Assume a God exists, now wouldn't it be an insult to him not to pay attention to the evidence for evolution?

Question

Since 99% of scientists conclude that all life evolved from a common ancestor, (this includes scientists that are Christians, Atheists, Jews, Agnostics etc.) why do laymen think they have good reason to think otherwise?

Whether there is a God or not, evolution happened, is happening, and will continue to do so.

If you think it didn't, you are listening to radical fringe "scientists" who have no respect in the scientific community and whose essays and books are always well refuted by mainstream scientists.

If there is a God, he would want you to be on the side of the truth now don't you think?

Have you done a thorough objective search to determine what the truth is regarding evolution?

Answer 1

Excellent point. Why believe the words of men rather than the evidence in the universe itself, which god (supposedly) made?

Answer 2

Most Christians agree with you.

The Catholic Church does not take the stories of creation in the Bible literally. Catholics believe the book of Genesis tells religious truth and not necessarily historical fact.

One of the religious truths is that God created everything and declared all was good.

Catholics can believe in the theory of evolution. Or not. The Church does not require belief in evolution.

On August 12, 1950 Pope Pius XII said in his encyclical Humani generis:

The Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God.

Here is the complete encyclical: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_12081950_humani-generis_en.html

The Church supports science in the discovery of God's creation. At this time, the theory of evolution is the most logical scientific explanation. However tomorrow someone may come up with a better idea.

As long as we believe that God started the whole thing, both the Bible and modern science can live in harmony.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

The theory of evolution is not scientific. It is important that we know what science is and are able to distinguish between “science” and what is “falsely called science.” A typical definition of science is that it is a branch of study concerned with observation and classification of facts, especially with the establishment of verifiable general laws, chiefly by induction and hypothesis. Webster defines science as “systematized knowledge derived from observation, study, and experimentation…”. You can look at various dictionaries and get slightly different definitions but the key words will be “observation,” “experimentation,” “verifiable,” “testable,” and “repeatable.” In other words, if it cannot be observed, repeated, verified or subject to experimentation, then it is not scientific. Evolution has never been observed, repeated, verified nor has an experiment ever been performed regarding it. Thus evolution is not scientific.

"Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?" Gal. 4:16


Butterfly Gives Darwin an ‘Absolute Breakdown’


Issue Date: July/August 2007

By Thomas Heinze

Darwin felt that natural selection, working by just slight modifications, had formed all the animals and all of their organs. He wrote: “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”

Here’s an “absolute break down” surprise for him! Butterflies are not transformed by successive slight modifications from caterpillars, or from any evolutionary ancestor. Neither are any of their complex organs.

When a butterfly egg hatches, a caterpillar steps out, eats, grows, and then builds a little house around itself where it passes into the pupal stage. Inside the leather-like shell of the pupa, or larva, the caterpillar dissolves. I don’t mean he dissolves in tears, or has a squishy feeling. His eyes, legs, intestines, and bristly fuzz, everything that distinguished him as a caterpillar, melts down to form a thick liquid. Everything except his heart becomes homogenized goo.

Darwin said that if any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, his theory would absolutely break down. Compare the organs that crawled in to become the pupa with those of the butterfly that flew out in the chart below.

All these butterfly organs formed from goo! None formed from slight modifications to previous organs! Darwin struck out!

Darwin thought natural selection had lifted all plants and animals up from a single cell by eliminating the less fit and keeping the more fit alive. What is the least fit substance you can think of? Thick liquid? Well, even if you can think of something less fit than thick liquid, you know that liquid goo has no selective advantage over a voracious caterpillar crawling efficiently through the brush avoiding predators with protective coloration and a covering of disgusting stiff fuzz!

Darwin was right! His theory absolutely breaks down, crushed under the weight of one of God’s lightest creatures: the butterfly!

Answer 4

There is nothing in Islam that contradicts the Theory of Evolution....

EXCEPT:

We don't believe it happened purely by chance. We believe that God can develop creatures over time if He so wishes.

I don't see this as unreasonable

Answer 5

Remember also that there was a time when 99% believed in a geocentric universe....God is often in the 1%.

Answer 6

Evolution is true and even the Pope accepted it. God is guiding it.