How can people in 2007 still believe in god?

Question

the 'missing links' makes the theory a big joke.

since I try not to be too offensive unlike some I feel like I should say now that I intend this question as a prompt for discussion. Not to be offensive.

Sorry, a quote from a youtube video that someone else posted in response to your question doesn't count 'hello'.

Actually scientists have created life.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2003-11-13-new-life-usat_x.htm

People on R&S are so bad at debating it amazes me. 90% of these responses are emotional comments or attacks that do not answer the question in any way or with any rational argument. Please people I didn't come here looking to have people tell me "I'm right and you're wrong" or "your soul need saving" or even "yes you are right". I came here looking to have an intelligent debate where people could voice their opinions on the issue and back it with rational argument and evidence.

If you want my opinions on evolution (which is where this question actually came from) go to the original question by hello
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtTBaE8bCm81PosA_rB3YDLsy6IX?qid=20070707150006AACmXbI&show=7#profile-info-TWW5va0zaa
and look at my "short" 400 word essay like answer to why evolution makes sense.

I also recommend you check out the youtube video someone else there posted a link to
(it's the first answer to that question). It is 20 minutes long but it is a good video.

Answer 1

How do people in 2007 still believe in evolution?

Harvard's Stephen Jay Gould put it this way"Most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil record looking much the same as when they disappear; morphological change is usually limited and directionless." In other words, Throughout the geologic layers, which supposedly formed over eons - the various kinds of fossils remain essentially unchanged in appearance.They show no evolution over long ages. Paleontologists call this "stasis."
Wouldn't a fossil record, showing all animals complete when first seen, is what we'd expect if God created them whole, just as the Bible says?
Austin H. Clark, the eminent zoologist of the Smithsonian Institution, was no creationist but he declared:
"No matter how far back we go in the fossil record of previous animal life upon the earth we find no trace of any animal forms which are intermediates between the major groups of phyla.
This can only mean one thing. There can only be one interpertation of thisentire lack of any intermediates between the major groups of animals - as for instance betweenbackboned animals or vertebrates , the echinoderms, the mollusks and the arthropods
If we are willing to accept the facts we must believe that there never were such intermediates, or in other words that these major groups have from the very first, borne the same relation to each other that they have today."
.British science writer Frances Hitchens wrote" On the face of it, then, the prime function of the genetic system would seem to be to resist change ; to to perpetuate the species in a minimally adapted form in response to altered conditions, and if at all possibe to get things back to normal. The role of natural selection is usually a negative one : to destroy the few mutant individuals that threaten the stability of the soecies.
Why aren't fish today, growing little arms and legs, trying to adapt to land? Why aren't reptiles today developing feathers?Shouldn't evolution be ongoing?
Evolution Is not visible in the past, via the fossil record. It is not visible in the present, whether we consider an organism as a whole, or on the microscopic planes of biochemistry and molecular biology,where, as we have seen, the theory faces numerous difficulties. In short, evolution is just not visible. Science is supposed to be based on observation.
L. Harrison Matthews,long director of the London Zoological society noted in 1971:"Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parrallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true, but neither up to the present, has been capable of proof.
Norman MacBeth wrote in American Biology Teacher:
"Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose in Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is to construct reliable phylogenies(genealogies or family trees). In this it has utterly failed...Darwinism is not science."
Swedish biologist Soren Lovtrup declared in his book Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth:
I suppose nobody will deny that it is a great misfortune if an entire branch of science becomes addicted to a false theory. But this is what has happened in biology;for a long time now people discuss evolutionary problems in a peculiar" Darwinism" vocabulary -- "adaptation","selection pressure","natural selection", etc.--thereby believing that they contribute to the explanation of natural events.They do not, and the sooner this is discovered, the sooner we will be able to make real progress in the understanding of evolution.
As natural selection's significance crumbles, the possibility of God, creation and design is again making a wedge in scientific circles. In a 1998 cover story entitled"Science Finds God" Newsweek noted:
"The achievments of modern science seem to contradict religion and undermine faith. But for a growing # of scientists, the same discoveries offer support for spirituality and hints of the very nature of God...According to a study released last year, 40% of American scientists believe in a personal God---not only an ineffable power and presence in the world, but a diety to whom they can pray."
Author David Raphael Klein may have said it best:
"Anyone who can contemplate the eye of a housefly, the mechanics of human finger movement, the camoflage of a moth, or the building of every kind of matter from variations in arrangement of proton and electron, and then maintain that all this design happened without a designer, happened by sheer, blind accident-- such a personbelieves in a miracle far more astonishing than any in the Bible."

Answer 2

If there was nothing to believe in how can there be any hope. I believe in God with my whole heart. I have died for two minutes. I did not go to heaven as some would say but somewhere in between. I was not a Christian then. The place I went was silent. There was no noise. I felt at peace even though I new I was not going to Heaven. There was no way to stop it even if I wanted to. I did not feel like I wanted to. I just felt like I belonged there. It was not fiery I was standing to the side of a large crowd of millions walking in a thick line towards a sky filled with lightening with no sound the ground was filled with muddy holes and I had a filling that they where endless. I had a feeling that I was being given a choice to walk to the crowd or to come back. I chose to come back. I am a Christian now and I work in the healthcare field and I work in a nursing home. I have seen lots of people die and before they go they are at peace like I was. I can feel that they are in a better place. If I would have when with that crowd I would be in hell right now. But God has given me a second chance. Just because we have more knowledge of this universe God has given us does not mean we know it all. We have to believe in something more. Something more then paper and pens and telescopes where did this knowledge come from. We are special God has told us this. No scientist is going to degrade me and say I am a monkey. There is no proof just a hypothesis. There is proof with the oldest historical document in the world. How is it that this document has survived so long? When others have disappeared? Also another thought has come to my mind...look at the children when they are dying..look how brave they are. My cousin when she was five and I was three came to me and talked to me and told me God had told her she was going to die. She told me not to cry because she was going to be a cherub. My Grandpa overheard and spanked her. The next day she was hit by an 18 wheeler. I cried. I was three and I saw it. She was walking across the street and the bus driver was drunk and didn't put his signals on. Or look at the little kids who are brave and are dying with cancer. They believe in God because I believe God helps them through it all. They are stronger sometimes then the adults around them because they are not corrupted with debate on Gods reality. They know in their hearts he is with them. I hope this helps you with this question.

Answer 3

People still believe in God because they choose to and may have their own personal stories of miraculous events that proved He is real. There have been miraculous events all over the world that has proved there is a mighty being much greater than any human. You should do some more research and I hope you learn about the love of God and Son Jesus Christ.

Answer 4

I wish I had the original graphic to offer. Sorry.

Calvin: Well, I've decided I DO believe in Santa Claus, no matter how preposterous he sounds.
Hobbes: What convinced you?
Calvin: A simple risk analysis. I want presents. LOTS of presents. Why risk not getting them over a matter of belief? Heck, I'll believe anything they want.
Hobbes: How cynically enterprising of you.
Calvin: It's the spirit of Christmas.

Answer 5

Well, we have news for you. The "missing links" are the joke, and not a nice one, perpetrated upon you by 'scientists' who like to think they know more than God, ie. they are assigning themselves God-like attributes by pretending they 'know' where life has come from, when in fact they know that God has created life.
By the way, do you know of any 'scientist' that has created life yet? NO.
Bottom line, they are trying to fool you so that they can help the rich and powerful keep all of the power and control the 'masses', when in fact, they have absolutely NONE, or only as much as God allows.

Learn to think for yourself. That is why people have 'faith' in God, and faith happens to be belief in something that you may not necessarily see.

Answer 6

Well the answer is called 'faith'. That's what any religion is. Faith that there is a God out there somewhere watching over us making sure things are going alright.

This may seem illogical but it really depends on how much faith you really have, and I guess the experiences you've had with your faith.

* I don't necessarily believe in God, but this doesn't mean I don't believe in Him completely.

Answer 7

Some people still believe that the earth is flat.

Change is frightening for some, exciting for others, and acceptance of theories such as 'the origin of species' is very hard for people who have been brought up to believe absolutely that god created the world.

Answer 8

I am confused by this question.

The first part seem to imply doubt in God.
The second part seem to imply doubt in macroevolution.

And that leaves agnosticism.

Sorry, but based on the scientific and philosophical evidence, I choose the God interpretation.

Answer 9

The more answers you have the more questions you have. Don't judge the others, think for yourself experience as much as you can and in the end you'll be a believer or not. The final question will be answered when you ........ .

Answer 10

why? you think you as a human is very different than the one who was born hundred of years ago? forget the new hairstyle and the new clothes you are wearing, you still love sex, money, and desires. the animal behaviours still exist since Adam. and what make you not believe in God the one who created you from the beginning?