Ok, this is completly hypothetical.
Let's say Darwin was proven to never have existed. He was just a myth, or a collaboration of many people. Would that affect how you viewed evolution at all?
Here's another hypothetical question.
What Jesus was somehow proven to never have existed. He was just a myth, or a collaboration of many people. Would that affect how you viewed Christianity at all?
2007-09-20 17:46:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Who discovered a scientific reality has absolutely nothing to do with subsequent evidence discovered that supports that reality. Evolution is well understood. If Darwin didn't offer the initial hypothesis, obviously someone else did, so it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
2007-09-20 18:22:54 · answer #1 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, people might actually understand what evolution means... Darwin's explanations are terrible, he makes it sound magic, when all it really is, so the obvious. animals can change over time as animals with the best traits survive and those with the worst die. Its more obvious than anything else. Its not a direct attack on religion or even anything more than stating the obvious, but because of the way he stated it, it becomes controversial.
2007-09-21 01:03:10 · answer #2 · answered by scorch_22 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes if it were proven. However the ones who had the most to gain to prove Jesus wrong were his enemies during his time. However, they fully believed.
And for the guy above...
Hmmm.......
Dr. George Walt, professor emeritus of biology at Harvard Univ., who in ’71 won the nobel prize in biology.
He wrote in a magazine, “scientific America”,
“there are only 2 possibilities about how life arose. One is spontaneous generation, arising to evolution, the other is a supernatural creative act of God. There is no 3rd possibility. Spontaneous generation, the belief that life arose from non-living matter, was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur, among others. That leaves us w/ only one other possible conclusion, that life arose as a supernatural creative act of God…”
and then he said this...
“…I will not accept Creation philosophically because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore, I choose to believe in that which I know to be scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation.”
How’s that for true science?
Maybe he skipped 8th Grade....Hahaha
2007-09-21 01:02:39 · answer #3 · answered by heismanu 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
no. the process of evolution has been confirmed accross many fields of study. in all honesty an average 8th grader in america knows more about evolution than darwin did. no one even knew about genes at the time
2007-09-21 00:54:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's like saying if columbus never existed would america exist today?
2007-09-21 01:27:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋