What would have to be presented to you for you to accept Evolution as the best explanation of the development of life on earth that we have at the moment?
Please save the "it would never happen" responses. I really want you to tell me what would make you "believe", even if it's God teaching the theory to you himself.
2007-03-14 05:22:12 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-03-14 05:29:34 · update #1
Figato - scientists do this quite easily and readily with bacteria and cancer cells.
Glib - no, pigs are NOT closer in DNA to humans than are apes.
2007-03-14 05:41:50 · update #2
I'd have to see Darwin's corpse tapdancing on the tables of my former high school.
2007-03-14 05:25:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
I accept evolution, well I'm an atheist. However the bible would have to be re-written for christians to accept it. And they clergy wont allow that to happen that would mean God had let them tell untruths in his name for 2000 years. Oh and they say its the book of God and therefore God would be a liar himself.
No they have tied themselves to the bible and there is no room in that book for evolution.
They dont even see that the dinosaurs prove the book to be fake and full of untruths. The world was made in how many days. They are finding exactly how life started and evolved on to the land. The christians and all religions will never accept this as it would call into question averything they believe in.
Even if we get a probe to Europa and find life there they will say that the scientists are lying. I so want a probe to go to Europa...its the best chance we have of stopping the insane maddness that has held the world back for 2000 years.
Hmmm does that mean religion is a part of evolution. We will have to wait to see if we ever make contact with aliens to find that answer. I just have a slight feeling it is.
2007-03-14 05:27:49 · answer #2 · answered by clever investor 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe I would need to get a PhD in a field related to evolution to come to the conclusion for myself. With what I currently know about evolution I accept parts of it and likely all of the facts it is based on, but not all of the conclusions.
I think that many people discussing evolution in this forum really don't know anything about it. Evolutionists may be arguing the facts (mutation, selection, drift) and Creationists are seeing the conclusion (humans evolved from fungi).
Both scientists and religions have once believed in something that was later seen as wrong and is now accepted. Earth as the center of the universe, flat earth, orbit of the planets, etc.
2007-03-14 05:45:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of the problems is that you don't have all the time that you think you do. At the current rate that the sun is shrinking, the time that is required by the evolutionary theorist to get us evolved from that first little ball of snot (don't get me going on that one) to who we are now would have taken too long. At the current rate, the millions of years required would have the sun engulfing the inner planets, including the earth. Allowing for a certain amount of gas shrinking and expanding would still have the earth's climate far too hot and less than optimal to even support the simple life forms. Then you have the second law of thermodynamics, but my lunch is over, so you may have to research that one yourself.
The short answer to the question would be "nothing", because you cannot shorten then time required and you just can't involuntarily gain information.
2007-03-14 05:36:49 · answer #4 · answered by Conqi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It simply takes intelligence and independent thought to accept evolution - something the church actively tries to prevent.
It also would help if people actually understood what evolution really is. Those who think it ordains that "we came from monkeys" (we instead share a common ancestor) or that "it's just random chance" (natural selection is the opposite of random) have absolutely no concept of it at all. If people knew what evolution really was (instead of the distortions and lies the church purposefully spreads to mislead people) they'd realize how elegant and powerful an explanation it really is.
It might also help if the religious looked outside of America and realized that the churches actually recognize evolution as fact. Hell, even the Vatican and the catholic church officially recognize evolution as a biological fact.
2007-03-14 05:40:47 · answer #5 · answered by Mike K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what would be required for me to accept evolution is a show of causation that genetic mutation leads to new species. A causal study manipulated in a modern lab would work.
Tstie flies would be a great study, as many generations pass quickly. Mutate a tstie fly, let it develop, mutate those offspring, etc....until you can create a new species. When Evolution can make that first step from correlation to causation, then I will accept it as compatible with the empirical method.
The second step would then to manipulate single cell organisms into multi-cell organisms. Using a causation methodology of the above example, you should be able to work it, especially if you use single cell bacteria in your study. Once you can show that singe cells morph into multi-cells, then you have established simplicity evolving to complexity.
The final test would be to take proteins themselves and maipulate them into single-cell organism. This would show life from non-life.
Once you can show each of these three stages in a causal relationship, lab controlled environment, then you have proven evolution as verifiable. Evolutionists have yet to succeed. if perhaps they spent more time in the lab, and less time in front of TV cameras trying to pimp federal funds, then maybe they could succeed.
2007-03-14 05:30:47 · answer #6 · answered by lundstroms2004 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. Nothing could change my view point on evolution. I believe in Jesus Christ the Living Holy God who is my Savior! I love Him with my whole heart and I would never turn on Him for something so stupid as evolution.
I think evolution is so stupid. I mean, really, who wants to believe that they came from some hairy, flea-bitten monkey who eats bugs off of other monkey's backs? And if we really did "magically evolve" from a monkey, HOW COME THERE ARE STILL MONKEYS ROAMING THE EARTH? Yup. I rest my case. I'll stick with God. He's my best friend! He's always there for me and he always listens to me! He loves me so much he died for me! Wow! Would Darwin die for you? Would a monkey die for you? Didn't think so.
2007-03-14 05:30:23 · answer #7 · answered by horsesareforever 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Come up with a way of combining Adam & Eve with Evolution. It doesn't say anywhere in the bible that Adam and Eve looked like an ape... Maybe they did look like apes.
2007-03-14 05:27:54 · answer #8 · answered by Sylves 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What does this have to do with sin and salvation? As a believer, I don't think it's that important to my faith if evolution is true or not - if it is, it doesn't do anything to my faith in a Creator - there can be creation and evolution.
Evolution doesn't address how matter began (or does it?)
2007-03-14 05:27:27 · answer #9 · answered by super Bobo 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
$20
2007-03-14 05:24:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 4⤋
Simply learning about it and all the scientific support for it should make a believer out of anyone who doesn't have a prejudice against it.
2007-03-14 05:27:01 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋