How come some religious people say that Evolution is a religion, but 100% of the people who believe it don't believe its a religion since it doesn't address God one way or the other.
2007-01-21 23:41:55 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not at all.
It's a scientific theory, one with much more proof for it being correct than any religion has in their gods.
2007-01-21 23:44:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 2⤋
No. Evolution (and belief in evolution) is not a religion.
There is life, thought and belief that exists outside of and without religion, but many religious people have a hard time accepting that. (However, they have an easy time accepting the existence an invisible deity with a giant palace in the sky. Go figure...).
2007-01-21 23:48:53 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Some people call evolution a religion because they don't know a thing about science, but they have extensive experience putting down other religions.
2007-01-22 05:49:25 · answer #3 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose if you're willing to redefine the word "religion," then interpret the word "theory" to mean whatever you want it to mean, then misrepresent the mechanism behind evolution, then ignore the scientific data, then make some grand assumptions and false claims about the beliefs of people you know nothing about, then maybe, possibly, you could consider evolution to be a religion.
2007-01-21 23:55:33 · answer #4 · answered by Lee Harvey Wallbanger 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If we define religion as the worship of God then evolution as it is talked about by Atheists, cannot be a religion.
2007-01-21 23:47:25 · answer #5 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
This article is about evolution in biology. For other uses, see Evolution (disambiguation).
For a non-technical introduction to the topic, please see Introduction to evolution.
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In biology, evolution is the process in which some of a population's inherited traits become more common, at the expense of others, from generation to generation. This is usually measured in terms of the variant genes, known as alleles, that encode the competing traits. As differences in and between populations accumulate over time, speciation, the development of new species from existing ones, can occur. All known organisms, extinct or extant, are related by common descent through numerous speciation events starting from a single ancestor.[1][2]
Mutation of the genes, migration between populations, and the reshuffling of genes during sexual reproduction creates variation in organisms. While a certain random component, known as genetic drift, is involved, the variation is also acted on by natural selection, in which organisms which happen to have combinations of traits that help them to survive and reproduce more than others in the population will, on average, have more offspring, passing more copies of these beneficial traits on to the next generation. This leads to advantageous traits becoming more common in each generation, while disadvantageous traits become rarer. [1][3][4] Given enough time, this passive process can result in varied adaptations to changing environmental conditions.[5]
The theory of evolution by natural selection was first put forth in detail in Charles Darwin's 1859 book On the Origin of Species. In the 1930s, Darwinian natural selection was combined with Mendelian inheritance to form the modern evolutionary synthesis.[5] With its enormous explanatory and predictive power, this theory has become the central organizing principle of modern biology, providing a unifying explanation for the diversity of life on Earth.
2007-01-21 23:48:20 · answer #6 · answered by hamid67 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
evolution is not a religion the christian are saying that because thay want to try and bring god into science and have faild and all the world nows it and when thay try to do it makes the usa look like fools
2007-01-21 23:46:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
No evolution is th eprocess by which all life is formed or has it's beganning. religion is a beleif in a myth. evolution is a fact.
2007-01-21 23:47:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Evolution is a religion as is Automobiles, Money, Sex, Pornography, Etc... to a lot of people. About everything in today's world is worshiped EXCEPT God anymore.
2007-01-21 23:51:23 · answer #9 · answered by Ex Head 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
They don't have a clue and they won't listen when you try to explain something to them. I have posted numerous times stating that to be considered a religion, a god is necessary
2007-01-21 23:45:41 · answer #10 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋