What is your strongest argument against evolution?

Question

The following arguments do not count, because they've already been proven wrong:

We came from monkeys (or gorillas, or apes).

There is no evidence (or not enough evidence).

It contradicts the bible.

You can't believe in evolution and be Christian.

Oh yeah, I should have said that if you believe in evolution you're welcome to throw in an opinion too :-)

P.S. - Evolution doesn't deal with creation. That's a microbiology question. Evolution is simply a process for the survival of life.

Monkey Chunks (gross name btw :-) - I agree, but if God created everything didn't He also put the laws of physics into existence? He created them in his infinite wisdom, to be followed here on earth just like any other law He layed down.

Summer breeze - I'm not trying to be rude, and I didn't ask this question to prove anyone wrong. You're entitled to your opinion. But I strongly urge you to study evolution more, so that if nothing else you can argue against it more strongly. Evolution doesn't suggest anything you're saying. Changes are subtle until we're faced with a major environmental pressure, in which case it serves to help us survive (those species with the right adaptations will survive the stressing event, which will change the diversity of life on earth depending on which survive and which don't). Also, we do see evolution in front of us every day, and even control it to a certain extent. It's why we have brocciflower and beefalo. It's why our antibiotics have become less effective. It's why we can't find a cure for AIDS. It's how we bred dogs from wolves and diversified their breeds. Humans did that, through evoltion. Farmers use it every day to breed the best, prize-winning animals and crops.

Evolutionary theory didn't stop with Darwin - we've figured out a lot since he gave us a jumping point.

I get angry at atheist scientists too, because they just make matters worse. They want you to think you can't believe in both, when in fact you can. They're just people who are bitter against organized religion.

Genderbiased - cross breeding (hybridization) and selective breeding are the very definition of evolution! It's called natural selection - it diversifies genes.

I'm not trying to teach, and I didn't want to try to prove everyone wrong who doesn't agree with evolution. I was just really hoping I would get someone who understood evolution and could give me an intelligent argument against it. Instead it seems to be the same old misconceptions from most people. I don't care if people don't agree with it, I just wish they would truly understand what they're disagreeing with. You can't argue strongly against something unless you really know what it's about.

P.S. I'm both Christian and believe in evolution, and have studied both extensively.

PPS. I'll check out that book, thanks for the rec!

Answer 1

I am a christian that believes in evolution, but I find it hard to believe that it took billions of years to make everything around us, yet the earliest evidence of human beings even in our ballpark like we are is only a few thousand years old. I support evolution, but i believe we are excluded. That's my opinion, hate it all you want.

Answer 2

I'm an atheist and I believe strongly in evolution.

BUT, if I were looking for evidence against evolution, I would point people to the replies of people like Bajingo.

If that isn't an argument that some evolution doesn't happen, or at least in favour of abortion, I don't know what is! :P

Answer 3

Ken Hovind - seriously, his brain cells have GOT to be prokaryotic

But on the level, the only reasonable arguments against evolution, at least as an origin is the concept of irreducible complexity (what is the minimal structure necessary for a cell to be able to replicate itself and how did it get to that point in the first place?) and probability - as in the probability that molecules just combined in such a way that they started manufacturing more of themselves and began adapting.

I'm a tried and true animist and completely pro-evolution. For these two arguments, my answers are 1) Just because we don't know yet doesn't mean 'Goddidit' which I consider to be the answer of cowards, and 2) when considering the enormity of the universe - when you multiply anything times infinity, you've got a great chance of the unlikely happening.

Answer 4

I've read many creationist sites and spoken to many creationists. I've never yet heard an argument against evolution that stands up to examination. Most arguments make it obvious that the creationist using it doesn't understand evolution.

It's quite possible to be a Christian and accept evolution. Dr Francis Collins, the director of the Human Genome Project has no difficulty with this. He wrote a book about it, The Language of God.

I'd say I 'accept' evolution rather than 'believe in' it, though. Believing in things applies to matters of faith, not matters of science.

Answer 5

We didn't come from monkeys. We and monkeys came from a common descendant.

There are libraries of evidence for evolution and very little for creation. Why is that? There are many scientists who cannot deny the truth and are still Christian. Why I personally don't believe there was a creator I am not discounting the possibility. The bible even says life comes from the dust from the ground(implying evolution).

Evolution is not a perfect theory, but it is far better than the Popular Creation myth of 6000 years old.

If you want to see evolution in action, look at bugs, they go through many generations in 1 decade. If a poison is introduced many bugs will die, however the survivors will go onto mate and produce offspring that is immune to the poison. Eventually like languages there are differences that are so vast that they can become a new species all together.

Answer 6

Evolution is not something you can just choose to believe in or not. Rather, people choose whether to accept science or not. To deny evolution is to deny science and the God-given ability of humans to rationally and objectively observe themselves and the world in which they live. Admittedly, science is itself an evolving institution and sometimes in the past scientists have been wrong. However, virtually all current scientific measures and analyses of human history show that humans have evolved and are evolving still. Anyone who refutes this does so without the backing of anything more substantial than their own opinion.... and everyone's got one of those.

Answer 7

2 apes didn't do it and have a human baby one day, which is what people seem to think.

evolution is a description of a seemingly divine process of perpetuation and adaptation. (check out your immune system)

the bible was adapted into english over time and that's how you even know about it. the same thing seems to have happened to living things.

It's really okay.

Answer 8

It makes me sad that a kind creationists doesn't point out to the sad guy above that rocks don't reproduce. It's not a valid argument, but it appears creationists will take anybody, no matter how misinformed or confused, and welcome them.

For the record, rocks don't have DNA, and so fall outside the purview of evolution.

Answer 9

Why try to use our own limited capacity of brain and knowledge to answer this question?

Evolution is a THEORY and would exist in theory only. Monkeys will always be there and would never become a human being.

The scriptures states that there are 8.4 million outlets from which a material body takes birth and the living force the soul transmigrates from one body to another just like we abandon a old cloth and pick a new one. We(soul) have been traveling in this universe from one from of life to another form, and at someday automatically get a human body (after fix number of birth). This human form is a gift from the Lord to purify our material existence and get away from this cycle of birth.

So Srimand bhagavatam states-

The occupational activities a man performs according to his own position are only so much useless labor if they do not provoke attraction for the message of the Personality of Godhead.

All occupational engagements are certainly meant for ultimate liberation. They should never be performed for material gain. Furthermore, according to sages, one who is engaged in the ultimate occupational service should never use material gain to cultivate sense gratification.

Life's desires should never be directed toward sense gratification. One should desire only a healthy life, or self-preservation, since a human being is meant for inquiry about the Absolute Truth. Nothing else should be the goal of one's works.


So from the eyes of scriptures we can see that there is no such thing as evolution but instead we have trans-migration.

Answer 10

My argument is simply this.
We are told at every level in education systems, and our beloved media, that evolution is a fact of life.
The Origin of life foundation in the United States is offering "one million dollars" to anyone who can demonstrate or show the mechanism that initiates life and thus prove the process. The prize remains unclaimed. Wouldn't you think our all knowing scientists would have cashed in by now, or don't they need the money?