I mean, what’s the worst that could happen if it is denied completely? It’s just one theory out of thousands. It’s not as though mathematics is being denied.
2007-06-24 12:13:37 · 17 answers · asked by Desiree 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Evolution forms the solid foundation upon which ALL Earth sciences are based. It applies logic and scientific accountability to the serious pursuit of knowledge, without it children would be running around saying "God did that, and that , and this", denying common sense, and insulting the concept of education.
2007-06-24 12:16:20 · answer #1 · answered by ED SNOW 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It pretty much is the same as denying math. What you are doing is denying the ENTIRE basis for modern Biology. You would be taking us back to the middle ages.
And there is not a single peer reviewed paper in any scientific journal that goes against the big idea. I know of no other theory other than common decent that has ANY scientific acceptance at all.
2007-06-24 19:20:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
One of thousands? OK, there's believe that God created everything and the theory of evolution. What are "thousands of others?"
Theory of Evolution explains how life was created. Religion TELLS you to believe in a fairy tale without an explanation, you MUST believe and that's it.
It's up to you to choose if you want to think or be brainwashed.
2007-06-24 19:20:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think there's a lot of stuff we can deny, and no harm done.
Church people do it every day.
I knew a guy in high school whose dad was denying the Holocaust, and it was no problem for him; and as far as I know he's living happily somewhere...
Denial goes on all the time.
2007-06-24 19:25:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, really evolution is the basis of all of modern biology, which essentially means no cancer drugs (cancer=the result of mutation, theory of evolution through natural selection = basis of how mutations occur and when we don't want them to occur).
Not to mention getting information on genetic diseases (like sickle cell anemia), and clasifying animal species, which also depend upon it.
But if you'd rather die a slow and painful death from disease, well, I guess that's alright too....
2007-06-24 19:23:18 · answer #5 · answered by yelxeH 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A scientific theory is more than just an idea or an hypothesis. A theory has be rigorously tested and evaluated over and over.
2007-06-24 19:25:44 · answer #6 · answered by Julia Sugarbaker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it does. I do believe it devalues people's understanding of their specialness (and no I am not meaning level of disablity)
God loved us, he thought of us, he created us and knitted us together in our mothers womb (Ps 150).
It chips at the foundation of bleieving someone you can't see cares for you so much and wants you to have a life that has purpose.
2007-06-24 23:18:29 · answer #7 · answered by Abbasangel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both science and math are based in logic. So, yeah, actually, it would be as though math is being denied.
2007-06-24 19:26:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Vaccinations? Genetic engineering? A cure for cancer? Improvements in crop yields?
Have you ever seen the ancestor of corn, or the stock from which domesticated cattle were bred?
2007-06-24 19:18:29 · answer #9 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 9⤊ 0⤋
For one thing, your country (I'm guessing the united states) would continue to be the laughingstock of the western world.
2007-06-24 19:22:38 · answer #10 · answered by eldad9 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋