Computers, the Internet, stunning medical advances, space travel, air travel, television, DNA, cell phones, automobiles, etc., etc. To many of the believers, they are more than okay, they make the world go round. But the Big Bang, Darwin's Origin of the Species, bones of ancient critters, and all sorts of other stuff we're discovering nowadays about our origins are apt to leave many a believer frozen in fear and denial and a closed-mind. Why?
2007-06-19 10:51:25 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
there is a general mistrust of science in the American population it is not limited to the religious.People do not trust what they cannot see and feel. They can hold cell phones in their hands but they cannot see evolution happening.
Just refer to the whole autism vaccine debacle
2007-06-19 10:55:55 · answer #1 · answered by Don't Fear the Reaper 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
These people want to believe in something so much that they will listen to anything their minister tells them. It doesn't matter how much scientific evidence you throw at these people, they'll always come up with some junk 'study' written by a some guy who claims to be an expert but really only attended Bible School as proof that 'there are flaws in the theory of evolution'.
It's unfortunate that about half of Americans now fall into this category. Either they listen directly to these quacks or they are indifferent and heard it somewhere and it sounds good to them. About HALF of Americans don't believe in science!!!
I'm wondering if the fact that a quarter of Americans can't point to the U.S. on a map is interrelated. I sure think so!!!
Come on people!!!! It's science, not religion. Creationism, Intelligent Design, all of those things are religion disguised as pseudoscience!!!
2007-06-19 10:59:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a big difference between observable science and calculated science based on assumptions.
For example; those that date via Carbon-14 do so by assuming the ratio of C12 to C14 is the same today as it was thousands of years ago.
Where it the proof that mutations can add genetic information?
Miller's experiment was a joke - because he created left/right handed amino acids which could not support life. He even cheated by using a trap!
Where is the massive record of transitional fossils which was suggested by Darwin?
There is no fear there is only critical thought.
2007-06-19 10:58:18 · answer #3 · answered by Brian 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your answer to this is found in the belief that there are two kinds of science: operational science, and historical science.
Whereas operational science has real proofs and is present in the here and now - math, maybe, and all those wonderful machines we enjoy - historical science doesn't have the luxury of firsthand accounts, witnesses, etc., needed to verify something as a real proof in the mind of the skeptic. So until we get around to inventing a time machine, we're all stuck with people who can deny something that happened in the past rather easily.
2007-06-19 10:56:37 · answer #4 · answered by uncannydanny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all religious people are Christian or linked to the bronze age in any way.
Some of us readily accept science.
2007-06-19 10:54:56 · answer #5 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey, not all the religious are that way! We're not all necessarily Abrahamic!
2007-06-19 10:55:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mainly because those theories are not what they believe in. Christians don't dislike science and technology we encourage and accept it.
2007-06-19 11:01:23 · answer #7 · answered by Annie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am opened minded to the truth. I don't see credible proof for evolution, but I do for creation.
2007-06-19 10:55:25 · answer #8 · answered by RB 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋