If someone is intelligent enough to truly understand?

Question

the theory of evolution, how is it possible for that same person to belive it is true?

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Answer 1

why isn't it possible for both to be true? Science cannot prove that God doesn't exist. Even children can understand evolution, just as they can love and God. It may be that the two complement each other and are not mutually exclusive.

Blessed be.

Answer 2

It's a matter of adding up your criteria for acceptance of an explanation. If you want to go by available evidence, understood mechanisms, and novel predictions (that are continually supported), then evolution really is one of the best theories out there to explain the abudance and variety of existent life and the fossil record. That is why there may be disagreements on the specific mechanisms of evolution, but the notion *that* evolution occurred is not debated by the scientific community as a whole at all.

Honestly, I fail to see any other theory that comes even remotely close.

Because this is in the R&S section instead of the science section, I will point out the following:

1 - Believers here have shown with remarkable consistency that they do NOT understand the theory. Nothing any of them has ever said has come remotely close, and some have spoken of willing ignorance on the subject because they think their religion tells them that evolution must be false. I do not know how they can make that judgment if they don't know the theory to begin with, leading me to believe that they are accepting authority outside of their holy books.

2 - Evolution is often debated by pointing out our current failures to create life from inanimate materials. However, evolution has nothing to do with biogenesis.

3 - Evolution is often contested by a lack of "transitional forms." A true understanding of evolution shows the absurdity of this claim. All living things are transitional.

4 - The claim is usually stated "Creationism of the Genesis Story, or Evolution." This is a flawed formulation, as it does not include the creation stories of other religions, nor would a disproof of evolution automatically support the existence of a personal creator god or the truth of Biblical claims. If evolution were to be proven false (and it hasn't been by anybody who understands it), science would look for a theory that references testable, observable phenomena that operates under known scientific laws...that's exactly why "god" is not a proper referent for science, but also why science could never disprove his existence, either.

5 - Another common refutation is a lack of some fossil evidence. The fact is: we have not stopped discovering new fossils. Dozens of now-extinct life forms are discovered in the fossil record every year. Science didn't end yesterday, last week, or ten years ago. It's an ongoing process, and shows no signs of slowing down, especially when it comes to finding new fossil evidence. And, it is an incontestable fact that all of the evidence that has come from the fossil record has lent support to evolutionary theory.

So, the facts that are currently known support evolutionary theory.
There are no proven facts that contradict it.
Evolutionary theory makes novel, testable predictions, and, when they are tested, they have been demonstrated to be true.

If those facts aren't solid enough to back up the claims, then no amount of "intelligence" is going to persuade you anyways.

Answer 3

So true...

If someone completely understood Evolution they would realize that there is a HUGE gap missing out of the theory given the fact that there is no evidence of bones that point to the transition from one animal to the next. Everything that they claimed to be proof like the discovery of teeth, sculls and other things that were later proven to be teeth of extinct pigs and the scull of a man with arthritis.

Plus, I have always wondered how someone could beleive that we originated from fish. How could we have land creatures then? If we all started out as having gills, how could we transistion to lungs over millions of years? Does that mean the species would have to run back and forth from land to water...It doesnt make sence.

And...Charles Darwin himself was quoted saying that the Human eye could not have been formed through evolution given the fact that it is so complex..so how do you explain that.

Evolution, in my opinion, is a joke. Darwin was also quoted saying that Men are intellectually better than women, and that Black people are less "evolved" than whites. Not only is this theory sexist, but its racists.

I truly believe what many have said before. Evolution is a Joke in history.

Answer 4

There is more eveidence supporting the concept of evolution as Darwin proposed it (not as it is popularly misinterpreted and misconstrued) then there is evidence against it. It also seems to well explain how God did and is creating and maintaining/sustaining existence. Science and relgious beliefs can not be at odds as God allows us the knowledge that we have and all things that come from God are good, no? How we make use of that knowledge we are given then becomes good or bad, yes? Also to not believe in the evidence and the knowledge that God has given man is egotism on the part of man where man is "limiting" how God can do what God wants to do. God has power over all things, yes? God can do what God wants in any way that God wants to do the sme , yes? Man can not limit God, if God is God, yes? No problem, just reason and gratitude.
May it all be well with you.

Answer 5

Good question! I understand evolution and all, but since I was in grade school, I had a puzzling thought. We were taught that when anything evolves, the original becomes extinct, right? Then if we evolved from apes, wouldn't they cease to exist also?
Thought this was cute: "My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted." Steven Wright

Answer 6

Because they also were smart enough to look at the alternatives and realize that as of right know the theory of evolution make the most sense.

Answer 7

Because that person is intelligent enough to recognize the evidence for it, and the lack of any reasonable alternatives, and the fact that creationism is based in nothing but infantile name-calling and deliberate propaganda.

Answer 8

One doesn't believe a theory, one accepts it as the best available explanation.

Come up with a theory that better explains biological variation, and I'm all ears.

Answer 9

I suppose you believe fossils were put there by Satan, the earth is 6000 years old, there is an invisible man in the sky who actually gives a crap about you, and that if you don't believe in Jesus your damned for eternity? Now THAT sounds intelligent! (Sarcasm)

Answer 10

On who's judgement calls?