Just curious to see how many of you out there actually understand evolution at a basic level.
2007-09-09 04:49:43 · 35 answers · asked by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As some have already stated, theory is enough. It doesn't get much more accurate than a scientific theory, which means it is currently an undeniable fact in the scientific community. Thanks for pointing that out, creationists!
2007-09-09 04:56:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 3⤋
I can make this simple. I'm Christian, so i guess i am one of many You are asking. DARWIN's exact idea? No, i suppose i don't know a lot about it; i think i know more about his trial. I would not mind reading the definition from YOUR perspective, but here is mine.
The species we have on Earth now were not always the same, and will not always stay the same. Evolution is on-going, and part of it is extinction. Another part of it is diversity. Scientists are still working on exactly how it all got started, but everyone agrees it had a starting point.
Some think the beginning was a sudden eruption of all physical matter for no reason at all, known as the Big Bang. Not very logical, but there are hints of evidence that are being studied. Others refuse to believe in this random act because it is written that all things were formed by a higher being generally thought of as God, and that's what's written, but it is interpreted to mean that all things were created at the start exactly as they are now, and there is no logical reason to believe that, either.
If You take the verb "WERE formed" and change it into "are being formed," the two ideas can be accepted as the same. I already admitted that i don't know. Furthermore, i assert that no one knows for certain. However, this is why i see no conflict between the scriptures and evolution. I just see people who want to argue.
(Is anyone else having trouble with spellcheck?)
2007-09-09 05:36:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Because it can't ever really be proven or even tested. It remains a good theory, but it may be too broad based to be very scientific in toto. Broken up into biology, chemistry, zoology, archeology, etc. it becomes more manageable. It's just an incredible amount of science to lump into one theory. As a unifying hypothesis it's reasonable, but it tends to be philosophical as much as scientific. That might explain why it's so zealously believed.
2016-04-03 22:41:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously not, or they wouldn't be creationists.
"Theory, guess work, a shot in the dark." I learned a long time ago that it's absolutely pointless trying to teach the people who really need to be taught.
Let them believe that evolution is "just a theory," and forget about them ever comprehending what a scientific theory actually is. They simply don't want to know. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make a creationist understand the most elementary concept if it doesn't resonate with his programming.
2007-09-09 04:56:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 16⤊ 4⤋
I am a hybrid evolution by creation believer. Does that count?
In the beginning God made it possible for the basic building blocks of life to come together and when these did they where capable of reproducing themselves as they reproduced themselves the weaker ones were quickly left behind by the stronger ones that had an easier time reproducing. This led to the eventual extinction of the weaker bread , because it was cleared out by the stronger. No longer having the space or resources , since the stronger had them all.
Evolution kept on its marry way for billions of years. Through countless iterations and extinctions. One such evolution was a mammalian species into something that resembled man.
Then God made man from the dust. (unless you take this part figuratively , like the a lot of the bible was meant to be taken.) and when that man and his wife where cast from eden there later generations preceded to kill off anything that looked like them for being new and different. Do to the evil base sinning nature of mankind.
2007-09-09 05:23:26 · answer #5 · answered by RedBirdofChaos 2 · 1⤊ 6⤋
just thought i'd pop in here and say that theories are ideas derived from repeated experimentation, observation, and analysis.
Also, notice that in math (oh, i'd love to see some of you argue with this) we use theorems, postulates and axioms. By denouncing the term 'Theory' in evolution, are you also trying to say that everything we've ever learned in math is a lie too?
(This is more a response to the answers than the question)
2007-09-09 04:56:50 · answer #6 · answered by {fiyerae}rox.my.world. 2 · 7⤊ 3⤋
Evolution - evolving from one state to another via means of natural selection or direct intervention.
Take humans out of the theory and apply it to plants and it is the most logical understandable thing in the world.
Take corn for example - corn plants with weak roots and or soft stalk were blown over by the wind and did not mature go to seed and reproduce. Only the stiff stalk with good roots did - giving modern corn its upright appearance.
Humans did not like hard mealy corn - they pulled up this variety deeming it weed and planted the seed of the sweet variety they liked to eat.
And that's how corn evolved from what it was to what we know today.
2007-09-09 05:09:50 · answer #7 · answered by Axel M 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Bravo. You've summed up what thousands of days of arguing couldn't have even remotely got across. They don't know it, but it's wrong anyway. Because they heard it was, of course, by the same people who tell them about God.
I really don't see the point in R&S for us, anymore. Not after reading all of those studies throughout the last 80 years showing that people with religious tendency are so very less intelligent than those with anti-religious tendency. If they read Origin of Species all bloody year they still wouldn't get it.
2007-09-09 04:57:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 4⤋
Hey... don't ask me. I've got my popcorn... I'm just here to observe the virtuoso display of willful ignorance, as these intellectual inheritors of Moronicus (least respected of the ancient Greek philosophers) show their stuff... you know... 'for entertainment only'. From what I've seen so far, Moronicus would be proud.
** Drink **
RAmen.
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2007-09-09 05:08:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 3⤋
Why am I not shocked by the answers? And Ashleigh? Nice cutting & pasting.
2007-09-09 05:06:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋