What is the number one reason you don't believe in evolution?

Question

If you do believe in evolution than what is the number one reason you do?

Answer 1

Tons and tons of *Evidence*, collected over 175 years, all of which is unrelenting supportive -- not one tiny fragment has challenged the ToE. And work is done by millions of scientists.

Note that DNA analysis has now *confirmed* all previous work.

Whenever ONE "missing link" is found, BY DEFINITION that creates ONE MORE (now one on either side) - this is NOT a problem - IT'S A SOLUTION (except for *creationists*... :-( ...)

Answer 2

Because while we can observe adaptation of the species we do not really have proof of any animal turning into so other animal,

so there is no proof only a theory based on assumptions. What if i turned it on its head and had the resources to truly examine the evidence as if the adaptations were not always improvements but maybe corruptions, maybe that fossilized fish was a better fish than any fish we have now, or just a better fish or animal back when there was an atmosphere with more oxygen. Or what if we examined DNA with the hypothesis that all life here was geneticaly engineered by terraforming aliens (or maybe just human life) none of this has ever been seriously researched and all is as plausible as either evolution or creationism they are just unproven theories and the truth could be crazier than you ever imagined. But people get vested in their pet theories and do not really even explore all possiblities, evolution could be a possiblity but there are lots of problems with this theory a real scientist i think would admit that

Answer 3

Specify evolution. There is proof of evolution within the fields of biology and anthropology.

But if you're talking about Evolutionary Theory, where we all descended from other types of organisms, and which is also the next step beyond understanding evolution in its most basic sense....

My number one reason is that I believe the Earth is much older than many Christians do, and I believe that non-believers are incapable of understanding how long of a time that really is. If they did understand, they would see how evolution of organisms into other organisms is feasible.

Answer 4

Because evolution is supposed to be mindless and of no purpose! Yet I see so much design around me. Evolution is to evolve something if it is used a certain number of times, so if you hopped around on one leg for a million years then you would expect the other leg to fall off and go back as a stump and the leg you hopped on to grow twice the size, and twice as strong! If that is the case then why hasn't peoples right arms become twice as big as their left arm? After all they use their right arm far more than their left! And why are birds bones hollow? Do you think that mindless evolution thought it might have an advantage in flight to make them lighter? Think about it? Have a good day.

Answer 5

I'll tell you why I don't buy it. Because it just dosen't add up. All these years people have been trying to prove it, and you know what? they still cant!!! there is no proof, only speculation, that is why it is still a theory. I also happen to be very close friends with some scientists in the pharmacutical research and development industry that tell me that from their own personal reserach it dosen't fit, and also that within the scientific community that more people don't believe in evolutiont then the public is led to believe. we're led to believe that all "intelligent" people believe in evolution but that simply isn't the case, because when it comes down to it, it takes just as much "faith" to believe whole heartedly in a far fetched theory with lots of holes in it as it does to believe in a far fetched religious story with lots of holes in it. So, I personally believe in intelligent design, because i just see so much complexity and perfection in the world around me that I simply can't imagine it all accidentaly occuring. I'd rather put my faith in a God that cared enought to make a wonderful world, then in a theory where chaos accidentaly allowed humanity to exist, I'm sorry but I just value human life and the beauty of nature too much to think it was an accident.

Answer 6

As it relates to evolution, I believe that it does, in fact, exist--or is--or happen, but believe that it did NOT happen 'by itself'--nor did it happen in six days. A correct translation of Genesis (and even other creation traditions) will reveal that 'the creation' took 'six periods of time'.

The number one reason why I believe in evolution is that all I have to do is to look around me and observe and conclude.

One thing that any of us can observe to know that we (as in the universe) has been around millions and/or billions of years, is to simply look up at the night sky and realize that the light from the stars you are looking at have taken millions if not billions of 'light years' to reach this earth, and your eyes.

The same is true about the number one reason I believe that some 'intelligent decision' was involved; and for me that is proved any time I look at anything of 'great beauty and truth'; i.e., a beautiful sunset, a beautiful human, a beautiful proof--anything...as I know such beauty is a manifestation of truth, and truth--beauty; and intuitively know (as in I don't need someone to explain or prove it to me that) neither could not have happen 'by accident' or through randomness sans intelligence.

But hey, what the hell do I know, eh? ;-)

Answer 7

Speciation issues aside, evolution is the wrong place to start when looking at scientific evidence.. Let me illustrate in a very inexhaustive way..

Accepting Big Bang Cosmology...
Something had to exist always, before space and time existed, as space and time are subordinate to the universe...
The Big Bang had to have happened.
It had to have happened in just a way, with numerous factors so incredibly balanced as to produce an expansion that would result in a universe that actually could expand without immediately collapsing, or a universe that did not expand so rapidly that it would have been nothing but a gas cloud.
The expansion had to be assymetric, allowing for the formation of clusters of matter to form the building blocks for galaxies, stars...
from there, you need to form certain type of galaxies...
You need a solar system that seems to be different than most, with the larger planets in the outer orbits and smaller in inner orbits...
Certain atoms had to be produced in certain amounts.
Certain atoms (Carbon) needed to have the properties that it does
Water has to have certain properties that it does...
Inorganic matter has to clump...
Inorganic matter has to be able to form organic matter...

This is just a few of the things that have to happen BEFORE you can even have the luxury of considering anything of a biological nature...

Answer 8

Because I was abducted by an alien and I learned all about how they started life on this plant. They looked like hairless monkies so it must be true. Also I noticed the size of heads are getting larger. As the abduction story goes; eventually pregnatcy will be possible within the first years of life and we will become a ase/xual society. Woot woot, woman wont have to be the only one reproducing. Wow, I could have a son or daughter just one year behind me in school.

Well thats it, my mind probe is starting to hurt I think they are getting mad at me for revealing the secrets...

Answer 9

I believe in evolution because the fossil record shows that it happened.

I believe that God worked through evolution because otherwise the number of species on Earth would be so statistically improbably as to be essentially impossible...especially since the fossil record shows that evolution happened mostly in bursts instead of gradually.

Answer 10

I don't believe in evolution because I have a very low IQ. Actually I'm a clinical moron. This is why I believe strongly in The Magical Theory of Intelligent Design.

Answer 11

Because this one time I went to the zoo and this chimpanzee threw his feces at me. There was a glass divider thankfully, but from that day on I swore that I would never associate myself with them again.

Oh, and I fell asleep in Biology class in high school so I just believe everything my pastor tells me about evolution because it's obvious he knows more.