just curious, where does the church of scientology stand on evolution?

Question

how do they think it happened if they don't believe in it?

Answer 1

Scientologists believe that the human race's evolution was controlled from the outside by alien spirits that were imprisoned on Earth. These spirits did this so they could inhabit and control us. I'm serious about this.

Of course, there are even some Scientologists that do not know that this is the belief of their faith. But there have been enough leaks from the inner circle for us to judge by. There is a reason why they keep these things secret - they certainly SOUND bizzare, neh?

Answer 2

Actually if you study Darwin's theories you will find that he also had many unanswered questions. However these theories are still only part of the "possible" biological developement of the human body or "homo sapiens".
Scientology is concerned with the spirit, or spiritual nature of man. Not his current physical body form, so there is no need for the Church of Scientology take a "position" or "stand" on this issue. Hence it doesn't.
In Scientology you study mainly a spiritual time track rather than a genetic one, altho there is quite a bit of information regarding the genetic time track.
L. Ron Hubbard explained fully the theology and technologies of Scientology in more than 500,000 pages of writings, including dozens of books and over 2,000 tape-recorded public lectures. So it's not really possible to fully answer your question on this forum.

Answer 3

L. Ron Hubbard is always good for a chuckle. Here are a couple web sites that attempt to summarize, but if you're really interested in knowing, your best bet is to read his book about it called "Scientology: A History of Man"

http://www.skepticfriends.org/forum/showquestion.asp?faq=4&fldAuto=60

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology:_A_History_of_Man

...sigh...

Answer 4

scientology is not really a realigon. You can be jewish, but use scientology. Scientololgy is just an altrunative to phocolgy, they belive that there is know menle illness, no depprsion or bi-polar all that stuff.

http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/

Answer 5

Scientology believes that we're all immortal spirits who reincarnate infinitely.

Answer 6

Hate boy is right thats exactly what they believe, they also believe you have to shell out large amounts of money to be taught their final truth, so Im thinking even if they did have an opinion on evalution there answers would be know better then what you already know.

Answer 7

They agree with evolution but say it was influnced by these weird things. Please know that L ron hubbard was a munipulator. Just check out the link. Scientology is evil!

Answer 8

Inteligent design, life develops living forms in a intelligent way. This is also called the conquest of the physical univerve by life.
Also for those ignorants THIS IS SCIENTOLOGY:

1. What is true for you is what you yourself observe to be true.

2. Man is his spirit not his mind or his body.

3. The spirit creates his own mind. Please, do not confuse the mind with the brain that is a physical thing. The mind is composed of mental image pictures as explained in Dianetics. These pictures serve the spirit to give him knowledge and experience. These pictures are composed of energy. The energy in the picture can affect the spirit. You can feel better by remembering something that you like or angry by remembering something else. These emotions are actually energy waves emanated by the picture. You can actually feel pain by remembering a pain memory. Sometimes these pictures are accompanied by ideas or considerations. Lets suppose that you father beat you mom up in front of you. Your father was the dominating figure so you might conclude that you have to act like your father in some situations. This is what we call on Scientology an aberration (a conclusion that is imposed to you by a mental picture). This picture is what we call a engram (a pain memory that affects your judgment and free will).

4. You can discharge the energy in these pictures through communication. This is Dianetics Auditing and is the oldest of hundreds of Scientology techniques used to improve the individual.

5. The Spirit creates his own emotions. Are you happy? Are you sad? Are you depress? Maybe you think that something external of you is creating your emotions. Maybe you believe that you are sad because you had a bad day or maybe you believe that you are happy because you had a great day. And this might be true. But who made the decision that you had a good or bad day? You did. You decided if life was good or bad, and adjusted your emotions to respond to your own consideration. You created your own emotion.
Some people are born with everything they want and are still unhappy. And others are born into humble means and are happy. What's the difference? The only real difference is each person's ideas and considerations.
Scientology uses hundreds of processes in order to help a person get a better understanding and a better outlook in life by using his own observations.

6. Scientology Ethics. Ethical people take full responsibility for their actions. Un-ethical people blame others for their actions. "Wrong doings" diminish and deteriorate the freedom of the spirit because the need to justify the "wrong doing". So the spirit is enslaved into repeating the "wrong doing" in order to justify the original "wrong doing". The road to freedom lies within taking full responsibility for your personal condition and actions, past, present and future. Scientology provides the tools to help the person able to be fully responsible over his life thus rehabilitating his ability to be good and self determined.
Also Scientologist base their conduct on a non-denominational code of conduct. http://twth.org/eb/?id=16664j

7. Scientology and God. Scientology acknowledges the supreme being and promotes the individual search for closeness to God trough religion.

8. Scientology vs Psychiatry. Psychiatry believes that self awareness, feelings, love and faith is merely cellular activity. Basically they think that you are your brain and you are not in charge of your behavior but your cells are.This is a totally materialistic point of view that denies the spirit and God. Psychiatrist is a pseudo science because it is based in principles that are false. Psychiatry have never proven that any "mental illnesses" (like they call it) has any connection with a physical illness. Any Neurologist will tell you there are no medical test to identify a "mental illness". All Psychiatrists base their diagnosis on opinion and opinion alone.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3895596783332855545&q=Psychiatry+is+fraude&hl=enhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8443414209115892468&q=scientology&hl=en
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?p=cchr&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&b=1&oid=12085d1e6c58d04e&rurl=video.yahoo.com&vdone=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fvideo%3Fp%3Dcchr%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3Dmss%26ei%3DUTF-8
Happiness, exhilaration, depression and psychosis are states of mind, not diseases. All what you have to do to stop being depress is change your state of mind. How you do that? By changing your ideas and considerations. Scientology provides the tools to achieve a better state of mind in accordance with your own point of view.
Also Psychiatrist excuse the most horrendous crimes as mental illnesses. This is actually creates a sense of irresponsibility in society because it tells people that they are not responsible for their actions. Second they promote that drugs are the answer for your problems. This message promotes the use of drugs to find release from life and creates the current drug addiction problem in society. Drugs will only give you temporary false release but will never solve the source of your problems.And actually drugs will keep you away from finding a true spiritual release.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4437051883726295326&q=psychiatry&hl=en
Note: Scientology doesn't have anything against Psychology or Neurology. Also the mere awareness that you are a spiritual being and not a body makes you better person.

9. Scientology is the only church that doesn't ask for donations from their parishioners during their Sunday Services. All chapel services are 100% free. Scientology earns it's money by delivering courses and auditing. Courses and auditing are optional. You do not need to take courses and auditing to be in Scientology. All you need to do to be a Scientologist is to read the books and apply Scientology to your life (like I do).
But if you want auditing there are many ways to achieve this.
a. You can do volunteer work in your local church and get your services for free.
b. You can study to be an auditor and do all your auditing with a fellow student (this is called co-auditing). This way you can also provide free auditing to your friends and family.
c. You can hire a professional auditor to do your auditing.

10. Scientology and aliens. The story of Xenu is just a fable like the story of "Jonah in the Whale" in the bible. Fables are not intended to be taken seriously. The story of Xenu doesn't have any significance on Scientology beliefs.


11. Scientology is so advance and so different that people can't understand it. People think that they know everything there is to know about life. And when they see Scientology they jump to conclusions when in reality they don't have a clue what are they talking about. The reality is that man attacks what he can't understand.

12. Anti-Scientology propaganda is just that, propaganda. It is false, fantastic, deceitfully and absurd. People that do this propaganda, do it out of terror, they are terrified of people going free and Scientology does exactly that. The reasons that they attack Scientology is because Scientology works and Scientologist can't be controlled. Scientologist are the free people of this earth. Scientologist fights Psychiatry, the pharmaceutical companies, criminality (http://www.criminon.org) and drug addiction (http://www.narconon.org). Also Scientology fought and won against the FDA and the IRS. And Scientologist initiated the social reform group "Youth for Human Rights" (http://www.youthforhumanrights.org) and the movement "Say no to drugs and yes to life" (http://www.notodrugs-yestolife.org). Scientology is a force for good in society. And Scientologist are some of the more intelligent, able and successful people in this planet. Including Jenna Elfman, Kelly Preston, John Travolta, Priscilla Presley, Sofia Milos and Leah Remini. Even Danny Masterson from the that's That '70s Show is a Scientologist.

13. I can PROVE that the information in those Anti-Scientology sites is false. For example those sites allege that Lisa McPherson died of neglect when in fact it was determined by several forensic examiners that "Lisa McPherson, died suddenly and unpredictably of a blood clot in her left lung that originated from a knee bruise she suffered in a minor auto accident 17 days earlier." The forensic examiner that originally said that Lisa died of dehydration and bed rest (Dr Joan Woods) admitted that she didn't perform the autopsy and after examining the facts she changed the cause of death of Lisa to be natural.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/57230113.html?dids=57230113:57230113&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jun+13%2C+2000&author=CRAIG+PITTMAN&pub=St.+Petersburg+Times&edition=&startpage=1.A&desc=McPherson+case+expected+to+haunt+medical+examiner+Series%3A+STATE+DROPS+CHARGES+AGAINST+SCIENTOLOGY
And those sites alleges that Lisa McPherson was held against her will when in fact Lisa was taken to the Scientology resort by her own request. In Judge Quesada's own words "Based on the undisputed facts of this case, plaintiff has not made and cannot make a showing that Lisa McPherson was unlawfully restrained 'against her will' by the defendants. In fact, all of the evidence indicates the opposite. Lisa McPherson refused psychiatric observation or admission at the hospital; she expressly stated her desire to receive the religious care and assistance from her fellow congretants"
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/access/74470672.html?dids=74470672:74470672&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jun+22%2C+2001&author=ROBERT+FARLEY&pub=St.+Petersburg+Times&edition=&startpage=3.B&desc=Church+scores+round+in+death+suit
And I can keep going and going but it really it doesn't matter Scientology grows by word mouth alone and doesn't care about the media.
http://www.chaplaincare.navy.mil/Scientology.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm
http://www.beliefnet.com/sem/scientology-religion.asp?source=YAHSCT&campaign=096&medium=PPC&nopop=1&WT.mc_id=YAHSCT&WT.srch=1