Just admit it, it's like a religion to you. So don't complain if I call you "evolutionists". No more, no less
2007-02-13 11:23:38 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
LOL! Look at all of those angry people who don't know about me!
2007-02-13 11:30:36 · update #1
Yes, I'm a homo, and a trickster
2007-02-13 11:31:36 · update #2
Ah yes. The moment of being basheddd...
2007-02-13 11:33:45 · update #3
Feel free to call me a gravitist too, jackass.
2007-02-13 11:26:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Evolution is based on an interpretation of fossil evidence and geological data - NOT faith, as is the case with religion! Whether or not evolution is correct, it is still science, not religion, and belongs in science classes! Creationism (or its disguised twin, Intelligent Design) are NOT science because they start with a premise (God did it) that they are unwilling to give up no matter HOW the evidence weighs in. Darwin, on the other hand, came to accept that evolution was true BECAUSE of the evidence!!! - There's a BIG difference, folks, and if you can't see it, then you don't know enough about science to lecture people on the subject! (P.S. just to be clear, I'm NOT an evolutionist... but that doesn't mean it isn't science, it just mean I'm personally not convinced yet. It STILL belongs in school!!!)
2007-02-13 11:35:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not like a "religion" to me. I just believe it. Call me an evolutionist, or whatever you want. I don't think believing in the theory of evolution can be compared to a religion, unless we start going out and doing all the things our "religion" says we can't do then go put money in a pot once a week and think we can buy our way into heaven......oh wait, that is christians..sorry, got confused there for a minute.
2007-02-13 11:28:26 · answer #3 · answered by Terra T 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well then my LACK of studying it, thinking about it, attending it, following it MUST then also totally reflect how other people are with their religion! Crazy! You all really are bad at following your religions then! Shame on you!
It's not a religion... evolution is a basic concept, found by studies, of how life may have existed on this planet over time. I accept it as highly probable. But the last time I actually studied it or put much attention on it was in high school. And I'm now coming up on my 10 year reunion. You tell me what kind of "religion" that would match.
2007-02-13 11:33:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You aren't allowed the change the meanings of words just because it's politically expedient.
"Religon", by definition, presupposes a supernatural deity. Evolution, as a theory, has no commentary to offer on a deity. Therefore, it is not a religion.
No matter now much you WANT it to be a religion, it simply isn't. Feel free to refer to the dogmatism of some pro-evolutionists, which I will grant you, but don't call it a religion, which it is not.
2007-02-13 11:36:18 · answer #5 · answered by QED 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If so, then I'm a gravitist as well. If a scientific theory is fully supported by all the evidence, the entire scientific community and there have been no scientific challenges to it, then I accept it.
This is not a belief in the religious sense. And it fails on just about every definition of religion.
You do know that evolution is accepted as fact by most major Christian churches, right?
2007-02-13 11:31:06 · answer #6 · answered by The Truth 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
A question like this implies that you have a lack of understanding in the theory of evolution.
Evolution is a theory based in observed facts and collected data.
Religion is a primative best guess at the origin of reality by men who lived long ago with little understanding of anything at all.
2007-02-13 11:32:25 · answer #7 · answered by hyperhealer3 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Call me anything except late for dinner ...
Evolution is a bit different from a religion in that it does not include anything about a god or about magic powers. It is simply the best model we have that uses only natural processes and our best concepts of how those might have worked.
2007-02-13 11:27:35 · answer #8 · answered by Alan 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hmmm, as a Christian and an evolutionist I don’t know quite how to answer.
I am a Christian. I follow the teachings of Christ. Christ is my Lord and Savior.
Yet I cannot deny the overwhelming evidence for evolution form so many different areas of science. Therefore, I keep science and Faith separate in my thinking. I know that God is infinitely beyond anything we can comprehend, so there is no point in trying to reconcile the human understanding of science and our understanding of God, who we come to accept by Faith.
Science, our human understanding of our world, is certainly not a religion to me and I rather doubt it is to most scientists, Christian or atheist.
When we try to understand God through our human understanding of science we are diminishing our concept of God. Stop and think about the awesome power that God must be to be who He says he is. Don’t lower Him to the level of our science.
Science and Faith must be kept separate.
2007-02-13 11:39:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is a f*cking idea that some people choose to believe in, it doesn't have rules that tell you how you are supposed to live your life. THAT is the difference.
There are millions of ideas that people believe in, it doesn't make them all religions!
Example: I BELIEVE we would have less crime if we came down harder on drug dealers. No one can prove that, it's just a belief. DOESN'T MAKE IT A FREAKIN' RELIGION
2007-02-13 12:32:43 · answer #10 · answered by God Fears Me 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not quite, if we have a creator, then by definition so must the creator have a creator. However, if we happened per chance, then the creation of a perfect being is that much more statistically unlikely. Now add what the bible says about the perfect being. It kills its own creations... No perfect being would ever have the need to kill.
2007-02-13 11:26:18 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋