How Many people believe in Evolution?

Question

If you dont? If you think Adam and Eve lived with Dinosaurs, and believe the earth was created in 6 days? Are you going just what you read in the bible, and are you college educated? Have you ever taken Astronomy classes, Anthropology classes, MetaPhysics, Philosophy or Geology? Just doing my own research, and trying to make a correlation between uneducated/educated people and their views on evolution

Gravity? You can see its effects, and calculate it... How can you make a comparison?

Woody: We are an adaptation to our enviornment, nothing less nothing more.

You people read questions very poorly. Please read the details before answering the question.... If you have studied college courses, Do you believe that we have EVOLVED or just appeared? Do you Believe the Earth was created in 6 days or over Billions of years? If you have not studied college level courses, What do you believe in the ABOVE statements to be true and Why?

Answer 1

I believe that the evolutionary theory is the best theory out there currently regarding the creation of life on this planet...so I guess that the rest of your question doesn't apply to me.

Answer 2

I dont think being educated means you believe in evolution and vice versa.

My astronomy teacher, who actually has a PhD, still believes in the bible and believe there are gaps in the current belief of evolution.

I know many other "educated" people, with bachelor degrees, masters, PhD, etc. who dont either completely or at all agree with evolution.

Also it's believed that it was created in 7 days, not 6. And in believing that earth was created in 7 day, time had not yet been created when this 7 day period was set. So this 7 day period could be any infinite amount of time.

Oh, and I dont think Yahoo Q&A is a great place to do research of a correlation between uneducated and eduated people and weather they believe in evolution or not. To do a real study, you'd have to do a random sample, which would be one, very expensive or two, in accurate.

Answer 3

I definitely DON'T believe in evolution. I'm a scientist at heart. I save my beliefs for things that can't be tested or repeatedly observed.

Evolution is only a belief system for Darwinists, not scientists. Scientists and those who understand science understand that it is the current ranking theory of the origin of many of the life forms now on Earth. They also know that it is always open to question, and may be disproved someday, or changed. And if it was, they would cheer the new discovery. They are scientists, not the "faithful".

It's unfortunate that there are so many people that treat evolution like a belief system, and take other people's beliefs as a personal affront if they disagree with their own.

Evolution won't be proven fully until we can time-travel. Until then, there is enough evidence to make it the most likely theory for life on Earth.

That leaves a lot of room for Creationism, and doesn't make it a threat except to the faithful of Darwin (which I'm pretty sure Darwin would be pretty disgusted at for misunderstanding the basics of science so badly).

Oh, I'm not religious. I have taken formal logic (several forms, including symbolic logic), and many science classes with a firm understanding of scientific method. I see nothing to challenge evolution as the most likely theory, and greatly prize the right of Christians and others to hold onto their creation "myths" (which may prove to be true, but aren't the purvue of science).

Good luck with your research. I have a B.A., a teaching credential, and enough units to choke a horse (switched career choices twice). I've read almost all the holy books you could name, as well as Harvard's Five-Foot Shelf of Books, philosophy of all sorts, etc. (GODS! I LOVE READING!)

Keep speaking up, everyone.

Answer 4

I am 21 years old, was raised in a Conservative Baptist home, and have kept many of the values with me as I went away from home. I am in my third year at University of Washington Medical Center, where I have studied Anthropology (not so fun), Geology, Astronomy (which I switched for Philosophy and Eastern Religion), and yes, I still read my bible. I have heard, through teachers of many religious backgrounds, the theories, sciences, tests and proofs of Evolution. I have also heard the theories and proofs of Creation. It is all very confusing, and has made me think extensively about my mortal soul and where Bible stories fit in to all of this. but in the end, with all of the proof for Creation as well as Evolution, and the things that have been made up and then proven incorrect about findings on both, it comes down to faith in either side. I do know full well that many TRUE Christian children have been sheltered, home-schooled, and have not even had a fair opportunity to view the world as it really is. Thier parents just feed them the bible and figure that's all they need to know, which even in the bible, it says that is not true or a wise way to live. I was home-schooled for awhile, but my parents woke up and realized that for anyone to make it in the world, even as a God-fearing Christian, they need to know what people are like outside of the church and thier own beliefs. I am not a Bible-thumper. I know what my Bible says. I talk to my friends about it, and if they don't accept, I will not think any differently of them. They don't press thier beliefs on me, and I won't preach to them any more than they want to hear. It's nice to hear a question that is an actual question about what we believe, and not just an immature in-your-face Evolution statement. So there you have it. All of my siblings were church-raised, but we were also allowed to make our own decisions and live in the "outside world". Not all of us believe the same things anymore, but we know what the Bible says, and we have free will. It is sad to see many of the kids I grew up with, even though they will be missionaries all over the world, they don't know anything about how people and other religions work. The Bible does have many good points of course, but these Christian parents who stifle thier children and shelter them are not only going against direct orders from the Bible, which says specifically to know what you are dealing with in the world, but they are making fools of the religion by sending out naive adults to spread the word. Ugh.

Answer 5

It is not necessary to "believe" in evolution. The science is there, the evidence is there. The only thing you can do is "deny" evolution with a "belief" in something else. It's like saying you believe in trees, or "I believe in tires." It's very important not to confuse a faith or intuition based belief with evidence based conclusions. Please also understand that there are a great many church owned colleges in the US, and that they graduate any number of individuals with claims to have educated them in the finer points of physics, and astronomy, and geology, etc etc etc, so the possession of a degree doesn't necessarily correlate with the ability to think freely and interpret scientific observation without bias.
Good Luck.

Answer 6

http://www.evolutiondeceit.com/chapter9.php

Let us suppose that millions of years ago a cell was formed which had acquired everything necessary for life, and that it duly "came to life". The theory of evolution again collapses at this point. For even if this cell had existed for a while, it would eventually have died and after its death, nothing would have remained, and everything would have reverted to where it had started. This is because this first living cell, lacking any genetic information, would not have been able to reproduce and start a new generation. Life would have ended with its death.

Answer 7

check table in first link for public acceptance of evolution in different countries.
Check the table here for 3 key influences for not accepting evolution (somebody already did some work for you):
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/315/5809/187a/DC1/1
if you are a republican fundamentalist with only a high school degree seems you are very unlikely to.
See also national geographic link for comments.

Answer 8

I have had college level courses in biology, mathematics, anthropology, geology, anatomy and physiology, chemistry and have dabbled in astronomy. I have also taken college level courses in composition as well as logic and argumentations.

I am a decided creationist.

That said, popularity of a given position is not indicative of its truth. If everyone but you converted to Christianity, would you believe it to be true? Conversely, if everyone became an atheist, would you? Fact is fact; evidence is evidence; and opinion, however noble and well intentioned, is opinion.

Answer 9

I don't believe in it, I know it is the most robust theory explaining the biodiversity we see on this planet. A scientific theory that is backed up with so much evidence, it is as close to a fact as ever can be. There are no other competing theories that are evidence based. Religion may have its theories, all of which are only based on wishful thinking, they are not even in the same league as the ToE.

Answer 10

No scientist "believes" in evolution. It is science not a matter of faith. I don't "believe" in evolution any more than I "believe" in physics or chemistry or meteorology or geology. I accept the overwhelming evidence for evolution just as I accept the overwhelming evidence for gravity or electricity.