I think evolution is hard to understand so I blindly believe in creationism, is this right?

Question

When I think evolution, the first things I think is that chimps evolved to people, that evolution is just a "theory", life came from nothing, that the fossil record was created by satan and that all the geologists, biologists and every other scientist that works with evolution are so unscupulous that they'll make up anything to support their "theory."

The thing is, I know that I'm just lying to myself and that I should really buy books about evolution to truly understand it. I'm just lazy so I won't read about it and I'll keep thinking creationism is accurate. Is this right?

Answer 1

Is it morally right? Is this logically correct? Is this spiritually valid? How about religiously accurate?

Blindly believe whatever you wish. Beliefs are not nor have they even been logical. The part of your mind (or brain) that controls beliefs is not the part that you use for logical thought.

You can spend a life-time studying all of the evidence supporting Evolution and still never understand what science has not proven. This is the concept the Life can come from nothing.

Answer 2

This is no trivial, insignificant question. If there is no God, then there is no Supreme Being to which we must give an account—no Judgment Day, no heaven or hell. If this is just a great cosmic accident, then there is no such thing as morality (there is no right or wrong, no good or evil). We should just live by the saying, “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” Because when you die there is nothing and nothing mattered. But if there is a God—well, that’s a different story. Are we an accident or the image of God? Are we without purpose or have an eternal goal? Do we live like an animal or like a child of God? In the end, is it dust or eternity? Is it logical to accept the existence of an eternal Creator? Can modern science with its computers and rockets to the moon allow for such a notion? There is a modern-day attack on all that Christians believe and we are constantly being told that it is science versus religion. Is that true, or does science actually point to a Creator? Now, obviously we can’t “prove” that God exists or doesn’t exist, since He is outside of the physical realm. What we can do is look at the physical realm and see what the evidence points toward. It is more like proving a case in the courtroom by presenting and examining the evidence and then coming to a conclusion. And it certainly is reasonable to suggest that if there is a God, He would have made adequate evidence available for us to believe that He exists. And that’s what Romans 1:20 says: “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” The universe is here, design is here, beauty is here, morality is here, the desire for God is here, etc.—what is their adequate preceding cause? Many people believe this points to God. As Wayne Jackson has said, "It is not reasonable to assume that chaos gave rise to order, that the nonrational produced the rational, that nonliving evolved into the living, that nonconscious became conscious, that amoral developed morality, etc. The simple fact is, people do not accept evolution because it is the logical thing to do; rather, many believe it because they have a vested interest in not wanting to acknowledge the Creator!"

Answer 3

Evolution is alive and well today. There is a huge difference in the Big Bang and evolution. The world is evolving, but a cat and a mouse do not come together and make a cougar. Each produces after its own kind. If it happened before that man came from monkeys, we would still find wild monkey men running around in the jungles. It doesn't exist that way. Each species produces after its own kind.

As a very wise black minister said so many years ago, your ancestors may have swung from a limb by its tail, but mine didn't. You have your faith and I have mine. Since it cannot be proved either way, it will remain a theory and the belief in the system will always remain a theory on this earth. Or have you recreated a big bang from nothing that turned up a man yet? or a monkey? or a grain of sand that was not already there?

Answer 4

Nah, that's not right, learning is fun and you should try to learn about things not included in your beliefs. At a minimum, you should at least know the basics of common scientific theorys like those of gravitation, evolution, a bit of physics.

Answer 5

I think it's more like this: I don't want to believe in God, so I blindly accept evolution.

As T. Wallace has said, “A major reason why evolutionist arguments can sound so persuasive is because they often combine assertive dogma with intimidating, dismissive ridicule towards anyone who dares to disagree with them. Evolutionists wrongly believe that their views are validated by persuasive presentations invoking scientific terminology and allusions to a presumed monopoly of scientific knowledge and understanding on their part. But they haven’t come close to demonstrating evolutionism to be more than an ever-changing theory with a highly questionable and unscientific basis. (The situation isn’t helped by poor science education generally. Even advanced college biology students often understand little more than the dogma of evolutionary theory, and few have the time [or the guts] to question its scientific validity.)”

Are we the ones with blind faith? Where you there when something popped into existence from nothing and exploded? No, well do you see something pop into existence from nothing today? Were you there when non-living matter gave rise to life? No, well do you see non-living matter giving rise to life today? Where you there when single-celled organisms gave rise to many-celled organisms, when invertebrates gave rise to vertebrates, when ape-like creatures gave rise to man? No, well do you see it happening today? You have to believe that matter came into existence by itself and then arranged itself into information systems by blind chance. That is what goes against real science.

As Dr. Jonathan Sarfati says, we need to quit calling evolution a theory; that is giving it too much credit. “Goo to you” evolution is an unsubstantiated hypothesis or conjecture, not a theory.

Swedish biologist Soren Lovtrup made an interesting statement: “I suppose that nobody will deny that it is a great misfortune if an entire branch of science becomes addicted to a false theory. But this is what has happened in biology...I believe that one day the Darwinian myth will be ranked the greatest deceit in the history of science. When this happens, many people will pose the question: How did this ever happen?”

So why do so many people believe in evolution? It’s simple, most people believe what they want to believe and they don’t want there to be a God. You see, if God created us, then He also owns us. If He owns us, then He has a right to set the rules by which we must live. If He has set the rules by which we must live, then we are accountable to Him. They don’t want to be accountable to God; they don’t want to be controlled. And so, it is their desire to explain the origin of everything without a Creator at all costs; they MUST believe in evolution. Evolutionism then, is intrinsically an atheistic religion—the religion of secular humanism.

Answer 6

You're being a stupid Straw Man. Evolution is nothing more or less than one of God's tool kits. Creationism is actually just a simplified description of how the world came to be. In fact, it explains things better than Evolution because the LAWS of Thermodynamics and Statistics actually prohibit evolution by mere chance.

Answer 7

Look around you. Look at yourself. Do you REALLY believe, or can you really WANT to believe that all of this is just a cosmic ACCIDENT? I personally don't think that all evolutionary theorists are unscrupulous. But I do see them as blinded. I don't think they make it up to support their theory, they see what they want to see because they believe in evolution to the dismissiveness of creationism. Tell me, is it anymore believable that there was a "BIG BANG" that started everything or that there was a creator behind the beauty that is the universe.

Answer 8

Heh hee. I believe in the Bible record. Everybody knows that evolution is fact. However, the evolution theory is a theory.

Please, do not be a lazy believer.

Answer 9

No it's not all right, it's this reason that is the main reason hardly anyone theistic knows anything about evolution! Read up on it, and don't blindly follow anything. Ask questions all the time, otherwise you'll wind up a sheep who follows the flock (pun relatively intended.) Wake up to reality and start gaining knowledge! I don't care if you believe in evolution or not, but just because it's too complicated doesn't mean sh1t!! Learn it so you can be different than your "brothers and sisters in Christ" and be intelligent on something you may or may not agree on! If you know what you're arguing AGAINST, you'll make much better sense than someone who thinks we came from monkey's...best of luck to you...

Answer 10

The first step from creationism to evolution is the admission that your are lying to yourself. :-)

But where did you get all these "facts" supporting creationism? From a preacher? The church? Some religious book? Take half the time and effort that you spent learning about creationism to learn about evolution and you will find that it is not at all hard to understand.

Then you will find yourself saying "But of course!"