Do you believe in evolution or intelligent design?

Question

Just because you believe in evolution doesn't mean you're an atheist, right?

Answer 1

Look at George W. Bush and tell me that you still believe in intelligent design -- with a straight face.

Answer 2

Yes. Right. There is little argument against microevolution. I still believe there is not adequate evidence for macroevolution, though I'm taking a fresh look at the evidence offered. But even if all life evolved from a single genetic ancestor, what is the source of the mechanism of DNA? Does it look more like something that was designed, or does it look more like something that just happened? ID is an observation, not a theory. It doesn't imply God.

Any theist would have a difficult time accepting the idea that life just happened. I don't think anything beyond that is sacred. I also don't think Genesis 1 was intended to be a scientific account.

Answer 3

Starve the lizards.Here we go again with the "belief". The answer is:

NOBODY with any knowledge "believes" in evolution. Belief means taking a load of old cobblers and accepting it, like tooth fairies and Santa.

Biologists look at the facts, find evolution explains those facts and use that as their basis.

Note, though that if evolution was wrong:
1. it would be scientists who demonstrate this, not the Discovery Foundation.
2. intelligent design (creationism in a smart suit) is not therefore shown to be true.

Answer 4

Woe there. First off, there is a huge amount of evidence that evolution happened. It is accepted by the scientific community, whereas creationism has NO EVIDENCE. That aside, no, if you "believe" in evolution, it just says you are not insane like people who think the Earth is only 6000 years old!

Mitsy, you are grossly misquoting Einstein. Einstein was an atheist and did not believe in a "god."

"From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist." [Albert Einstein to Guy H. Raner Jr, July 2, 1945, responding to a rumor that a Jesuit priest had caused Einstein to convert from atheism.]

Answer 5

I believe in evolution.
I *am* an atheist - but you are correct: evolution says absolutely *nothing* about the existance or non-existance of God (or any other supernatural entity, for that matter). What science *can* say is that the universe is much older than 6000 years.
God, being supernatural, cannot be examined by science.
40% of all US scientists believe in God *and* evolution.
In fact, there is a doctrine called "Theistic Evolution", which states that, as God is omnipotent and omniscient, it would have been simple for him to kick-start the universe in such a way as to eventually acheive the earth, on which life would arise, and that this life would eventually evolve into humans, with free will, with rationality, and with the capacity for salvation.
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Edit (to dmnd_cd):
Mysteries exist because we do not understand everything about the way the universe works.
This has nothing to do with God, whether He exists or not.
I choose to apply Occam's Razor and say He does not.

Answer 6

considering the fact that an atheist would not have self assurance in deities and smart layout argues a deity created existence i might say its not something maximum atheists include. in basic terms a droop. As for we did not come from monkeys, evolution by no capacity suggested we did. in basic terms creationists and IDers who do not are attentive to it ever say that. We do in accordance to easily right evidence proportion a uncomplicated ancestor with apes in the distant previous. Chimpanzees have one greater chromosome than human beings do. no count number if it rather is real we proportion a uncomplicated ancestor we ought to constantly have the capacity to establish what occurred to that chromosome. Researchers have got here across it. Chromosome 2 in human beings is actual the fusion of two chromosomes that have remained separate in the chimpanzee line. on the tip of each chromosome is a marker suggested as a telomere which frequently seems in basic terms on the ends. yet in human chromosome 2 it additionally seems in the midsection, marking the place the two ends fused. it rather is barely one small fact that rather demonstrates good evidence of uncomplicated descent.

Answer 7

There are many theories that have proved that evolution is not correct . I think evolution theory is wrong :
how can you believe that man lived in the earlier times with his professed parents (monkeys )
scientists found remains of a human skeleton and a monkey skeleton of the same age that prove the fact of man began living on the earth at the same time his professed parents did
man lived as long as the beginning of life on the earth

Answer 8

intelligent design - even Darwin would agree if he knew the complexities of our cells let alone organs.

"If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down".
(Charles Darwin, in The Origin of Species)

"To Darwin, the cell was a "black box" - its inner workings were utterly mysterious to him. Now, the black box has been opened up and we know how it works. Applying Darwin's test to the ultra-complex world of molecular machinery and cellular systems that have been discovered over the past 40 years, we can say that Darwin's theory has "absolutely broken down"."
(Michael Behe, biochemist and author of Darwin's Black Box)

As Einstein said: "The more I study science, the more I believe in God."

Answer 9

I believe in both and I don't understand why believing in one should mean ignoring the other one?

Answer 10

to Gribblin:

I don't want to interfere with you're beliefs. GOD exist, why ? haven't you notice, that why all questions can't be answered, why there are mysteries left. There are mysteries left because this will proof that there is a greater being that existed than the human beings. Therefore, there is now greater being than the humans or any other thing in this world but GOD