Evolution is not unconstitutional...?

Question

Creationists claim that evolution is a religion and it is therefore unconstitutional to teach it. However, the majority of people don't believe evoltion is a religion and want evolution taught in schools. This is how I know my statement is true. The board of education decides what should be taught in school and what should not be taught. every state has their own local board of education. Well, the governor of the state decides who should be the leader of the local board of education and the people vote for governors. If people did not want evolution, they would not vote for governors who want evolution taught in schools. So yes, the majority have spoken. Sorry the majority do not agree with your views creationists.

Answer 1

Actually the minority of people believe in evolution.
At least in the US.
And, I think since the theory of evolution requires a certain amount of faith to believe in, it certainly could reasonably be termed a form of religion.
Please don't get angry, it's just that there really are no eyewitness reports to evolution (unless what we're talking about is strictly, evolution confined to the adaption of species).
It's just that when evolution makes the leap into dogmatically being promoted as the source of life, it no longer can really be proved beyond a popularly accepted theory.

Answer 2

It might be better if creationists claimed that evolution and religion overlap enough that there are certain features of evolution that seem to be the same as features of a religion. By putting it in an all-or-nothing language we lose out on seeing how it's similar and how it's different.

For example: religious people and evolutionists tend to believe that there is meaning in the universe, and our conformity to that order is our goal in life. This leads some evolutionists toward environmentalism.

Another example: there are professional societies for both who accept government funding.

Another example: both believe that the other are unintelligent, mean, or misguided, and both vow to work toward the extinction of the other.

I could go on, but do you see my point? If we say they're perfectly similar or perfectly dissimilar, then we do the truth a disservice. By claiming that evolutionism is the exact same thing as a religion, creationists (of whom I am one) open themselves to the criticism that this is not true because of the number of ways in which evolutionism is discontinuous with a religion. Thanks for reading.

Answer 3

regardless of who is and is not in office and what they choose to believe- evolution is nothing more than a belief system.

There are two and only two choices: you either believe that the earth was created or you believe the earth was not created. Science cannot prove either one- it is impossible to do so - the only thing it can do is disprove. without hte bias of religion or atheism, reality is, the Genesis account of creation has not been disproven. There are a lot of questions and weaknesses in the evolution arguments- evolution has been in no way proven as fact and is therefor a belief. It does not matter if only one person on hte planet believes it or everyone but one person believes it- it does not make it any more or less than what it is- an unproven idea, a belief system.

THe simple fact that certain aspects of the theory of evolution contradict the Genesis account, obviously by design, shows that many of the ideas are invention based on assumption and bias. It does not matter what everyone 'wants' to believe- the choice to believe it is not what makes it true or untrue. Unfortunately, 10 million people CAN be wrong!

Answer 4

Evolution in the sense of "Darwinism" is absolutely a religion.
That belief system is based on speculations and no observable science. The scientists who believe in Darwinism are practically all atheists. About two years ago a federal appeals court determined that atheism is a religion due to the beliefs and values associated with it. Clearly scientists who are atheists are philosophically motivated in their views and give observable science a back seat.

School textbooks are often limited in their views of science and usually follow the recommendations of groups like the NAS which is the National Academy of Sciences, which is headed by an admitted atheist and whose charter stipulates a naturalistic view, shutting out any evidence to the contrary.

You are using failed logic to say that the majority of people want evolution taught because several inferences are required for you to get to your outcome. The basic hard facts are that credible polls after polls tells us that the majority, 60 to 85%, of the U.S. public do not believe in evolution as in Darwinism. The darwinist scientists will say that is because the people are too simple minded to understand it. It's sort of like the Wizard of OZ, where he projected great presence and influence, but turned out to be just a clever publicity showman with no real substance.

Keep in mind that while creationists do incorporated Biblical views they also accept established laws of science based on observation unlike darwinism which may be accepted as "established" but really lacks OBSERVABLE science to back it. For example for those who say 'the fossil record proves evolution" creationists would ask, "What fossils are you talking about specifically and where can we actually see them? Who has seen these "fossils" anyway?

Answer 5

Even Darwin said that Evolution would be proven true in the future by the billions of yet undiscovered intermediate species (missing links) that would have to exist for evolution to work.
Update 2007: Theres a guy in China with a dremmel tool etching feathers on a lizard fossil and claiming to find the missing link from dinos to birds.
Evolution "Scientists" have committed so many frauds trying to prove evolution. (Piltdown Man, Nebraska Man ect.)They have no credibility with me and I am not all that religious.
For evolution to be true the missing links would have to be the overwhelming majority of the fossil record but instead they are either extremely rare or non existent.

Answer 6

Evolution is a scientific theory. Creationists claim it is a religion and that it takes faith to believe in it. They always say this, but it sounds like they are trouble with their own faith. Our science education needs all the help it can get, so why do Creationists want to sabotage it?

Answer 7

Creationists don't really believe that evolution is a religion. This is just another attempt to further their delusional agenda. And rest assured that if they thought for one second that they could get the Bible taught in schools they would and would denounce anyone who tried to say that this was unconstitutional. Just some more religious doublespeak on the part of the religious right in this country.

Answer 8

Evolution is a "scientific theory" which means it must be tested and evaluated by multitudes of scientist before it can be accepted. It is not a "theory" as in, just a guess or a shot in the dark, nor is it a religion or set of religious beliefs. That's just ridiculous mumbo jumbo brought up by those who want to teach mythology in the public schools.

Answer 9

Why should they teach our kids something that has even been proven wrong by the scientists. Read Forbidden Archeology and The hidden History of the Human Race. Has heaps of Archaeological findings that prove man was way more intelligent in every way even millions of years ago and they didn't look like apes or cavemen. Also confirmed in the Vedic Literature. Fact.

Answer 10

Evolution is a scientific theory and an educated hypothesis which has already been proven in micro organism! it is hardly a religion! Because religion is based on blind faith and the promise of no proof till the end of all time (ultimate test)...
Evolution is Science, religion is not! get over it