How do Christians manage to avoid understanding evolution?

Question

Does it hurt? Did you have to alter your diet and what daily activities and rituals have you included?

Answer 1

we understand evolution, that unmeasurable changes take place during an unmeasurable amount of time. which is very unscientific. 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.

Answer 2

It isn't avoidance. I took the courses in school, all the way from grade school, through high school and in college.
Along the way even for a non believer the theory of evolution became more and more preposterous.

I kept looking at the fossil "evidence" and finding it lacking in veracity. It didn't fit the mold so to speak.
As time has gone on, more and more evidence emerges which makes me doubt even more the tenets of evolution as described by some of the science community.
I choose to believe what God has said. He created the world.

Answer 3

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 4

Oh, I do believe that creatures and people do evolve over time to adapt to circumstances. So, to an extent, I do believe in evolution. However, as an answer to our existence, no. Why? Because evolution hasn't been able to give an answer to how it all started. How can you still believe in something that has no beginning? Even Darwin couldn't come up with an answer as to how the whole process could have began.

Answer 5

It's pretty dishonest to suggest Christians are the only ones to doubt evolution.

http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org/

http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=660


"According to the news media, only religious fundamentalists
question Darwinian evolution. People who
criticize Darwinism, we are told, want to bomb science
back to the Stone Age and replace it with the Bible. The
growing body of scientific evidence contradicting Darwinian
claims is steadfastly ignored. When biochemist Michael
Behe pointed out in The New York Times last year that the
embryo “evidence” for evolution was faked, Harvard Darwinist Stephen Jay Gould admitted that he had known this
for decades (as noted above) – but accused Behe of being a
“creationist” for pointing it out."

Answer 6

I don't know about Christians, but really trying to understand something you don't believe is a hard thing to do.

Which is why you might get some illogical argument over topics like evolution. I doubt a whole lot of ppl have really put time into researching something they don't want to believe in the 1st place.

Answer 7

We understand evolution. It is the Darwin's theory of evolution that we do not buy into because we believe the Bible tells the story how it all happened.

Answer 8

Its an extraordinary act of doublethink.

Ironically, what it does is put their religion further in the dark. For the sake of demanding a literal interpretation of a page of a book (and of a book whose second page materially disagrees with its first page), they cast their entire religion into derision. Its an odd tactic.

I note from here also some of the extraordinary claims made about skepticism of evolution outside religion (the second poster cites a list of a tiny number of scientists - no more than 600 world wide - many of whom have known religious affiliations) and about faked evidence etc. Do they really think the rest of us are idiots?

Answer 9

From what I've seen, they avoid even learning about it. I tell ya, tell a fundie creationist that you're going to teach them about anything remotely to do with evolution and they don't take any of it in, not even to be critical of the evidence.

In schools it seems to go from simply choosing not to watch a video on the subject to the whole class walking out in defiance. It's idiotic to say the least, it'd be like walking out of maths because you dislike the idea that divisions can have remainders...

Answer 10

As a gay Christian, I'd say that as is usually the case with any group, you cannot lump everyone into one category. I happen to believe God created the world and evolution is merely the evidence of that. The two are not incompatible to me. God's measure of "time" is different from ours, so the fossils we find are evidence of the [seemingly long-to us] process of creation/evolution.