im wondering how many christians have actually studied evolution in school, because a lot of the questions about it are kind of not so educated
2006-12-07 06:59:02 · 48 answers · asked by Red Eye 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Honestly. How do you think we could ever graduate from a public school? I had to feed at the trough of evolution in every science class. Then, in college, I had to take biology, and evolution was taught. I was even an atheist then.
Nevertheless, God was able to open my eyes to the Truth. There are so many holes in evolution, that even Darwin agreed that the retina alone was sufficient to make him wonder about it.
2006-12-07 07:06:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well, I am not a Christian but I have studied evolution extensively. I devoted a research paper in college on the subject and came up with an anti-evolution view..
For an idea to be genuine science it must be produced or replicated within the observation of nature or through replication via experimentation. Macro-evolution cannot be observed in nature nor can it be duplicated through scientific experimentation. As a result macro-evolution remains a psuedo-science and not a "legitimate science."
Macro-evolution is a "religion of faith." The same as any other unobservable and unproven ideals about the origins of the Universe.
2006-12-07 07:15:59 · answer #2 · answered by Sholom 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What kind of question is that. I know you dont expect an answer, maybe you just want to disscus the issue. I will answer this, I am a Christian and I have studied evolution in great detail. Hope I have answered your question. Sorry I dont have a head-count of christians that have studied the subject.
2006-12-07 07:09:01 · answer #3 · answered by mario z 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's christians who have a problem with evolution. Many of the scientists working in the fireld are christian. I think it's only the fundies, who don't believe in it. Simply because they see it as undermining the faith they use as an excuse for their hatred and intolerance.
In truth, evolution doesn't undermine anything. I have seen some good answers from christians about evolution, and the best one was from someone who said that since the bible makes it clear that one of gods days is longer than ours, we have no measurement of time during the 7 days of creation, so it could be easy for one of gods days to be millions or billions of our years.
Even though I'm an atheist, this does seem to make sense from a theological point of view, and shoehorns the theory of evolution into the creation story quite easily.
2006-12-07 07:08:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It varies of course. Many have been formally educated and know the principles but reject it outright based on religious convictions. Others avoid it to prevent being "corrupted" by outside thought. Something I find interesting is that about 70% of parents who chose to home-school their children do so to provide moral and religious education. This majority of home-schooled children will likely not be exposed to theories on evolution.
Remember too, that there are many Christians who find evolution and their religious views to be compatible.
2006-12-07 07:09:03 · answer #5 · answered by SDTerp 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To be fair:
A forum like this is selectively biased. Most of your moderate, educated Christians do not feel a need to participate in such questions, just as most of your moderate, educated atheists feel no such need. Those who are here are here because of a passion for the topic, and this is more common among fundamentalists.
This means that the representations being made of Christians here are hardly normative, just as the representation we atheists and agnostics are making is hardly normative. For example: I am fundamentalist in a way -- I took the atheistic concept and went all the way to its logical conclusion, that being the illusion of free will, nihilism, and determinism. Most atheists I know still believe in free will... how or why they believe it exists I literally cannot fathom.
Long story short, your question unfairly biases against Christians when ultimately your question is aimed strictly at the passionate fundamentalist christians on the board.
2006-12-07 07:08:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I have actually studied evolution quite deeply. The only thing that seems out of whack about pure evolutionism is the fact that the odds of all of the needed events to take place are worse than 1/1billion. Intelligent design makes much more sense, which pretty mch says that God directly caused the steps of evolution.
2006-12-07 07:04:21 · answer #7 · answered by Andy VK from Houston 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes alot of Christian's have but the real question is what kind of Christian's are you talking about because I haven't met a christian that believes in evolution there are way to many unsolved questions and clearly no proof that we evolved from a monkey who may be smart for a animal but no way near a human brain considering also its been proved we only use 10% of it so what kinda Christian's are you talking about because the ones I know believe god put them on earth instead of from a ape .
2006-12-07 07:04:51 · answer #8 · answered by marolt4 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Darwin did not recant his theories, that is christian propaganda.
Charles Darwin recounted in his biography of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin how false stories were circulated claiming that Erasmus had called for Jesus on his deathbed. Charles concluded by writing "Such was the state of Christian feeling in this country [in 1802].... We may at least hope that nothing of the kind now prevails" Despite this hope, very similar stories were circulated following Darwin's own death, most prominently the "Lady Hope Story", published in 1915 which claimed he had converted on his sickbed. Such stories have been propagated by some Christian groups, to the extent of becoming urban legends, though the claims were refuted by Darwin's children and have been dismissed as false by historians. His daughter, Henrietta, who was at his deathbed, said that he did not convert to Christianity. His last words were, in fact, directed at Emma: "Remember what a good wife you have been."
2006-12-07 07:04:34 · answer #9 · answered by JerseyRick 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why? Evolution is a lie in a Christians eyes.
2006-12-07 07:01:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋