Don't you think believing in evolution takes faith ?

Question

It seems to me that it takes a lot faith to believe that a fish just somehow managed to sprout legs and walk onto a beach. Or that a lizard's scales turned into feathers and he took off flying.

How did any of this happen without any kind of thought behind it?

Answer 1

Evil ----- ution takes far more faith than believing in intelligent design or that the universe and everything in it has a Creator.

Considering that the base of Darwin's Tree of Life has no roots and is standing on shallow ground, not knowing where
the base came from, I believe it is a stretch to believe his base was formed out of something that didn't exist - in other words "nothing." Primordial soup never cooked up one life that can be proven, and the foremost scientist who believed that all things derived from chemicals has refuted his own findings because he has discovered that there are complex life forms that totally defy any evolutionary explanation.

Darwin is on trial and is found guilty of leading multitudes of people astray and away from God. I think Creation provides far more logic than evolution, and recent scientific studies and discoveries bear that out.

Of course the Bible does say that some will be willfully ignorant and choose to hate knowledge. It further states that
"believing themselves to be wise they become fools." In spite
of all the evidence to the contrary there are some who will stick to evolution because they are so dogmatic about it that they are incapable of change. The Bible calls it hardening of the heart!

Answer 2

The fish didn't just sprout legs, it was born with a genetic mutation that allowed it to survive better. Does it take thought for a child to be born with Down's Symdrome? It's the same principle, but every once in a while there is a mutation that benefits rather than harms. Also, it doesn't take much faith when you have physical evidence of evolution, with skeletons, fossils, and the like. Good question, though.

Answer 3

Technically any belief other than the belief in your own existence requires faith. But this is a completely separate meaning of the word 'faith' from that applied to religious belief. Evolution, if you've studied it in some capacity, requires no more faith than gravity.
Of course if you get your information from creationists, the theory of evolution is pretty unbelievable. The idea that fish sprouted legs, or lizards' scales turned into feathers is not really what evolution claims. You're thinking of modern animals turning into other modern animals, which is a straw man argument presented by creationists.

Answer 4

It doesn't take faith to believe in evolution any more than it takes faith to believe in gravity, or viruses causing disease, or that water is composed of atoms of hydrogen and oxygen.

Offspring are different genetically from their parents, and these genetic differences often result in variations in physical characteristics.

Over time, through natural selection (and other mechanisms), the frequency of some of those physical characteristics within a population can change. This is not faith, it is an observable fact.

Taken over millions of years, or longer, those shifts in physical characteristics can produce profound changes in a group of organisms.

Fossil and genetic evidence show us that this is exactly what has occurred throughout the history of life on Earth, producing things like amphibians that descended from water breathing fish, and birds that descended from scaled reptiles.

It's not faith, merely an examination and analysis of physical evidence presented by the world around us.

Answer 5

Oh, jeez.

1. There's no such thing as "believing in evolution." If you research the philosophy of science, you'll see that a theory, such as evolution, is merely the best explanation that fits every fact and assumes the least.

2. Fish don't sprout legs. Evolution doesn't say that. Nice try with the straw man fallacy, though. Same for the lizard.

Answer 6

as quickly as you comprehend what evolution is, you're able to communicate approximately it. of direction no-one's ever seen a monkey exchange right into a guy, and no proponent of evolution ever has. All of technological understanding takes a minimum of slightly of religion - we are able to in no way be assured of absolute medical reality, basically be attentive to that for now what technological understanding has theorised is the suited clarification of the observable info, until somebody comes up with a extra effectual one or yet another reality that disproves it.

Answer 7

YOUR version of evolution (with lizards suddenly sprouting wings and flying) does indeed take a lot of faith.

Actual evolution with real scientific evidence showing the process, however, seems only a natural conclusion.

In all likelyhood, however, you probably haven't looked into what evolution actually says.

Answer 8

Fish don't "suddenly" sprout legs, it takes a long long long long long long (2 hours later...) long long time.

I get what you're saying though.

The honest answer is, yes, science in general does take faith to the degree that we might not be able to directly see something, or theories are theories and can't be "proven"... BUT... science is a different kind of faith. Religious faith is blind and dogmatic. Science encourages its followers to test it for themselves, and to override the dominant paradigm if they find it to be flawed. Scientific "faith" is always changing, open-minded, and relies on verifiable supports and evidence.

Answer 9

Absolutely not. Which is a good thing, because faith is the ultimate evil: it is the deliberate renunciation of the one thing that distinguishes h. sapiens from other creatures -- the ability to apply logic to evidence and reach sound conclusions. In the case of evolution, the evidence has been conclusive for a century; furthermore, evolution is now a proven fact. (Details on request.)

Answer 10

Not really faith but more, We don't know everything and this is what I beleive until it is proven without a doubt wrong. See thats what wrong with religion. People don't accept anything else than what they are taught. With evolution, If it is proven wrong. We dust off our pants and move on to the next idea.