How can you be against evolution when you have no understanding of what it is?

Question

Likewise, how can you be for it without knowledge of its basics?

I see so many questions and answers in here that come from both sides demonstrating a lack of basic understanding. Please people, don't just take a side based on what you think is desireable to your herd, study the question and make up your own minds. Stop regurgitating nonsense that you've heard from others and not examined yourself.

Anyway, back to the question. How can you be for or against something you know almost nothing about?

Answer 1

I think you don't need to understand evolution to accept it, as you can accept it on the basis of shared, trutsted authority (when a majority of people whose knowledge you understand to be better than yours accept it and you trust them.) I don't find this acceptable, personally, but, for example, I trust a slew of engineers than the bridge between my home and work is sound. I can only use history (hasn't fallen yet) and what I know of engineering.

However, to deny something that a majority believes and has evidence for is to make an extraordinary claim, and that warrants extraordinary proof.

I've yet to see a SINGLE anti-evolution person on Y!A who could give me the DEFINITION of evolution, let alone refute it....

Edit: The definition of evolution in SCIENCE, not in pop culture. Scientists are using the scientific definition....duh.
Also, anyone who calls abiogenesis the "first principle" of evolution knows NOTHING about evolution.

Answer 2

OK in the first place, I will the first to say I don't know enough to be for or against.
there are some forms of evolution that I do know about first hand.
for example the Theory of evolution has evolved, over the past 50 years,
I am 64, and have seen this evolution.
and I do have trouble accepting some thing that changes ever couple of years,
but I have taken a wait and see stance.
so I seldom respond to evolution question.
however I did notice that you also turned the coin, so to speak, in your extension of your question.
don't you think that you should have ask that in a separate question?

Answer 3

Evolution does exist. anybody who has 1/2 the academic of a center college er can see the best judgment in it. some wolves who were no longer so terrified of early guy style - later became dogs via breeding. i may also except wise layout .perchance no longer contained in the precise way that fundies do regardless of the truth that (i imagine the bible does communicate of evolution and is a lot deeper than the non secular church homes care to understand) standard Christians and Scientists view advent as polar opposites. In Yellow Stone nationwide wooded area the nice and comfy temperature warm springs are living house to primordial existence (noted as soup ) and that i have no longer began to study that any of those unmarried celled creatures have became fish or salamanders. Even given a lengthy era of time (won't be able to remember the time scale there ). on the different hand I poetically (and symbolically) trust that faster or later a scientist will be searching via the telescope or microscope and be conscious the interest of God searching back at them. via Quantum physics all of us comprehend that any element is obtainable. and that i comprehend deep down interior that when we come across God in both the non secular and actual international we are able to evolve back. would properly be exciting. And that is in basic terms my opinion.

Answer 4

ev·o·lu·tion

NOUN:

A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form. See Synonyms at development.

The process of developing.
Gradual development.
Biology
Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of new species.
The historical development of a related group of organisms; phylogeny.
A movement that is part of a set of ordered movements.
Mathematics The extraction of a root of a quantity.

Evolution is possible, but not on the grand scale that some scientists used to think, or still do...
We did not start from a certain species, we were created. I can tell you this with utter certainty- Evolution that contradicts creationism is a mathmatical impossibility.
EVEN IF a certain kingdom had the possibility of evolving into the human being we are today, the odds of them being able to successfully reproduce the first time and every time after that is a number so high our minds cannot comprehend it.
To satisfy the curiosity-
10^23 is giving the benifit of the doubt in nature.
Odds of a evolved creature having the capability of reproducing successfully?
10^604
Evolution on a grand scale is impossible. In fact, all life is impossible unless there was intelligent design behind it. I have researched it.

Answer 5

Not to blow my own trumpet but I'm very familiar with the issues involved, I've studied books on evolution, academic textbooks mind you, not just popular science by Dawkins or Gould and I've examined the evidence for myself... so I don't guess this question is for me.

You've got a point but I think it applies to 95% of the creationists who come here and maybe 5% of the atheists.

Answer 6

Who is grading the acceptable amount of knowledge? I was a biology/chemistry major in college and have studied much about evolution, and I didn't believe in it BEFORE I was a Christian. Christianity didn't change my mind about evolution, it already made no sense from it's first basic principle...life came from non-life. That goes against scientific law, therefore everything that follows doesn't matter because the beginning is untrue. I believe that God created the earth and all that is in it. It is impossible for things to move from disorder to order without someone or something controlling those movements (another basic principle of science). So, my question is this, why do you believe in the theory of evolution when it is unproven, unrepeatable, and goes against basic scientific laws and principles? Haven't you studied the theory of evolution enough to make an intelligent decision?

EDIT: Why the thumbs down? Someone feeling threatened by the facts?

Answer 7

Most people in schools are taught about evolution.

You can't be taught about God but you can be told about Him and you can talk to Him.

There, lays a large difference.

And people are without excuse because you know, almost everyone in the World knows about God.

Another prophesy almost filled!

Answer 8

I didn' come from a monkey... If you did then why are there still apes and monkeys running around? There would be only people...Hmmmm , small loophole.. Bring yourself to CHRIST .. He has the answer for you..I'll pray for you..

Answer 9

Actually this is when people are most likely to be vehemently against or for something.,

Ignorance is the most likely platform for attack. Look at bush.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 10

I learned about evolution on Family Guy... and Darwin... and Richard Dawkins