2006-12-10 12:19:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I find that a large part of it comes from not knowing the difference between the layman's term "theory" and the massive amount of work that goes into an idea before it is permitted to be introduced as a *scientific* theory. Not the same thing at all, folks. The word "falsification" needs to be thrown around a lot more.
2006-12-10 12:31:33 · answer #1 · answered by angk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Several generations of total brain washing from the time they are infants, lack of any decent scientific education for both them and their clergy, and the complete fear that if one word of the Bible can be proven to be in error, then their whole faith must be abandoned is the reason some uninformed fundamentalist Christians are terrified of any thought of evolution.
I am a Christian, I understand I think, that we are all selective literalists; and that we can have our faith and spiritual beliefs without taking every dot and tiddle of the Bible literally.
2006-12-10 20:27:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the theory of evolution is a huge house of cards. I'm only going to give a general outline for animals so consider it point by point and I hope you will see what I mean.
1. Inanimate matter came alive all by itself.
2. All of the complex internal chemical machines that were supposedly present in the first one celled creature just happened to organize themselves into that beneficial conjunction with no outside force directing that process.
3. A one celled creature through random mutation and natural selection became a multi-celled creature that developed gills and eyes and a digestive tract and all of the other complex parts that make up a fish.
4. This improbable sequence of events was happening all over the world's oceans and other life forms like shellfish and sponges and coral and many different types of sea creatures were all developing by pure random chance guided by "survival of the fittest".
5. Because there were plants on the land and no predators, sea creatures did what? Cast themselves up on the land till they turned into amphibians? Just started to develop lungs and this random developement allowed them to exist on the land and sea?
Once again this didn't happen to just one creature but to all of the ancestors of all of the different life forms on the land OR it did happen to just one and that life form turned into reptiles and birds and mammals all by random mutations and natural selection.
It goes on and on. You have to create scenario after scenario to explain how all of the life forms that compose a complex and interdependent web of life each existed at the right time and developed the right characteristics to cause other life forms to benefit from their existence like honey bees and flowers or food animals and predators.
Like I said, the "theory of evolution" isn't just one theory. It contains many sub-theories that all have to be accepted by faith since there is no proof that these things happened long ago. Sure, you can dig up some fossils and make guesses about them to support the theory of evolution but those guesses don't come from using the scientific method of observation. They come from a predisposition to find evidence to support a theory.
2006-12-10 20:46:47 · answer #3 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well theory in the common language is just a scientific hypothesis. A lot of religious people think it should be called the Hypothesis of Evolution evidently.
2006-12-10 20:22:26 · answer #4 · answered by Dawkins 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
like the answer above says, nobody ever explained the difference between a theory and a hypothesis to them or how they are tested or proved. They likely think that science is about doing experiments.
2006-12-10 20:25:29 · answer #5 · answered by Barabas 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A theory is just a step up from a hypothesis why give it such credence?Anything off this earth is a theory.Creationists just believe God did it. We don't know how He did it ,just that He did.I'm humble enough to know my little brain of which we use about 10% isn't capable of knowing everything.Evolutionists are egotistical enough to think they have it "all in the Bag".
2006-12-10 20:26:27 · answer #6 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
most of them dont atualy know better, so they cant be blamed.
but there are some who ignore the true definition, even after being corrected... they are the idiots.
2006-12-10 20:23:58 · answer #7 · answered by PandaMan 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Creationist are not very clever, in my opinion
2006-12-10 20:22:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
i think you need something much heavier then alcohol to make a person that stupid
2006-12-10 20:31:06 · answer #9 · answered by harro_06 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well Jesus did make water into wine...so that must be brain juice....
2006-12-10 20:23:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋