Why is it so difficult for the majority of the human race to accept the fact that science has proven that we w

Question

Why is it so difficult for the majority of the human race to accept the fact that science has proven that we were all created from living organisms and have evolved into what we are today over so many years. Just like the Galapagos Islands. Evolution Proved. Though so many are still obsessed with and refuse to let go of the stories and fairytale of Gods and other fictional characters??

Answer 1

not the majority of the human race...the majority of AMERICANS.

Answer 2

I don't know that the majority of humans don't believe in evolution. However, I'm not sure what you're getting at. Science has theorized many things about what happened in the past and called it science, but "proven" is a little bit strong. Science has arranged a lot of chess pieces (fossils) on a chess board (macro-evolution timeline) and theorized how to best arrange the pieces to get to check mate (life coming from non-life), but if you take away the chess board and the rulebook (macro-evolutionary theory), all you have is a pile of old junk.

I wouldn't say a bunch of different-sized fossils that appear to have some common characteristics can only imply macro-evolution. You say "Evolution proved", but unless you have eyewitnesses, macro-evolution is based as much on faith as any religion of the world.

Answer 3

ok, listen, you are taking the proven fact of MICRO EVOLUTION, and are warping it to fit your own beliefs, so right now you are trying to disprove that there is a god, and that he did not create us, by taking a well tested and proven law, ( micro evolution, which is the changing of a certain species to adapt to a change in their habitat) and are trying to take that and turn it into a reason to believe that there is no God. Macro evolution( the changing of a certain species into a totally different kind) has NEVER been proven, and to tell you the truth believing in the theory of evolution takes a lot more faith than believing in God, ok look, to believe in creation you only have to believe that there is an all powerful God, on the other hand in you believe in evolution, then you have to believe that over billions, and billions of years, many many many mutations occurred, that resulted in the changing of one species into another, and gradually the world became as it looks today. and you have to believe that nothing went wrong with any of the mutations, and where did the first microscopic cell come from? and how did it know how to reproduce? I have looked at lot of places, and looked at a lot of articles, and you know what even though many scientists will die for the theory of evolution, we have no examples of any organisms gaining anything! even the fruit flies, who supposedly had gained a cell that had allowed them to survive against a poison that farmers used to get rid of them, but you know what? they actually lost some cells that would react with the poison, that resulted in their death, and that was how they were able to survive, not but a drastic change in their chemistry, by the adding of cells to their genes. So how can America be teaching that all this is true in school?! It has never been proven and if you CAN prove it to me I will take back everything that I said,

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Answer 4

Whos to say that maybe part of Gods plan was for living things to evolve to fit their climate, etc? I agree with the person who said proving eviloution doesn't disprove there is a almighty God (I paraphrased the quote).

Yes, science has proven that we are all created from living organisms, science has not proven that we evolved from apes or from where apes evolved from.

If eviloution were true that we evolve to meet the requirements of our surroundings mom's would have three arms and eyes in the back of thier heads.

Answer 5

I could fall back on my old standby response (don't muddle their deep seated prejudices with facts dear, it just confuses them), but it is Friday, so let me get farther in depth.

Since MAN has yet to create life from inorganic material (Frankenstein aside), then their entire assumption is that ONLY A HIGHER POWER can. Not that the atmospheric conditions could have been right for spontaneous growth, nothing like that.

Point out to them that there is proof of evolution still going on all over the Earth, and they will be glad to respond that "oh yeah, MICRO evolution is proven fact, but MACRO evolution is pure fantasy. BUT, OUR GOD, HE IS REALLY SOMETHING. HE SPOKE AND THE UNIVERSE APPEARED." This to them is far more plausible than evolution. Go figure.

Answer 6

Apparently we're putting out kids that don't even comprehend science enough to realize that the "fact" you mention doesn't even exist. What this country needs is schools that teach you kids the difference between fact and theory. Yes, evolution does exist, except for aligators which apparently haven't done much evolving over the millenia, but there is not now, nor has there ever been been any proof that man evolved from anything other than man.

Answer 7

Its called an inconveniant truth, sometimes science may disprove beliefs and values that we have long cherished and depended on for comfort, so sometimes it can be overwhelming to society to find out we are alone and not under the protection of supernatural being. Don't get me wrong, just because evolution has been discovered does not disprove a "God" it only disproves the bible.God may just be an entirly different concept then what is beleived by ancient tradition. (Like for example what if god whatever he/she/it is started the big bang, and engineered life on earth by manipulation of nature to follow an infrastructure of intelligent design. However if there is a god, I believe god may be entirly different then what is depicted in religion, not as a supernatural being but some undiscovered factor that is central in the mechanics of our universe. Therefore with the little we know about the universe we should focus on science until we are far enough in science to understand the intelligent structure of our universe and see wheather it is all coincidence that our universe is the way it is or if someone or something designed it.

Answer 8

And where are the intermediate species in the Galapagos (as well as elsewhere)?

The turtles are still turtles. They did manage to grow bigger, but they didn't become cows, for instance.

The Galapagos demonstrates variations within species in order to adapt to environmental conditions. This is hardly a proof evolution is true.

Even so called simple organisms are not so simple.


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Answer 9

I think the problem is that people think that evolution is a "chance" occurrence when that is not it at all. The first life form would be a chance occurrence of the right chemicals and conditions to start life. However, given billions of planets and billions of years, this chance is much greater than people would be led to think. We know that there are a billion, billion planets in the universe. Therefore, if the chance for life forming from the right conditions and chemicals was 1 in a billion, that would mean life could exist on a billion planets.

Answer 10

You seem to know a lot about Science.

Do you know more than Isaac Newton?
Blaise Paschal?
Stephen Hawking?
Albert Einstein?

They all believed in God.

By your reasoning, Science and Religion are incompatible.
It would thus be unreasonable to expect science professionals to be religious. In fact, there are millions of archaeologists, medical doctors, nurses, physicists, researchers, paleontologists, biologists, etc. who believe in God, perhaps a majority of them.

However most people in the Media are antagonistic to Religion. Most Death Metal Bands are anti-religious.

There is hype, there is distortion,

And then there is the Truth.

Answer 11

I believe in evolution. You just thrashed your own question by using "created" in there though.

That's exactly what I believe though: intelligently designed evolution.


The simple answer why most believe in God(s): Pascal's Wager:
"Before entering into the proofs of the Christian religion, I find it necessary to point out the sinfulness of those men who live in indifference to the search for truth in a matter which is so important to them, and which touches them so nearly." (Case point against those that are non-theist)

The basic concept of the Wager: You live as though God exists.
If God exists, you go to heaven: your gain is infinite.
If God does not exist, you gain nothing & lose nothing.
You live as though God does not exist.
If God exists, you go to hell: your loss is infinite.
If God does not exist, you gain nothing & lose nothing