What exactly is so threatening about evolution?

Question

Evolution is a practically proven process (look at animal breeding) of how life CHANGES not how life necessarily began, I am just trying to understand the threat it poses to creationism that warrants such outrage.

As far as macro vs. micro... i think it could be the same principle. Although I am not a creationist, could evolution from a single cell not still be divine intervention? How are you supposed to know the exact method? Evolution could equal mechanism from single cell to humans, or is god not powerful enough to pull that off?

To Paul Mcdonald:
That little truth is nothing more than complete evidence that genetics traits/mutations can become more prevelent in selective breeding.
1. Shouldnt you change your theory when it's disproven? seems sensible that your ideas "evolve" with intelligence.
2. Science was never meant to disprove god, just explain the hows and whys... sorry but that point was just silly and not thought out.
3-6. No creationist can ever use these points against evolution, at least none with knowledge of history.

Wow, OnfireforJesus:
Hitler may or may not have believed in evolution but regardless, he was in fact christian so that seems to negatively affect the christian religion as well. To say he commited those acts DUE to evolutionary theory is ludicrous, however, history does support countless atrocities in the name of god... is that not threatening to you as well? Certainly it must be more threatening than evolution, and should it therefore be banished? PS Macro evolution is not a load of crock, there have been multiple massive mutations in single generations... but to expect a cat to birth a whale... I'm sorry but I do not believe you are adequately informed to counter argue evolution.

Answer 1

People fear changes....that's pretty much the way it goes. if you have spent your whole life believing something and then something comes along and disproves it....then it scares you. I mean look at how they are back tracking now...Saying that its possible that they can both go together...and that God let stuff evolve but he still created Adam and eve...its funny to watch them rationalize

Answer 2

Micro evolution is true. it is proven to be sientific, but macro-evolution is such a big lie! Have you ever seen a cat give birth to a whale? the answer is simple...it is NO. The other types of evolution are totally off. they have so many lies in them. Geographic Column is only found in the text books. There have been found petrified trees that layed in two different layers. How do you explain that? And why are their animals that are supposed to be exstict 5 million years ago still alive????? Why has the age of the earth (according to evolutionists) been changed so many times over the last centuary?

And what do you mean by "what ecaxtly is so threatening about evolution?" Did you know that Hitler believed in evolution and that's why he did soooo many evils. He tried to get rid of the jews b/c he believe they were almost pure apes. He was trying to speed up the evolution process. I think that's threatening, don't you?! I hope I have answered your question well enough.

Answer 3

I don't find it threatening. I have pages and pages and pages of scientific proof of creation. I have a list of scientists who USED to be evolutionists and atheists and during their studies, found PROOF that evolution is wrong, and became believers of God. I look at reality..I look at findings that have been proven..I look at LIFE, at everything on this earth. I am not an uneducated person, I am not naive'. I don't LIKE to see people believing in false statements, but really, it is your life. I know in my heart God exists and that the bible is true. I have proof in my own life of that. I used to be soo against God..atheist would have been a "nice" word for what I was. The fact that I am now saved and believe in Him and follow Him and devote my life to Him, is an absolute miracle and never could have happened without Him.
I am not here to shove my beliefs down others throats. I just don't like people with different beliefs acting like anyone who believes in Creation is a retard..a mindless slump. Tell that to all the scientists who have spent their lives studying this and have found proof in creation. I am very well informed, as I am sure many others who believe in creation are too. I respect your beliefs..doesn't mean I agree, but you have the right to believe what you want. I just feel "we" should be respected too. I have no outrage...just don't like to be treated like some big dummy, as I am far from that. :-) Have a great day!

Answer 4

micro evolution poses no threat, but to take it all the way back to life starting in a single cell and then growing and changing into all the others is just another attempt to negate God. To those of us who know God, that is not acceptable. God created man. To say that man used to be a monkey is in opposition to God being the creator. This large scale evolution is just a theory, there is no proof of it. Micro evolution is true though, it's easily seen.

Answer 5

There is no threat. The creationist Christian camp bases their beliefs on the literalistic interpretation of scripture. Many others, including myself, have studied the historical context and the Jewish faith and realize that the writers were not trying to literally outline creation as much as they were contradicting the beliefs of their Babylonian captures concerning multi-gods. Our perception follows the understanding that God created, but in a manner that evolves over time. Just parallels the evolution of the human heart for many people of faith.

Answer 6

The people who believe in it. I have met several Creationists who will conceed that evolution is a possiblity, but I have never met anyone who believes in Evolution who will even concider creationism as a possiblity. And, honestly, I"d love to meet one.

Answer 7

I am also trying to understand the threat that creationism poses to evolution that warrants such outrage.

Answer 8

What's so threatening? Because a little truth (animal breeding) has been expanded into a big lie (My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpa was a rat).

The danger then becomes that people can support the belief that life is random and that might makes right. Wanna go down that path?

"Evolution" as a theory for life's origin is threatening because:
1) "Scientists" keep changing their theory every time it is proven wrong
2) "Scientists" use evolution as an attempt to oppose God
3) "Scientists" use evolution to belittle and reduce people
4) "Scientists" use evolution for political gain
5) "Scientists" use evolution for personal advancement


The list can go on and on...

Answer 9

I don't find evolution threatening. Evolution has been scientifically proven, as you said, as the process of *changes* in life. However, it is not what caused things to appear out of nothing. Everything first came into being when it was created.... by God, of course.

Answer 10

For hundreds of years the church feared the teaching of heliocentrism. Then Galileo was condemned for pointing a telescope towards the sky. It was not Galileo the church was afraid of, he was only one man. It was the sky the church feared. Similarly it is not Darwin the religious nut cases fear, rather it is the history of life on earth.

Answer 11

Evolution is a threat to the house-of-cards faith in the bible's infallibility, which collapses at the slightest breeze of scientific proof.

Not a compliment to "God", to believe a book has more value than truth.