Is there any logical reason to believing in evolution?

Question

If anyone insults any religion (not just Christianity), they'll get a bad rating. It IS possible to say that you believe in evolution because religion doesn't make sense without greatly insulting anybody. Other than that, feel free to say pretty much anything.

Daughter: Do NOT call me "cupcake". And yes, I have "been educated in basic biology". I've gone farther than just that 10th-grade class. I've done my research; it may not be a whole lot, but it's enough to know that evolution has no solid ground.

Mr. Knowitall: We Christians DO NOT say that living things cannot change at all - just not in the way evolution says they did.

Sailcat64: What proof? Those scientists were never there to witness what they said happened. So a few birds had different-sized beaks. How does that prove anything?

Right on, Stereotypical Canadian!

Evolutionists say that our arguments are pointless 'cause we supposedly don't do our research. They're being rather hypocritical, 'cause if they do their research, they'd see that there's plenty missing and unexplained in their precious THEORY. And some of us actually have done our research.

Thank you, LELAND.

Thank you very much, BERT!

Answer 1

Harvard's Stephen Jay Gould put it this way"Most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil record looking much the same as when they disappear; morphological change is usually limited and directionless." In other words, Throughout the geologic layers, which supposedly formed over eons - the various kinds of fossils remain essentially unchanged in appearance.They show no evolution over long ages. Paleontologists call this "stasis."
Wouldn't a fossil record, showing all animals complete when first seen, is what we'd expect if God created them whole, just as the Bible says?
Austin H. Clark, the eminent zoologist of the Smithsonian Institution, was no creationist but he declared:
"No matter how far back we go in the fossil record of previous animal life upon the earth we find no trace of any animal forms which are intermediates between the major groups of phyla.
This can only mean one thing. There can only be one interpertation of thisentire lack of any intermediates between the major groups of animals - as for instance betweenbackboned animals or vertebrates , the echinoderms, the mollusks and the arthropods
If we are willing to accept the facts we must believe that there never were such intermediates, or in other words that these major groups have from the very first, borne the same relation to each other that they have today."
.British science writer Frances Hitchens wrote" On the face of it, then, the prime function of the genetic system would seem to be to resist change ; to to perpetuate the species in a minimally adapted form in response to altered conditions, and if at all possibe to get things back to normal. The role of natural selection is usually a negative one : to destroy the few mutant individuals that threaten the stability of the soecies.
Why aren't fish today, growing little arms and legs, trying to adapt to land? Why aren't reptiles today developing feathers?Shouldn't evolution be ongoing?
Evolution Is not visible in the past, via the fossil record. It is not visible in the present, whether we consider an organism as a whole, or on the microscopic planes of biochemistry and molecular biology,where, as we have seen, the theory faces numerous difficulties. In short, evolution is just not visible. Science is supposed to be based on observation.
L. Harrison Matthews,long director of the London Zoological society noted in 1971:"Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parrallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true, but neither up to the present, has been capable of proof.
Norman MacBeth wrote in American Biology Teacher:
"Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose in Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is to construct reliable phylogenies(genealogies or family trees). In this it has utterly failed...Darwinism is not science."
Swedish biologist Soren Lovtrup declared in his book Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth:
I suppose nobody will deny that it is a great misfortune if an entire branch of science becomes addicted to a false theory. But this is what has happened in biology;for a long time now people discuss evolutionary problems in a peculiar" Darwinism" vocabulary -- "adaptation","selection pressure","natural selection", etc.--thereby believing that they contribute to the explanation of natural events.They do not, and the sooner this is discovered, the sooner we will be able to make real progress in the understanding of evolution.
As natural selection's significance crumbles, the possibility of God, creation and design is again making a wedge in scientific circles. In a 1998 cover story entitled"Science Finds God" Newsweek noted:
"The achievments of modern science seem to contradict religion and undermine faith. But for a growing # of scientists, the same discoveries offer support for spirituality and hints of the very nature of God...According to a study released last year, 40% of American scientists believe in a personal God---not only an ineffable power and presence in the world, but a diety to whom they can pray."
Author David Raphael Klein may have said it best:
"Anyone who can contemplate the eye of a housefly, the mechanics of human finger movement, the camoflage of a moth, or the building of every kind of matter from variations in arrangement of proton and electron, and then maintain that all this design happened without a designer, happened by sheer, blind accident-- such a personbelieves in a miracle far more astonishing than any in the Bible."

Answer 2

Sure, there are logical reasons to believe in evolution, but that logic is based upon many un-substantiated scientific claims, theories and assertions. So, it takes a lot of faith or trust, if you will, to accept those things as facts and move forward to the logical conclusion.

In regards to evolution, what is the reason for fingernails? Many creatures have them, but why? If it is just to pick up coins when we drop them, why didn't we instead evolve with sticky finger tips? Why do we have toenails? What evolutionary purpose do they serve?

Just wondering at the creation of God.

Answer 3

The Dr. Spock (from Star Trek) PURELY LOGICAL reason for believing in evolution is The Original Lie, as told to Eve in the Garden of Eden, "Ye shall be as god(s)"
If evolution were true, then God wouldn't exist. If God didn't exist, His laws wouldn't matter--abprtion is ok, gay marriage is ok, really, anything you want to call ok is ok (In those days, Israel had no king, and every man did that which was right in his own eyes) And anything you want to call or make God is ok (money, sex, possessions) YOURSELF--MAN IS GOD.

This is really all a big selfish lie and cop out--since God doesn't exist, I can do whatever I want and not have to worry about being accountable to anybody. (LEAVE ME ALONE TO BE ME)

So the answer to your question is: The logical reason to believe in evolution is that it gives me complete freedom to do as I wish with no boundaries of morality or accountability.
In His Service,
John the Baptist

Answer 4

Many atheist are so embittered by the abuse of those who were suppose to love and nurture them who claimed to be Christians that within their mental, emotional reasoning, they make choices in the midst of the battles that rage in their minds; either this person is a phony for their abuse or there is no God for allowing this to happen to me.

"8 track mind,"right here on R&S told of such a sad story in his own family, raised by Jehovah's Witnesses.
The mind during and after abuse cannot think rational, it is emotionally damaged; some come away scarred but able to see past the hypocrisy and still reach out to God for healing and many go through life blaiming God to relieve their pain,(they think) or claiming not to believe in Him at all which actually feeds their pain by coming to sites like this one and lashing out.
This is logic: a particular mode of reasoning viewed as valid or faulty

Answer 5

Suppose you take a petri dish and grow some bacteria in it. You dose those bacteria with antibiotics, not enough to kill all of them but, say, 90%. You let the survivors thrive again until their population grows back to what it was before. Now you give them the antibiotics again, and you find it only kills about 10%, not 90%. So you up the dose until again you kill 90%. Let 'em grow back, hit 'em again.

Do this five or ten times and you end up with bacteria that can handle 100 times as much of the antibiotic as the original population!

Is this not evolution? Each generation of bacteria come from those most fit to survive in the previous generation. They aren't a new species, exactly, but they are different from what you started with.

(BTW This is why when you get an infection and the doctor gives you antibiotics, he warns you to continue taking it until the pills are gone, even though you'll feel better in a matter of hours.)

Now Christians say 'Well this is micro-evolution and we do believe in that. We -don't- believe in MACRO-evolution.'

But the Christan view (if I understand it correctly, and if not please feel free to correct me) is that God created all the species just as they are, and they are not able to change. But here we see a species changing, over just a few generations, just a few days! Over BILLIONS of generations, over MILLIONS of years, think how much they might change! Without God's intervention.

Answer 6

Try to remember that the bible was only written after centuries of oral history. The early religions were trying to explain how things came to be. Our ancesters were not stupid people, but they didnt have the ability to see the changes that were happening over such long periods of time.There was no written history for them to study. We will just have to adjust our beliefs to allow for the new information. It doesnt mean that those who came before us were wrong.

Answer 7

If you use logic, the main problem about evolution is satan who deceives the whole world who think evolution in the wrong way. It is because, the knowledge of men is based from satan's minions like the philosophers, the faithless scientists, the sages who are the world's fake prophets and false teachers who pit their words or their works against THE WORD OF GOD. Thus, these fake prophets/ false teachers make themselves gods and equal to GOD and it is an apostasy. On one hand, there are numerous worldwide Christians who believe in evolution as an act of nature that performs the will of THE LORD GOD. Man's evolution was shown in a vision 2,700 years ago by THE LORD GOD to Prophet Daniel 7:4...saying lt was lifted up above the ground; and it was made to stand on its two feet like a man; and a man's heart was given to it. That was the vision which means that the small remnants of the mammals climbed up the trees and then as monkeys inhabited the thick canopies of the forest; later the monkeys went to the savannahs of africa and there without trees and fruits learned through their new environment with the predators like lion, tigers, cheetah, etc to run and walk and constantly upright to see wider view for security reasons and then they learn to walk for 3 million years in the savannah as homo-habilis and homo-erectus; then after 5 million years walking and forced to eating meat thus, wtihout fruits, the proteinous contents of the meat expanded the apeman brain and he became a man (with the spirit of a man given by THE LORD GOD) -according to GOD's plan. Similarly, the earth was created only for a moment which is understandable under the principle of the SEGMENTATION OF TIME. This means that any number say trillion, trillions. trilion of trilions of years, etc divided by infinity is actually zero in human standard. Thus, time and space are relative. It is likened to mega-second which is one millionth of a second but it exist in the micro world and this is called the segmeted time (macro-micro). Thus, to THE LORD GOD a trillion, trillion, trillion of years is not even a blink of eternity. So spiritually speaking, the creation of the whole universe is merely seven days under this principle of segmented time where even evolutions of everything took place performing the will of GOD. THANKS GOD; FEAR GOD; PRAISE GOD; GLORIFY GOD; LOVE GOD AND WORSHIP GOD.

Answer 8

Most fossil intermediates in vertebrate evolution have indeed been found. A clear line of fossils now traces the transition between whales and hoofed mammals, between reptiles and mammals, between dinosaurs and birds, between apes and humans. The fossil evidence of evolution between major forms is compelling.

Religion will make sense to me if someone can provide evidence of an afterlife, mystical deities, angels and devils and all the other irrational fairy tales.... just one piece of evidence would do it. Faith, anecdotal evidence and because the bible says so is not proof.

Answer 9

Yes it is possible. There is physical evidence in the form of fossils remains and evidence found in DNA that supports evolution. Believing in evolution has nothing to do with a person's disliking a religion. Its just evolution, through empirical evidence rejects what most religions teach.

Answer 10

Yes, and because of one thing in our bodies: the appendix. It used to do something and now it doesn't. Why? Because we don't need it anymore! Rabbits still use them, and there is proof that we did at some point. For what, I don't exactly know, but we stopped needing them, so they stopped doing anything. Pretty nifty, huh? No need to bash religion for a question that good ol' science will answer quite nicely!

Answer 11

The miles of evidence is enough for me.

Try reading up on the finches in the Galapagos islands. Their beaks changed over time, and it was documented.

People may say, "It's only a theory!"...but, gravity is also a theory. Theories have an astounding amount of logic and evidence behind them, but cannot necessarily be proven. However, they are usually supported by the majority of scientists as fact (99% of life scientists support evolution).