Christians, why do YOU think that many theists don't understand what the Theory of Evolution is about?

Question

And/or don't understand the scientific process or what the terms like "Theory" mean?

Answer 1

Even evolutionists don't understand completely. They are always changing their minds.

Answer 2

I think they were taught by some pedagogue somewhere some time to slam their minds shut the minute they hear the word evolution.

I mean, the whole absurd evolution vs creationism thing is just one more way fundamentalists can set up an artificial "us vs. them" mentality that keeps them as the good guys, ever true to "Gawd's word", and keeps everybody else as the evil, bible-disbelievin, science-worhippin evolutionists.

It's ludicrous.

They don't understand because they don't want to understand. They were taught by implication that if they think too much about their beliefs, they'll see how phoney they really are and they're afraid of facing the world without their faith.

If they would just use their heads, ignore Brother Rufus down at the church, and read the bible AND some books on evolution with their brains in gear, they would see that there really is no conflict.

Who's to say God couldn't have created Adam and Eve with body fur, a sloping forehead and knuckles that drug the ground, then let them evolve from there?

Answer 3

Let me answer your question with a question of my own.

Why do most atheists assume that Christians are not familiar with the theory of evolution, or do not understand it? Even some atheist scientists don't think evolution makes sense, and there are also many Christian scientists (some of which demonstrate how science and the Bible not only are not in contradiction but are, in fact, co-dependant). While many Christians believe in a "limited" sort of evolution, they also believe that God is the one who set things in motion.

I don't think it's so much that Christians don't understand the term "theory" in relation to evolution, but that atheists insist that it is fact, and not a theory.

Answer 4

We can't understand millions and billions of years for the erosion of Niagara Falls? We can't understand millions and billions of years for the Gulf of Mexico & the Mississippi River sediment. If the Grand Canyon is cut by the river where is the dirt? A Global Flood makes more sense. Polystrate Trees?
Every 35 years the population doubles with 6.4 billion on the earth and trace it backwards.

To get your theory you need these millions and billions of years, but where is the evidence for that many years? You can't even come up with that ever changing specie. It is hard to even try to believe evolution. The Bible is more convincing than your theory.

Answer 5

When they don't have any basis to go on other than their life long indoctrination in their faith, and when that faith tells them that if they question what they are learning, that makes them tools of satan, well, that tends to close people's minds to even WANTING to understand something.

Answer 6

I think that they see evolution as a replacement for the creation. which it really isn't.

so that makes me think they have no idea what evolution is.

they are jealous that we can go back and change our theory, but they can't go back and change that sentence in the bible about waiting for marriage to have sex...

Answer 7

I think they hear that we have a common ancestor with apes and monkeys and immediately think you are calling them a monkey, get offended, and shut their minds.

Answer 8

we know what it means but we will refuse to believe it because the word of god shows that we were all created in God's image.

Answer 9

I know both.

Get of your pedestal :D