Why is so hard for you to accept evolution?

Question

It has happened and it's happening now and in the future, it's non stop. Open your eyes and observe.

Take a look at the effect of antibiotics. They are found to be most effective against bacteria in its early years. It's effectiveness decreases as the number of bacterial strains that are resistant to it increases and spread.
Bacteria occur in huge numbers and genetic variation occurs amongst the members of specie. A mutant bacterium will become resistant to the antibiotic and hence a decrease in the effect of the antibiotic.

How can you not believe in something that you can see, but believe in something that you cannot sense and feel in anyway?

Answer 1

People see the word "theory" and think "it's mere speculation! HA! That's not something I can put my faith in!"

*sigh* Sadly, so many are unaware of what a scientific theory really is.

They also think that evolution is "random chance" which it isn't. There's a difference between "random" and "improbable".

So many misconceptions, so many lazy minds.

Answer 2

Because faith has powerful brainwashing effects and those afflicted aren't able to see things contrary to their beliefs. I work in advertising and PR so I'm more aware than most how staggeringly difficult it can be to show truth to the religious.

The other issue is that the vast majority of people have no idea what evolution even is. Richard Dawkins has commented that the only trouble with evolution is that everyone "thinks" they understand it when really they don't. We're in a society where 48% of Americans think humans co-existed with dinosaurs... it's sad and it's pathetic, but that's the kind of people we're dealing with. It's easy for people to disbelieve something they don't understand, to be convinced something is false when they don't know the evidence or truth behind it.

For example, Evolution doesn't say we evolved from modern apes and monkeys, but rather that we share a common ancestor 5 or 50 million years ago. Evolution also doesn't pretend to claim where life began (abiogenesis is a completely separate hypothesis), it's instead a study of how life changes and how species come about.

I agree with you completely. Evolution is now a biological fact. The only thing that's still in the realm of theory are the specific mechanisms (natural selection, genetic drift, mate selection, etc.)... And even then "theory" in a scientific context leaves no room for doubt or uncertainty - it is very solid.

People just deny the obvious because it comforts them and doesn't challenge their fragile worldviews.

Answer 3

Well evolution is a competing FAITH! I will provide an explanation for: Both evolution and Theistic perspectives violate the legislation of physics: Matter can neither be created nor destroyed. So in which did all of it come from? Either it WAS created or it used to be consistently there! Both stances NEED religion to think in both aspect! Regardless how a lot the evolution aspect loves to pooh-pooh the anit-evolutionists technological know-how, they are not able to wholly. There are too many matters in opposition to it Cosmic dirt is one. It is each steady and measurable. if the earth and moon have been BILLIONS of years historical, our oceans might be muddy swamps and the moon might be blanketed in lots of MILES of dirt, no longer within the few inches our astronauts encountered. I is not going to point out others, however there are HUNDREDS, if no longer hundreds, of proofs (If that's the right time period) in opposition to evolution (as presently and previously, offered). Playing with a close countless choices and occasions (assumming, as evolutionists do) a few preferred results, MIGHT have occurred. But the mere unintentional (due to the fact that it used to be, by means of definition, no longer directed) preparations of atomic and molecular components, STILL might no longer account for LIFE! If, by means of a few danger, all of the atoms and molecules shaped a excellent amoeba, what might supply it lifestyles? Fatih is known as upon on either side. they're at the same time unusual. that's why it's SO HARD, as you set it, for Christians to take delivery of evolution, simply as it's similarly tough for evolutionists to take delivery of that GOD did all of it.

Answer 4

This is the dictionary's definition of evolution. A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form. Is the bacteria becoming more complex all on its own? To me this is part of the natural adaptability of creatures. We as humans were created to build antibodies to germs. We don't change or add anything that will be passed on to future generations in fact they all just start over. Or how we can adapt to cold or hot weather.

Give an example in recorded history or animals that have been found in the in between area. Where they are gradually changing and adding features they did not have before. That is evolution and it is not happening evryday. There are no tangible examples of it.

Answer 5

Finally, someone else agrees. You can see that everything is changing, I mean I don't know why no one accepts us from envolving from monkeys? Just compare us were just alike, and I know some people say "Then why do we still have monkeys?" Not everything evolves together, just like a growth of a plant. You plant 50 seeds, that doesn't mean all 50 will grow, or all will turn out exactly the same, and some of the seeds may take longer than others. Just a process...and it takes time!

Answer 6

Its hard to believe in evolution because its based on theory, but taught as fact in school. An so many people accept it as fact. The question should be why are all the basic life forms still here and the supposed evolved life forms not here? (that is the improved forms) But better yet how come sceince can not produce Life from chemicals as the claim is made that we started that way? Its like putting the cart before the horse.

Answer 7

Actually you are the one who is lacking an understanding at the whole issue. No one is saying that evolution doesnt happen on the small scale. This is microevolution.

The debate is over the origin of species in general. Was a whale always a whale or did it start off as some glob of cells in the sea that magically got more speciallized over time.

And if macroevolution is random and explains all of the major organisms we have today, why do we not see more fossils of evolutionary failures. There should be more failures then success stories in macro evolution but you dont find any.

Answer 8

When our belief in God precedes any other religious belief, the evidence which produces such a belief must be universal and available to every rational being, whether committed or uncommitted to a particular religion.

The Holy Qur'an offers the universe as evidence on the existence of its Creator. The material world, its celestial bodies, the earth, and the other planets, are viewed by Islam to be the main evidence of the Creator of matter and energy. The material world is observable by the atheist as well as by the believer, by the illiterate as well as by the philosopher. One may reflect on the formation of the heavenly bodies and the existence of the matter and energy without being committed to any particular religion or recognizing any religious book.

It is very hard to accept the idea that matter is infinitely old.

When one says that matter or energy is infinitely old, one assumes that the material out of which the billions of stars were built, existed simultaneously. When we are aware that each star contains billions of tons of materials, and that the balance of the raw material is much more than the material which is contained in the stars and planets, we realize the improbability of such an idea. We cannot conceive that all these quantities of materials existed at once and that nothing of it was preceded by non-existence.

To say that only a portion of the material is infinitely old, and that the other portions came to existence at a later stage, is to admit the need of a creator, because the inanimate material does not increase by self-reproduction. Only living beings are capable of multiplying by self-reproduction. To allow any gradual increase in the material quantity is to admit the need of a creator.

Yes, there is something which we all know, and it was born after the existence of the earth, namely: life. Our scientists state that earth was too hot (and some of them say it was too cold) for any kind of life to exist on it. It took the earth millions of years to become a suitable place for life. Life, therefore, is, undoubtedly, a newborn.

Science, however, tells us that life does not originate from non-living being. Pasteur's experiment, which took place in the 19th century, is still standing. Through his sterilized soup, he proved beyond any doubt that life does not originate from inanimate material. The scientists of today are still unable to disprove his conclusion.

The earth, along with its atmosphere, at the time of its formation was sterile and unproductive. Transforming the inanimate materials, such as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and iron into a living being could not, therefore, be done through a natural process. It must have been done miraculously. This means that the existence of life on this planet is a shining evidence on the existence of an Intelligent, Supernatural Designer.

Answer 9

In the first case, your question was very abrasive and offensively stated. I'm guessing that God is working in your life and you are insecure in your beliefs.
Secondly, your example of the bacteria has nothing to do with anything- a scientist working in Africa gave himself small injections of snake venom daily; he did not evolve into something else or mutate, his body merely built a resistance to it. The same thing happens when you get a cold- no cold virus is the same, so you never get the same one twice because your body builds a resistance.
The exact same thing happens with exercise- as your muscles grow, you are not "evolving," but becoming accustomed to conditions.
If you wish to continue your research, I suggest you read the Bible.
Start with Genesis.

Answer 10

To me, evolution and the chronicle of Genesis are not contradictory. If you choose to be non-literal about matters and view each day of creation as a figurative device, then you have a nice encapsulation of creation. From the void to "Let there be light!" (The Big Bang), etc. etc., we have a summary of what actually happened. And that's pretty neat if you think about it.