Why do people care about whether or not people believe in Evolution?

Question

I first started thinking about this when I saw people protesting the opening of the creationism museum.

I'm having a bit of difficulty wrapping my mind around it. From where I'm standing it really doesn't seem to be of much consequence.

Answer 1

Some day, we are going to find out for sure who is right (the day we die). And the funny thing about the creation/evolution debate is, if the creationists are wrong, it doesn't matter or make any difference. But, if the evolutionists are wrong, it makes all the difference in the world. As the saying goes: If you are living as if there is no hell, you had better be right.

You make a good point. If you truly believe this is just a great cosmic accident and when you die there is nothing and nothing mattered, then why do you fight and argue so hard against creationism/ID? What are you so worried and upset about? Why spend so much of your time trying to persuade others and yourself that it's not right? If there is no meaning to life, why do you care if people are deluded? I think there is something else... deep down in your heart.

Not believing in evolution will not stunt our progress; evolution has nothing to do with operational science. Take a look at this: http://www.answersingenesis.org/us/newsletters/0405lead.asp

Answer 2

It makes a difference, because the secular world wants to squash any thing that has to do with God, and further their secular philosophies. They would have people believe that science and Christianity are mutually exclusive. Then, when a person says, "I see this scientific truth, therefore, what the secularists have been telling me about everything else, must be true also." It is a fallacious assumption. All truth, even scientific truth, is God's truth. There are many scientists that are also Christians. There are many who believe in God and evolution. As far as teaching goes, the secularists would have macro-evolution taught as fact, even though there is a huge "missing link." However, Christians would let it be taught as the theory it actually is, along side the theory of creation. The only way to give people true choice is to offer them both sides, not just eliminate the one side all together. Christians have been willing to have both taught as theory, while secularists want evolution taught as fact and creation not taught at all. Who really is the most open minded here?

Answer 3

There IS a problem with this - its for the TRUTH. Religious extremists want us to believe THEIR version of what THEY think and ignore the massive evidence to the contrary. This is NOT science - this is religious dogma. The creation "science" museum also falsely claims that science proves what THEY are claiming when in truth science says pretty much exactly the OPPOSITE of what they are saying. The problem isn't that somebody has created a weird theme park - the problem is that they are claiming that science backs up their beliefs when it doesn't, in other words, it LIES about what science really indicates. This is BAD SCIENCE, and shouldn't even be considered "science" at all because there is ZERO evidence to back up the nonsensical claims of these religious fundaMENTALists. In a time when science education is going to be crucial to the future of this country, bad "science" is a very bad thing indeed.

As to why people care about believing in evolution, they falsely assume that evolution means that there is no god or creator, which it does NOT claim at all - only that we probably came from a common ancestor. The existence on non-existence of a creater is outside of the realm of science, which can only deal with that which can be detected and measured, and there is no test for the existence of the supernatural.

Answer 4

Why care? there is the large ability for harm. Take the Dover (Pennsylvania) section college District. 2 Creationist contributors of the college Board, through surreptitious means, have been given their church to purchase Creationist text cloth books as an "nameless" donor. They confident 3 apathetic board contributors to approve its advent into the college room. the effect grow to be that each person the technology instructors retired. whilst the mothers and fathers sued, the college District fought and lost (inspite of the Creationist board contributors mendacity under oath and basically lacking perjury quotes via technicalities). The small college equipment had to pay huge court docket expenditures. Take Texas. A state board approves textbooks each ten years. A unmarried vote is oftentimes the variation between technology and non secular indoctrination, and for a state that populous, its textbook determination impacts the entire u . s . a .. With California's value selection disaster, there heavily isn't new textbook orders for quite a few years, so Texas has much greater potential. i don't care what they think of. I have no interest in convincing people who chosen lack of expertise. I do care that they might attempt to impose their lack of expertise on others.

Answer 5

I has a tendency to color the rest of your beliefs. But, I know some devout Christians that believe in evolution, while others believe in the literal 7-day creation as it is written in Genesis.

I don't believe that we will all ever find enough evidence of creation or evolution to convince everyone. But the point is, that the Bible says that God destroyed the earth with a world-wide flood, so it doesn't exist as it he created it anyway. The universe does, however, and there are many laws of physics that would have been violated if the universe was created from a "big bang" and we evolved from goo (conservation of angular momentum, 2nd law of thermodynamics, etc.)

Answer 6

"We are what our history makes us."

Humans generally believe that history is important. Where we come from is a huge part of the answer to the question, "Where are we going?" If you have two camps who think differently, yet both show what they believe as truth, you'll have a problem.

It's like two groups debating whether or not the U.S. won their freedom from the English, or the French. You start arguing what to teach kids in school, you'll run into serious problems down the road.

Answer 7

Evolution happened. The vast majority of biologists agree that evolution happened. The vast majority of biologists also agree that this isn't a debate, and that creationism is not true. If you give people the impression that they're actually arguing about this, or that they're actually unsure, or that creationism is a possibly true scenario, then you're completely misleading them. And that's just wrong. That's why I care.

Answer 8

You may as well ask why it matters that people believe in gravity. Or modern medicine. Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology - there nearly IS no biology without it.

The US economy is based on science and technology. It is truely pathetic, and downright scary, to have such a large population ignorant of BASIC science. It's almost like they WANT the US to become a third-world country.

Answer 9

there isn't any real problem with other people believing what they want to believe, but the problem arises when they try to have this view taught in schools, when it is blatantly obvious that the concept is ridiculous. i wouldn't care at all, they can believe what they want, but they're not putting that in our school systems, leastways not if anyone intelligent has anything to say about it. (as a rule, i don't mind intelligent design, it's not ignoring obvious facts. i don't adhere to it, but it's not quite so bad, and isn't trying to put illogical teachings into the school systems)

Answer 10

It is only an issue for those who take the Bible literally (every word is true). These folks believe that evolution is a threat to their belief, and the very existence of god. They believe the very foundations of Christianity are at stake.