Why do Christians continually make the mistake that Evolution says something about how life began on earth?

Question

Do you people have any idea what you are talking about? Evolution does not say anything about how or why life came into existence on our planet.

Answer 1

There's a certain type of Christian who insists on reading their own ways of looking at the world into everyone else's words and actions.

Witness the answers above from people who've decided that your statement supports creation by God. They have no clue what you're talking about, so they just riff on their beliefs.

Some Christians have made good faith efforts to educate themselves about evolution. The problem is that fundamentalist and evangelical publications and preachers use a 'theory' that doesn't have anything to do with scientific understanding. All of the assumptions are wrong; that evolution is about the beginnings of life is just a part of that.

If they had a good understanding of the models of evolution and how the processes actually work, a lot more of them would accept it as a solid theory. As long as they're misinformed by their preachers and authors, they'll continue to think that it's bunk.

Answer 2

For the same reason that for centuries the Christians asserted that the earth didn't move and the sun did, just like the bible says.
Now most Christians spend their time denying that the clear words of the bible mean what they say and that the earth does revolve around the sun.

Eventually, Christians will deny the bible says that god created each creature de novo just like they deny that the bible says the sun, moon, planets, and stars are just lights embedded in the firmament. Until then, they make up arguments about how evolution cannot be correct.

It would be easy enough to say (as many Christians do) that god uses and controls evolution for his own creative purposes (divine selection rather than natural selection). The problem for Christians who believe in the bible as literal truth is not so much evolution but the age of the earth. The bible is quite clear that the six days of creation occurred 6,000 years ago. The fact that every single measurement in every single scientific discipline argues otherwise is lost on them.

Answer 3

enable me ask you a query to boot. If someone stabs a pregnant lady killing the fetus in the womb, ought to the stabber be responsible of homicide inspite of if the female lived? ought to he only be charged with attacking the female, even although the direct objective replaced into the unborn newborn? even as the Bible does no longer get particular in this area, that does no longer advise that a incorrect isn't dedicated. only because something isn't born, that does no longer advise that's no longer alive. Abortion is homicide, undeniable and straightforward.

Answer 4

I don't, Evolution has no idea how life started, it also has no solid evidence for how it evolved, just a hypothesis, which they change to suit themselves when evidence comes up that doesn't fit what they thought. This would be okay if they did not try to say that intelligent design is not an option. Science should follow the clues, but most are worse for trying to make facts fit the theory of evolution, than Creationists are. I never understood why evolutionists keep trying to tell me how a race was run, when they can't even figure out how to start it.

Answer 5

You are correct, Darwin's theory didn't go there. BUT it was well accepted that the warm soup theory or Abiogenesis was real and ties into Darwin's theory. Although a scientist and author of many College text books explaining this theory has recanted this and also Darwin's. I saw him on a TV show about this.
Quite interesting.
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Answer 6

Very true. But to be fair - a lot of non-theists also make the same mistake.

Answer 7

I heard a great on on a documentary on HBO:

Interviewer: So, what do you think about people like me that believe in evolution.

Girl: Well, I guess you just haven't checked all the facts.

Answer 8

i see too much speculation and wrong interpretations by most christians about evolution and their own religion. it is pointless to argue with people who are set in their ways and ready to die for them, so its best not to even waste the breath it takes to start the convo of telling them just how wrong they are.

Answer 9

The introduction to Genesis and to the whole Bible ascribes everything to the living God, creating, making, acting, moving, and speaking. There is no room for evolution without a flat denial of Divine revelation. One must be true the other false. All of God’s works are good, great, wondrous, and perfect.

Man starts from nothing. He begins in helplessness, ignorance, and inexperience. All his works, therefore, proceed on the principle of evolution. This principle is only seen in human affairs: from the hut to the palace; from the canoe to the ocean liner; from the spade to the plowshare to machines. But the birds build their nests today as at the beginning. There is growth and development within man, but no passing, change, or evolution out from one into another.

For this theory or fallacy of evolution to be true there would be evident stages of evolution today. You would be able to find species in many stages of evolution in nature right now. For this theory or fallacy of evolution to be true there would be no God. And that’s exactly what evolutionists believe and are trying prove. The evolutionist bases his or her conclusions on human assumptions and reasoning, instead of on the documentary evidence of the manuscripts.

Answer 10

I really can't figure that one out. They keep parroting "oh... so you think we all came out of NOTHING?? Cuz that's what you're saying if you buy into evolution!!!"

*sigh*

So sad.