Can we all be clear that the theory of evolution and big bang theory are not the same?

Question

A lot of people seem criticize evolutionary theory, but point right to the big bang as the thing they disagree with.

Don't they know that the Big Bang theory has nothing at all to do with the theory of evolution? The theory of evolution just explains the changes to life on earth over time. It explains why there were homo sapiens on earth a few hundred thousand years ago, but before that there weren't any. It explains why there are horses now, but there were none up to a few hundred thousand years ago. It explains why dinosaurs existed from about 150,000,000 years ago to about 65,000,000, but not before that period.

Understand? I mean -- jeez. The Big Bang is a theory of the origin of the universe, not a theory of biological evolution.

dilllinger --- that's cool. One clarification, though. They are both "theories" because they both have proofs to back them up so are aren't just ideas or hypotheses. You can certainly find them unpersuasive theories, if you like, but they are certainly scientific theories nonetheless.

Answer 1

Thank you. The people who need to read this probably won't get it, but thank you for trying anyway.

Answer 2

The people who do that have this hang-up which comes from their own fundamentalist beliefs. A lot of fundies say that the whole Bible must be true, or else none of it can be true. Because of that, they are stuck with Genesis, which tells them a story of both the creation of the universe and of life.

Since they tie together the creation of the universe with the creation of life, they must believe that these two events have to be linked together by the same mechanism - which in their case is God.

If you present a scientific explanation for the origin of man, they extrapolate from their own beliefs and insist that your explanation must account for the creation of the universe, too. The real link between the is not in the explanation itself, but in the method for finding the explanation, which is scientific inquiry. They just cannot wrap their minds around the idea that science is a method.

Answer 3

I am not confused about this.

But your theory about evolution has to have a planet for it to happen on. The Big Bang is how evolutionists believe the planet came to be. That is how the relationship came to be related.

Scientists see everything in each segment. We theists see everything as a whole. Theists also believe in science as a method of design, it is evoltutionists and the Big Bang theorists that do not believe in anything else other than science. They simply lack imagination.

No big deal until it becomes an attack on our intelligence when we are the authority and in all ways superior to such a hopeless and dark faith.

To each their own.

Answer 4

You have to remember that most of these people only know what they've been told on creationists 'anti-evolution' websites, which are generally filled with nothing but straw-man arguments, and everything except facts about what evolutionary theory claims to explain.

Arguing with them is generally fruitless, because they have already decided that evolution is not only incorrect, but also evil.

Answer 5

True. The Big Bang, in some fashion, seems a valid idea to me. OM....

Answer 6

I have never been unclear about it. Maybe some people were not paying attention in science class.

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Answer 7

I know the difference between them, unlike other "educationally challenged" people, trying to not be reported here.

Answer 8

Yes. I have understood that for a while.

I like to keep all "ideas" and "hypotheses" separate in my mind, so not to confuse them.

Answer 9

It is clear to me.