there are lots of other scientific theories and facts so why attack evolution?
2006-11-24 07:29:23 · 13 answers · asked by Red Eye 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In general, people who attack evolution barely know anything about it as it is. I seriously doubt they'd take the time to learn about any *other* scientific theories.
2006-11-24 07:32:46 · answer #1 · answered by The Wired 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There is no single enemy so great for the religious as the theory of evolution. Believing that god can suspend and alter natural law, things like gravity and the sun hanging in the sky for unnatural periods of time, or the parting of the red sea can be explained by doing an end run around science--they are, after all, miracles.
Evolution is different. If humans (or worse yet, all life in general) were to come about through a process that didn't directly stem from God's direct involvement, a lot of people feel it's a direct assault on God's role as creator of the universe and of mankind. Humans in particular are supposed to enjoy a special place as the apex of creation--patterened after a special divine design and capable of forming relationships with him. This is worlds away from humans as primates with freakishly large forebrains and true bipedalism. Besides that it's antibiblical. It sets the whole creation story in the same wastebasket as Odin splitting his head open with a battleaxe.
It really feels for believers, that evolution must be overcome at any effort, because if its really true then the only recourse is to either abandon religion entirely and go get a stiff drink--because who cares, right--or else try vainly to push God even more to the periphery of everyday experience and come up with some galling compromise where God created the universe THROUGH evolution and try to reframe everything. More and more Christians are taking this route, trying to bind the two ideas into an awful unnatrual hybrid--but others are trying to fight to keep their God a God of Wonders, who does big miraculous things and overturns the "wisdom" of man, and drops the jaws of the prideful disbeliever.
2006-11-24 07:42:46 · answer #2 · answered by Grimcleaver 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
evolution is the biggest threat to their faith. I have posted this several times about how it works so this time I will make it brief. Evolution removes Adam from eating an apple in the garden and getting cursed with the original sin. No original sin wipes out any need for jesus as a universal savior. No Jesus ends a religious business worth over 3 billion dollars a year. They will fight very hard to deny evolution.
2006-11-24 07:36:55 · answer #3 · answered by Barabas 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As you can see from the anti-evolution answers, science hardly plays a part in it at all. Also remember that this anti-science hysteria is not shared by most main-stream Christian religions or their theologians. Anti-evolution sentiment is a trademark of a (mostly) American "evangelical" sentiment and Islam in general. (Maybe not-so strange bedfellows.)
Science has been through this countless times; from the fudging of the Genesis definition of "day", to the reluctance of the church to concede that Joshua was full of it when he asked the sun to stop going around the earth, to the Christian battles against vaccinations because they "disturbed God's order."
2006-11-24 07:49:15 · answer #4 · answered by JAT 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Creative evolution is not a science and they claim it is science. This is taught as a fact in our school systems and creationism cannot be taught. Either all should be deleted from scholastic realms, or all should be included. Evolution is not attacked because it is a theory, but because it is the exclusive theory admitted in the curricular of schools.
2006-11-24 07:32:46 · answer #5 · answered by mesquiteskeetr 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They would attack quantum mechanics if they had a better understanding of it. I believe that quantum mechanics puts a greater doubt on the existence of god than evolution. But then again I don't think there is anyone alive who has a deep intuitive understanding of quantum mechanics.
2006-11-24 07:35:30 · answer #6 · answered by Just Wondering 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't, I believe in God and evolution. It's all about understanding evolution.
2006-11-24 07:36:49 · answer #7 · answered by straightup 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why attack the religious? (Same concept-- lots of religions)
2006-11-24 07:39:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The theory of gravity doesn't make sense either... How could Jesus posssibly have ascended if this ludicrous athiest concept existed!
2006-11-24 07:32:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
You need to get updated on your facts.
2006-11-24 07:30:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋