I know that approximately 2/3 of all Christians believe that the Earth is about 6,000 years old and that evolution is a figment of our imagination.
I kind of feel like Galileo when I bring up these subjects, back when he was shunned and threatened by "the church" for his simple idea that our solar system didn't revolve around the Earth.
It is still hard for me to understand why Christians, and some other religious groups, deny evolution, and make wild claims about the natural world with no real backing besides claiming that it's not what the Bible teaches. The science is science.
Do you think that people with religious blinders on will eventually be weeded out? Even if it takes a few hundred more years?
2007-05-04 19:48:58 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The believers have no choice.
It is their karma.
But real religion never binds it`s followers to close their eyes to the light of knowledge.
Rigveda shouts courageously: "Aano bhadrah rithavo yanthu vishwatha"
"Let the knowledge come to me from the nook and corner of this universe"
2007-05-04 19:57:41 · answer #1 · answered by Shripathi Krishna Acharya 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because all designs imply a designer, and because there is great design in the universe, our inescapable conclusion is that there is a Great Designer of the universe.
Former astronaut John Glenn put it this way: "It is the orderliness of the whole universe about us-from the smallest atomic structure to the most enormous thing we can imagine: galaxies billions of light-years across, all travelling in prescribed orbits in relation to one another. Could this have just happened?...I can't believe that. This was a definite Plan. This is one big thing in space that shows me there is a God. Some power put all this into orbit and keeps it there."
2007-05-05 05:40:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are hilarious! LOL!
Evolution had to start somewhere. Where did it all start? The BIG BANG? Where did that start? There had to be something there to start it.
There's no reason for anyone to be shunned--but as I see it, Science has no explanation for what started it all.
IF one believes that God is ALL Powerful, and ALL Mighty, He can create anything with age. Adam was created a MAN, not a baby. It just makes sense that God would have made the world already "grown-up" (if you want to use that word) when He created it also.
That's right. Science is a belief system just like Christianity is a belief system. Either you believe it--or you don't.
Hopefully, you believe in Jesus as your Savior? None of the rest matters as much as you believing and living for Him.
2007-05-05 02:58:43 · answer #3 · answered by oooooolala! 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Galileo believed in the Mass! There was more than just science involved in that spat.
"Evolution" is a stupid term for what is only adaptation.
All the percieved evidence for the unproven theory of evolution can fit on the surface of one kitchen table, according to a couple predominant non-Christian evolutionists.
2007-05-05 02:56:26 · answer #4 · answered by Travis J 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
that would be a great idea. christianity has been pushed on people from the start. in the beginning it was a scare tactic used to get people to pay money and pretty much worship the popes, cardinals, priests and so on...oh i am sorry, that still goes on today. see what years of brainwashing does to someone. alls it takes is one person to start questioning and soon it will catch on. by the way, some people think that hell is the middle of the earth, science has proved them wrong.
2007-05-05 02:56:11 · answer #5 · answered by whitelily 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's only a problem in the US. In western Europe for example Christians are reduced to their rightful status in society of being tolerated as an out of date and eccentric creed.
2007-05-05 03:19:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Galileo got pardoned by the Catholic church a few years back (incidentally, the same church that now accepts evolution). They'll come around.
2007-05-05 02:51:50 · answer #7 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Eventually they will die off, I think, but the people in question have made up their minds and prefer not to let themselves be confused by anything as inconvenient as a fact. Obviously, as shown by repeated posts in this forum, they have little or no acquaintance with science.
2007-05-05 02:54:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What you describe is seen mostly in the USA. It is a demonstration of the failure of the public school system there leaving a substantial part of the population uneducated.
Religious superstition thrives on ignorance.
2007-05-05 02:59:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God's ready to bring this system of things to an end and you talk as if it will be around forever. Bible prophesy is unfolding before our eyes, you're the one in denial. But I do believe in factual science and I know the earth is very old.
2007-05-05 02:52:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋