Oft-repeated Christian misunderstanding of Evolution by Natural Selection?

Question

I'm not an evolutionary biologist, but I atleast read enough to understand that natural selection does not offer an explanation of the origin of life.
Why do many Christians on this forum mistakenly claim that evolution means life came from nothing? Is it a lack of education or willful ignorance?

Also, why do they constantly pose biology questions to Atheists, as if we're all scientists?

Ja Boi: It's been far more than a few Christians, son.

Answer 1

Because Creationism purports to explain EVERYTHING and if evolution doesn't do that, they make believe that it does because they expect the "full package" and don't realize that abiogenesis is the current explanation for the origin of life and that evolution is the process that happened AFTER life began.

Answer 2

Evolution is merely a belief in "naturalism" or the concept that there is no need for a super-natural creation....it's basic premise is that all life forms "evolved" from lower, less developed to higher, more complex forms of life and different species. Well, logically, at some distant point in the past, life must have started on it's own if you believe the concept. But true science proves that this is impossible, either here or anywhere else in the universe. So the only alternative is a Creator, which the Bible states is God and Genesis states that He created the universe, earth and all livings things in 6 solar days and made man in His image not from some common ape ancestor.
The Miller-Urey experiments of the 50's tried and failed to produce the building blocks of life from non-living materials and electricity, producing 85 percent tar which is destructive to life forming and no left-handed amino acids which is what all life forms have...exclusively. They must have watched Frankenstein movies too much.
There is no observable, testable evidence for evolution--it's just speculation and dreamt up ideas, basically a fairy tale---not real science. No intermediary fossils, of which there should be millions and millions, have ever been found--the fossil record only shows fully developed life forms and extinction.
There is "natural selection" among species that can interbreed but that's not what evolution teaches. It states that somehow genetic information is added to existing life forms to form new, more complex life forms which is genetically impossible.
God's Word is true and real science does not disprove it.

Answer 3

It might just be a lack of education, but that doesn't mean Christians are stupid and athiests are smart, which is also an attitude i see popping up around here.
really, if you want some good solid answers, don't take whatever you can get from every weirdo on here, read a book. that's awesome that you read enough about evolution, read some christian books, too. not to convert, just to educate. a series of books you might like is the "Politically Incorrect Guide to..." set. they don't push religion down your throat, they just give you all the other sides of the arguments you don't hear on CNN (another bad source of info about the right). hopefully that will help.

Answer 4

some people are willfully ignorant, but some are not really taught real evolution in school. When i was in school, way back when it wasn't even such an issue, the biology teacher didn't really teach anything and my chemistry teacher went over it in a minimal sense.

i think many christians post on the R+S and not in the Biology (although some do) because they don't want the answer, they want support.

Answer 5

Why do so many evolution wanna bees claim foolish things like 'evolution is in the fossil record' when most evolutionary biologists and palentologists say otherwise?

." New species almost always appear suddenly in the fossil record with NO intermediate links to ancestors in older rocks in the same region. The fossil record with its abrupt transitions OFFERS NO SUPPORT for gradual change". - Stephen J. Gould (Natural History , June, 1977, p.22)

"The extreme rarity (of transitional forms) in the fossil record persists as the 'trade secret' of palentology. The evolutionary tree (diagarms) that adorn our textbooks is.....NOT the evidence of fossils". - Stephen Gould (Natural History, 1977, vol.86, p.13)

"Evolution REQUIRES intermediate forms between species and paleontology DOES NOT provide them" (David Kitts, paleontologist and evolutionist).

Answer 6

even though u probably heard a few Christians say that... and ur using them to speak for all Christians, its ok:), it is hard growing up as a Christian and forming shields against things like Gay marriage, Evolution, and other things like that without having a broader mind on non-God like topics(AND NO I DONT AGREE WITH GAY MARRIAGE AND EVOLUTION)

and that is what i know

Answer 7

Your beliefs are based on science. for that reason alone and you quote your answers based on scientist work. No duh. and natural selection also is a theory. everyone knows that. evalution doesn't say anything about life coming from nothing. the people your talking about confuse evalution with the BIG BANG THEORY which is understanble since your arguing about the origin of life.

Answer 8

ditto to you?
why do you pose your incomplete questions regarding the imperfection of evolution to religionists as though you have a clue as to the comprehension of what you are asserting?
Fact is, that you abiogenesists, are more readily inable to answer the questions to what you are inferring than the creationist.