Is it okay to deny new ideas, like evolution, because they disagree with old ones, like the Bible?

Answer 1

No, it's not all right, and if it wasn't for people who chose to challenge old ideas, and philosophies, we wouldn't be were we are today. we need to be more open minded as a society

Answer 2

History will show that the purveyors of new ideas that conflict with against any religious doctrine, have always been met with fervent resistance, sometimes involving outright persecution.

In the end, the truth always wins.

Not many people today would argue that earth is flat, is the center of the universe, and that the sun revolves around it.

Yet for some reason, people will still argue that the Bible, Koran, or whatever, is law. Even when the same dogmatic arguments were made against Galileo's work during his time.

It's mind boggling how many religious people lack critical thinking skills. 1+1+1 = 1, right?

Answer 3

I would say No, I think that if you put the bible into context, considering when it was written, and also considering that some parts of the bible may have been mistranslated I believe that both science and religion can begin to 'work together'
Also with Scientific discoveries, they are always changing, what we were taught in the 1970's isn't the same as what we are taught now.
Neither Science or Religion are absolute, and we should be all working together for a fairer world.

Answer 4

Anytime someone hears a new idea, they need to ask if it's logical, if there is evidence, and how they feel about it. Evolution is logical and there is a lot of evidence, but many people don't like that it means the literal interpretation of the Bible would be false so they close their eyes to the logic and evidence and judge it based on their feelings.

Answer 5

It is always okay to be skeptical and wait for further information before making a decision on any topic. Evolution, however, appears to have cemented itself in the natural sciences.

I would hope that everyone would ask lots of questions, but not turn a blind eye to the answers they receive.

Answer 6

I would hardly call evolution a 'new idea'. It is not, however, all right to cast them aside because they do not agree with your perception of religion. If we did that there would be no cloning, no advanced medicine. Human beings as a race can not afford that.

Answer 7

I dont deny evolution I just dont except the concept that we humans were once monkeys swinging from trees..Its all scientific hype. They have never proven without doubt that we did. They are still looking for what scientists call the missing link and I would bet you everything I own in this life that they never will .. If we humans evolved from monkeys then why are there still apes and monkeys who havent evolved..

Answer 8

If it was ok to deny new ideas we would still be thinking that the earth is flat and that it is the center of the universe.

Answer 9

--EVOLUTION is not a new idea. A form of evolution was practiced by ancient Babylonians, and other Empires and their worship of animals!

***Nimrod built his great tower to reach to heaven itself to the glory of man. After God confused mankind with different languages, the building of such towers or mounds, called ziggurats, continued for centuries.
--They stored the fiery rockets, known as "Shem", and also other flying ships and helicopters....as have been depicted on many Babylonian stellas. Built of mud bricks and Bitumen paste, these towers were dedicated to the various Star deities, of the Anunnaki.
--A highly complex and secretive set of religious rites evolved.

In many cultures, it took the form of human sacrifice to appease the various gods who were offended by some action, or would be offended if a sacrifice were not made.
The mystic dimensions of this belief system even found their way into the early church. John Walvoord notes that,

--"The Babylonian cult eventually made its way to other cities including Pergamos, the site of one of the seven churches of Asia. The chief priest of the Babylonian cult wore crowns in the form of the head of a fish, in recognition of Dagon the fish god, with the title 'Keeper of the Bridge,' that is, the 'bridge' between man and the Gods, imprinted on the crowns.
--The Roman equivalent of the title, Pontifex Maximus, was used by the Caesar and later Roman emperors, and was also adopted as the title for the bishop of Rome. In the early centuries of the church in Rome, the features of the mystery religion of Babylon combined with the Christian faith, a confusion which has continued down to the present day."

Although the Roman Catholic Church may have carried on many of the rituals and pageantry of this belief system thereby weakening the gospel, the real power of this highly esoteric and mystic religion resided in the Knights Templar.
Some strike the reader as vast distortions or unformed prototypes of Terrestrial legends, such as Shub-Niggurath, "the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young".

Others are beyond any connection. Most, being extra-dimensional and cosmic beings, have contacted the Earth only on occasion, when a psychic gate was opened to them; it seems clear that Cthulhu and the legions subordinate to him were the ones who actually came to our world to stay, bringing the cult of the Great Old Ones.

---These creatures - so unutterably alien that they are un-definable in terms of comprehensible good and evil, whose very geometry is bizarre enough to break human minds - walked the Earth eons before the coming of PRIMITIVE HUMANITY(my caps), preying on all life they found, building mighty cities of stone whose ruins yet stand.

Ages passed: dinosaurs arose, reigned, and died in the shadow of the Old Ones' basalt towers......

It's not clear (at least to me) exactly what happened. Two things we know: one, the Great Old Ones are peculiarly sensitive to astronomical influences (indeed, the only protective amulet against them contains the form of a five-pointed star, that most ancient magickal device), and after eons of time "the stars were wrong" constellation shift, perhaps?

Projecting an influence under which they could not live. Two, a great cataclysm, which they must have foreseen, was preparing to shake the world and sink their massive stone citadel of R'lyeh to the floor of the PRIMAL SEA(my caps).........

--THERE are inded many empires, cultures --such as the ancient Egyptians that gave great attention to the godlike portrayals of the animal gods that Egypt held very highly. DO YOU THINK that there sciences did not involve THE OLD TALE of "evolution?"

--Below is some reference tho the bizaar idea of the sciences that religions made the most of!

Answer 10

You can have new ideas but that won't change the Bible or the fact that it is God's word. Solomon said there is nothing new under the sun.