2007-07-01 16:09:48 · 12 answers · asked by Melissa P 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
those who has a problem with it has no idea what evolution is.
2007-07-01 16:20:20 · answer #1 · answered by Pisces 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well. I understand evolution and I don't believe it. I don't believe that species spontaneously arose from some common ancestor, that one celled animals became multicelled animals and then fish and then amphibians and then reptiles and then mammals, etc. That doesn't obey the laws of physics. You're talking about systems that are becoming spontaneously more and more organized and more and more complicated. Spontaneously, without any intelligence. It makes no more sense to me than to believe if I waited long enough a pile of watch parts would spontaneously group itself into being a watch.
I believe that evolution does exist, but on a very small scale. Like a finch turning into different kinds of finches by breeding or by a change in a chromosome that makes a minor change in the bird. Natural selection makes sense, but that's not what evolutionists are talking about when they use the term evolution, they mean a dog evolving from something that was not a dog, which evolved from some other proto-mammal, etc. back to some creature that crawled out of the sea. I don't think there is any evidence that happened.
2007-07-01 23:25:40 · answer #2 · answered by William D 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
have the same problem evolutionist have with it. the fossill record does not show it. here is some quotes from metioned
And we find many of them already in an advanced state of evolution, the very first time they appear. It is as though they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history. Needless to say, this appearance of sudden planting has delighted creationists". Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (New York: W.W. Norton Co., 1987).
The fossil record with its abrupt transitions offers no support for gradual change ........ All palaeontologists know that the fossil record contains precious little in the way of intermediate forms; transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt" (Gould, 1977).
which Dawkins ripped for Gould for saying this , he said it was giving the enmies arms againtist evolution.
know that, at least in paleoanthropology, data are still so sparse that theory heavily influences interpretations. Theories have, in the past, clearly reflected our current ideologies instead of actual data." Dr David Pilbeam (Physical Anthropologist, Yale University, USA), 'Rearranging our family tree'. Human Nature, June 1978, p. 45.
Biologists are simply naive when they talk about experiments designed to test the theory of evolution. It is not testable. They may happen to stumble across facts which would seem to conflict with its predictions. These facts will invariably be ignored and their discoverers will undoubtedly be deprived of continuing research grants." Professor Whitten (Professor of Genetics, University of Melbourne, Australia), 1980 Assembly Week address.
2007-07-01 23:27:27 · answer #3 · answered by rap1361 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a problem of people passing that dumb THEORY off as a fact. It is not.
You have to have as much faith in evolution as you do in creation. You can't prove either one to be a fact, but you can have faith in one to be a fact. I have faith in creation.
Now, as far as God using evolution, I disagree. That would be a dumb God. A God who could not figure out what He wanted to create and a God who could not create something and get it right the first time. It would also put death and destruction with the dinosaurs before Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden, which would make God a liar when he said everything was good. Death and destruction are not good.
2007-07-01 23:21:21 · answer #4 · answered by Me 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian and do not have a problem with evolution. Evolution complies with the theory that God exists outside of time, and likes law and order in the universe.
However the reason that some Christians have a problem with it is they do not quite understand it, or have been fed false propaganda about it. Some obvious examples are that humans are direct descendants of monkeys, and that the fossil record disproves evolution. Also people are quite confused about the definition of the word "theory."
2007-07-01 23:12:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Its not that we have a problem with it, but what if you believed in something so strongly and someone kept telling you it wasn't true, what you so strongly believed was all made up and false, wouldn't you have some sort of arguement?? Or are you that much of a pussy you can't stand up for what you believe in? Christians have an issue with evolution b/c it isn't a fact! It goes against what they believe!!
2007-07-01 23:14:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The theory of evolution is just that, a "theory!"
Why do some people have a problem with creationism?
(no faith)
It takes more imagination to think a monkey was my distant kin than I was created by a supreme being!
Adaptation is NOT evolution!
Believe what you want, it will all be sorted out in the end.
2007-07-01 23:15:16 · answer #7 · answered by br549 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Because they don't care to learn about what it is.
They just ignorantly go around repeating their pastor.
My Christian mother believes in evolution (to a point).
She doesn't believe that ppl came from monkeys or that life evolved from simpler life forms.
I guess you could say she just believes in adaption.
2007-07-01 23:17:56 · answer #8 · answered by lilith 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Because it challenges the word of the god that they currently believe in.
2007-07-01 23:16:51 · answer #9 · answered by Desiree 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Because most of them don't understand it in even the remotest sense. I think that when it doesn't make sense to Christians in school, they just stop listening and don't even make an effort to learn it.
2007-07-01 23:14:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋