Why do some peoplestill not believe in evolution?

Question

Look up the peppered moth, the hawthorn fly, early human remains, pesticide resistance, there all proof of evolution, yet some people believe in creation so they can be comfortade

i sort of believe in that. because if you think about it where did the first molecule come from? you cant get nothing from nothing.

Answer 1

why bother with conflicting opinions when we are convinced otherwise. i do not want to sound caustic but i believe that religion is the easy way out. it saves the 'religiosists' the trouble of questioning what happens around us and why it does.
there is no point even wondering about it. i steer away from discussions on evolution with my friends who are religious fanatics. there is no gain in antagonizing them.
on a personal note i do not think evolution and religion will ever find common grounds.

Answer 2

I go against evolution because evolution goes against
science, it should be called a religion.

The peppered moth was proven to be a fraud, the guy glued dead moths to the tree for his pictures.
"It seems that the classical example of natural selection is actually an example of unnatural selection. The fact that peppered moths do not normally rest on tree trunks invalidates Kettlewell's experiments and poses a serious problem for the classical explanation of industrial melanism in peppered moths" (Jonathan Wells, The Scientist 13[11]:13, May. 24, 1999).

Some hawthorn flys eat different apples than others, so what? I know some kids that like spinach and some that don't, does that mean some kids are more evolved? Give it a few million years and it will still be a fly, that's not evolution, nothing new is being made. When are these flys going to turn into and eggplant or a whale?

If I decided to live in the woods for a few years and had to make my own tools to survive would some idiot come along later, find my tools I left on the ground, and declare they are millions of years old because they are crudely made? All the missing links have been proven to be frauds. Nebraska man was made up from a pigs tooth. Lucy's bones were found within a 1.5 mile area, no feet or hands were found and they are using bones found from other skeletal remains found within the area.
"Donald Johanson, Lucy's discoverer, apparently made quite an admission at the University of Missouri in Kansas City on November 20, 1986. When asked during the question-and-answer session, "How far away from Lucy did you find the knee?" Johanson's reported answer was, "Sixty to seventy meters lower in the strata and two to three kilometers away" (Willis, 1987)"

Becoming resistant to pesticides is a small change within the same kind of critter. After thousands of years and thousands of pesticides a roach is still a roach!!! Roaches will never produce plants or birds or dogs.

There is no proof of evolution beyond micro, it's a fairy tale that exists only in the imagination and gets support from tax dollars.

Answer 3

When scientific evidence conflicts with religious dogma, there are three main options:

1. The science is rejected entirely and the Bible is used as a science and history reference book - Creationists and Intelligent Design proponents.
2. The religion is rejected entirely - atheist / agnostic evolutionary biologists. Richard Dawkins is currently their king.
3. Evolution and Creation are not mutually exclusive - Religious scientists - evolution of the body and development of the soul are separate issues, allowing both beliefs and science to co-exist. Incidentally, this is the official Roman Catholic line of reasoning, as well as many mainstream churches. See links below.

Answer 4

Some people still do not believe in evolution because the science of evolution challenges the literalist interpretation of the Bible of Christianity. However, I do not believe that evolution and belief in God are mutually exclusive. Evolution is based on much factual data; however, the process of evolution is still based on theory. Accepting the facts in regard to evolution doesn't mean that God cannot exist. To believe that the process of evolution merely occurred by chance is hard to believe. Human consciousness is also amazing and difficult for science alone to explain.

Answer 5

I two have had issues with this. I understand the acceptance of evolution (years of evidence with no one being able to find evidence against the theory is pretty convincing), i understand mixing the ideas of evolution and creation (with no beginning point, why not allow a guiding force?), but i have issue with rejecting evolution.

I picked up Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer to help me understand where this anti-evolution business comes from. He pointed out something that i heard before but shocks me every time i hear it, evolution is only debated by some American Christians, Muslims in Europe, and some sects in Australia. In America, Shermer gives 5 reasons to why people reject evoluton:
A general resistance to science
Belief that evolution is a threat to specific religious tenets
The fear that evolution degrades out humanity
The equation with ethical nihilism and moral degeneration
The Fear that evolutionary theory implies we have a fixed human nuture

I think the common theme here is fear, but i could be wrong.

Answer 6

Because a minority of religious conservatives have led a *relentless* attack on the accurate teaching of evolution in science classes in schools ... particularly in the U.S. (Which is why the U.S. fell 33rd out of 34 in a recent poll of nations in the teaching of evolution ... only Turkey was lower.)

Every poll indicates that the more educated you are, the more likely it is that you will accept evolution ... going right up to near unanimous among people with degrees in science, especially biological sciences.

But in high schools, especially in the U.S., the teaching of science is a *joke*. To see this, look no further than the questions we see here on Yahoo Answers. When you see a question like "If man evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?", this is a person who has somehow learned the CARTOON version of evolution ... an absurd version, and so no wonder they find evolution absurd!

In just about every single post, question, discussion I have ever had on this topic (and if you check my profile you can see I've had a LOT), when someone did not accept evolution, it was because THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION AT ALL. This is partly their own fault ... because they were conditioned from early childhood to put their fingers in their ears and go "la la la la" whenever the word "evolution" is brought up in schools. But to a certain extent it is not their fault, but that of their parents and teachers for allowing them to grow up ignorant of the most basic foundation of all of biological science.

Answer 7

Look at the eye... the fish (yeah, something as SIMPLE as a fish)... the brain... the BANANNA... these each disprove evolution.

Creation is common sense... there is a creation, so there MUST be a Creator... just like there is a building, so there MUST have been a builder. Common sense... want more?


Now to "AK" above me here /\:

I do not reject evolution because I reject science... I encourage science. The more TRUE science there is, the MORE it supports the Bible. Read the article about DNA in the August 1990 issue of DISCOVER MAGAZINE (you may be able to find it at your local library)... THIS, my friend is pure and applied science (by a public university), and THIS ALSO supports the BIBLE!!!

Evolution does in fact degrade life. Hilter believed in Darwin's theory of Natural Selection, thus trying to "Naturally Select" the German people and exterminate the "inferior" jews. Jeffrey Dahmer (I'm sure many of you remember him... the mass murderer)... he said in a nationally televised interview with Stone Phillips that part of the reason he murdered so many people is because he "believed the lie of evolution" (quoted). He said that "evolution cheapened life to me" so he had no problem taking those 'worthless' lives. He said that he believed that when we die, that's the end, so what's so bad about killing?

It does in fact cheapen life... Jeffrey Dahmer is a good example.

Answer 8

I have relatives to whom evolution is a dirty word. They were brainwashed as children with religion and do not dare question it now. I had the same upbringing, but I am too smart and strong of character to be brainwashed. I was questioning the family religion at age 7. I loved dinosaur books, and I saw much in them that disputed the family religion. it was easy for a bright child to see there is much evidence for evolution and none at all for naive creation myths. My relatives lack my intellect and strength.

Answer 9

There is a missing piece to all that. Also animals are naturally going to change because of the different environments and different things help changes those factors. Also if we were made from gorillas then gorillas would still be changing into humans.

Answer 10

people do not believe in evolution because it conflicts with religion.