does evolution take faith, or require a belief?

Question

why or why not?

for the record, i see it as fact, which does not require a belief or faith, it simply just "is", but i am curious about the opinions of people who think otherwise and how they come to that conclusion

Answer 1

Evolution requires entities that reproduce conferring information from parents to children and whose survivability is shaped by the environment.

If you're asking whether belief that evolution is true requires faith, it requires as much faith as anything else we've seen first hand. Speciation, which is the basic requirement for macroevolution, has been observed many times. There is also ample genetic, archeological, and geological evidence to support evolution.

Answer 2

"Faith" and "belief" are rather potent words around here, so I try to avoid them. But the reality is, pretty much everything requires some degree of belief and faith. Including the theory of evolution. I believe evolution is factual. But having never seen it for myself, I have to have faith that the fossil evidence is legitimate. That the researchers are competent and honest. That the conclusions were arrived at through rigorous scientific process. I think the question is this: Is my faith well-placed and justified? I believe it is. I place my "faith" with the educated, with the evidence, with the rational foundation. Not with the smoke and mirrors of the Bronze Age primitives of Abrahamic religion.

Answer 3

"If you're asking whether belief that evolution is true requires faith, it requires as much faith as anything else we've seen first hand." - As in no faith at all ?

Definition of Faith:

"n a) belief and trust in and loyalty to God; belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion b) firm belief in something for which there is no proof; complete trust"

Some proof > no proof, therefore evolution doesn't require faith, and neither does anything in science, if you stick to what has at least a little evidence.

For something to require faith, it would have to have no evidence at all, like the co-existence of Dinosaurs and early humans, the Flat Earth theory, and anything George Bush says.


Lastly there is a large difference between what you believe, and what you have faith in, ie your Faiths are inside your beliefs, your beliefs are not from inside your faith.

Try understanding something before having "Faith" in any BS that religious websites spit at you.

Answer 4

Evolution is a process that occurs regardless of whether we're paying attention to it or not.

It did go on for a few billion years before brain capacity developed enough to put the puzzles pieces together and form an understanding of it.

No belief required, sweetie. It's just gonna happen.

Answer 5

As much faith is required to believe that 2+2=4

Answer 6

Evolution is an observed fact and therefore does not require a belief.

The theory of Evolution does not require faith either because of its explanatory power, its predictive abilities and the fact that it is refutable. If you were to find fossils that turned over the theory of evolution completely, you would refute it. Since no one was able to do that, it is as stable a theory as the theory or relativity. I don't need faith to understand or acknowledge gravity, and for the same reasons, I don't need faith to understand or acknowledge the theory of evolution.

Answer 7

I don't think things like science require faith. I've been thinking about the meaning of "faith" lately. Do we have "faith" that the sky is blue? I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't even say that we "believe" the sky is blue. I'd just say that we "know" the sky is blue.

If I say the sky is purple, that would be a belief.

I don't know, that's my line of thinking lately, but it all comes down to individual definitions. I imagine everyone will define it differently.

Answer 8

It takes faith to believe evolution when there are facts against it.

One I like using a lot is that there are several places around the world where there are human and dinosaur footprints in the same rock.

Now evolution says that man came millions of years after the dinosaurs. The Bible says that man and dinosaurs lived together.

The word dinosaur was not made up until 1884. The original text of the Bible is much older than that, and they are called Leviathan, Behemoth and dragons.

Do a web search with the key words "human dinosaur footprints" for more info.

For other examples of how evolution is wrong, check out the sites below.

Answer 9

I think it just is.
But I don't think it takes away from my faith.
An example of science reinforcing my faith. Ice floats. It is 10% less dense then water. It's the only liquid that does this. The fact that ice floats allowes life on earth. If ice sunk, it would kill life in the ocean. All of the earth would freeze. Sure there is a scientific reason for all of this, but I just remember thinking while learning this "Wow the Gods are really smart" LOL If you're athiest of course that won't be a thought. But I just keep learning about these things and thinking "Wow, the Gods are amazing!"

Answer 10

Science doesn't require faith, it requires and intellectual knowledge the way that math does. It is a matter of evaluating the evidence presented and accepting the truth of the matter, not blindly believing in something.