A question for anyone who doesn't believe in the evolution "theory"?

Question

My question is how could anyone argue that evolution doesn't exist? If you dont think evolution exists, then you obviously dont understand what it is or how it works.

It not a theory as to how life started. It is the process caused by natural selection that makes it so a monkey can and will lead to a human. Natural selection is when the strongest out of a species survive, and live to reproduce stronger offspring. Evolution is just what happens as a result of natural selection.

So, how could anyone argue that evolution doesn't exist? Keep an eye out for added details...

For the record I'm not an Athiest.

I agree there are a lot of gaps and questions that rise as a result of evolution, a lot of which science hasn't figured out yet.

To see how a monkey can evolve into a human, you have to imagine the monkey evolving into a "super monkey" over a few hundred thousand years or so, and then extrapolate that over millions of years.

This way you can also imagine how a single celled organism could have evolved into a human (there are a lot of steps along the way over hundreds of millions of years).

Zoril - man will evolve into a higher species, there is no reason natural selection will stop happening. Of course we'll only evolve into a higher being if we dont destroy our earth first (another question for another day!)

Answer 1

It truly baffles me.

It's like insisting the earth is flat, or that gravity doesn't exist.
How can you argue with someone like that? How can you take him seriously?

In essence, I think a lot of it is a complete misunderstanding of just how it all works, how much time is involved (people have problems with planning for a lifetime, let alone imaging billions of years go by), and plain arrogance (how can I come from slime?).

There also seems to be some confusion about the difference between big bang theory, evolution and natural selection and abiogenesis/origin of life.

Answer 2

It's very very easy to argue against. Here are three arguments:
1) Where is the proof? Please don't point to the fossil layers, they plainly contradict evolution. How can dinosaurs, which the theory says would develop last, be at the bottom of the fossil layers when they should be at the top? Don't point to this or that "skeleton" unless it was found complete, which most of them aren't. Don't tell me about DNA, it is plainly contradictory to evolution. Don't tell me about mutations, mutations don't produce new genes or new DNA, they just alter existing genes or DNA. Don't tell me about "simple cells", even the "simplest cell" is more complex than your computer. Don't tell me it evolved out of mud or a lightning strike, even in a laboratory using perfect conditions they haven't been able to produce anything even remotely like DNA, although what a DNA molecule floating around in an ocean could do to breed has yet to be explained. Don't tell me about Haeckel's excessive license drawings of evolution taking place in embryo's, after 150 years they still haven't be able to produce a photograph of this happening. So now we have got rid of the rubbish, what's left? Just a theory.

2) The standard evolutionist answer to critics is to ridicule them. This just weakens the Evolutionary theory, it doesn't strengthen it. The result will, of course, be that evolution will end up as such a ridiculous science that it will have to be scrapped.

3) It's not in the Bible.

See, I told you it was easy to argue that evolution didn't happen.

Answer 3

Why does evolution and creationism have to be mutually exclusive.?? Isn't it possible that we were created to look much different than we do now--surviving on an Earth that looked much different than it does now--and evolved as the Earth matured into the form we are now. I certainly don't believe my ancestors were once monkeys, but even the monkey came from somewhere.....I am a Christian and I believe in God creating the universe. I just don't claim to know what it looked liked when He finished, or that it looks the same today as it did then.

Answer 4

Ok, since this is the last question I'm answering today, I'll make it good since most my answers are "I just want my points".

I don't believe in evolution....I don't believe in creation either. Weird I know.

The thing is, I don't believe in creation because it's not proven (the main reason), and if I believed in evolution, it would be ignorant because that's not exactly proven either.

To me, it's WAY.....WAY....WAY more believable than creation. Actually, right now, it would be safe to say that I believe in it a little bit, but not the whole thing. I was reading a Biology book this morning, and NOWHERE does it say that we came from monkeys. I think this is the biggest misunderstanding. Theists think that people who believe in evolution are nuts because "if we came from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys in the world". What those people don't know is that evolution isn't just "we came from monkeys", it's about a very slow change that species go through. The Biology book stated that we're RELATED to monkeys, meaning we fall into the same category. Just like zebras, giraffes, and horses do.....it's not like one day a horse decided to paint black and white stripes on itself.

So, at a certain extent, I do believe in evolution....but only at a certain extent. There are many things that still need to be explained.

Answer 5

You will notice my friend responses will include Believe. That means no proof of anything. Evolution no longer means what you say it is now used to describe every thing including the origins of the universe.

You do know that men were breeding animals for at least thousands of years before science decide to tell us we could and call it evolution.

Answer 6

Cavemen existed millions of years ago. Did they evolve into monkeys and back into humans? How can you argue that it does
exist? They found some ape like human remains in africa, so what, could have been human/monkey cross breading. There is
no physical proof and there never will be.

Answer 7

I fully agree that "evolution" exists, but only within a species. If it gets colder, animals with longer hair will survive better and pass on their traits. To say a monkey becomes a human takes it out of science, and it becomes evolutionism, a religion. If evolution were true, how could we have hundreds of different birds that cannot interbreed?

Answer 8

With your reasoning then men should evolve into a higher life form.
I do not see that happening.
I cannot understand why people refuse to believe the truth that God created all life. He created man from the dust of the ground and He created woman out of mans rib.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Answer 9

I am a Christian and I believe in evolution and natural selection. I also believe that we came to this point in our evolution when we are free to believe in a god or not without being disturbed by those who call themselves atheists. This should be reciprocal so, if any of my Christian fellows bothered you trying to convert you, I apologize for him/her.
Have a nice day.

Answer 10

we accept evolution of creatures/anima. but homo sapiens/rational animal did not and dont have evolution. nothing happens by chance. God determines everything. yet, we still hae freedom of choice within the boundary of His determination.