2007-09-05 23:24:30 · 24 answers · asked by A True Gentleman 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it really seems that way, its about the only excuse they use on here, and its a terrible on at that
2007-09-05 23:28:48 · answer #1 · answered by Kruger, Freddy Kruger 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I have spoken to several Christians who want to see evolution happening in front of the eyes . So I talk about the evolution from an Amphibian to a Reptile , a process lasting about 50 million years. Quite often they demand the impossible.
Effectively they want to live 50 million years standing on the edge of a lake and watch the Amphibian gradually change into a Reptile and start walking on the land.
Or at the very least they want to see a hundred fossils showing all the minute changes leading from an Amphibian to a Reptile. What they don’t seem to realise is that fossils are extremely rare. Currently there are some 6 billion people on this earth , if we all died tomorrow, after 60 million years , there would barely be any fossils of human kind.
In my opinion it is ignorance that often leads people to a belief in the supernatural.
2007-09-06 10:43:11 · answer #2 · answered by londonpeter2003 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everyone has to have something to believe in, God is just one outlet...If it helps to keep people on the straight and narrow it can only be good. Like everything else, it is open to abuse...wars being started in the name of god for instance. None of us really know how we started out, does it matter? There are more important things to be concerned about, don't you think!!
2007-09-06 06:48:34 · answer #3 · answered by frances_young2002 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Some do, for that reason.
Some are so couched in tradition, that they can't understand those who don't hold the same traditions.
Some find comfort in the faith (this doesn't make it any more real, mind you)
Some hold onto a belief in a god out of fear, or for hope...
Or did you mean those who prefer the myth of creation, over the facts of evolution?
2007-09-06 06:37:56 · answer #4 · answered by Bill K Atheist Goodfella 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it's deeper than that. It's a search for truth. As an agnostic (bordering on atheist) it seems natural to question things to me. Evolution answers many questions but poses more. Having said that, give me science over superstition any time.
2007-09-06 07:17:20 · answer #5 · answered by Robin H 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hardly! Hindu Creationism makes Evolution look piddlingly tiny ha ha
2007-09-06 08:18:44 · answer #6 · answered by Therapon 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I am sure this is not so.volution is a scientific theory which attempts to explain observed facts - no more than that. It may well be rejected or extensively modified in due course.
2007-09-09 15:22:18 · answer #7 · answered by galyamike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I believe in God because I met him. I wasn't raised in any faith system and my dad believes in evolution. I don't think it matters to a christian really, at the heart of our faith is a relationship, not scoring points in a scientific debate
2007-09-06 08:46:46 · answer #8 · answered by good tree 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No - I believe in God because its good to have something to believe in. I like to think there is someone above us, looking down on us and that will look after us when we need him.
2007-09-06 06:36:58 · answer #9 · answered by Jo C 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No they believe in God because they experience Him first hand. We have no problem with long time periods as we will live forever :-)
2007-09-06 10:17:20 · answer #10 · answered by Andy 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The old "god of the gaps" -- some people attribute a deity or deities to anything they don't understand.
2007-09-06 06:29:23 · answer #11 · answered by Zombie 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋