Why do basically *all* of the world's most brilliant scientists believe in evolution, but you don't?

Question

Do you think there is a vast conspiracy by the world's smart and educated people?

Answer 1

The politicians who don't are Republicans who were either completely asleep during any high school science classes they might have taken, or else they're gits pandering to Bible Belt America.

Answer 2

Who says I don't believe in evolution. Some scientists who also believe in divine design in evolution.

Throw your conspiracy theory away; it doesn't fit, if anything applies it to mass a religion that was set up by kings to create a more perfect union.

Perhaps when you refer to educated people you are speaking about people who are more open minded about life in general who do not shelter their minds from hearing any ounce of common sense that may seep in and make them question their ideals about their path.

If you don't believe in evolution, that’s fine, it isn't something that requires or needs faith, it has proof, faith is only needed for ideals that have no proof, or else their is no faith.

For example, the phrase, leap of faith- thousands take a leap of faith hoping that by praying and doing good and being honest and following the status quo that they will not fall into oblivion after they die, that they will ascend or be reborn.

Do I think this is wrong? Do I think anyone is wrong in what they believe or choose to put their faith into, heck no, god love-um, or gods love-um, or live long and prosper so on so forth. Science is like any other religion both running parallel paths towards the same question “Why are we here, where did we come from, where are we going.”

If you shut yourself off from listening to another faith, then what are you really doing? Does it make your faith stronger by not learning about another? If that is the case then I suggest you take a moment to check how strong your faith is. It doesn’t hurt to learn about things like evolution, and if it does then your faith wasn’t strong enough to start with.

Answer 3

scientists tend to follow the evidence and there is plenty of evidence that evolution has worked, at least in small ways.

to cite but one; humanity has successfully bred dogs for an estimated 10,000 years. During that time, we've divided the dogs into very nearly subspecies -- lines that can no longer interbreed successfully.

{Lions and tigers can interbreed, but the resulting animals are always incapable of breeding at all. Same for horses and asses -- while the resulting creatures are alive and useful, they can not breed at all. Orangs and gibbons can apparently also do so -- same result.}

That maybe does leave the religion posed backstop hypothesis -- that evolution works in small ways but can not account for humanity -- and therefore that humanity must be of divine origin.

anyone who has read the news over even their lifetime already knows that this is nonsense -- genocide would not have been something God invented and so humanity, which clearly has practiced genocide, therefore isn't God's handiwork either.

but then, i'm a known iconoclast, so what would you expect??


:-)

Answer 4

Nonsense. No scientist who remembers even the basics of scientific method believes in evolution.

Quite frankly, it isn't a belief system. It requires no belief, scientist don't waste time "believing".

Darwinists "believe". They think it is something people owe the world to believe, just like the modern political movement of global warming.

IT ISN'T A BELIEF!

You can't use it to disprove God, and it might be overturned in a moment. If we can't time travel, much of what we hypothesize might have occurred can't be proved (man from primates) as we have fossil records of primates and early forms of man but no deductive proof.

Like trying to prove a boy stole a candy bar by showing still photos of him at the door, at the candy shelf, and then at the door leaving.

Too many holes, too many alternatives.

Evolution is simply the best theory we have available in scientific research.

That's all it has to be.

Trying to make it more is the effort of those who have a separate agenda such as bashing religion.

That's not scientific. Let's not do that.

Answer 5

Evolution; I herrd all about that on the Deescovery Cahnnel. THere was a bunch of squiggly things in a lake that turned to fish then they walked out of the lake and greww hair then shaved off the hair and became truck drivers. That about it? pretty much. I hope therrrs not another big bang, we could turn into office furniture!

Answer 6

I'm a liberal, but I have some doubts about the most popular scientific versions of evolution too. The almost complete absence of intermediate species is still a very large sticking point.

I'm not saying that evolution didn't take place. I'm saying that I'm not satisfied that it happened the way most believe it happened.

Answer 7

If we assume one believes in God, and that God created everything in 7 days, what does that mean one believes? It means God rested on the 7th day. Well, what did he do on the 8th? Rest some more?

There's no contradiction between believing God created the world and Evolution.

Answer 8

You don't know me. Yes I do believe in evolution. And I'm a republican.

Don't you know that generalizing and sterotyping is completely illogical - I'd not reveal you don't use critical thinking for your own good.

Answer 9

I believe 100% in evolution.

Answer 10

I never said that.be care of who you accuse. i am a Christian and i believe in evolution.

By the way not all scientist believe in evolution.