Why do so many scientists endorse Evolution?

Question

Wayne Friar, Ph.D., AIIA's Resource Associate for Science and Origins, says this:

Polls have shown that about 40% of scientists acknowledge a supernatural power. But the majority of the scientific community, especially evolutionary leaders today, hold an atheistic worldview. As support for their anti-supernatural worldviews, these scientists need mechanisms for the origin of life, especially humans.

Atheism needs evolution to escape from any implications regarding a creator. If one starts with Darwinism, certainly it is easy to escape from any obligation to God. Those opposed to their reasoning are branded as obscurantists who are trying to intrude religion into science.

Columnist George Caylor once interviewed a molecular biologist for an article entitled "The Biologist," that ran on February 17, 2000, in The Ledger (Lynchburg, VA), and is in part reprinted here as a conversation between "G: (Caylor) and "J" (the scientist). We joint the piece in the middle of a discussion about the complexity of human code.

G: "Do you believe that the information evolved?"

J: "George, nobody I know in my profession believes it evolved. It was engineered by genius beyond genius, and such information could not have been written any other way. The paper and ink did not write the book! Knowing what we know, it is ridiculous to think otherwise."

G: "Have you ever stated that in a public lecture, or in any public writings?"

J: "No, I just say it evolved. To be a molecular biologist requires one to hold onto two insanities at all times. One, it would be insane to believe in evolution when you can see the truth for yourself. Two, it would be insane to say you don't believe evolution. All government work, research grants, papers, big college lectures—everything would stop. I'd be out of a job, or relegated to the outer fringes where I couldn't earn a decent living.

G: I hate to say it, but that sounds intellectually dishonest.

J: The work I do in genetic research is honorable. We will find the cures to many of mankind's worst diseases. But in the meantime, we have to live with the elephant in the living room.

G: What elephant?

J: Creation design. It's like an elephant in the living room. It moves around, takes up space, loudly trumpets, bumps into us, knocks things over, eats a ton of hay, and smells like an elephant. And yet we have to swear it isn't there!

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Dr. John Morris, president of the Institute for Creation Research:

[Scientists] see the evidence for creation, and they see it clearly, but peer pressure, financial considerations, political correctness, and a religious commitment to naturalism force them to look the other way and insist they see nothing. And so, the illogical origins myth of modern society perpetuates itself.

Answer 1

Since it is Difficult to prove how life began, Man in his limited mind has tried to get a limited answer to satisfy his Mind...
A Limited Mind cannot understand an Infinite Wisdom.
That is God.
Only by his Word God creates things.
Psalm 33:9-15
For he Spoke and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood Firm...
God's word is creative.
Only through Faith we can understand life but since its difficult for some people to trust in things they don't see It's easier to try to find an answer to please their ego..

Answer 2

The evidence is there for evolution. As complex as the information is, too many non-coding sequences are conserved to belive that they were designed individually. The AIIA is just a Creationist Organization. An interview with an unnamed biologist is hardly evidence. Journalists have a bad reputation for fabricating quotes.

Your mavelous source, Wayne Friar, Ph.D. crumbled when testifying in Little Rock.

Answer 3

some see it as fact over fiction.

I do like the show about here is the place that might have been this from the bible.
Still they have not brought much to the table to prove at this was where something did or did not happen.
But scientists can prove evolution with hard facts.
As a person of faith I look at it like this..... how long is a day to a God or a Goddess???

Answer 4

Belief in evolution doesn't exclude a creator, how ever it allows room for facts.

Personally, I believe God endowed us with brains to realize that after almost 150 there is no legitimate evidence against natural selection as proposed in "the Origin of Species" and overwhelming evidence in favor of it, maybe there is something do it.

It disturbs me when one moment someone will say "The Lord works in mysterious ways" and the next, "But not that way" It seems to be imposing artificial limits on the power of the Almighty.

Answer 5

It's actually surprising that only 60% of scientists are atheists compared to probably 90% of atheists amongst the general population. I think determining the term "atheist" there should be a distinction made between "acknowledging supernatural" (i.e. "believing that") and be "accepting supernatural" (i.e. "believing in"). Believing that there is something out there is one thing, and believing in something wholeheartedly is a completely different thing.

I think today the nember of people actually believing in God and living their lives in accordance with their faith is not that great.

Why evolution? Because it's a convenient fix in absence of anything better.

Answer 6

This anecdote is just that, and this biologist should be out of a job. He is so duplicitous about his own beliefs that he both attaches credence to the idea of a creator and tinkers with a genetic structure that is far less than fully understood. I don't see how this is credible.

Answer 7

Because that is what happened, it is 100% fact. have you ever noticed how some men are much hairier than others? It is because that particular gene from our ape ancestry is still far more active than in other men.

PS, looks like you still have a brain the size of an ape to believe anything other than evolution, I hate people like you (with a passion).

Answer 8

According to the Journal Nature, 93% of the National Academy of Sciences is atheistic.

Answer 9

40%? I hadn't heard that statistic yet. Can you site your source? I'd like to check it out.

Atheists don't need evolution. I know atheists and agnostics who don't believe in evolution. Atheism and evolution aren't inextricably linked. Atheism is simply being without belief in the existence of gods.

Evolution is an observable, testable, verifiable natural process. It happened and happens and will happen Accept it or not... doesn't matter. It doesn't need your recognition or approval.

Answer 10

My suggestion to you would be to read and study Darwin's work and then see if it makes sense to you after that. After all, as someone who believes in evolution, I have read the bible.

Let me ask you this, which one makes more sense:

1 A book that sets out a logical and scientific rationale for the theory that one life form, over millons of years, can change its physical characteristics in such a way that it may thrive in its environment.

2 A book that claims a 900 year-old man built a boat out of wood, gathered two of each of the animal (and insect and plant?) species (in the entire world!!), managed to fit them all on this boat and feed them for 40 days, and all this after hearing the voice of 'god' commanding him to do it.

Answer 11

Two of the biggest scientific theories were proposed by theists- Evolution and the Big Bang