He was just a man who looked at something in nature, had an idea, and tried to link hat he saw with that idea. He didn't force others to believe in his idea, and he didn't attack the faiths of others. If you want to say evolution is evil, then save your anger for people like Richard Dawkins who actively work against religion. Leave Darwin alone.
2006-12-09 02:31:27 · 14 answers · asked by Draco Paladin 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I agree with you. Darwin was just a mild Agnostic who wrote a book about evolutionary theory; he himself was not that anti-religion.
Dawkins is just obnoxious, so you're absolutely right about that.
2006-12-09 02:36:25 · answer #1 · answered by . 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why do so many people characterize Darwin as an anti-religious crusader?
Because it messes with the belief they were made the way they are from the start.
When you have been taught and had it ingrained that the creation story you grew up with or have chosen to believe is the literal truth, anything that does not coincide with that has to be wrong.
So instead of having logical debates about Darwin, he gets demonized.
2006-12-09 02:43:04 · answer #2 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He made a scientific hypothesis that has been repeatedly proven as true...and since it implies something a LOT different than "God made Man, then created women out of the man's rib, then kicked back and had a few beers on the 7th day after a long hard 6 day week of creating the universe", it tends to make the fundamentalists' heads start spinning.
You'll STILL see crap like that today...like when its suggested there may have been or still could be microbial life on Mars, you'll see people like Jerry Falwell come out and denounce it.
Ignorant morons.
2006-12-09 02:43:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I absolutely agree with you. It's like they (Christian fundamentalists) are driven to attack every other god and religion going. They've decided that science is the dominant contradictory mindset in modern society -- which is just silly, consumerism is; Islam at least gets that part right -- and they go after it with everything they've got. Which includes a 2000 year history of misrepresenting other viewpoints in order to derogate them.
They've set "Evolution" up as a credo, with Darwin as its prophet, and insist on knocking down their creation. What they refuse to understand is that their 'theory of evolution' is way off the mark of what Darwin wrote and later researchers have expanded upon and clarified. They just don't get it because they just don't want to.
2006-12-09 02:41:47 · answer #4 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Darwinism basically says that science has no place for God. The universe is seen in strict mechanistic and natural terms without the need for a creator or controller. The world and all its creatures are seen as nothing more than the product of natural selection. Man is reduced to nothing more than another product of nature, an occupier with a niche in world. There is no soul, there is nothing like human dignity, nor do human deserve greater rights than any other animal.
Religious regard Darwin as the father of Darwinism although Darwin never personally espoused it. The religious even of Darwin's own time saw the implications of Darwin's theories and took issue with it.
2006-12-09 02:40:28 · answer #5 · answered by Dr. D 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
A lot of Darwin theorists have very little understanding of the man and his opinions. Darwin did NOT rule out the possibility of a Creator.. He just disagreed with the allegory in the book of Genesis.
2006-12-09 02:38:03 · answer #6 · answered by Rev. Two Bears 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Greatly agree,but you're not going to convince alot of people. And besides Christians always have the myth of Darwins death bed disavowment of the theory of evolution to hang on to when all else fails. It didn't happen,but many Christians truly believe it did so that's cool.
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2006-12-09 02:35:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Darwin created the -theory- that Richard Dawkins and others follow...
2006-12-09 02:34:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Darwin was actually studying for the ministry when he went on the Beagle. It was the Victorian equivalent of a gap year.
2006-12-09 02:34:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I wish these folks would realize that science doesn't say anything about gods one way or the other.
Gods are by definition supernatural and therefore outside of the realm of scientific study.
If the christians themselves cannot reconcile reality with their dogma, it's their own problem, not a problem with science.
Dawkins sees religion as an impediment to science, to learning, and to rational thinking. I tend to agree.
2006-12-09 02:36:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋