Why are Christians against evolution?

Question

Why can't God be responsible for evolution. He does work in mysterious ways.

Answer 1

Only a minority are actively opposed to it, but a frightening number don't accept it as fact.

The good news is the teaching of evolution survives every court test and the fundies run away to lick their wounds.

Once again, my parents were Christians and evolutionists. My father was a scientist and theistic evolutionist. He wouldn't even discuss with adult creationists their nonsense. He'd say "God did it and the rest of us ought to examine the details of how, not why."

Answer 2

Tongue in cheek answer: Let me cut up 8000 letters from a newspaper and shake them up in a box and then throw them on the floor 10 million times. Eventually they should arrange themselves as a sensible answer to your question - NOT.

Survival of the fittest, helps keep a population physically healthy, but it does not constitute a sensible, scientific or even a reasonable mechanism for one species to develop into another. People keep talking about a theory of evolution, but in scientific terms, this theory has never been expressed properly mathematically or in any other notation as far as I know. If a theory cannot be expressed as a mechanism or a system of equations or somesuch, what kind of a theory is that?

Well, I think if it isn't a very scientific theory, perhaps evolution is a philosophy? Getting warmer now! This is exactly the kind of philosophy which could be used to justify one race exterminating another, or mankind killing the wildlife or euthanasia etc. Hmm. Do I want a world like that? No I don't.

Sorry, does this answer your question? Next...

Answer 3

First of all, Christians are Christians only if they believe the Bible, and the Bible says that God used seven periods of darkness followed by light (evening and morning was one day) to bring about everything on the face of this planet, so Christianity can NOT coexist with evolution. Deism can, but not Christianity.

Second, if you study Charles Darwin's theories, the root from which evolution sprang, you would see that he used some false information then used some logic to build up his theory. Now then, anybody who knows anything about logic will tell you that if you have a faulty premise, then the conclusion will also be wrong.

Darwin thought that the cell was the smallest divisible part of the living cell, and based his theory on this false premise.

Darwin was totally unaware of the inner workings of the living cell, such as the nucleus, mitochondria, protein and protein synthesis, the method by which raw materials are converted into usable energy within the cell, DNA, RNA, et ceteral.

Now, WE have electron microscopes, and we can actually WATCH the double-stranded DNA coiled up in a tight helix, uncoil itself, split into 2 separate strands, attract the necessary molecules to itself to create an inverse (mirror image) of itself (the RNA), then the 2 strands reconnect and once again coil itself back up into a helix.

The RNA goes about IT'S business to transmit necessary neurotransmitted codes to direct the activities of the body, or create proteins or other enzymes, or go about forming a new cell with DNA identical to the "parent" DNA.

The mitochondria, in converting raw materials into usable energy, first loses 2 units of energy in the cycle. If it were left up to chance and evolution, this process would have never gotten a start in the first place.

The information encoded in the DNA is like a super computer. SOME body had to program it, and evolution does NOT take this into account.

In fact, if you study the workings of the THEORY of evolution in light of KNOWN scientific laws, such as entropy and the laws that govern the distribution of energy (ie the laws of thermodynamics), you would quickly come to the conclusion that for evolution to work, entropy and the laws of thermondynamics would need to be suspended and even reversed!

Thus, evolution is neither logical NOR scientific.

In fact, the DNA makes a Cray supercomputer look like child's play in comparison. We know that the Cray had to be designed, built, and programmed, but how can we think that the DNA was the results of a series of accidents???

It just doesn't work!

Answer 4

It could desire to be simply by fact they lack faith in god's means to apply the enormous bang and evolution as his strategies! The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of england and mainstream church homes all settle for the enormous bang and evolution! Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury positioned it okay – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach of scripture, ignoring scholarship and severe studying, and perplexing diverse understandings of actuality”! superb that christians and atheists can agree and chortle jointly even no count number if it quite is at fundie fee! yet at the back of the laughter is the melancholy on the fundamentalists striving so problematic to interrupt christianity by ability of turning it from a faith to an ideology! Surveys advise that 29% of yank christians are so extremist of their ideals that they fall properly outdoors of the traditional bounds of christianity!

Answer 5

I'm not against evolution as God's method of creation, as I said before God's time is not Man's time. I do believe though that this evolution happened separately in every species.

Thing is that in the correlation of time and space between God and Men there is a huge lap.

Answer 6

Not all Christians are against evolution. In fact, most Christians probably understand it.

It's just the stupid and/or lazy ones who only believe their uninformed and dogmatic ministers (whose only 'science' education came from some indoctrinating Bible college).

God IS responsible for evolution. And science backs its existence. Seriously, there hasn't been a real scientific debate on evolution in more than 50 years. Too much information now shows it happens.

Only religious zealots make it seem like there's a debate (like the same ones who had trouble with the idea of the Earth revolving around the Sun because their interpretation of the Bible wouldn't let them).

(For the woman above me, you are totally right! You would have to be a complete idiot to think we come from apes... Good thing that's not what evolution tells us, you moron!!! Apes and humans evolved separately from a common ancestor.)

Answer 7

I am TOTALLY impressed with the number of christians who answered that they believe the science and theory of evolution! I guess I'm used to the cretins that prefer to believe that scientists are behind some "great conspiracy" to fool everyone.

Answer 8

Most Christians are not against the clear and well supported findings of science. It is only a minority of fundamentalist sects who consider their own personal (mis)interpretations of Scripture to be so infallible that when they contradict reality, it is reality that must be wrong.

Answer 9

The idea of evolution says that God does not exist and the he is not the creator of the universe. So why would God tell a story that is is a lie. The Word of God says in Numbers 23:19, "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
God createdus in His image; in His likeness and everything he makes is GOOD!

Answer 10

Why does the notion that God created by evolution cause such bother?
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Answer 11

Not all Christians believe evolution is false. The vast majority of Christians I know believe that evolution is a sound scientific theory.
The difference between the Christians I know and fundies is that the ones I know have actually studied the theory. I have yet to meet a creationist who has really studied the Theory of Evolution.