I mean, it's so obvious! Darwin was a genius!
2007-05-04 20:53:25 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I think it takes proper education (self taught or from school) to get across Darwins theory of evolution. I mean from 1st school we had to sing hymns and we had the local reverand come round to give assemblies. In high school we had science taught to us properly for the 1st times and Darwins theory was elucidated to us but I never felt it was in any great detail or with conviction.
So basically the only reason I truly started reading about Darwin and biology/chemistry in general and starting taking interest was because I was stuck in a dead end job and had infinate time on my hands. Once you start digging the surface on evolution it starts to make more sense. Things come together. You realise its based on actual hard science, its a fully testable ( theory based on accumulating evidence over the last hundred years or so. We have not been able to disprove it.
If you put religion under the scientific eye however, it quickly folds under the scrutiny. It is full of inconsistancies and baseless or constantly adapting (for whoevers own needs) history and messages.
Religion viewed completely seperately and non-interferingly from science however may be a good thing for some people. I feel the fully educated however should go with the scientific evidence :)
2007-05-04 21:29:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
One of the reason I accept and believe in evolution is because the Church teach us that the human being has been existing on this planet for about 3000 years.
Can some one please enlighten me howcome then we find fossils of our ancestors such as the Neanderthal when they have lived over 350,000 years ago? Have God decided to place some fossils of Neanderthals just for our own fun to unearth them when he created the world (Even though I question myself... did God created the world, or the big bang theory is another lie as the church says?)
Well, till I die, I remain believing and accepting the Theory of evolution. I believe that God won't punish me in believing in this brilliant theory, when there are far more serious sins occuring in this world.
2007-05-05 08:02:12 · answer #2 · answered by caribbeanbluesky 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer is it isn't obvious--or even comprehensible--to everyone. Check out the answer to your question from Kev M. He asks why we don't come from an organism now--but the word organism means "life form," which of course our parents are. He then asks who gave birth to you, your parents or a little cell out of the pond. He is confusing evovution with sexual reproduction--two completely different things. He then asks why there's no middle species between humans and animals. But humans are animals, a particular species of animals. The question doesn't even make sense because he doesn't know the definitions of the words he's using. And finally he asserts God creates more miracles than the sea produces humans--a statement I can't even begin to figure out. You can't blame this on religion--I'm a Christian, and I know that evolution is true.
Mostly it comes from ignorance--if you don't know what the word "organism" means or that your mom qualifies as one, don't know that reproduction and evolution are two different things, or that humans are an animal species, you have no chance of understanding evolution. You simply aren't equipped to discuss the subject.
What I don't understand is, what are these people afraid of? Evolution is no way conflicts with the belief in God. If you can believe God is all powerful and created the heavens and the earth, why can't you believe he created evolution--as a way to help his "organisms" diversify and adapt? To me the fact that we're still diversifying and adapting means that God's act of creation is still happening. It isn't history, it is today--and tomorrow.
2007-05-05 04:41:24 · answer #3 · answered by R.H. 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Religion brainwashes them into believing that some great god created the earth, despite that fact that all the evidence points to Darwin's theory being accurate.
People still cling to religion because they are afraid of death and want to believe that it is not the end, but that there is something else or something better afterwards.
2007-05-05 03:56:44 · answer #4 · answered by Ahwell 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Evolution IS NOT "obvious," and if you think it is then you don't understand it. The theory is extremely complex and the evidence is very subtle.
And THAT is why so many people reject it...
Because it requires concentration and smarts.
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And if you think I'm lying, just read some of the answers to the question...
"fear of going to hell?"
"faith in God?"
"God creates more miracles than the sea produces humans?"
And let's not forget "...why don't we come from an organism now." I guess your mom wasn't an organism?
Just thank God that you can't go to hell for irrational stupidity.
2007-05-05 03:57:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
People usually reject it for 2 reasons. 1) they don't understand it and 2) it goes against everything they have been taught about the Bible from a fundamentalist point of view.
2007-05-05 04:04:55 · answer #6 · answered by Monsieur Rick 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fear!!! I am always amazed to see people still believing in God those days and they are plenty, what hold them back is the fear of looking at themselves in a mirror, I mean, I'm as good looking as you can get but, I'm nothing more than a beautiful animal, same organs, same origins. How blind can people be!
2007-05-05 04:01:07 · answer #7 · answered by The artist of beauty 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it is not obvious. u should not idolize Darwin or other scientists like they were god. It is a good theory, but like all scientific theories, it cannot ever be proven beyond doubt.
2007-05-05 04:14:16 · answer #8 · answered by My Nickname I don't know !!! 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Religious bigotry. Its a powerful motivator.
Watch out, if you disagree with them they will come round and burn you at the stake. They have done it before (google auto da fe).
Nice people.
2007-05-05 04:24:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Kev M. illustrates the answer nicely:
"If you show me the inbetween of humans and animals i will believe you. "
But then if you show him fossil after fossil of these intermediate species, he will still refuse to believe.
(By the way Kev, here are those "inbetweens":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution#Comparative_table_of_****_species
2007-05-05 11:01:10 · answer #10 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋