why do christians reject evolution?

Question

in 2000 years there hasnt been a shred of evidence supporting creation....yet in 200 years there has been plenty of evidence supporting evolution....time to come out of your caves dont you think?

there is fossil evidence, anatomical evidence, DNA (We're 98% geneticly identical to a chimp), and lab evicence (we see this in bacterial resistance)

Answer 1

My friend,

there has been more than enough evidence supporting creation (you have to know where to look for it.)

"A blind man cannot cannot open his eyes and see, nor can a deaf man hear, however only though the grace and love of God's son, Jesus Christ, A blind man did see and a deaf man did hear."

(I would hold up the Bible as proof, in over 2,000 years, it has stood the test of time. It is still a bestseller and millions of lives have already been transformed by it, millions more are already being transformed.)

(Oh, about the Chimp/DNA idea, go to the ICR link below, they talk about this exact topic at lenght with many scientist.)

Read On:

Creation and Evolution can never co-exist. Why? Beacuse of the following....

Creation is stating that God created everything in the enitre universe right down to me and you within the time frame stated in the Bible .

Evolution (A theory - AKA idea, made up from the mind of Charles Darwin) states that there is no God and human kind evolved from lower life forms (AKA - slime) over a period of millions of years.

You either believe one or the other. I am not or ever have been slime. Besides, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to get on God's bad side, just in case He happens to be real. *wink*. ;-)

Ponder on these thoughts from many famous scientist.....

“I do not think that it is necessarily the case that science and religion are natural opposites. In fact, I think that there is a very close connection between the two. Further, I think that science without religion is lame and, conversely, that religion without science is blind. Both are important and should work hand-in-hand.”- Albert Einstein

"The vast majority of artist's conceptions are based more on imagination than on evidence..Artists must create something between an ape and a human being; the older the specimen is said to be, the more ape-like they make it." - "Anthro Art", Science Digest (April 1981)

"No-one can be sure just what any extinct hominoid looked like." - Donald C Johnson and Maitland A Edey, Lucy: The beginnings of Humankind (1981)

"The main problem in reconstructing the origins of man is lack of fossil evidence: all there is could be displayed on a dinner table." - New Scientist 20 (May 1982)

"The irony is devastating. The main purpose of Darwinism was to drive every last trace of an incredible God from biology. But the theory replaces God with an even more incredible deity - omnipotent chance." - T. Rosazak, "Unfinished Animal", (1975).

"... evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to 'bend' their observations to fit with it ..." - H.S. Lipson. A Physicist Looks at Evolution. Physics Bulletin, Vol. 31, (1980)

"The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based on faith alone ... exactly the same sort of faith which it is necessary to have when one encounters the great mysteries of religion." - Louis Trenchard More, quoted in "Science and the Two-tailed Dinosaur".

"In fact [subsequent to the publication of Darwin's book, Origin of Species], evolution became, in a sense, a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to `bend' their observations to fit with it. . To my mind, the theory does not stand up at all . . If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms, natural forces, and radiation, how has it come into being? . . I think, however, that we must go further than this and admit that the only acceptable explanation is Creation. I know that this is anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but we must not reject a theory that we do not like if the experimental evidence supports it." - H.S. Lipson, "A Physicist Looks at Evolution," Physics Bulletin, Vol. 31.

“This evolutionist doctrine is itself one of the strangest phenomena of humanity…a system destitute of any shadow of proof, and supported merely by vague analogies and figures of speech….Now no one pretends that they rest on facts actually observed, for no one has ever observed the production of even one species….Let the reader take up either of Darwin's great books, or Spencer's ‘Biology,’ and merely ask himself as he reads each paragraph, ‘What is assumed here and what is proved?’ and he will find the whole fabric melt away like a vision….We thus see that evolution as an hypothesis has no basis in experience or in scientific fact, and that its imagined series of transmutations has breaks which cannot be filled.” - Sir William Dawson, The Story of Earth and Man. New York: Harper and Brothers, (1887)

Answer 2

Really, I discarded evolution before I became a Christian. THe fallacy of evolution is what got me to look back at the Bible. Evolution is taught as fact, which is what scientific theory means. The trouble is that evolution does not stand up to the very scientific process that you claim proves it is true. Exactly how can you repeat, test, falsify, or observe what happened supposedl millions of years ago? Without that it is a hypothoesis.
Spontanous generation, abiogenesis? Never once has science been able to find one shred of evidence for life coming unaided from non living matter. Science has only been able to create, under perfect lab conditions, simple amino acids that are not conductive to life.
Not once has anyone ever observed evolution from one species to another. Not even in bacteria. Viruses that have become resistant to antibodies, are a result of loss of genetic information, or natural selection. No new information. And evolution would have to have beneficial mutations with increased genetic knowledge to work. It has never been observed or recreated.
Dinosaurs bones that have protiens that are similar to a chicken, wow, you have protiens that are similiar to a chimp. Are you one? And how on earth do you explain testable tissue still intact in a 65 million year old fossil? It would be a stretch to imagine it lasting 5 thousand years.
Coelacanth supposedly extinct 25 million years ago. Still swimming around south Amercia. No sign of a single evolutionary change. Is it that old? Why did it stop evolving? Or is the dating a joke. I could go on for hours about the fallacies of evolution, that your professor is afraid to tell you about. Maybe it is time you learned to do your own research instead of just taking waht your science teacher tells you as gospel!
DNA is 98% the same as a chimp. True, so why can't a chimp plan for the future, reflect on his thoughts, learn to build a fence to keep out predators? Could a designer have used similar parts? Like if I build a church and a house, I bet I use almost the ssame material, just arrange it differently to do two different functions. Neither one serves the same pupose, neither looks the same, but they both have mostly the same building material.

Answer 3

Not a shred of evidence? Look at a cell, it's a factory man! Your body has millions and millions of parts that all do a specific function necessary for survival. That's much more complicated than a car, yet if you ran across one in the woods you'd have no doubt it wasn't a plant.

If we evolved, how did we get from a multi-celled glob of goo to a more complicated organism where the cells all worked together? You need a circulatory system for that, I guess that evolved too...but wait, for that to work you need a heart or something to move the blood (which also had to evolve of course) around...but wait, you also need a bowel system and kidneys or something similar to clean the blood and you also need a waste system to get rid of the waste...but wait, you also need a stomach or something to break down the food you ingest so the blood cells can transport it to the other cells, and of course the stomach needs to have digestive juices in it. Hmmm....

But wait, how did this first organism multiply? You can't have the cells dividing anymore because you now have internal cells, so you need sexual reproduction...but wait, how did these develop? Why do the male and female organ fit together so very, very well? How did the sperm and egg develop AT THE SAME TIME so that they both must come together to create a new life? How did breasts develop to feed the young? What about a uterus? Now THAT'S a complicated organ!

Keep in mind that all of the above and much, much ABSOLUTELY had to develop in the same generation or there could be no life as we know it today. It takes more faith to believe in evolution than it does in Christianity.

Answer 4

Hello. If I may I'm not a Christian but I disbelieve in evolution. First we are closer related to ferrets(It may be another animal) so if we are 98% close to chimps why are we closer to another species. second here in Wyoming we have fossil records of human foot prints next to and inside dinosaur foot prints. there was a group of scientist that turned religious after finding out that all matter had one starting definitive point. you do not hear such things because the media does not want you too. there is a book by 60 Christian scientists that they say disproves evolution. I'm not a Christian but I read it and I gave evolution the benefit of the doubt up till then. So I left the cave years ago.
thank you
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Answer 5

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 6

There are many Christians that believe in evolution, and view the story of Noah's ark in metaphorical terms. There are some other Christians who accept evolution on the condition that it had to be done by a supreme intelligence. Not all Christians think the world was made that way, and many equate the "days" of creation in terms of thousands of years of development, and not in literal days as we know them today. The ones that want to believe it was all done by God in 7 days, are just much more vocal about it, and by no means representative of the vast majority, but more forceful about wanting thier beliefs accepted. You just don't hear about the rest of them, because they are going about thier lives, and accepting that science and faith don't need to be at such odds with each other. (looking above: Ack! I'm seein double! :) I am not Christian, and I believe in evolution, but I still believe it was started by a divine intelligence, and have no problem reconciling the two. If God works in mysterious ways, I consider evolution one of the ways.
But the wording of your question is pretty much guaranteed to bring out the ones that want you to accept Creationism.

Answer 7

Writing books, exploring space, inventing computers, building cathedrals - not what I'd call typical ape behavior. It's just so difficult to believe that we came from apes. Watch apes on television - do they look like they're contemplating the existence of a divine being or designing a Porsche? Evolution - the idea that we came from apes - seems absurd. That's a good reason for sticking to the Bible's account of creation. The Bible says God made us in His image - fundamentally different from the rest of creation. Now that's easy to believe. We have moral awareness and the desire to create, to organize, to explore. Time to take your blindfold off!

Answer 8

Thanks to scientist; Bill Gates?
1. Ourselves
2. Luck
3. Or can it be that you are not researching properly?
4. Closed minded for being/feeling that you weren't blessed enough?

Because if you were to spend more time on the logical things in life such as food,water the PRECISE basics of our existence. And really the mind! That a huge Bang or whatever agnostics believe in could not have lasted like a dinosaur failed in doing. Then maybe you'd be more humble towards your "CREATOR" that has allowed you to continue as "He" has your family! Unless it's thanks to a bunch of hot air?

Answer 9

Because they cannot think in more than one step at a time.

Evolution might look thoroughly absurd if you look at it in one step.... but then going from Red to Blue looks absurd if you miss out Magenta...

And likewise... we see that their assumptions are ridiculous because we can see what the middle-steps should be... and they don't fit in with reality at all. Since they don't need middle-steps, they cannot realise that what they believe is absurd. ^_^


Take the whole Adam and Eve thing for instance.
Since Eve was made of Adam and neither had any parents.... they would essentially be different-gendered 100% homozygotic clones.... and as such without the processes that define evolution and make it work.... all their offspring would be clones too.... and everyone in the world today would look the same (and hereditary diseases wouldn't exist).

Answer 10

Hello dougcl_7… :)

If there has been No shred of evidence supporting creation, then why do some Scientists use the Bible to look up Historical facts..etc..

All the DNA proves is that we all have the same Creator.. :)

I say this in Love..


In Jesus Most Precious Name..
With Love..In Christ.. :)