I asked this before, but no one of the 18 answerers understood the question. I would like to know what creationists think about biologists' belief in the theory of evolution.
Why, in your mind, do the vast majority of biologists believe evolution is the right explanation for the different species we have today?
I don't want to read "Creationists are stupid".
I don't want to read "Christians are stupid".
I don't want to read "Evolution is wrong".
I don't want to read verses from Genesis.
I don't want to read about the tiny minority of biologists who are also creationists.
I just want to know - to what do you attribute the fact that most (not all) zoologists, botanists and other biologists are firm believers in the theory of evolution?
Remembering that these are biolgists working individually and in different areas of biology, who all seem to come to the same conclusion.
2007-10-23 08:11:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I can respond to Aviator's comment. The reason scientists don't get grant money is because there isn't any grant money anymore (;-P). If someone had an interesting example of an exception to the theory, they would become extremely famous and successful biologists (publish in Nature, etc). The reason such examples haven't been published is because they haven't been found.
2007-10-23 08:27:33 · answer #1 · answered by Tiktaalik 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to answer Brother Michael's answer...
It was a majority of uneducated people that once thought the earth was flat, in contradiction to what the scientists thought... as is currently the case... A majority of scientifically illiterate people think creation is plausible...
Nowadays, believe it of not, doctors use maggots to treat infection, since they eat dead tissue only and leave live, healthy tissue alone...
And "biogenesis" isn't a "law." Maybe your christian website claims it is, but it isn't.
Experts in the field of biology all agree,... creationism isn't science at all. Evolution is a fact.
You want to believe in the sky-fairy, go right ahead,... but if you want real scientific knowledge, you're not going to find it in the bible.
2007-10-23 08:34:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would not say biologists BELIEVE in evolution, they just see enough evidence to accept the evolution as a fact :)
2007-10-23 08:23:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I am not a creationist. But I have seen the argument that scientists go with evolution because it allows them to get grant money. So if they didn't accept evolution, they wouldn't get funding. There might also be an argument that the liberal colleges brainwash them.
Of course, 99% of the work in the field of biology is based on evolution. So in a way, they are right. If you don't accept evolution you won't get grant money, since you will be unable to perform basic biology.
2007-10-23 08:19:24 · answer #4 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋
So, a majority makes something true, right? At one time, a majority of the people believed the sun revolved around the earth, they were wrong.
There was a time when the majority of people believed the world was flat, they were wrong.
There was a time when a majority of people, doctors and scientists included, who believed blood letting was an acceptable medical procedure, they were wrong.
It is called group think. If a scientist wants tenure in the university system, wants their papers published, wants good jobs, they align with the secular, humanist group think. The truth is, evolution violates one of the few known laws of biology, the law of biogenesis as explained here:
(1) "There is one well-known law of life: the law of biogenesis. This law states simply that life always comes from life. This is what observational science tells us: organisms reproduce other organisms after their own kind. Historically, Louis Pasteur disproved one alleged case of spontaneous generation; he showed that life comes from previous life. Since then, we have seen that this law is universal—with no known exceptions. This is, of course, exactly what we would expect from the Bible. According to Genesis 1, God supernaturally created the first diverse kinds of life on earth and made them to reproduce after their kind. Notice that molecules-to-man evolution violates the law of biogenesis. Evolutionists believe that life (at least once) spontaneously formed from nonliving chemicals. But this is inconsistent with the law of biogenesis. Real science confirms the Bible."
2007-10-23 08:30:31 · answer #5 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 0⤊ 7⤋
God,s word tell,s of before the end of time that Satan will
blind the eye,s of many,he say,s narrow is the way to Heaven and few there be that find it,and wide is the gate to Hell
and many be that find it,so denying God,s word and saying
he did not creat it all like he said is being blind.
2007-10-23 08:28:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Scientist also believed that the Earth was the center of the universe for thousands of years. Just because the scientists believe something does not make it correct, it just means they have an idea with the data they have collected and it might form an incomplete picture.
2007-10-23 08:25:49 · answer #7 · answered by mrglass08 6 · 1⤊ 5⤋
You can believe in both evolution and God.
2007-10-23 08:22:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Because Atheist mix materialism to deny God via evolution
2007-10-23 08:18:25 · answer #9 · answered by Acid 3 · 2⤊ 7⤋