It only claims to have possible explanations for observations.
2007-11-26 03:24:47 · 8 answers · asked by Meat Bot 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Evolution is (or should be) taught as the best explanation we have, not as the absolute truth.
2007-11-26 03:29:54 · update #1
"Faith that they could be" is far different from "faith that they are". To assume that something "could be" based on the observations requires only logic, not faith.
2007-11-26 03:31:38 · update #2
if its not the truth then why do you all swear so much by it.
2007-11-26 03:31:19 · answer #1 · answered by Purple i 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Science requires no faith at all - it requires evidence and testability. If anything, science requires skepticism, which is probably the exact polar opposite of "faith". Faith requires no proof - you either believe or you don't.
As to evolution, an understanding of how DNA works makes it not only possible, but inevitable, and anyone who says otherwise is not paying attention to the details, or is being willfully ignorant, which I find personally deplorable. Anyone that doesn't want to learn or worse - refuses to - is probably a very dangerous human being.
2007-11-26 11:35:05 · answer #2 · answered by Paul Hxyz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because many people in cults, like christianity, only understand things in terms of their delusional faith. Science is outside of their ability to understand, because it requires critical thought and understanding, instead of blind faith. So, they want to reduce science to a competing faith, thus the cult members are excused from developing any greater understanding and just dismiss it as another 'cult'. It's simplistic and ignorant, but that's the kind of people cults attract.
2007-11-26 11:35:54 · answer #3 · answered by ibushido 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possible explanations require faith. Especially if you are basing a posteriori concepts on them. So, assuming a big bang or oscillating universe, etc., et. al., would require faith that they are or could be the answer to how we all got here, which is then the foundation for all other physical and biological laws or theories you hang upon that event.
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2007-11-26 11:30:02 · answer #4 · answered by athanasius was right 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
people forget that any scientific theory is up for debate given new evidence that contradicts it....
if you have verifiable evidence to contradict gravitation, you can rewrite gravitation...
if you have evidence to contradict evolution, you can rewrite evolution (as has happened a few times) but the overall theory remains pretty much the same...
2007-11-26 11:31:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
faith was forced on idiots by a despotic murderous regime of church leaders...believe or die...much the same as todays new folk idielogies...all rubbish and intimidation
2007-11-26 11:30:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're talking to people who are threatened just by someone who doesn't agree with them. I doubt you'll get a satisfactory answer.
2007-11-26 11:31:07 · answer #7 · answered by <Sweet-Innocence> 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh... Is that why evolution is taught to our children as truth? Wait... I guess science does claim to have the truth.
2007-11-26 11:28:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋