uh "why are there still monkeys?????"
um "well why is it still a theory????"
"have you seen the banana??? *WHAMMO!!!*
2007-06-11 08:25:09 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
what does evolution have to do with the "state"?
2007-06-11 08:29:44 · update #1
They prove their lack of knowledge of the subject every time they bring up something to refute it.
I've never seen an argument against evolution that didn't prove this.
What amazes me is that the scientific community doesn't do more to correct some of the more "public" ones.
(And the really sad thing is, the majority of the strawmen they use to describe evolution, are far closer to Creationist ideas... and yes, they are ludicrous. But these people don't even realize they're talking about themselves)
2007-06-11 08:29:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
Dude we take evolution in school the same as YOU do, and some of us have read much Darwin... and Genetics and the Origin of Species, and other evolutionist books . It's not a matter of not understanding it, it's a matter of not accepting it, and asking the obvious questions around it. Evolution remains a theory. (Period)You be the sucker, I'm not! :)
Have a great day.
2007-06-11 08:35:28 · answer #2 · answered by ™Tootsie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a matter of fact in our adult class at our church we are studying the "Theory" of Evolution... and several of our members are well versed in it from a collage education perspective... we are a small concervative Baptist congrigation... and could be called fudamental... We have no one who would make the claims you cite concerning monkeys... we disagree with teaching The "Theory" as fact or as "religion" as it is taught in most all public schools... but we do iondeed know about it and our material is from all secular sources... and no reputable "scientist" claims it to be fact... or to be "proven"... as so many anti religion posts here claim...
2007-06-11 08:34:15 · answer #3 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people don't know what a scientific theory is. there is a difference between a bloody theory and a hypothesis. Theories are supported by good amounts of evidence. Gravity is also just a theory. I don't see people talking trash about that.
2007-06-11 08:35:41 · answer #4 · answered by Armand Steel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't. While I believe in evolution and not religious theory I don't believe that school is the place to teach that. The public school (pref. high school level) is the best place for evolution theory to be taught and, I feel that it should be a required course.
Conversely, I don't believe that religion should be taught in school. That is what home and church are for. I send my children to school to learn the basics and don't want their minds to be cluttered up with religious theory.
2007-06-11 08:32:36 · answer #5 · answered by randy_plrm 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The first two are both examples of what the Answers in Genesis website says are arguments Christians shouldn't use against evolution (I assume the third isn't listed because it's quite recent). Try refuting their arguments rather than wasting your talents on strawmen.
2007-06-11 08:36:33 · answer #6 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian, but I understand it...really, you should think a little more of what you say, uhm.....you could fix evolution in a way that monkeys evolved from humans! I have studied science from a evolutionistic perspective, and I understand it, but it has to many things that are to incredible to believe!
2007-06-11 08:31:03 · answer #7 · answered by Star Gazer 88 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Basically we just don't care about the theory of evolution
2007-06-11 08:33:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The people who are more likely to be atheists are also more educated, or so the social science polls tell us.
Ergo, those who wish to explain their social and material worlds with superstition are less educated, except of course, in the lies of Christianity, Islam or Judiasm.
2007-06-11 08:34:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be very, very careful with this claim. It is not necessarily one you want to test. Not all Christians are creationists, nor are they all ignorant.
There are some folks here who are not in the atheist camp, but who nonetheless have a nuanced and finely tuned grasp on the various evolutionary disciplines: paleontology, anthropology, genetics. There are even some on this board who could clean a lot of clocks in terms of their grasp on the theory of evolution.
I'm one of them.
2007-06-11 08:31:06 · answer #10 · answered by evolver 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋