Christianity has (grudgingly) accepted scientific principles in the past, so why won't they budge on evolution

Question

Over the years Christianity has been forced to accept many principles of science which conflicted with many statements within the bible, they have had to merge the concept of a heliocentric solar system, the earth being (MUCH) older than 6,000 years old and several others.

So why are sooo many christians unwilling to even look at the theory of evolution?

Answer 1

Because there are a large and growing number of FORMER evolutionary Scientist that have seen the fabrications of Evolution and have come over to Creation Science.

The Young Age of the Earth." Presenter Dr. Robert Gentry, Research Scientist. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1272542059740401469

Dr. Robert Gentry explains why Polonium Halos prove an instant creation of earth by God....creation evolution fingerprints atheism radiometric geology radioactive halo rock polonium isotopes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9DtY-BXWnY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSImWs1NXCw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJoy1_dbDnU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnPm6uk1f1Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgV24wsyuYo

Duane Gish Ph.D. Biochemistry, University of California, Berkley. Dr. Gish is the Vice President of the Institute for Creation Research, and frequently
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2863648693594434534

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3181822797567477581

Dr. Gish is the Vice President of the Institute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3FZDysZKFQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVvGByvp13Q

Dr. Duane Gish, Vice-President of the Institute for Creation Research, challenge the fossil record against the arguments of Evolutionary teaching....creation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaF2GGrr5k4


Dr. Carl Baugh gives proof that God created ALL things. www.DrCarlBaugh.org www.CreationEvidence.org Creation Evidence Museum us located in Glen Rose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udqoCGPnVmE

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2528412371399195162

Answer 2

ok as a Scientist I am not opposed or an advocate of any religion.

I would just like to clarify this... Evolution is a scientific theory that has very strong factual evidence to support it.. It is a very useful tool in the studying of how life develops particularly on this planet.

It is not intended or devised to oppose, disprove or condemn any religion in any fashion. In just like the big bang theory it does not offer any evidence for the non-existence of a creator.

Using the conclusions of studies based on the theory to attack religion is not science or the purpose of science. Gallileo was not trying to prove the church wrong. The point is let people believe what they will no scientific test is 100% conclusive and all have a tolerance for error.
As a logical person religon may seem a ludicrous concept but then those at pinnacle of logic and science will tell you that there are fundamental forces that the universe is based on that can not be entirely validated and there are phenomena so infinitely random the chances of truly understanding the universe in its entirity as a concept is ludicrous. Therefore if we do not have all these answers why disregard the concept of creationism just from the little bit of understanding we do have?

There is more to life than any of us truly understand. I think both devout christians and atheists can benefit from considering that sentence again.

There is more to life than any of us truly understand.

Answer 3

It will, eventually. The Catholic Church already has accepted evolutionary theory.

Lots of Christians still resist evolution because it takes away the comforting idea that they were a special creation of their god. But the facts are what they are. We evolved, and the evidence is clear.

A lot of them misunderstand the whole idea, too, either by choice or because someone has led them astray. Just look at how many people come on this forum refusing to believe that we "evolved from monkeys." Well, we DIDN'T. Nobody ever said that. Somebody who doesn't understand evolution, or who's been told lies about it, will naturally be more reluctant to accept it.

I've said this before on here, and I stand by it. 400 years from now, even the most devout Christians will look back and laugh at their ancestors for opposing evolution, in EXACTLY the same way that modern Christians laugh at the church for opposing Galileo's teaching 400 years ago that the Earth was not at the center of the universe.

Answer 4

Some Evangelical or other groups still cling to the thoroughly disproven New Earth Creation theories. Yet Scientists also cling to disproven theories as well. Pride and false traditions of men plague all walks of life.

There are MANY Christians that accept Old Earth Creation that is much more compatible with proven science. That does not mean we accept ALL scientific theories, but proven ones. There are many scientific theories that are just that... theories that cannot be proven and are riddled with huge gaps and holes, such as many concepts associated with Evolution. While bits and pieces of Evolution are true and proven, much of it is not. Sometimes scientists are more right, sometimes the religious person.

Einstein strongly believed in a static universe that was not expanding. Yet a priest believed it was expanding. The Hubble telescope proved that the universe was not only expanding but ACCELLERATING it's expansion by a force that science has yet to explain. They call it dark energy or dark matter yet really have no good explanation as to what that is. Science also promoted string theory that now they are beginning to discredit. A lot of these theories are nothing more than vain babblings that are falsely called science, instead they are just science fiction.

1 Tim. 6: 20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

Answer 5

There was a fairly strong Flat Earth Society clear into the 20th century. Here is an ad they took out back then that is so similar to the Dr Dino website that it is hilarious. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/19/5000-for-proving-the-earth-is-a-globe/

You can still find a few around. Don't think they all accepted any such thing. They have pretty much decided to justify this by saying the Bible doesn't say it is flat, even though it does. Evolution is harder to understand, so they have an easier time denying it than they would rewriting that section of the Bible in their mind.

Answer 6

Because it is completely unscientific. Molecules to man evolution contradicts much scientific evidence such as the finding of giant skeletons (as talked about in the Bible), the structure of DNA again refutes chemical evolution and there have also been quite a few lies used to try to justify Darwinian evolution - the bio genetic law, the peppered moth cases, the geologic column.

answersingenesis.org is great for breaking evolution down and showing perfectly scientifically why it can not work.

Answer 7

Grace unto you, and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Indeed, what's often so-called Christ-ianity is as X-ianity.
Sadly, many deceived by many have tainted Christianity,
to the point it's now become a turn off rather than turn on.
Many shall come... to deceive ... and shall deceive many.
What part of the first and last "many" did you not get?
Of 2 parts: their part & your part, many play their part.
Perhaps they're playing it better than you your part?

So let's examine all the evidence before we judge.
Let's also challenge, and scrutinize, your theory.

Perhaps this preamble should begin the Bible:
"In the beginning God" = as if, it's only a "shew";
For eternal God has no beginning nor any end.
God (His Grace) cannot lie (law) nor die (law).
So God is "excepted"(exempt) from the shew.

Perhaps Bible is all about evolution: natural-->spiritual:
babe-->child-->man-->perfect man-->God is not a man.

Perhaps God(Grace) is not a man that he should lie(law).

Perhaps your evolution theory is fantasy you should flush.
Pst: It's the enemy that sows the tares(false evidence).
We all know the law is corruptible, oft corrupt.
We all know the law oft 'wrongfully' convicts.
There's plenty of evidence to make it evident.
We all know police often sow false evidence.
They do it thinking they do their God(Law) a service.
So then why do you find it so unlikely there's false evidence.
Why do you put faith(trust) in the law, when it is "corruptible"?

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 8

One reason evolution is not accepted is that when many of the tenets of evolution are examined in the light of the scientific methods, they do not stand up to that scrutiny.

For example, even if the earth is 4.5 billion years old, there is still the matter of global wide extinctions that occurred several times, reducing live to microbes. Accordingly, there has never been enough time for life to evolve using the evolutionary model they themselves propose.

And evolution still cannot explain or reproduce life from non-life. Evolution cannot explain how an organ can evolve, when said organ could not function unless all of its components all worked together.

And evolution cannot explain sex. The evolutionary model of reproduction is one of cellular division and growth, and not two independent cells or organizms deciding to share DNA.

Way too many holes in the theory.

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Answer 9

Why do you live in the dark ages, that Catholics (half the worlds Christian population) have long accepted the pure Darwinist concepts of natural selection, but not the concept or randomism in creation. Most of the Protestants also accept it.

What is not acceptable is the now slowly going out of scientific vogue we came from Apes.

Science is starting to push the common, unknown ancestor.

Gone is the 1930's Scopes Concept of Ape evolving into man and replacing it is a family root concept in which man and apes are on the same plane coming from a root source of a undefined nature.

In short, science is now starting to say, as with Pluto, they taught kids wrong from 1930 to 2000.

What we fail to understand is how science gets away with teaching people wrong, but relgion is not allowed the same luxury.

It's ok to teach people wrong and be wrong if your a scientist, but not if you're something other than a scientist.

I guess that makes scientists the supreme being or God, eh...!

While they don't claim to be infallable, they do claim immunity from prosecution.

Scientists can do wrong (sin), confess their sins publically (say we goofed) and all is forgiven.

Boy that sounds like a religon to me!

Answer 10

which sort of evolution? transformations brought about with the aid of random possibility? Psalm 139:14. transformations between the kinds and not basically a count of version interior genera? Genesis a million:11-12, 21, 24-25.

Answer 11

I see no value in Christians adopting another belief system. Until the missing link has been found evolution remains a theory. Once it is established as a fact then there is some point in Christians having another look at it. Right now the truth is that we don't know so why not leave them to their possibility whilst you hang onto yours.