Why believe in evolution?

Question

Is it because if you believe in creation that there must be a Creator and if Jesus' claims are true and did rise from the dead and speaks of a future Judgment..........that you evolutionists would be guilty before a Holy God and would need to repent of your sins and trust Jesus to save you?

Answer 1

That's not it at all, dufus.
It's because evolution has been and can still be proven by countless scientific experiments.
I can see evolution with my own eyes.

Answer 2

You are a little off base. The answer to your question "why believe in evolution?" is that evolution is the prevailing theory explaining the process of change in Earth's biological life over time.

The answer to your question "Is it because if you believe in creation that there must be a Creator and if Jesus' claims are true and did rise from the dead and speaks of a future judgment that you evolutionists would be guilty before a Holy God and would need to repent of your sins....?" is a resounding, no, that's not the reason.

Look: (a) belief that the theory of evolution is true does NOT require a rejection of creation - plenty of people accept the theory of evolution and believe that God created the universe - in fact, most Christians are fine with the theory of evolution (e.g. the Catholic Church accepts the theory of evolution as good science and most Christians are Catholic); (b) even if the theory of evolution is wrong, that does NOT mean that anybody is guilty before God - belief in the theory of evolution is not a sin. At worst, it is a mistaken understanding of how life developed and changed on Earth. That's not a sin.

Answer 3

Science is not like religion; you don't need to follow it blindly.

We *UNDERSTAND* evolution, not "believe in" it.

Do you "believe in" gravity?

And then you argue pascal's wager....

"If god exists, it's infinitely better to believe, since you get heaven instead of hell for eternity. If he doesn't, it doesn't matter since you're dead anyway. So overall it's better to believe"

Some of the problems with the argument:

* The implied assumption that god may exist (with a 50% probability, no less!)

* The assumption that there is an afterlife with a heaven and hell

* The assumption that the god cares about belief in him/her above all else

* The assumption that if you believe in a god, it will definitely be the same god that actually exists.

* The assumption that you lose nothing if it's false. You have lost a great deal, from time praying to a nonexistent entity (somebody mentioned just today praying several hours a day!!!) to morality (your god may ask you to hurt other people) and much more besides.

* The assumption that people can believe in something simply because it benefits them. Would you believe goblins exist for twenty bucks? Why not?

* The assumption that any god won't see through the "believing just to get into heaven" ploy.

For more:
http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/wager.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/wager.html

Answer 4

Evolution and creation are not mutually exclusive ideas.

It's quite possible to believe that life and the universe was created by God, and that evolution is the physical process God set up to govern the development of life, just as water is wet, and gravity sucks.

The only hurdle in reconciling both evolution and creation is a literal interpretation of a few lines in Genesis.

The same lines in Genesis also contradict scientific evidence from other fields, so you may as well ask "Why believe in physics?" or "Why believe in genetics?"

Ignoring the physical evidence presented by the universe around you doesn't make you a better Christian. It just makes you ignorant.

Answer 5

Evolution starts with a single cell organism that led to all the varieties of life we see today in a very complex way in which humans will never fully understand. By the way science has no answer to how this single cell organism was created. if that is not amazing enough 85% of scientists believe that science will never figure out every thing but they will come close why wont they because there's no way to prove god exists but I bet you that the last thing science will have to conclude is that there is a higher power. by the way if u grab a pen hold it over the floor and let go according to science it will fall and land on the floor due to the invisable force of gravity but thats just science talk no one actually believes in gravity.

Answer 6

Yet another one for the If I Had A Nickel For Every Time This Question Was Asked pile.

Evolution can be proven and demonstrated. Parting the Red Sea, healing the blind with a touch, and fitting 10 million species onto a boat are simply ludicrous.

Your God doesn't exist.

Answer 7

Why believe in the Bible, have you read the Quran, many people believe that too, but I bet you think it's just a bunch of tales from older times. "Flying on a unicorn, ha!" You say, but really have you read the Bible, there's a few things in there that's.....well let's just say hard to believe, oh and evolution is so close to being considered fact that you really have no arguement anymore, and evolution has nothing to do with the creation (if there was one) of the universe.

Answer 8

Ummmm...no. That's not why. We "believe" (bad choice of words because the theory of evolution is not a religion) in evolution because
#1 There's evidence supporting it. (Not PEFECT yet, but we're getting there.)
#2 It makes more sense than to say that man came from dirt, and women came from a spare rib.

Why do you think EVERYBODY'S ideas come from religious sources? Evolutionists don't think in terms of fear and guilt and "Holy God" and Jesus. Only religious people think that way. Religion has no factor whatsoever in the theory of evolution.

Answer 9

It is because the FACTS we have today, that are proven by science, lead us to believe this is the most plausible explanation. The religious community has yet to offer one provable fact supporting the theory of creation. Did you know that their are christians that believe in evolution? What is your reasoning as to why they do not believe in creation? Your argument, doesn't hold water so to speak. Their are some religious people that claim, the old testament are just stories ment to teach and were not actual events. If you want to live in ignorance that is fine, teach your beliefs in church where they belong, stop trying to force them on people that chose not to believe as you do.

Answer 10

Evolution is not something you believe in. It is a theory. A theory is something one chooses to either accept or reject. I know loads of Christians, including me, who accept the theory of evolution. Have you ever considered that God created the world and evolution was how it was done and that the creation story was made up in 500 BCE to compete with the Zoroastrian creation story while the Jews were captive in Babylon?

Answer 11

Evolution is based in science and thus does not mandate "belief." People accept evolution because the evidence confirms that it is most accurate.

The rest of this is ridiculous, to be frank. Even if one were to assume that there had to be a creator of the universe, there's absolutely no reason to assume that creator is the Judeo-Christian god.