If the entire scientific community accepts evolution, should you?

Question

"No they dont!"

Thats true, out of the hundreds of thosands of scientists worldwide, maybe less that 1% dont accept it.

But they facts are plain. Almost all scientists do. Why? Are they are evil atheists trying to get you religious people? I was raised by a scientists and lived among scientists my whole life. They are not very political as a group, and have only one alligance...scientic data and the logical conclusions that must be true. Thats it.

In fact, the very reason people become scientists often has to do with the fact that, science, offer the only arena of objective truth. Scientists are often socially retarded, but when it comes from objectivity...no other group comes close.

Answer 1

A couple of funny facts about creationists:
- As a fetus every one of them had gills and a tail.
- Their DNA, suite of thousands of proteins and biochemical reactions, cellular organization and division are essentially identical (and in no way superior) to, say, rats, bananas, or even amoebas (all eukaryotes)
- They are classified as "Primates" :
Kingdom: Animalia (yes, they're "animals")
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Mammalia
Subclass: Eutheria
Order: Primates, once again that's Primates
Suborder: Anthropoidea
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: Homo sapiens

To say, "I didn't come from [a common ancestor with] apes!" is similar to saying "I don't have to breath air!"

Nice mammaries, btw.

Answer 2

Scientists are no more objective or ego-free than any other group of humans. I've heard of literal fights breaking out at conventions regarding such dry topics as to what happens in the interior of the sun, or whether T. Rex was a scavenger or a hunter.

Don't forget, any scientist who proposes any theory that steps out of the mainstream, such as the early doctors who thought that cleaning wounds prevented infection, or that bacteria caused disease, where often laughed to scorn and had their ideas violently attacked by their own peers.

The main reason that I have heard for scientists to support evolution often amounts to, "no one has thought of any other explanation that does not involve a god of some sort". So what? Shouldn't science simply accept whatever conclusion that the data points to, even if the conclusion is incredible?

On the other hand, to be fair, I think that the main reason that religious people reject evolution is that atheists misuse the theory to ridicule religious people's beliefs.

Anyway, there is a book entitled "In Six Days: Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in a Six Day Creation" that has essays in it as to why some PhDs reject the idea of evolution. Some of the essays are on-line for free at the link below:

Answer 3

When you say the entire scientific community - that includes a lot of scientific disciplines that have absolutely zero to do with astrophysics, astronomy , or biology - the areas of science where they know most about the universe and the study of living organisms, including their structure, functioning, evolution, distribution and inter-relationships. There are probably thousands of scientists who study insects, flora and fauna, plastics, mechanical engineering etc who are born again christians, and why not? Their fields of expertise teaches them no more about how stars are created or what holds the universe together or evolution, than cookery does. Of course there are many, [if you include all scientific disciplines] who don't believe in evolution, possibly even most scientists, but those in those fields that most closely know - they do believe that evolution is the most likely, and certainly more likely than creation. I would have thought that even creationists would have realised that. I have never heard any evolutionist, or Atheist say virtually ALL scientists accept the theory of evolution. Just those whose disciplines take them to areas of science that touch on where we came from. Your survey results are not even slightly surprising.

Answer 4

Evolution is a funny thing.

Do I believe I came from apes? Of course not, that's silly.

Do I believe things can EVOLVE and ADAPT to their environment overtime? Sure.

I believe there's only one creator-God.

Look at Darwins years of research, what did it prove?
All his studies of the finches and how some beaks were longer than others and some had this and some had that. But after all that, and exuse the Gertrude Stein, but a finch is a finch is a finch is a finch.

Apes don't turn into people over time just like finches don't turn into any other animal or bird after time.

That's the problem with evolution.

The theory of evolution (as far people coming from apes) is unprovable because it never happened and the scientific community has no proof.

The scientific community has proof of very little if you think about it. That's why they call it the "theory" of evolution, it's just a theory. There's no proof and there never will be because it never happened.

The theory of evolution should be dismissed and instead we should accept the facts of adaptation.

Answer 5

You should never just accept something based on consensus. That's a logical fallacy. Of course, many people just believe in the religion of their particular birthplace (family, nation, etc) due to consensus, so it's not something humans do sparingly.

You should read what the scientists have offered as evidence, follow up with any questions you may have, and form a logical deduction about the answer.

More than likely, most of us can't do this as 75% have an IQ of 110 or below. For the masses who have difficulty with logical thought, I'd say for their safety, they should just believe what scientists tell them. There is room for abuse, but nothing more than that from priests.

Answer 6

1%??? You need to give more details as far as what parts of evolution you are referring to. The age of the earth? Evolving from apes? I happen to believe the earth is thousands or maybe even 1.5 billion years old. Mankind didn't show up on the scene till about 6,000 years ago...when God created us. If we keep evolving then where are all the transitional fossils? Wouldn't they be abundant? Also, what may be taken as fact now could possibly be proven wrong later. Example, Lucy our missing link ancestor is just a species of ape yet shows in all museums and textbooks. I believe we adapt to our surroundings and thus evolve that way but we don't form new species. Lot's of stuff doesn't add up for me. Creationism is what I focus on and that seems to answer a lot of my questions.

Answer 7

No. It doesn't matter what the entire scientific community accepts. All I need is the bible. In fact, if you look at what the scientist's discoveries, what they have done, they actually confer and agree with creation and not evolution.

Answer 8

It is still listed as theory because there are a few holes (missing links, for example).

But the entire spiritual community accepts that God exists (in one form or another) - so should you?

Science is slowly catching up to what mystics and yogis have been saying for millenia.

Even a centure ago, the idea of going to the moon was absurd.

Science does not yet have all the answers.

(just the flip side of the same coin)

~ Eric Putkonen

Answer 9

The usual tired responses and wordplay. Creationists, before you respond click your brain in gear. Consider the fact that almost without exception professional biologists with years of experience accept evolution as an indisputable fact. How credible is it to glibly dismiss their views. Face it you have a credibility problem-they can't all be deluded liars.

Answer 10

Evolution offers a chance for people to forget about their sin and think they have no need for a savior.

"The fear of the Lord is the begining of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction."- Proverbs 1