What the MAIN Christian objection to evolution?

Question

Do most Christians (in your opinion) object to evolution based on:

It places humans and animals on the same spiritual/moral level?

God created life in 6 days, not millions of years?

It makes no sense scientifically?

Something else?

Monica L....Clearly you were made in God's image.

Answer 1

It proves that their religion is nothing but BS. Xians have always been against science because it proves that Xianity is a fraud.

Answer 2

It's simply arrogance. The main objection is that Evolution denies their special place in the cosmos.

Think about it, the two most threatening scientific ideas in the past 500 years have been the two that make a hash of man's centrality in the universe (as taught by religion). They were Heliocentrism and Evolution. One said the Earth was not at the center of the universe and the other said that man was not in a special place, but just another animal.

If you don't believe this is the main objection, just listen to the anti-Evolutionists: when it comes down to it, their most sophisticated argument goes something like this: "You may have come from a monkey, but I didn't!"

Answer 3

Catholic Christians do not object to theory of evolution, as it does not negate the fact that God is our Creator, and that we are spiritual beings made in his image.

Catholic Christians believe that humans and animals, while perhaps related genetically are not on the same spiritual/moral plane.

Catholic Christians do not believe that the Genesis account of the creation of earth necessarily took place in six actual 24-hour days.

Catholic Christians do not try to constrain the means and methods that God used to create earth, and it populations. You will find very few educated Catholic Christians that would argue against the scientific validity of the theory of evolution.

Answer 4

Main objection? IT IS WRONG!!!

If you are a Christian, it goes without saying that you believe the Bible to be the Word of God, so when it says that God created the heavens and the earth in six days and rested on the seventh day, blessing it and making it holy, he put so much emphasis on it that it became part of the Ten Commandments, the only one prefaced with the word "remember"....obviously he knew we would forget....and told us to REST on that day, also, BECAUSE HE IS THE CREATOR, and he doesn't want us to forget it. That doesn't leave any room for a belief in evolution now, does it. Or for the big bang theory. Or the igniting of scum in a pond during a lightning storm. Or any other theory that man has concocted to avoid God's claim on him .

Even science is proving the theory of evolution wrong. Amazing!

Something else: It is a lot easier to believe that God spoke and it was so, than to believe that the scum in a pond (where did the pond come from?) grew legs and came ashore, and millions of years later, turned into a man...or wait, I guess it was an ape first.

Answer 5

most Christians do NOT object to evolution. But it is true that a lot of the ones that do object live in the USA and get on the news a lot.

Answer 6

From your choices... the main Christian objection to evolution is that God created life in six days not millions of years. Especially when talking about humans. Christians do not believe they evolved from monkeys. They also believe that it was God who created life.

Answer 7

i think its because evolution leaves no room for God.
what i beleive is this: I dont think we evolved from primates. I do support the Big Bang THeory but I believe God lit the fuse. The bible says 6 days to create the earth. Why couldnt it have been 6 million years. thats 6 million of OUR years. How do we know God's idea of a day isnt a million of our years. I think we have absolutely no concept of God's omnipotence..and i think we're going to find out in the end just how little we think we know about God.

Answer 8

The main objection that Christians have to evolution is that it's based on evidence rather than fairy tales.

Answer 9

Christians object to evolution because

-it refutes the creation story of Genesis. If that part of the bible is just myth and allegory, then it opens up the rest of the bible to the same scrutiny, and doesn't support that it is the inspired divine word of god. If that is the case...then maybe ALL of it, including Jesus is just mythology too. They see this as their "wedge" issue, the same way they try to use ID as the wedge issue to get religion (although just the christian one) into schools.

-man is not a special act of creation . Man is just another kind of animal. christians prefer to think of themselves as special

Answer 10

I have several major problems with evolution. First, many people use evolution as a way of justifying their atheistic or agnostic views. They use it as proof that there couldn't be a God. Second, in my studies I have found no credible proof of "major" evolutionary changes which would have needed to happen in order to accomplish all of the species and intermittent species that exist or have existed. Third, humans are THE only species which have inherent knowledge of both logic and morals. Finally, there are many holes which evolutionists tend to accept as logical but cannot be explained.

Answer 11

The world is too complex for it to just happen by chance. When was the last time you found a watch made by millions of years of just chance. Even if all the stuff needed to make the watch was there in the desert? Could a watch still be made with thousands of years if every part needed to make it was there? Would it work? Or is intelligence needed to make the watch?