If you don't believe in Evolution, what textbook did you study?

Question

Let's get to the root of the problem:
1. I want to know what school you went to.
2. What city is it in?
3. What textbook did you use?
4. What did the teacher say about evolution?
(Assuming you took a biology class, of course--if not, don't bother to answer.)
5. Why don't you believe the evidence?
6. What is wrong about evolution according to your pastor?
7. Have you asked him?
8. What church do you belong to?
9. What do your parents say?
10. If you don't believe in science, how were cars invented, and TVs, and airplanes, and electricity, and the Internet? How can you justify using the Internet and airplanes and watching TV and not believe in the science that created those things?
Could you please not be angry and CAREFULLY explain this question in your own words (no copy and pasting from the Bible, please.)
Thank you.

Mr Marc,
Something older than 5500 years?
That's not really that hard. Let's see...
Have you ever heard of...
Let's see... something in the Bible...
Ah, THE PYRAMIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

The problem with evolution is the random mutations. Scientist theorize that given enough time and combinations life will be created from lifelessness. Living organisms are more complex then nonliving. Yet what are the chances of even nonliving objects to be formed by chance?

Example. The automotive industry.

If Ford tried to replace the human assembly line with robots but did not know the series of code to program the robots with, would ford be able to create a functional car by randomly enter numbers into the computers?

Highly doubtful.

The robots have to calibrate perfectly to get the results wanted. Also there needs to be intelligence to arrange the programming code for it to work or the robot might not even move at all.

Intelligent design is required to arrange and create complex systems.

Evolution does not occur because...

-Law of BioGenesis

Spontaneous generation has never been observed. All observations have shown that life comes only from life. This has been observed so consistently it is called the law of biogensis. The theory of evolution conflects with the scientific law by claiming that life came from nonliving matter through natural process.

-Chemical Elements of Life

Carbon, Oxygen and Nirtogen are the building blocks of life. If the early Earth had Oxygen in its atmosphere then amino acids needed for life to evolve would of been distroyed by oxidation. If there were no Oxygen then there would of been no Ozone to shield the Earth from the sun's radiation which would distroy all life.

-Acquired Characteristics

Acquired Characteristics connot be inherited. For example, the long neck of giraffes did not result from thier ancestors stretching thier necks to reach high leaves. Nor can large muscles acquired by a man weight-lifting program be inherited by his child.

However in hostile environments a few types of animals and plants can express defences into thier offspring. This genetic trait has not been created rather simple turned on a genetic machinery that is already present.

-Natural Selection

Natural selection cannot produce "NEw" genes, it only selects among preexisting characterics. As the word "selection" implies, variations are reduced, not increased.

-Mendel's Law

The variations Darwin observed among finches on differnt Galapagos islands is a example of Mendel's Law. Mendle discovered that genes are merely reshuffled from one generation to another. Different "combinations" are formed, not differnt genes. These variations are seen within every kind of life, such as in the dog family (differnt breeds of dog).

-Distinct Types

If evolution happened, one would expect to see gradual transitions among many living things. However, some animals such as the duckbilled platypus have organs totally unreleated to their alleged evolutionary ancestors. Such patch work animals and plants have no logical place on the evolutionary tree.

-Languages

Childern as young as seven months old understand grammatical rules. Studies of childern raised with out human contact (feral children) suggest that language is learned only from other humans. Humans do not automatically speak.

Humans can "teach" apes to use sign language but once they die thier offspring do not know any of the sign language its parent was taught.

Answer 2

I DO accept evolution, but I was never taught it in school - k-8 in Maine, 9-12 in New Hampshire. Our biology class was basically an anatomy class, as was our book. They never mentioned anything else, though, like ID or creationism. I learned evolution on my own, even while in high school, and had no problem with it. I didn't think it was odd at the time that the schools didn't teach it - I was interested in astronomy, and they didn't teach that either.

Answer 3

1. Bay House
2. Gosport, Hampshire, England
3. Cannot remember, at AS level we use 'Roberts'
4. It is a theory
5. It is just a theory, and if we evolved from monkeys, why are monkeys still monkeys?
6. Haven't ever really had a chat about it tbh
7. no
8. Brockhurst Baptist Church
9. They don't
10. God blesses these people with the knowledge to come up with this wonderful things. And God created Science, I mean, he is almighty and made things complicated (look at our circulatory system!) there needs to be some way of explaining it

Answer 4

I do believe in evolution....but I have to tell you...
As a teacher, we are not even allowed to mention the word. Evolution has been removed from the majority of science textbooks. Should we say anything that might go against religious beliefs, we risk losing our jobs (yes, unfortunately, uneducated parents hold that much power.) I actually had a child tell me that a book was incorrect in saying the Earth was formed at a certain time, because his pastor told him otherwise. The only thing I could do was tell him to ignore the page and move on. Sad, I know.
Hopefully this helps you to understand why there are people out there who refuse this idea.

Since you asked....I teach in an elementary school. I have taught in Texas and Virginia.

Answer 5

Sorry, i more than believe in evolution, i have seen evidence for it and run experiments. I cant answer your questions then, but just had to reply to Mr Mark (who also didnt answer your questions..)

Mr Mark...
Did you ever see..erm the grand canyon?
"The principal consensus among geologists is that the Colorado River basin (of which the Grand Canyon is a part) has developed in the past 40 million years and that the Grand Canyon itself is probably less than five to six million years old (with most of the downcutting occurring in the last two million years)" Yep, even the minimum of 2,000000 yars is slightly more than 5,500 years is it not?

Oh you mean living organisms....more than 5,500 years old. Well, erm. Most of the things you are thinking of died when they got old, but lots of older forms left fossils you know?

Best we could do for oldest animal is probably like the Madagascar radiated tortoise or the galapagos giant tortoise who recently died age 176. But, if you are willing to stretch your mind a little....

May, 1995; 40-million-year-old bacteria (Bacillus sphaericus) were found in the stomach of a bee encased in amber. These bacteria were also found in a state of suspended animation and were re-animated in a laboratory.

October, 1999; 250-million-year-old bacteria were found in ancient sea salt beneath Carlsbad, New Mexico. The microscopic organisms were revived in a laboratory after being in 'suspended animation', encased in a hard-shelled spore, for an estimated 250 million years. The species has not been identified, but is referred to as strain 2-9-3, or B. permians..

NO???... not believing about ancient Bacteria surviving>
Plants then
April, 1980; Creosote bush (Larrea tridentata). Scientists discovered a giant, and very ancient clone of the creosote bush in the Mojave Desert in California they estimated to be between 11,000 and 12,000 years old.
1997; King's Holly (Lomatia tasmanica) - found in the rainforests of Tasmania. Scientists estimated the age of the plant using a nearby fossil of an identical plant. It was found to be over 43,000 years old!

Answer 6

Whirling,
"4 degrees RELATED to science" what the hell does that mean?
Underwater basketweaving is probably too close to the answer for your comfort huh?
Honestly, anyone who's even bothered to take grade 9 biology knows that evolution is not only real, but the ONLY explanation to how life changes on this planet of ours.

Answer 7

I have 4 degrees related to science from secular university and DO NOT believe in macro evolution

one textbook of interest, often used by home schoolers, is "Of Pandas and People" It is noteworthy because the author originally wrote an evolutionary and famous science text used by colleges in the 60s called "biochemical Predestination" but later modified his views in favor of intelligent design

another science curriculum is put out by Answers In Genesis this year and called
the exploring series http://www.answersingenesis.org/PublicStore/catalog/The-Exploring-Series,283.aspx

it isn't a question of ;believing in science' after all the inventors of the scientific method were all theistic creationists... nothing in technology, medicine or agriculture of positive impact to mankind depends on macro evolution... the only thing that depends on it are notions of racism or making humanistic philosophical aetheism possible

Answer 8

I am 39 yrs old. When I went to school, there was no text book on religion. However, we did have the lady who visited every now and then and talk about God and Jesus. She even gave out free bibles.


You can bet that is not done , anymore.

Answer 9

I saw the comment "if we evolved from monkeys why are tmonkeys still monkeys" and have a headache from the velocity of my eyes rolling. If we are to follow that logic, then I guess we can ignore the fact that other related species still exist cats, lions, tiger, bobcats, or if children come from adults why are there still children. The argument is disingenuous. The answer is we evolved from a common simian ancestor and the world is replete with species that branched off and still exist. Idiots,

Answer 10

Interesting. I was under the understanding that the Kitzmiller Trial effectively struck down the legality of teaching creationism/Intelligent Design in high schools. Just goes to show you that Creationists and other far right wing Christians have no respect for the law unless it is something that *they* want.