish of the sea.

This can all be found in the first book of the Bible (Genesis).

As far as this being fantasy, (as was so tactfully suggested by earlier posters), it makes a lot more sense that the earth was created by a big boom, NOT!

Answer 7

Actually, religion is contrary to the scientific evidence.

As for stem cell research, I don't understand why excess fertilized eggs can't be used even though they're going to be destroyed, but national health care isn't even on the political table. "Sanctitiy of life" anyone?

Religious assholes have had their way MUCH too long.

Answer 8

Get you facts straight: your use of the word "some" in your question is misleading. It implies that they are in the minority. Nothing could be further from the truth. More than 90% believe that theistic evolution is absolutely nonsense. Both theists and evolutionists absolutely reject this position.

The evolutionists have no place in evolution for God. The theists believe that God can do better than that. If He couldn't, He's not much of a God.

Personally, I hate it because it's a position of straddling the fence: Theistic evolution is a compromise.

Answer 9

Evolution says nothing about the existence of God. Those who read the Bible as literal take great umbrage that evidence indicates the world is billions of years old and life was not created as it is.

Answer 10

There are not too many people who completely disregard evolution. Most that seem this way are trying to make a name for themselves, or have other motives