2007-09-21 06:20:40 · 36 answers · asked by vegavillalobosda 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well... in science, theories occupy a higher level of importance than mere 'facts'... theories EXPLAIN facts. The theory of evolution provides an explanatory framework for the OBSERVED FACT that the genetic makeup of populations of organisms changes, over time. It does not INVENT facts... it EXPLAINS facts.
Gods were invented by man, in a desperate attempt to explain what was once unexplainable... things like the sun, moon, and stars... day and night... thunder and lightening... sickness and death... etc... and to answer questions that were once unanswerable... vital, profound, important questions like "Daddy... what holds the sky up?" The answer for ALL of these things was some form of "God did it."
For all of these questions, the delusion "God did it" (the ILLUSION of knowledge) has been replaced by REAL knowledge... and as a result, this 'god' has been reduced from an all-powerful supernatural being to a 'God of the Gaps'... an imaginary cockroach-like creature that scurries from crack-to-crevice, looking for the remaining patches of darkness and shadow in mankind's '"knowledge-base", so as to cower and hide from the glaring light of knowledge and understanding.
The fact that people continue to cling to this pitiable, delusional 'god' idea is a pathetic disgrace, to say the least... and I am inclined to add 'tragic' to that, as well... a testament to the enduring power of gullibility, irrationality, willful ignorance, self-delusion, intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy and drooling stupidity.
Yet today, we find stalwart defenders of these insane delusions fighting a desperate battle to stave off knowledge and understanding, trying to shield the dark cracks and crevices of ignorance from the light of reason... crying "No... no... that ain't so... God did it... God did it."
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2007-09-21 06:34:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evidence.
The facts are best explained by evolution. In fact, there is no alternative that holds water.
Evolution is an elegant theory about natural selection and the variety of species on earth, related by common ancestry. It is continually confirmed by DNA and fossil evidence.
"Creation" is an emotional issue for some religious believers in the United States. They believe the literal interpretation of Genesis, that humans were reproduced by two people in a garden of eden 6,000 years ago and that humans and dinosaurs coexisted. It is utterly contemptible in terms of reality, but people continue to believe in it because it is what the churches prefer that congregations like plus they equate evolution with atheism, which is untrue.
The earth has been shown to be over 4.5 billion years old. Evolution is a reality. Genetic diversity indicates that human beings did not come from just two people, and dinosaurs went extinct long before homo sapiens, at 65 million years ago.
2007-09-21 06:27:04 · answer #2 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Evolution: Mountain of evidence. This has been tested for 150 years and literally made millions of predictions that have turned out true. Not bad for looking at bird beaks. There hasn't been a single paper pass peer-review against the big idea in over 80 years.
Creationism: Not only no evidence, but actually negative evidence in that it fails to predict a number of things and is inconsistent with the Law of Fossil Succession.
There really is no choice to make.
2007-09-21 06:28:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
* Evolution is every much a fact as the theory of gravity.
* Over 99.8% of scientists in relevant field accept evolution.
* There are no alternative scientific theories.
* There is a huge amount of evidence in support of evolution...
* And zero evidence against it.
* The 'discussion' is actually educated people trying to educate others.
* The more intelligent a person is, the more likely they are to understand and accept evolution.
* The "discussion" only happens in backward places like Turkey and parts of the united states.
2007-09-21 06:25:09 · answer #4 · answered by Dreamstuff Entity 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is based on comprehensive studies of species over time. We have tons of examples of animals involving; in the past 10 years we've been able to watch the birds in the Galapagos adapt for dramatic climate changes.
Creation is based on what sounds most like a bad drug trip. Taking that literally is like taking Kublah Khan literally.
2007-09-21 06:31:28 · answer #5 · answered by Showtunes 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Speciation is the evolutionary technique by utilising which new organic and organic species upward thrust up. The biologist Orator F. cook dinner seems to have been the 1st to coin the term 'speciation' for the splitting of lineages or "cladogenesis," as adversarial to "anagenesis" or "phyletic evolution" happening interior lineages.[a million][2] no remember if genetic decide on the flow is a minor or substantial contributor to speciation is the subject remember of plenty ongoing communicate. There are 4 geographic modes of speciation in nature, based on the quantity to which speciating populations are remoted from one yet another: allopatric, peripatric, parapatric, and sympatric. Speciation can be prompted artificially, by using animal husbandry, agriculture, or laboratory experiments. All styles of organic speciation have taken place over the direction of evolution; notwithstanding it nevertheless keeps to be a topic of dialogue as to the relative value of each mechanism in utilising biodiversity.[4] One occasion of organic speciation is the variety of the three-spined stickleback, a marine fish that, after the final ice age, has gone by using speciation into new freshwater colonies in remoted lakes and streams. Over an expected 10,000 generations, the sticklebacks teach structural variations that are greater advantageous than those seen between diverse genera of fish which comprise alterations in fins, alterations interior the quantity or length of their bony plates, variable jaw shape, and shade distinction.
2016-10-05 03:16:22 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every example I can think of in the Bible where there would have been a physical remnant of an event that happened that would prove creationism is mysteriously gone and explained for somehow in the same book.
Why can't we find Jesus' bones? Oh because he magically rose from the grave of course.
Prove to me that God exists and I will fall on my knees.
2007-09-21 06:36:16 · answer #7 · answered by Prochoice 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because evolution is a proven fact creationism isn't,it's a myth with no evidence to back it up
2007-09-21 06:28:22 · answer #8 · answered by darwinsfriend AM 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I find the two compatible.
However, I've seen germs evolve over my lifetime - antibiotics that no longer work because the germ has evolved a resistance to that drug.
I've seen areas of plants adapt as the environment changed, so that the plants could continue to exist.
I've seen animals adapt and evolve - minor, small changes, but changes nonetheless- as their environment changed.
Historically, humans have evolved - taller, longer life spans, etc - all due to food, work and environment.
Evolution is all around you if you're willing to see it. If you're not, I can talk until I'm blue and never convince you.
2007-09-21 06:28:05 · answer #9 · answered by Cheese Fairy - Mummified 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because of the vast amounts of evidence in favor of evolution, and the absolute absence of evidence of creationism.
2007-09-21 06:33:26 · answer #10 · answered by bardoi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋