What would you say to a 15 year old child that does not believe in evolution.?

Question

What worries me is how did this happen? When I was 15 the last thing I would have done is believe everything, regarding religion or science that adults told me. I liked to explore, research, and decide for myself.

Creationist this is directed to you.

I don't know if it is his parents but someone sure screwed him up.

You are intelligent, that is obvious. I have no doubt that you will one day realize how dumb the bible is.

Answer 1

I'm fifteen and I don't believe in evolution: I'd say good job you somehow suceeded in finding the truth through all the lies of the public schools.

Thank You

All of the world's scientists huh? Oh yeah i forgot Jothan Wells, Henry Schaefer, and Stephen Meyers aren't scientists. Yet Darwin who got his degree in Theology was?

Answer 2

I would tell her that evolution is a part of God's Creation. Even though man did not evolve from an earlier form, animals have evolved from what they were at the time of Creation. We see that in the genetic relationships between such animals as the lion and the house cat. Also, the meerkat and the hyena.

As for man, we have de-evolved from a long living, highly intelligent form to what we are now.

As for whether man evolved from a lower form of animal, the best evidence against it is the Human Brain.

Studies, like that done by the University of Michigan, and featured in the Discovery Channel program, The Amazing Life of the Human Brain, shows just how amazing the human brain is.

Every second while awake, we are absorbing 40MBs of data per second. That’s 144 gigabytes per hour and about 2 terabytes per day. That’s a lot of data even for the largest computer. When we sleep at night, and only at night or under nighttime conditions, all that data is sorted and stored through the creation of synaptic connectors and biochemical bounds. The brain has enough volume to allow for the creation of these storage connectors to last over 10,000 years.

I should also note that a recent study has found that it doesn’t happen while dreaming, but just before it. Your consciousness completely shuts down in the same manner a program pauses while saving a file.

Without the need of a creator, what evolutionary pressure could bring about the need for this much volume that would take that long to fill? Clearly, man was either created by God to live that long, or if evolve, once lived that long, and has since de-evolved to what we are today. Which do you think it is?

This is why I believe in God. I use the brain he gave me, and designed for me, to determine something beyond imagination.

Answer 3

I would tell the 15 year old he is probably right. Science is as smart as anyone thinks you can get and many people believe there are only 3 dimensions. Some think this whole universe happened magically just by chance.

Most people don't think their car happened by chance because it is so complicated to build but these same people think much more complicated things, such as life did just that.

These people you can't trust as they have poor judgment and lack common sense.

They must prove their theories to you and they can't prove it with science and logic alone.

There is another realm and probably many more they don't have the slighted concept about and it is so far over their head they don't have the ability to ponder such things so they limit proof to only what can be explained by science.

Anyone that tries to prove you wrong by not offering proof of what is right should not be believed as that is just their speculation. And your speculation is every bit as good as theirs.

When they can create life from rocks, you should believe they might have a higher knowledge. Until then regard them as the speculators they are.

Answer 4

Creationist says that s/he understand evolution better than we do. Yet s/he demands proof of the origins of life, amino acids and such.

If s/he truly understood evolution, s/he'd know that abiogenesis is a separate field of study. Evolution is not about origins.

Don't worry about what to say, s/he's quite certain s/he has all the answers already. When I was that age, I thought I was a questioning Catholic, but I didn't have the skills of the breadth of knowledge and experience to think critically. Now I do. Perhaps there's hope for this kid as well.

Answer 5

A young woman I worked with didn't believe in evolution - she was 18 and in honor classes at school - but wouldn't take science classes because of her fundamentalist upbringing. Unfortunately due to the controversy some school systems make only rudimentary biology with no mention of evolution mandatory and then let them take whatever they want. One kid from the same system had never heard the word photosynthesis. Now I knew that even when I was in grade school .

Answer 6

When you were 15 I'm sure it was a different time. Now, kids don't really care about anything but the latest video game and name brand clothes.
Don't worry yourself, they have a brain of their own, so let them use it. If they don't believe in evolution maybe it is because they have researched it. Just because you believe in something doesn't mean that your kid has to too. Just because you tell them something is true does not mean they have to believe it. Let them decide for themselves.

Answer 7

I would explain the difference between "micro-evolution" and "macro-evolution" to the child...

I would then challenge the child to try to prove the opposite of what they believed...just to see what they could come up with researching it for themselves...

And of course, in the end, I would fine-tune their thoughts with all that I know...share what both sides know and don't know...explain what the extremists on both sides say...

...and I am sure that the child would see how irrational it is to pawn off theory as fact...and how much of a "belief" system evolution has become to many...

And, hopefully, they would believe the truth...rather than an absurd, infinitely impossible, and irrational concept along with the other "lemmings" of the world...

Answer 8

I would point out that evolution is now a proven fact (as well as having been established science for a century), and if you want to have a career in any of the biological sciences you must learn it, understand it, and be able to use it, as it is the most fundamental tool of those sciences.

Answer 9

Congratulations for your question. Please understand in order for you to exist, was necessary build the whole Universe. In the beginning there were not matter, no space, no time. Only an infinite energy very hot and condensed. 15,000 million years ago, approx was the Big Explosion. At that instant was created the row material of the Universe, the hydrogen atom. Then in the stars were created all the atoms. Our destiny is to grow as persons, to become to be very rich in spiritual way. If we do that, we will become to be able to arrive to the plenitude of being, and existing where there is no matter, no time no space, but plenitude. So our destiny is that.

Answer 10

...I am 15 years old and I believe in Adam and Eve, worry about what you believe and let others enjoy the freedom this country gives by letting you choose what to think.

I am POSITIVE that one day when Jesus returns, you will notice how important and true the bible is.

Answer 11

It's not important. When you're 15 you believe what you think is cool or, better yet, you believe whatever will annoy adults. I wouldn't panic, whatever a 15 year old believes will be long forgotten in a year or two.