Why do so many uneducated Theists believe that they can all of a sudden intellectually debunk scientists?

Question

Key words: UNEDUCATED THEISTS. There are plenty of educated Theists out there.

Anyway, why do so many uneducated theists all of a sudden think they can intellectually debunk scientists? Just a few questions back someone asked "Can evolution be called science?" Wow, just brilliant. I guess all those THOUSANDS of people that spent about 10 years in college to get their Ph.D. can't understand what science means compared to your High School educated self (saying you went to High School is already a leap of faith). I just don't understand how these people can take these plunges to make assertions over things they clearly don't understand. Why is it that all of a sudden in science like evolution it is okay for someone with no credentials to make these comments, yet if we were talking about building a skyscraper, these people already realize maybe the person who makes them knows a little bit more about the topic than they and shouldn't comment when they have no knowledge on the topic?

Answer 1

I have understood that you do not mean to offend all Theists. But I have seen plenty of answers here that have been very much against Christians. I am a Christian and I am not uneducated. i am pursuing an MA and I will be starting a PhD next fall (I'm sorry I'm not smarter, but I'm only this old, I didn't have the time to study more). but this doesn't mean that I don't believe in God. i mean, I am a very rational person and can believe things that can be proven to me, but God is not supposed to be proven. I could really give so many examples, but this would last for so many pages that nobody would bother to read it. But I do agree that there are people who still think that you're supposed to believe without researching or even take the Bible (for example) literally, despite the fact that it has been interpreted allegorically from century 3 AD (Origen). I'm sure still that those people are so defensive because they are afraid.

Answer 2

See your problem is your mixed up, and slightly brainwashed. Creationism was the main belief up until the 19th century, and all of a sudden people thought the saw a way that they could avoid believing in God, called it "science" and said it was the truth. Most Creationist scientists are JUST as knowledgable as the evolutionists, in fact most of them have PHD's . They are also capable of looking at science from another prospective, which evolutionists are not, and by doing so they are able to find flaws. Evolution is a science, as science is the study of life, but evolution is not neccesarily the truth. Most evolutionists have been through college and were told the fundementals of evolution as fact, and didn't think twice about it. They then go on to add their own little touches to it without thinking that the fundemantals have major flaws. So they may be very knowledgable about evolution but not really about science in general. Creationists are able to call it wrong because they spend there whole lives (after their phd) shooting wholes in the theory of evolution and watch evolutionists freak out to try and find (or make up) answers to the problem. The uneducated ones listen to what the educated ones are saying, see that evolution has no answer, and therefore can make statements, using research to back it up.

Answer 3

I don't know whether I would qualify as an educated or an uneducated theist, but I have no interest in "debunking" scientists. I believe in God and think that it's as much my right to defend that belief as it is yours to defend your beliefs--in evolution, science, or whatever you choose to believe or not believe. Just because I express an opinion that you or someone else doesn't agree with or an opinion that flies in the face of all your "proof" doesn't mean I'm trying to debunk anything. I admit my beliefs can't be proven--period. I'm ok with that. I'm also ok with free speech....and like to exercise that option on forums like this one. Just please don't assume you have all the answers because you're more "educated" than another. Maybe if you're looking for "educated" only answers, you've chosen the wrong place to post your questions.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

If you ask a question, all are free to answer. There are a lot of educated "idiots" so to speak. Acts speaks where the apostles were perceived as being not well educated, but they possessed a lot of Biblical knowledge. Just because you have a Ph D. doesn't really mean you know anything worth wile.

Answer 6

There are educated theists too that say the world is 6000 years old. Do they scoff at reports like the 25 million year old frog that was just found in a piece of amber?

Answer 7

Hey Einsten did it

Read the below

A University professor at a well-known institution of
higher learning
challenged his students with this question: "Did God
create everything that
exists?"

A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"
"God created everything?" The professor asked.
"Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied.
The professor answered, "If God created everything;
then God created evil.
And, since evil exists, and according to the principal
that our works define
who we are, then we can assume God is evil."
The student became quiet and did not respond to the
professor's hypothetical
definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself,
boasted to the
students that he had proven once more that the
Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "May I ask
you a question,
professor?"
Of course," replied the professor.
The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold
exist?" The other
students snickered at the young man's question.
"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists.
Have you never been
cold?"
The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not
exist. According to the
laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality
the absence of heat.
Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it
has or transmits energy,
and heat is what makes a body or matter have or
transmit energy. Absolute
zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat; and all
matter becomes inert and
incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does
not exist. We have
created this word to describe how we feel if we have
no heat."
The student continued, "Professor, does darkness
exist?"
The professor responded, "Of course it does."
The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir.
Darkness does not exist
either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light.
Light we can study, but
not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's prism to
break white light into
many colors and study the various wavelengths of each
color. You cannot
measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break
into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can
you know how dark a
certain space is? You measure the amount of light
present. Isn't this
correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe
what happens when
there is no light present."
Finally the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does
evil exist?"
Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course, as
I have already said.
We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of
man's inhumanity to man.
It is in the multitude of crime and violence
everywhere in the world. These
manifestations are nothing else but evil.
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist,
sir, or at least it does
not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of
God. It is just like
darkness and cold, a word that man has created to
describe the absence of
God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of
what happens when man
does not have God's love present in his heart. It's
like the cold that comes
when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when
there is no light."
The professor sat down.
A true story...the young man's name ~ ALBERT EINSTEIN

Answer 8

When it comes to Christians, not having a clue as to what they are talking about just makes them talk louder.

And let me point out that it is Christians we are talking about here. No other religion has such a big problem with the idea that life, the universe, and everything evolved over billions of years. Some would hold out for special creation of the universe (billions of years ago) and others would hold out for special creation of the soul (not of man, just of his soul). But only Christians, and generally only mouth breathing fundamentalist Christians hold out for the view that god zapped everything into existence in 4004 BCE.

Answer 9

I can debunk Anything I want to--Hahaha--and, I don't have to be Smart Either! So there!
And, I don't have to be Educated Either. Hahaha.
So there!
I just have to be Stupid Enough to do it, for some Reason, What-Ever they may be.
No Study, no pain no gain, just Stupid.
Enough to do it.
So There! Hahaha.
Ya, so there.
Yeah, stupid.

Stupid is as Stupid does.
Ditto...................

Answer 10

here's a question for you: if bacteria are the most simplest and the first lifeforms here then why haven't they evolved with everything else after the trillion-bazillion years of existing (or at least get a nucleus)? why don't you ask that to your o-so-precious evolutionist scientists

in Christianity, if you know everything in the bible then it all LOGICALLY makes sense, or at least to them, besides, evolution still isn't a proven science. period.