Why do people say evolution is evil? Why don't they say macro-evolution is evil?

Answer 1

It takes a brilliant, witty and devilishly handsome man to explain something he doesn't believe. BOY are you lucky this morning!

Here goes:

1) Every word in the Bible is literally true; the Lord created the world in 7 days, and all of the creatures in it. (Skip the parts in Leviticus about not eating shellfish, and pass the lobster. Those verses have been superseded.)

2) If any single word in the Bible is found to be not true, the rest of the Bible is false, since the entire Bible is the word of God, and God is infallible. (Skip the part where Jesus told his followers not to pray out loud, but to hide themselves in a closet where only the Lord could hear them. Have the cameras pan over the audience, in fervent prayer, before you make your pitch for a nation-wide giving campaign.)

3) The theory of Evolution contradicts a strict interpretation of a couple of passages in the Bible. If that is true, the rest of the Bible is worthless. (There goes 5,000 years of accumulated wisdom from a tribe of a tough, smart people).

4) Since the Bible is now worthless, we have absolutely no foundation for morality. (Common sense won't keep you from murder, pillage, looting, robbery, littering, spitting on the sidewalk, rape, incest, drugs or cannibalism)

5) Therefore, given the choice between civil chaos and a strict interpretation of the Bible, start damning Evolution as evil.

Answer 2

No scientist will use the term macro-evolution in a serious discussion. The micro/macro distinction is just something the bible-beaters made up to confuse the issue. The two are the same except that one can be observed in the laboratory (and everywhere) and they other is observed indirectly via a mountain of extremely compelling circumstantial evidence.

To answer the question, usually, folks who talk about macro/micro evolution want you to think that they are smart and understand evolution. They themselves might think they do. They aren't the usual ranters and ragers.

Answer 3

Because those people who proclaim ideas they don't like as evil aren't the brightest bulbs in the drawer. There are a few people who can actually make the distinctions and create ideas like macro-evolution (evolution just beyond the extent directly observed by scientists since Darwin's era) for the sole purpose of propagating ignorance. Of course, those people aren't evil. They said so, themselves.

Answer 4

Because there is no difference between the mechanisms of micro & macro evolution. There is no barrier to prevent multiple micro-evolutions from becoming a macro-evolution.

Answer 5

Did it ever occur to you that micro and macro evolution are exactly the same thing under scientific terms?

Answer 6

I don't believe evolution is "evil." I do believe as a whole it is false. Yes, adaptation clearly exists, but that's such a small part of the overall evolution package.

Answer 7

^Except time, probability, and utility. There have been JA-BILLION supposed mutations (a scientific number, I know!), and there simply isn't enough time to account for a gradual ascent through the fossil record.

Punctuated Equilibrium does a slightly better job of explaining how it might have happened but struggles to some up with enough catastrophes to cause the speciation we see.

Answer 8

evolution is a foolish idea simple

Answer 9

People have no clue of what is really "Evil"

Answer 10

mico-evolution happens (adaptions within a species), but macro-evolution is going a little to far...