Evolution is a religion?

Question

Agree?

No one has ever observed evolution. It is nothing but guess work. When you can't prove or disprove something it's called faith and the scientists act like zealots trying to convert school children into believing it.

Answer 1

The nice thing about people who leans toward evolution is that they aren't ARROGANT enough to believe and teach that their way is the only way.

Liesel

Answer 2

No..! I don't agree....! Absolutely not..!

Not observed...???? You're kidding...!

What planet do you live on, John? Have you been to school..?

Evolution is not based on guess work or faith. It's the collected data of naturalists and paleontologists, and archaeologists, and biologists and a host of other methodical searchers all compiled into data bases and used to validate a very, very healthy variety of hypotheses all asking questions aimed at seeking out the truth (however that may have panned out,) on whether or not evolution was in fact how the life forms of our Earth came to be as they are. Evolution has been the most studied of all theories, (...but apparently not by you.)

Your question disregards every ounce of dedicated effort that has gone into this scientific pursuit - a rather great accomplishment of man - since the earliest question of evolutionary possibility were theorized by Darwin more than a hundred years ago.

Do you have any tiny notion of how much work you are ignoring?... Open a book once in a while and learn something. You ignorance of this is absolutely disgusting.

I apologize for the directness of my response to your question but you really need to wake up to the facts that are readily available to you.

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Answer 3

"No one has ever observed evolution."

They have. One species has become another in laboratories many times.

" It is nothing but guess work."

It is anything but guess work. It is good science.

" When you can't prove or disprove something it's called faith"

Wrong. Science does not deal in proof, proofs belong to mathematicians.

" and the scientists act like zealots trying to convert school children into believing it. "

Scientists try to teach science. Evolution is one of the most robust scientific theories there is. There is more evidence for it than there is for either of the theories of gravity. To deny evolution is to deny physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, biology and any other science you care to name.

Answer 4

I disagree. I think that, if anything, it is a philosophy.

Um... We have observed it.

There is the domestication of animals, which wouldn't be possible without evolution.

There is also the case of diseases. You know how they have a new flu vaccine like, every year? It is because every year the virus evolves. Just go talk to SuperDrugResistantTuberculosis guy. I dare you. After you catch it, maybe they will try the drugs that work on the other strains, but it won't work on yours. Why? Because it evolved a resistance to the drugs.

Answer 5

A toilet overflows in the upstairs toilet. There is water to the rim of the toilet, water all over the floor.

However, no one was there to see it. By your logic, the toilet did not overflow. By our logic, it can be deduced that the toilet did in fact overflow.

This is how the concept of evolution came about. Now, we HAVE observed it in action, many times. Once the concept was deduced, we began watching for it and experimenting, and have seen it happen.
Look up nylon eating bacteria for a start. A new species of bacteria that lives on nylon, and nothing else. COULD NOT HAVE EXISTED prior to 1931, when nylon was invented.

Answer 6

Evolution = gradual modification to the quality's to a high level; species development.
Religion = System of belief(dogma) and practice(rite), about divine feeling and who can union in the same spiritual and moral community, an all who are the side of this system.
My opinion is that Evolution is not a religion.

Answer 7

How can anyone observe evolution. Evolution happens over millions of years. But I know you can't comprehend that number because according to your bible, the earth has only being around for 6000 years. Throw away your little book and pick up a real book and learn something.

Answer 8

Evolution is not a religion, but a theory. They teach it in school as a theory. As a student, I know that any teacher who talks about evolution makes it clear that there are other theories and beliefs out there. It has more evidence than many other belief of the creation of man kind, but it is still a theory. It is not guess work, but a formed hypothesis formed after many years of research, and it appears that humans are evolving into new creatures today.

Answer 9

You don't know the truths about evolution, trust me:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgfxTAWzAylGTzlmSR41EzLty6IX?qid=20070616100827AA41JE2

What you think about evolution, aren't true. Find out what it's really about.

EDIT:

I just might be the only person on here to let you know evolution, contrary to popular (false) belief, doesn't try to say how the origin of life began. It doesn't claim animals change to another animal and it doesn't claim monkeys changed into a human. These are all misconceptions. If you believe animals adapt to their environment, you believe in evolution. Even a slight change over time (a picture of a city in the 1800s compared to a city in the 1900s) is evolution.

Answer 10

It's the most objective and most valid theory there is. And what you're saying is not true, when I went to highschool my biology teacher was afraid to offend all of the babies by talking about evolution.