People who think evolution didn't happen: Are you aware that hardly anyone takes this seriously?

Question

Only in certain parts of the USA. Nobody else in the developed world is seriously debating whether or not evolution happened. Nobody in Britain, France, Germany, the rest of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada...

And that everybody in those countries is either laughing at you or shaking their head and saying "Americans..." as if it's all Americans?

And also that the only people in the USA that deny evolution are very religious, and did not come to that conclusion via science?

Are you also aware that sensible Christians take the Genesis story for what it is supposed to be - a metaphor?

My question is, why when you're the most powerful nation on earth do you feel the need to let it down so?

I did say 'developed world', which rather rules out Islamic and Hindu countries...

Answer 1

For 2,000 years, scientists told us the world was flat. And you can find many other examples like that. In 500 years, people will look back and laugh at many of the things we believe today are "scientific facts." If you say, "Surely not; look at how scientifically advanced we are," then you need to realize that every generation has said that.

Swedish biologist Soren Lovtrup made an interesting statement: “I suppose that nobody will deny that it is a great misfortune if an entire branch of science becomes addicted to a false theory. But this is what has happened in biology...I believe that one day the Darwinian myth will be ranked the greatest deceit in the history of science. When this happens, many people will pose the question: How did this ever happen?”

Answer 2

Genesis True.
Adam made from dust (dirt).
Adam had no childhood.
Adam Created as a man.

NOW, that was about 6,000 years ago.
BEFORE THAT, about 4 to 5 Billions Years ago, the Bible dosent' have much to say about anything.
All Things are possible with GOD.
(no bones about it, haven't seen any real evidence myself to support Evolution, but, IF GOD wanted to, All Things are possible with GOD.

Ditto......and, as far as agreeing with something just cause EVERYBODY Else in the World Believes it--I AM NOT AGONNA AGREE WITH IT--unless "It Is What GOD Said".

No Offense to AnyOne Else in the World (including Good Ole U.S.A.) all of the Fly's in the World aren't Wrong Either, But I Ain't Agonna Do What They Do Either!!!

Answer 3

we can explain microscopic evolution in fact we can see it under a microscope, in fact i could take hospital super bugs for example, for one Multi-resistant Streptococcus Aurues or MRSA its a killer and we can't cure it with certain antibiotics because an antibiotic basically kills things, like disease kills humans (wow that wasn't a bad analogy for me) so we treated the original Streptococcus Aureus with your regular antibiotic products Pennicin and that gang, and the bugs started getting resistant, how? well if bugs with no immunity to this stuff come into contact with it they die, only the ones which ain't killed by it will reproduce and as a result they become resistant as in the case of MRSA i can't be bothered to write the whole name out again, so the ones that are resistant pass on their genes to their offspring, the ones that are successful in their environment will get to reproduce (a fundamental corner stone of evolution) so after a while they will become immune to things, like me for example, My Grandmother got two Forms Of Tuberculosis before my mother was born, had she of died from it, I would not be here, so my mother got the the Genetic Infomation that made her imunne to TB and I have it to hence unlike many of my peers at the time I didn't get the BCG innoculation, because i didn't need it, had it not have been advailable they might not have survived i would have as would others who didn't need it and our offspring would all become immune after a time, example of evolution but the fundies hold onto the fact we can't really prove it at the moment but the moment there is a breakthough well they have a problem the thing is they don't accept science because its some what a bitter pill to them don't you think, and i agree there are a lot of people that think this in the so called bibble belt, in the south of the USA but these people are surrounded by like minded folk and if anyone challenges what they believe then they will proberly just chase them out, and a lot of people have just gone missing on the mash land out there never to be found again and oddly they often did something that offended folk round those parts

Answer 4

thanks...i am not from the U.S, i live in Spain and since i visit this site i thought that..."americans are weird"...In here people dont debate evolution theory...or at least they dont oppose Adam and Eve story to evolution theory. It is difficult for us, from here, not to generalize about u.s citizens when we see in the news that somewhere in the states a museum that says that dinosaurs ate vegetables is opened or when we hear that in the U.S they almost riot just because a singer shows a breast when singing...

Answer 5

Islamics don't buy into to most of that evolution stuff either.

Neither do Hindus.

Now were talking more than half the world rejecting certain areas of the Evolutionary theory.

You do realize it's only a few aspects that are not acceptable to mainstream.

Answer 6

NOBODY in the entire rest of the world??? I can see you really have high standards for what you consider scientific evidence.

Answer 7

There are plenty of people in developed countries who believe in Creation. All countries in which Christianity is the majority especially.

Answer 8

No, they're not aware and they don't /want/ to be aware. And that, O my brother, is their problem. Closed minds. If only people would consider others opinions, ideas, and their feelings then at least they'd be sympathetic to science. Bah. I'm talking in circles or something.

Answer 9

Including >10,600 US Clergy & their Open Letter...
http://www.butler.edu/clergyproject/clergy_project.htm
EXCERPT:
"To reject this truth (ToE) or to treat it as “one theory among others” is to deliberately embrace scientific ignorance and transmit such ignorance to our children."

Answer 10

Why haven't we found a cure for the common cold? I don't feel very well, and I could really use a cure right now.