Your flawed reason...
2006-12-04 17:19:32 · 7 answers · asked by Jay S 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I believe in God
2006-12-04 17:29:15 · answer #1 · answered by Lolitta 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I do not reject the theory of evolution but embrace it. Those people I know that reject it in favour of creationist theory, and argue that I am a heretic, have usually had some some calamity in life that has led them to believe in creationism. Whether this be a lost member of the immediate family, drugs, booze, car accident or just waking up in the morning and seeking help. Others have been led to to believe by parents who are trying to save their souls that evolution is evil.
I say let them believe what they want and make up your own mind. Respect the opinions of others until they do not respect yours. Then let evolution perform it's function.
2006-12-05 04:42:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the theory of evolution postulates that because Humans and apes share a common ancestor, and that Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodyte) share similar chromosomes to us, we therefore evolved from the same ancestor that monkeys came from.
Evolution does not acknowledge the fact of a higher, omniscient/omnipotent being that created everything, and are still struggling to find the origins of man. Scientists reason that something must come from something, thus they reject God as being the one that created everything, and instead choose to believe that the first thing on earth was possibly some obscure, single celled organism, whose DNA structures underwent mutations many times to bring us to where we are today.
What, super cell eh?
If that's the case, then how the toot did that cell know how to mutate to become us?
Thus human beings, as "smart" as ever, postulate the existence of some other "force" that caused the change. Think Aliens.
*rolls eyes*
I guess religion and the belief in an omniscient creator should come from within a person; what that person holds to be true. I certainly believe in a creator, and that I humbly accept that my brain is incapable of comprehending the mysticism of His power. Furthermore, there are many signs that I have witnessed for myself- and I feel sad for those that reject God's word, because they think they're smarter and wish to rely on themselves.
Oh well.
In any case, the theory is still not proved, but its difficult to disprove it because the theory postulates that evolution is change in the heritable traits of a population over successive generations. The fact that scientists hold on to is that HUMANS SHARE SIMILARITIES to apes and that is caused by a result of shifts in the variable variations of the units of heredity (i.e. allele changes over time) Atheists reason that they'd rather believe in something that can show some modicum of proof, rather than believe in something that cannot be seen.
To each his own, but I reject the theory of evolution on these grounds:
1. Its still not proved
2. Similarities shown between species are not necessairily proof we evolved from them because God can just choose to use the same chromosomes in chimps and humans.
But then again, to each his own, you know?
2006-12-05 01:39:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science scares people, because they like to believe that there is an "unknown" and "uncontrollable" fate of the universe. They like to think that there are things that only God can know or control. And science takes these things that people like to think of as "out of our grasp", and turns them into lab results and logic.
Why people are afraid of science and knowledge? Well, the afterlife and death are a huge reason. For a while, we couldn't explain a lot of things about life and nature, but now we can, and it will only grow from here obviously. But faithful people fear a time when the only thing we cannot explain is the afterlife.
To a lot of people, faith means that they have left their mark on the earth, and that they will be able to enjoy this mark in the afterlife. To more science-oriented people, we leave our genes, and nothing else, and it's over after that, and to some people that's just not enough, and I for one can understand that.
2006-12-05 01:31:22 · answer #4 · answered by Brian B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did not reject evolution but I think a lot of people have done.
2006-12-05 01:27:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably cause it still wouldn't explain where that first cell/microbe whatever (which later evolved into a money, then human being) came from
2006-12-05 01:28:07 · answer #6 · answered by kerol 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably based on religious education or the fear of death.
2006-12-05 01:21:42 · answer #7 · answered by wilkobali 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋