so easy to believe that an invisible magic man in the sky made him out of a ball of dirt?
2007-11-27 05:38:24 · 19 answers · asked by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Evolution doesn't imply an accident, it describes (according to our current knowledge of the process provided by scientific research) a confluence of events over millions (M I L L I O N S) of years.
Not one year. Not a decade. Not a millenium. MILLIONS of years.
I think religious people should first clarify what evolution describes, then try to imagine the possibilities of what happened to life on earth over millions of years, not just in our relatively puny lifetimes.
We are but specs of dust in terms of geologic time. That leaves a whole lot of time for stuff to happen.
Try reading H.G. Wells' novel The Time Machine to get an inkling for what it's probably like, I think in some ways he did a great job in describing how evolution might travel the course of time.
2007-11-27 05:48:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Everyone here is concerned with your concern, it seems. I would think that they could understand why people would care: people are refuting legitimate scientific theories solely on the grounds that they think it undermines their own, personal beliefs. Of course, there is no, and should be no, precedent in which education is dictated according to popular biases (especially when it is about a subject that is a core principle of biology which has contributed to many of the advances in that area to date).
It is bizarre, it is strange, but they will choose the invisible sculptor every time....
2007-11-27 13:51:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, "true Christians' as you so 'eloquently' stated, don't believe that God is an 'invisible man in the sky'. To believe that God did not make man negates to whole 'Genesis' of the bible, the book on which we base our lives and believes. I'll let you take it from there.......
2007-11-27 13:48:33 · answer #3 · answered by dekunle2 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because...we have faith in believing the Truth of the Bible. "Scientifically speaking", it has never been proved (and never will) that life "evolved" from random chance and circumstance....And besides, if you had half a brain, you would understand it is far more probable that life can only come from life.
2007-11-27 13:59:41 · answer #4 · answered by TIAT 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a true Christian so I believe the second book called new testament. And I am allowed to believe that we all come from star dust.
2007-11-27 13:47:21 · answer #5 · answered by mozart8 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why do you care what Christians believe? If you are not a Christian, then why does it worry you so much that you would post a question about it? I think all genuine questions, asked to garner knowledge, deserve an answer. I think off-the-wall, smug, denigrating bulls**t written only to belittle a group of people, like you just wrote, deserves nothing but contempt.
2007-11-27 13:46:37 · answer #6 · answered by claudiacake 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Thats Just it..Man did not evolve from other form of Life Accept it..
Why is it soooo.hard for evolutionist to believe that the Universe 'Just happened, from a Big bang from the Nothingness' But not believe in God who spoke it into existance ?
You believe that the Universe and everyting 'just happend" ?
That is ludicrious .
Dr. Robert Gentry explains why Polonium Halos prove an instant creation of earth by God....creation evolution fingerprints atheism radiometric geology radioactive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9DtY-BXWnY
2007-11-27 13:51:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because the church teaches the dirt story . Strangly religious people bash Atheists who believe in evolution , saying that life can't come from non-life . Then they contradict themselves by saying life came from a lump of mud .
2007-11-27 13:51:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yet another misconseption. The Bible says that Adam was created from the earth, not dirt. That is to say that Adam was created out of the chemical and DNA compounds found on the earth.
2007-11-27 13:45:59 · answer #9 · answered by redfeather1972 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The idea that there is no God is mathematically impossible. Basic probability tells you that the odds of a blob of primordial ooze morphing into a man, regardless of how much time has passed, are so remote that mathematicians regard it as impossible. Emile Borel and Fred Hoyle are just two mathematicians who reject evolution on statistical grounds. The idea is a "Statistcal Immposibility". For example, it is theoretically possible that you could blow up a junk yard and all the flying pieces would land and form themselves into a Cadillac - that is possible. But the odds against it are so high that it constitutes a "Statistcal Immposibility". Same goes for evolution. That only leaves one possibility: God.
2007-11-27 13:43:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋