Why do evolutionists refuse to believe they were created?

Question

Do they believe life happened spontaneously or life has been around for an infinite amount of time? If you're a Christian and an evolutionist, tell me why you doubt the book that your religion is based on. Why aren't things still evolving? How could all of us from different parts of the globe with different climates and conditions all evolve the same? I doubt you can give me a better answer than creation.

Answer 1

Exactly what choice do they have given their atheistic worldview? Evolution is all there is!

An evolutionist would argue that he doesnt know how matter began, only how living things are reorganized into more complex creatures by nature. They might also things are still evolving, just at such a slow pace that it always seems the same to us. They would probably say that is exactly why the races of people have distinguishing characteristics but ya that is a great point. Who says they all have to evolve into humanoids.

Christian evolutionists feel the pressure to give in to atheistic philosophy and they do so at the expense of their own view of the Bible and a big part of their faith itself. These are also the same people that insist the Bible doesnt condemn homosexuality and there is no Heaven or hell. they have self-conceptualized their faith and even God.

Quite right. Although creation may be the easiest thing to accept and believe in terms of how we came into being, I believe it continues to be the most plausible in light of all the evidence Ive seen. God is a wonderful creator and in my prayer life Ive never known him to be a liar.

Answer 2

Another person that has no idea what evolution is.

Evolution deals with life propagation, not its beginning.

No, we dont think life has been around for an infinite amount of itme, just a long time...like 4 billion years.

Things are still evolving, it is too slow for humans because we have a new generation every 25 years. You can see it in organisms that have a new generation every 20 minutes.

We didnt evolve the same - as a species we are the "same" but we are much different from monkeys, trees and e. coli.

I doubt you can scientifically prove creation. Can you information anywhere outside of the bible?

Geekynerd: of course life was created somehow. The process is what is in question. Whether you think a supernatural being did it or a, like what many scientists speculate, by successive steps of pieces coming together are good hypothesis. Coming up with evidence is the hard part. A scientists cant be certain about how life started because..well, organic materials degrade, but if they dont have an answer, they say, "we cant reach any conclusions with the evidence we have." Unlike creationists, who pounce on this opportunity, just insert that they dont know so the answer must be creation. No proof anywhere.

Answer 3

Evolutionists believe they were created, just not by god. By evolution. Maybe you should look into it, its a lot wittier answer then some 'god'. We did not evolve the same. Skin color, language. Different muscles. Different specialization in abilities. Things are still evolving. It doesn't happen over night. The earth has been around 4.5 billion years. It goes slower now as we have new technologies that make it so we no longer need to be more specialized. If you want to read your book, go ahead, everyone just wants some type of answer to feel secure and know they're going to a happy place called heaven in order to survive without going crazy. Why don't you just not worry about what other people think, keep your own beliefs, and let whatever happens happen.

Answer 4

Well as a theist and one that understands that all life developed though a process called evolution maybe I can help you.

First I am not a Christian, I am Jewish. As such I believe I have a slightly better understanding of the text that my ancestors wrote and you borrow. Science dose not contradict theology,

if it happens to contradict your narrow view of the text that is your problem, not the problem of scientists that study the observable world around them.

To quote Maimonides a biblical scholar of The 12th century

if science and The Bible were misaligned, it was either because science was not understood or the Bible was misinterpreted. If science proved a point, then the finding should be accepted and scripture should be interpreted accordingly.


I believe science over the past 100 years has proved its point. Life has developed from simpler forms.

Additionally yes we are still evolving. We are not the same as our ancestors of even a few hundred years ago. Additionally we did not evolve the same, while it is true that all human life had a common origin out of Africa the very fact we have different ethnic and racial groups proves we did not develop the same way.

If these groups remained separate for millions instead of thousands of years you would see even more differences.

Answer 5

Search for 'galapogos finches'...you'll see evidence that things are still evolving.

Life didn't just happen spontaneously...that's what creationists believe, nor has it been around infinitly. It took millions of chemical reactions, occuring under just the right conditions, for the first amino acids to form...and then eventually evolve into life.

Christians who can manage to look at the real world, and adapt their belief to the facts, as presented, are at least trying.

People from different parts of the world, with different climates and conditions didn't all evolve the same. There are differences in height, skin color, hair, the shape of the skull and nostrils, etc. The species is the same, however the body adapted to survive its environment.

You're last statement just proves that no matter how many responses you recieve that give you multiple answers better than creation, you're actually just looking for someone to agree with you.

Answer 6

Because there is no proof that we were crated by a god. However, there is quite a lot of proof for evolution.

Evolution is not a religion, and isn't based on a book.

Things are still evolving. It is just happening so slowly we can't tell.

Human life began in Africa. We then spread across the globe. Actually, we have evolved differently from each other since then. Why do you think people from hot climates have darker skin than those from cold ones?

Did I answer your questions sufficiently?

Answer 7

Things are still evolving, that's why flu shots from 50 years ago won't protect you, the virus has developed immunity to them. The book of Genesis can also be interpreted as a primitive attempt at describing the big bang and the formation of our planet, followed by evolution. The human race started in Africa and spread out, and we adapted to the environment as we migrated. We are not the same, we have different racial features. An example of evolution in progress is the flu virus. A few virus cells mutate and develope an immunity to a flu vaccine. When we administer the vaccine, all of the ones without the immunity die, and the ones with it pass their genes onto the next generation, so that every cell is immune. The same things happens with animal traits, just on a slower scale, and many changes can add up to produce a new species...

Answer 8

There is something all y'all christians need to understand. The bible is NOT the word of God. It is the inspired word of God, susceptible to human error, embellishment, and fallacy, and then subjected to several centuries of the telephone game known as oral tradition. Therefore, it absolutely cannot be read literally. For the most part, ESPICALLY EARLY GENESIS, its naught more than myth. For example, there are two creation accounts that contradict each other. Why? Because some people liked one myth, and some people liked the other. Same for the sin stories. They were written, just as the indian and norse myths were, to explain how the world and its people came into being. For example, the adam and eve story explains how divisions could be established among people and god (by failing to take responsibility for your actions, if you were wondering). Cain and Abel took this lesson a step further by showing the dangers of jealousy. The tower of babel merely explained the presence of different cultures, and Sodom and Gomorrah vividly explain the dangers of God's wrarth.

So, these stories explain the natural world and instill the values of personal responsibility, the danger of jealousy/covetousness, and the oppressive fear of a vengeful God. Sound like a few things that would placate and control a community of desert dwelling people 6,000 years ago called the JEWS.

You, you slimy pretentious fundies, you think you know everything about the bible teaching. YOU'RE WRONG. Scripture is like a great work of literature, it has to analyzed carefully and in context. So, how does this apply to evolution. Simple - Genesis is NOT A LITERAL STATEMENT, thus there is nothing to refute. It is only an account of the bedtime stories told to the early Jews when they asked why the sky was blue!

Sorry, rant was a little off topic. Anyway, its fine to for you to individually accept that God created you in all your glory, that fossils are the devils temptation, that disease is a test of faith, that your God-figure is the only true one, etc, etc. This is how the human race has progressed for millennial, and how it will for millennial hence.

However, what is not ok is you thinking that a) you need to try and 'save' us from out beliefs or b) you trying to foist your own beliefs off on us in the form of asinine laws are regulations. Evolution as an example: All this talk of teaching creationism in schools is complete and utter horseshit. Its fine in religious and other private schools, since that's your right. However, the freedom of religion is a long standing tradition in this country, and one group being allowed to authoritatively teach their belief alongside scientific theory goes completely against that.

So, how can i believe in evolution? The same way you can believe a heavenly deity reached down and personally created you - very easily. Really, we only differ in the literature we turn to for support - you myth, us research.

P.S., i would also like to note that the two ideas are not mutually exclusive, despite what your good ol' Pastor Tom may have said. The similarity of evolutionary progression to genesis (light, planet sky, water, fish, land animals, man) and the simple beauty of the underlying mechanisms allows for some leeway. God may not have designed each and every living thing, but he may have wrote the algorithms (laws of nature and physics) which did.

Answer 9

We certainly are evolving, its going on everywhere. Did you know that there are parts of your body that are currently useless. Your Gall Bladder and Appendix are two, both were used to digest raw and wild things like meat and certain plant types that we (Being the animal known as humans) used to survive on, They could actually be removed at any time weather your having trouble with them or not and it will have no effect on you, I guess the fact that we used to live in caves but now build shelters isn't evolving. Or that we went from walking to horseback to cars and flying isn't any sort of evolution. What kind of car did Jesus Drive? None he was not yet evolved enough to even comprehend the idea of internal combustion engines.Things evolve differently in different climates, do you know what evolution is, or are you reciting what you Shepard told your flock at last Sundays grazing. Evolution is a theory, many many experiments and studies have been done and they all support. The ones that don't aren't actual studies as they are attempts to blindly dissuade, not stating fact but using arcane and anicent, "Holy" books as if they have any sort of intellectual bearing on the natural history of things. Know what your saying, and read a book full of facts not mythology.

Answer 10

Things ARE still evolving. People were much, much shorter a hundred years ago, for example.
If your religion is based on the Bible why don't you study the earliest texts that he Bible is clearly based on?
People from different parts of the globe are not all the same. Why the hell do you think there are different colors and races?