HOW cOME CHRISTIANS ARE SO CLOSE MINDED?

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Seriously, I'd like to make evolution my main point. There are plenty of Christians that believe in it and good for them but yeah there are plenty of other examples. Most not all christians support Bush, the war, non-evolutionism, and even some deny Global Warming (why?). I took those examples from people I know so don't take it personally, unless you fall into those categories... OKAY I'm going to make evolution my point... In the early 1400's Galileo Galilea (however it's spelled) discovered that there were little moons orbiting Jupiter, he discovered it because he saw it with his very eyes. Galileo used this and with the help of other astronomers came to realising that the Earth was NOT the center of the universe, the sun was. He printed his discoveries and was soon after put into court by the Christian church... The Christian church was SO SURE about the "FACT" that the Earth was the center of the universe, and threatened Galileo, 300 years later we know for a fact... see add dtls

that the earth wasn't the center of the Universe... They called it a hoax and a lie. SOUND FAMILIAR? It should, Charles Darwin is the modern Galileo. Evolution is based from fact, why would someone make it up? Anyone have real facts against evolution, not logic or inprobability REAL FACTS, REAL DATA. And links I don't want them because you probably didn't read them... I wrote a 30 page paper on how it is true off of my data and whatnot I want a reason. I know people that disprove it and when I ask them to explain evolution, they can't! Maybe do some research then it is up to you to decide, be open minded you know it makes more sense. I'll be here, when I get a REAL reason not to believe evolution I'll disprove you as soon as possible in more additional details, so keep coming stay updated. Also I'd write more but I'm inpatient I'll have to say it anyway go ahead....

OK you really have to read before you answer, why don't you read and pay attention... I'VE READ THE BIBLE I KNWO WHAT I'M UP AGAINST, STLL NO DATA. I clearly stated that NOT ALL CHRISTIANS ARE LIKE THAT, so don't bother saying I'm not blah blah blah... still no data

Hmmmm, I guess this wasn't going to be as fun as I hoped... Nobody dared state a fact yet... Howcome? If it's just a theory disprove it, after all in your eyes it is soo very wrong. By the way, I'm not ignorant infact I went to Christian schools and Camps all my life, I could even consider myself one. Please read before accusations, seriously all you are doing is proving me correct.

AND DANIELLE, clever comment... Using information you don't have... I have been to college, and I am assuming you didn't read because well, DO YOU BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION? IF not than doesn't that mean that my "generalization" is "generaly" true.

In well over 30 minutes I got 15 answers... but nothing disproving Evolution... hmmmmmmmmmm

Answer 1

How come some people ask questions that stereotype one religion or group and then give examples within the question that contradict the original premise? Why can't we all just get along???

Added: If you wonder why nobody has tried to disprove evolution, (which I do believe in) maybe it is because the main question posed was "How come Christians are so close minded?" Next time, ask the question that people will see on the board as "Can you provide an argument to disprove evolution?"

Answer 2

I'm not quite sure which question/statement you want an answer to: (a) why...so close-minded?, or (b) can someone disprove evolution?
To the first question, that's a loaded statement, (like "when did you stop beating your wife?") which cannot be answered without appearing to agree with the assumptions behind it. Some answers might be: (a) not all, not even very many, Christians ARE close-minded, (b) what appears to you as close-mindedness might be the result of the very different worldview that many Christians have. Some scholars writing in defense of the evolutionary theory as an explanation of universe and/or species origins sound "close-minded" to us, unwilling or unable to consider facts or speculations outside their already-existing set of beliefs.
This leads me to your second question. Before one can disprove evolution, we have to establish what kind of evolution we are talking about, or which definition of the term you want to use. If we are speaking of adaptive changes within similar kinds of creatures, as Darwin observed on the Galapagos Islands, that's an observed set of facts. If we are speaking of adaptive changes between dissimilar kinds, and the creature with the adaptation surviving long enough for the adaptation to become genetically encoded -- an example might be a natural science museum's statement, on an exhibit displaying a painting of a mammalian quadruped entering the sea and developing into a whale-like mammal, that "land-based mammals returned to the sea and evolved fins and tails to survive in that environment" (I've seen such an exhibit) -- that's a theory for which no supporting evidence has yet been discovered. It is a speculative answer to the problem of how mammalian species might have come to exist in the sea. At this time, as far as I am aware, there has been no observation made which could verify this type of evolutionary process, nor has the proposed process been replicated under controlled conditions.
Another example of this type of problem might be statements describing some kind of Big Bang to account for the origins of our universe and/or of life within the universe. While the outward motion of stars and galaxies would seem to indicate a central starting point of some kind, the Big Bang or other beginning itself has not been observed or documented, nor has it been replicated in an experiment.
Naturalistic, materialistic-based scientific method requires either observation or replication to prove the validity of a hypothesis or working theory. Until then, statements suggesting that evolution can account for the development of one family/genus/species into another, or for the existence and development of the universe and of carbon-based life within it, remain only speculation.
Such suggestions are based on Darwin's assumption that what he saw on the Galapagos Islands could be extrapolated into a larger set of explanations regarding the origin of species (that's what the second half of his book is about). But as a scientist, he knew that his theory would have to be proved by new scientific discoveries -- of geologic strata, fossils, and the like -- before it could be more than a theory. He confidently expected that such proof would soon be forthcoming. Only, in the 150 years since his theory was published, we have not seen the kind of proofs he hoped for, though we have discovered a good deal.
That is not a disproving of evolution, exactly, because, if it's a fact, one can't disprove it, and if it's a theory which still needs more scientific proofs to be supplied, one has no need to disprove it. But I hope that addresses what you were saying.

Answer 3

wow. I'm sorry you are so ignorant. Don't worry one day you will grow up little one. Maybe it will come as a culture shock when you go to college... or maybe you'll never really learn about people and you'll live in your quiet little town for the rest of your life thinking you are smart. Its okay since I'm a Christian I forgive you. A small fraction of a religious group cannot be used as a representative sample for the whole!!
hahaha seriously tho - didn't anyone teach you generalizations are bad...they only make you look stupid?

hahaha my friend I will be starting my Masters program in biology soon enough. I work in the field of toxicology... Ask me whatever you want about evolution - of course i believe in it. Further more I went to a private (christian) college that also embraced it. I believe you are wrong because the church has def. accepted the theory.

Answer 4

I don't believe all Christians are close-minded, I do feel for those who have never come to their faith through understanding or learning and were only taught what to believe and not to question it from early childhood. Especially those poor children who were told that they would suffer eternal torment if they did not believe the things they were told. Fred Phelps' (grand)children are a prime example. Children who are raised to hate and wish death and eternal damnation on others because they do not fit into their world-view, and yet these children will never openly listen to someone of another faith, or possibly even denomination for that matter, because they are so brainwashed into believing what they were told was the one true way and all other ways are preachings of the devil. But, I think if you can find faith through an open and winding road without fear or other form of manipulation, and can make an informed decision based on that faith- regardless if I understand how you came to that decision- I would agree that it shows a sign of intelligence and maturity. I have to debate with you on speaking for all Christians, as I have pointed out, not all Christians come to their faith through the same consideration and independent decision- but I appluade you for being decisive and choosing your path with conviction. I, as an atheist, prefer not to take anyone's word for it, since there are so many different words among us, and therefore decided to use history as my theological compass, something I felt dealt mostly in fact and was easier to determine if it was truth or fallacy. This led me down my "wishy-washy" path, one I've chosen not to reserve or put on hold. I cannot say if there is an after-life or what it is if there so happens to be, I cannot say where human existence stemmed from or if there is someone or something controlling all of us. I'd prefer not to until I have more information to better confirm anything theological I have been told. In that case, if you have any evidence I will be open-minded, for all other cases, I have already read enough spiritual books to weigh my decision.

Answer 5

I am a Christian, by education, and I know Christianity has made a lot of errors in the past, and that it still makes mistakes in our days. However, you surely realize you are talking about something that happened in the 16th/17th Century!

I think it would be quite interesting also to look into what other religions took for granted 300 or 400 years ago... or still do today!

Anyway, as your own question unhappily. but accurately, shows, to be close or narrow minded is not today - just like it was not in the 16th or the 17th Centuries - a "privilege" of Christians.

Answer 6

Evolution is just a theory with no DNA proof.There is not one example of a half man half ape DNA. The one that seems to be closed minded to me is the one claiming a theory as fact without the DAN evidence.

Answer 7

Some christians most notably born again prostestants are very closed minded. I don't believe in creation out of nothing.
As a mormon I believe God formed the earth out of pre existing matter. When did he do it? I don't know.
Was it 6000 years or 6 million or 6 billion years?
I don't know. All I know is God formed the earth,
and the universe around it.
As for earth centered, or sun centered....Well we all know the earth goes around the sun.

Answer 8

They're like that because their leaders teach them to be close-minded. Most Christians are simply parroting the words that come from their priest. Many leave the research and decision-making processes up to the church leadership and fail to fact-check or use some common sense to reason out what they are being taught. It's far easier to do nothing than it is to do something.

Answer 9

The Catholic Church (which once rejected Galileo) accepts evolution as a possible explanation for how God created life on earth.

Answer 10

true christians are so closed minded to the point they are not in tune with reality.I know some church going christians and society takes advantage of them in the worst way.They are taught to see the good in everybody and be trusting to strangers.What garbage.I believe in god but don't go to church.I wouldn't give a bloody church 1/2 my income either.No way.