Does anyone out there not accept the theory of evolution and is also an atheist?

Question

What do you believe instead?
I also wanted to say that I've just passed the 1000 point mark! :D

Answer 1

I know of at least one such group, the Raelian Movement.

By definition they are indeed atheists (they explicitly do not believe in the existence of deities -- which is precisely what the term "atheism" means, no more and no less), yet additionally reject the scientific facts of evolution. Their main belief is that humans were essentially made or put here by aliens. So again, they are creationists but not theists. Strange but true.

It's funny seeing how creationists react to a group that latches on to the same creationist arguments, yet doesn't attribute them to a deity (let alone THEIR deity).

Answer 2

Congrats on reaching the 1000 mark!

I am an atheist and that means I am a non-theist. Unfortunately theism and evolution are often on opposing paths and way too many people are in the theist column. Atheism to me simply means I don't believe anything for which there is no evidence. There is lots of interesting stuff yet to be learned and discovered in the theory of evolution, but that doesn't mean the theory itself is wrong.

Answer 3

Interesting question. I am an athiest because human knowledge actaully demonstrates that deities, god's, the supernatural, etc. are fantasies that have no substance in the reality of the real world - which we can understand more about by studying science.

But even Stephen Hawakins concludes in 'A brief History of time' with (although it is done with a wry sense of humor) that something may have initiated the big bang (but whatever it is must have been a great mathematician).

As for aliens and all of that. Even though most astronomers would admit that there is more probablitiy that life exists in other solar systems than not. The distances that we are taling about are truly astronomical - larger than anything we can normally conceive or accept.

The distances are so great in fact that many of the stars that we see in the night sky are no longer in existence because the light has taken so long to travel to us. And for the sceptics - if you want to know how we are able to know that and prove that, you need to study physics and understand mathematics - which allows us to prove the speed of light and also to prove the distances of stars (or extinct stars).

It has also been proven, scientifically, that evolutonism (first proposed by Darwin) is true. This is further reinforced by our growing knowledge of genetics and mutation in cells.

As for religions, etc. They are just fantasy. At the end of the day if I said I believed in the 'force' I would be ridiculed by most catholics or islamics. But the truth of reality shows us that there is no evidence to say that either God or Allah exist, anymore than the 'force' exists.

Many people are simply weak. They are unable to accept the often harsh realities of life: pain, suffering, death, etc. They are unwilling to accept the pain and confront these experiences and (dangerously) allow themselves to become disillusioned by a fantasy that has no bearing on the reality that surrounds them.

Answer 4

The theory of evolution seems to be perfectly sensible to me.

Touching on what others have said about the immensity of the universe, you can study the subject and you can believe you have your head around the massiveness of it, but the more you think about it the more the waves of realisation hit you and you realise that you still don't and won't ever comprehend its vastness.

Given the above how can we the human race believe that we are something special in the scheme of things.

Not only will there be life out there but there will be billions of types of lifeforms and we are just one type.

I believe that in universal terms the human race is only one tiny part of the evolution of life.

In an attempt to comprehend the distances involved think about this.

Hold up your hand.
If you could shine light from the palm of your hand and it would travel around and around planet earth it would hit you on the back of the hand about seven times per second.
Imagine how fast that is.
Now imagine how far it could travel in just one year.

Imagine millions and millions of years of light travelling, this is what we are actually seeing as we observe the stars in the near universe.

In all that vastness the chance of us being the only form of life is almost nil and the idea that we are somehow gods unique creation is laughable.

Its beyond belief that people can actually believe such rubbish never mind have wars and die arguing about whos god is best.

Its perfectly possible that we were created by some other life form but in my view that would be just part of the evolution of the universe.

I think this link says it all (don't worry its not bob geldof)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDkyR_rGrqU

Answer 5

I don't go along with evolution and I am an atheist.

I think, if I'm being honest, that we are probably an experiment by some life form a lot more advanced than us. I'm not into Scientology nor do I believe in Little Green Men, however, there is something, somewhere that is far more advanced.

How come, if we have been "evolving" for god knows how many centurys have all our achievements suddenly happened in the last 150 or so years! No, everything is just too finely tuned to have just occurred by evolution - then again I don't believe things happened with the garden of eden, etc.

Just as we are now attempting to grow things on the moon or on Mars I think that another force has already attempted this and has not made too bad a job of things.

I mean, everything about this world is just so geared up and perfect, (natural things), that we can't possibly have arrived here by some big bang - to me the solar system was all part of the same experiement it was just us, in the position we are in, that got lucky.

For all we know we could just be one big kind of ant farm to another race from another galaxy! Mother Nature can bring us to our knees in a second and remind us of how small we really are on the face of things so is it too far out to believe that some higher force could be pulling our strings.

Answer 6

Congratulation on passing the 1000 point mark.

I am an atheist and I question the theory of evolution, but only the Darwinian theory. His premise is that we are the product of purely RANDOM mutation. I.E. we are passive automatons who have arrived at this stage of evolution by sheer chance of circumstance. I believe we evolved not by chance but by gradually adapting to the environment. We are unique as a species in that we are aware of our own existence. In that respect, we are now the architects of our own destiny in evolutionary terms. It is our brain power that leads us.

Carl Sagan explained it in a simple but understandable way. For us to be able to fly, we would have to wait hundreds of thousands of years to evolve wings. Instead, using our power of thought, we invent aeroplanes. To gain masses of knowledge and therefore a massive brain, we again would have to wait many generations to do so. Instead we invent libraries where we can all dip into a pool of knowledge.

Does any of this make sense, or am I waffling on here?

Answer 7

I doubt someone could be an atheist AND a creationist, the two are incompatible.

Answer 8

ooo i don't know, have you got a better one ? And have a kiss of congratulations X

Answer 9

How can there be any other theory except evolution or design?

Answer 10

nope and yes.. and well, i'll believe any damn thing if there's a beer in it for me...