Would it matter?
2007-04-04 06:37:29 · 30 answers · asked by Luis 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, they aren't mutually exclusive.
2007-04-04 08:56:43 · answer #1 · answered by eviltruitt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's only fundamentalist Christians, and those influenced by them, who insist that atheism and evolutionary theory are inherently connected.
In reality, people who are interested in exploring how things work will often look at both subjects. Along with a great many others. My atheism is far more closely connected with my studies of religion, sociology, anthropology and observations of how individuals and societies function.
So no, it wouldn't matter in the least.
2007-04-04 13:44:50 · answer #2 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bible was written by the hand of man, just like the texts of every other religion. Evolution is science and has it's basis in fact, or at least as much as we know. Just because science doesn't have all the answers doesn't flip the God switch to on by default. Don't know by what warped reasoning you guys figure this.
The hard truth is that we don't know why we are here and we probably never will and chances are very good that we don't matter as much as we like to think we do in this universe. My take on things is that the universe was here before man and it will be here long after man has gone and it won't miss him. If there is some reason, and I'm not saying there has to be, for anything to exist; it is really arrogant to assume, as small as we are, that we are at the center of it.
2007-04-04 13:51:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Truthfully, without Darwin and the Big Bang, I'd almost certainly be a Deist. That's what the educated men of the Enlightenment believed because there was then no other reasonable explanation for life, the universe, and everything, other than divine creation.
2007-04-04 13:47:54 · answer #4 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not an atheist, but I know that all religion is bogus, and I fully believe in evolution because I have a brain. The whole snap your fingers and the world was created by a guy with a beard, I mean come on people, God made us smarter than that, don't insult him.
2007-04-04 13:43:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely.
Atheism and evolution are not dependent on one another. I was an atheist long before I even knew about evolution.
I would still be an atheist if there were no theory of gravity or relativity.
2007-04-04 13:41:53 · answer #6 · answered by TLG 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
No evolution would mean the world of science as we know it would be drastically different.
While it is a big part of how I originally became agnostic, there would still be way too many other dating processes to determine the age of the earth and our universe to still believe in any creation story religion.
2007-04-04 13:44:24 · answer #7 · answered by Frank 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes ,because even though that is a big part of the athiest world, that has nothing to do with why athiests don't believe in God. Many personal reasons such as death, sickness,feeling that prayers aren't being answered, and suffering of all sorts is the main reason. They don't believe a true God would allow all of this.
2007-04-04 13:42:53 · answer #8 · answered by Miz Charlie Brown 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Evolution and Atheism are not necessarily related. One is a religious belief. The other is a scientific theory. All evolutionists are not atheists and all atheists are not evolutionists.
2007-04-04 13:43:13 · answer #9 · answered by fangtaiyang 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
if there was no evolutionary theory i'd come up with it and go down in the history books. evolutionary theory is, evolutionary fact!
2007-04-04 13:41:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Of course, I was an atheist before I'd even heard of evolution.
Atheism just means you don't believe in the existance of gods.
2007-04-04 13:44:39 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋