VERY GOOD QUESTION !!!!!!!
Yes it has.
NOTE: Religion is not just based on a God or gods being worshiped. It is something that is REAL to the believer in it, and that it takes FAITH to believe in. Yes this can be a god, but it can also be an IDEA. Do not Evolutionists tell Christians that God is merely an idea they made up? So, there is no trying to say "Evolution is not a religion because Evolutionists don't worship a god" to refute my answer.
One has to believe in something for it to be real to them, one also has to have Faith in something that cannot be proven. This could easily apply to Evolutionists.
Faith then springs forth as religious doctrine or basis, and Evolutionists DO HAVE teachings similar to doctrines, as well as basis for their beliefs and faith in Evolution being real, although they cannot see it taking place.
Evolution is basically a religious philosophy. The issue, therefore, is not science versus religion, but religion versus religion (the science of one religion versus the science of another religion).
It does not take much effort to demonstrate that evolution is not science but religion. Science, of course, involved observation, using one or more of our five senses (taste, sight, smell, hearing, touch) to gain knowledge about the world and to be able to repeat the observations. Naturally, one can only observe what exists in the present. It is an easy task to understand that no scientist was present over the suggested millions of years to witness the supposed evolutionary progression of life form the simple to the complex. No living scientists was there to observe the first life forming in some primeval sea. No living scientist was there to observe the Big Bang that is supposed to have occurred 10 or 20 billion years ago, nor the supposed formation of the earth 4.5 billion years ago (or even 10,000 years ago!). No scientists was there--no human witness was there to see these events occurring. They certainly cannot be repeated today.
All the evidence a scientists has exists only in the present. All the fossils, the living animals and plants, the world, the universe--in fact, everything, exists now--in the present. The average person (including most students) is not taught that scientists have only the present and cannot deal directly with the past. Evolution is a belief system about the past based on the words of men who were not there, but who are trying to explain how all the evidence of the present (that is, fossils, animals and plants, etc.) originated. (Webster's Dictionary defines religion as follows: "... cause, principle or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith." Surely, this is an apt description of evolution.) Evolution is a belief system--a religion!
Fossil bones to not come with little labels attached telling you how old they are. Nor do fossils have photographs with them telling you what the animals looked like as they roamed the earth long ago.
When people visit a museum they are confronted by bits and pieces of bones and other fossils neatly arranged in glass cases. These are often accompanied by pictures representing an artist's impression of what the animals and plants could have looked like in their natural environment. Remember, no one dug up the picture, just the fossils. And these fossils exist in the present. For example, in Tasmania there is a sandstone bed containing millions of pieces of bones, most of which are no larger than the end of your thumb. The evolutionists have placed a picture at one particular excavation so that tourists can see how the animals and plants lived in the region "millions of years ago." You can stare at those pieces of bones for as long as you like, but you will never see the picture the scientists have drawn. The picture is their story of their own preconceived bias, and that, ultimately, is all it ever can be.
The only way one could always be sure of arriving at the right conclusion about anything, including origins, depends upon one's knowing everything there is to know. Unless he knew that every bit of evidence was available, he could never really be sure that any of his conclusions were right. He would never know what further evidence there might be to discover and, therefore, whether this would change his conclusions. Neither could a person ever know if he had reached the point where he had all the evidence. This is a real problem for any human being--how can he ever be one hundred percent sure about anything? It is something of a dilemma, is it not? It is like watching a murder mystery on television. What happens? It is obvious. Halfway through the viewer knows who did it--the butler. Towards the end, this conclusion is still obvious. Three minutes before the end, new evidence is admitted that you did not have before, and this totally changes your conclusions. It wasn't the butler after all!
However, starting with the irrefutable evidence of the Scriptures, we are told that in God the Father and His Christ" ... are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge" (Colossians 2:3). There is no way any human mind can know all there is to know. But we have Someone who does. This ends our dilemma. We are in no doubt that what God has revealed in His Word is truthful and accurate. He is not a man that He should lie (Numbers 23:19) about anything. In time, we will know more fully. He will add to our knowledge, but He will not change what His word has already revealed.
2007-01-28 19:18:06
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answered by Jewel 3
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Some of adherents treat it much like religion in that you are not allowed t question in in the classroom even if there is no mention of God. Simply question or raising problems about evolutionary theory isn't permitted in the classroom and this is documented. There was a biology teacher Roger Dehart who tried to bring in articles from main stream science magazines that questioned or revealed some of the problems with evolution. The school board was threatened by the ACLU. Usually the ACLU likes to be the vanguard protector of free speech but in this case they were more interested in protecting Darwinian orthodoxy. A good couple of books to read are the Icons of evolution by Jonathan Wells and Darwin strikes back by Thomas Woodward. You will be shocked but what you read in these books. Charles Darwin himself was more honest about the problems he saw within his own theory. he was troubled by the lack of transitional fossils which he believed should litter the earth. And the problem with the Cambrian explosion which seemed to go against his theory. In the Cambrian explosion there was a sudden appearance of many differing body plans with no apparent predecessors. As time has gone by this has only increased with the discoveries in the Burgess Shale.
2007-01-28 19:25:53
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answered by Edward J 6
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Evolution (science) is -- or is like -- a religion in that they both, along with philosophy, are models through which we understand and experience the world around us. Evolutionists often believe that their model is the only right model and that it answers all; just as religions of the past have done and do. Scientists are like priests in that they both explore the validity of their own models (though thru different means) while applying themselves to what they believe to be beneficial to society in general.
However, I think that the religious like fervor we are implying springs from a more fundamental source -- that of society and humankind. The eras previous to the modern one had monarchs who could falsely accuse you of anything and put you to death; the Church burned witches and others that didn't agree with their own model.
The bigger picture is that modern humanity in general is determined that you can believe whatever you want to believe as long as your beliefs do not effect the state of another. When such beliefs do, we are then determined that such beliefs demonstrate that they accurately reflect the world at which they are aimed. Religions are largely incapable of achieving this since they deal more with the ephemeral.
When religion leaves the ephemeral, such as creationists opting to teach children that God spoke humans into existence, it is not evolution that is threatened but the whole fabric of modern humanity, precisely because the model of evolution more accurately reflects what God's potential creation -- the planet earth itself -- tells us.
This is not the time or place to discuss the major flaws that are intrinsic to evolution, but the general notion is supported by what we find in the physical world.
2007-01-28 21:11:02
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answered by Howard K 2
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Why do religious people try to discredit evolution by calling evolution a religion and thereby using religion in a derogatory sense, surely that has a double negative effect that discredits all actual religions more than it discredits evolution which happens to be fact based science ...not faith based religion.
2007-01-28 19:24:33
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answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5
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Some supporters treat it as if it were (I call them the "disciples of science" because they defend evolution more on an emotional level than a rational one).
However, that doesn't make it a religion.
2007-01-28 19:20:17
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answered by Anonymous
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Probably,
Evolution is under the Religion & Spiritual section of Yahoo Answers
You cannot find it in Science & Mathematics section of Yahoo
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2007-01-28 19:45:05
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answered by Esteban 3
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It cannot become a religion because it is based on facts. And as more facts come to light and our understanding deepens older hypothesis make room for newer ones. Religion is based on faith and very rarely change even if facts that contradict it are clearly visible to everyone.
2007-01-28 20:05:01
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answered by Rabble Rouser 4
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NO, I don't think so. I fail to see why this question is repeated. How could evolution be a religion? Religion involves worshiping a god.
2007-01-28 19:18:54
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answered by MyPreshus 7
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No evolution can never become a religion because it is based on facts, and facts have no place within religion.
2007-01-28 19:15:15
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answered by anon4nw 2
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irreligion---is today's religion.
I dont blame them----religion is man made---just like the theory of evolution is man made.
God reaching out to man, is true faith.
Not what man does for God-------What God does for man is the real issue. A relationship-----------not a code.
2007-01-28 19:20:19
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answered by Lover of God 3
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