Even if you believe in a god or whatever, how can you deny that evolution does not exist?

Question

This is not about faith and is a serious question. I am sick of people, mainly religous people that talk down upon others because they don't agree with them.

"This isn't about agreeing with anyone. It's about "The Truth". I'm not gonna waste my time believing that my ancestors were a bunch of tree climbing apes. I find that to be an insult to the human race. You're the sick person."

This is what I am talking about. I hope this was not a serious answer. How dare I insult the human race? Come on, be serious.

Answer 1

Always interesting to see how many weak, threatened, misinformed people jump out of the cracks when a question like this is asked. My question is always, "Why are we not to use the magnificent mind that God gave us?" Yeah, I know...something to do with the devil... If the theory of evolution ended with Darwin's Origin of Species I would have trouble buying it. Subsequent study, observation and experimentation over the years have more than supported his claims. Blessed are the children of God, who can see beyond the veil and understand that using our minds, experimenting, and searching for truth is not anathema to believing. We were not created to be ignorant, scared, superstitious creatures. I cannot believe that.

Answer 2

Well, Christians believe in natural selection. As Dr. Terry Mortenson said, “Natural selection is the God-designed method of preserving representatives of the original created kinds.”

Natural selection is a logical process that anyone can observe (and it was actually a creationist named Edward Blyth who first wrote about it in 1835–37, before Darwin). We can look at the great variation in an animal kind and see the results of natural selection. For instance, wolves, coyotes, and dingoes have developed over time as a result of natural selection operating on the information in the genes of the dog kind.

But there are limits. For instance, you can’t breed a dog to the size of an elephant, much less turn it into an elephant. Natural and artificial selection can only operate on the information already contained in the genes.

The different dogs we see today have resulted from a rearrangement or loss of information from the original dog kind. That is why you can breed wolves to get to chihuahuas, but you can’t breed chihuahuas to get to wolves. The new breeds of dogs have much less genetic information and variability.

And the thing is, what are they? Dogs. What were they? Dogs. What will they be? Dogs. The same could be said for Darwin’s finches, peppered moths, and so forth. There is a big difference between subspeciation (variation within a kind) and transspeciation (change from one kind to another).

Natural selection explains how the dogs can adapt and survive in different environments, not where the dogs came from in the first place.

What about what we see with mutations and bacteria? As Dr. Carl Wieland has said, “Bacteria actually provide evidence against evolution. Bacterial populations multiply at incredibly high rates. In only a matter of a few years, bacteria can go through a massive number of generations, equivalent to millions of years in human terms. Therefore, since we see mutation and natural selection in bacterial populations happening all the time, we should see tremendous amounts of real evolution happening. However, the bacteria we have with us today are essentially the same as those described by Robert Koch a century ago. In fact, there are bacteria found fossilised in rock layers, claimed by evolutionists to be millions of years old, which as far as one can tell are the same as bacteria living today.”

Answer 3

This isn't about agreeing with anyone. It's about "The Truth". I'm not gonna waste my time believing that my ancestors were a bunch of tree climbing apes. I find that to be an insult to the human race. You're the sick person.

Answer 4

1. The Sun shrinks every day. Take the amount of shrinkage, multiply it by 4.6 Billion years, and add it to our present Sun and you have a Sun too large for the Earth to be inhabitable. This is just one of the many reasons why Evolution is just a theory.

2. There is absolutely no confirmed evidence of complex organisms evolving. There is a lot of conjecture and throngs of ignorant people who know a little about evolution 'rooting' for their team like on Yahoo. But the real scientists know that this is true and admit it under oath, just like in the 2004 trail of Evolution vs. ID.

3. Evolution is so mathematically improbable on the complex molecular level, that it is relegated to faith not science. Again in the 2004 trail the expert witness for Evolution admitted that he "hoped" that some day there would be an explanation for the gaps and problems with the Evolutionary Theory. Fundamentally there is no difference between the Creationists on Evolutionist on this point. Both HOPE that their idea is true. Both live by Faith.

4. Scientific Laws are regarded as such. In recent years, since Evolution is lacking the findings to promote itself from Theory to Law, there has been a campaign to re-define what a Law is and what a Scientific Theory is. These kind of cheap tactics prove the weakness in the Evolutionary argument, and how desperate it has become.

5. Biologists have a culture where Evolution is accepted. Any serious questions about other possibilities are met with greater Bias and Bigotry that Rosa Parks trying to sit at the front of a bus. There are a lot of people in the scientific community who do not have faith in Evolution any more. But if they speak up about it, their jobs and reputation will be on the line. Does this sound like an open-minded scientific community to you?

6. Pride is a sign of insecurity. People who do not have all the facts, who have not studied BOTH SIDES of an issue with objectivity, must eventually resort to boastful claims and willful ignorance in order to maintain their first position.

I do not have a problem with open-minded scientists who considers the possibility of evolution. What I have a problem with is the closed-mindedness emanating from 'scientific' institutions that resembles the Catholic Church trying to stop Galileo.

The great irony in all of this is that Secular Europe was a knee-jerk reaction to the Dark Ages imposed upon Europeans by the ignorance and prejudices of the Catholic Church. A monstrous political organization that REFUSED to even consider other ideas, and wanted everything they said to be taken as gospel truth.

Evolutionists have become the very thing they despised about the Catholics.

Being neither a Catholic nor Evolutionists, I ask you to open-mindedly read both sides of the arguments. Look at the scientific data that seems to contradict evolution. Look at the road-blocks that keep Evolution from being upgraded to a Law of Nature. Look in the mirror and be honest about your bigotry, hatred, and prejudice.

Being open to ANY possibility combined with a willingness to follow the trail of evidence wherever it leads is what makes a great scientist.

Accepting a theory for a scientific law makes one look pretty foolish. History will point this out. Just a little more time now and the era of Evolutionary thought will be relegated to the junkyard of human ideas along side the Flat Earth Society.

Answer 5

I am a Catholic Christian. I was educated in the sciences. I believe that the evidence for evolution is very strong. There was a Jesuit paleontologist named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin who wrote at least one book summarizing the scientific evidence for evolution. He also discusses the difficulties of reconciling these facts with theology and philosophy of his day. He lived in the first half of the 20th century. Church authorities were upset with his teaching. They silenced him (prevented him from teaching evolution or publishing his books). His Jesuit brothers published his works after his death, which is permissable according to church cannons.

Answer 6

you wont get much sense out of some of the people who answer this question. They maintain that, as an animal doesnt change into a completely different species right in front of their eyes, evolution is a lie. They ignore or are ignorant to the fact that fossil evidence shows this happening gradually over millions of years. There is also evidence in the skeletons of current animals, like traces of hind legs in many snake skeletons. But they won't read this, or if they do they'll ignore it because it doesnt tie into what they want to believe.

Answer 7

If Christians admitted that evolution was real, then that would be admitting that the book of Genesis is false.

Their religion would crumble as a result.

And although there are some Christians out there that DO believe in evolution, they just haven't thought out the entire ramifications of doing so.

(The Creationist folks HAVE thought out those ramifications, however, and that's why they are fighting so hard to keep people from figuring it out)

Answer 8

Because most of us believe that we are created by something that has a higher standard other than monkeys or tadpoles or whatever. Time will tell in everybodys life when the truth will be revealed as to who or what is their creator. Religion is created by the doctrine of men and their self-serving ideologies such as Islam, Buddah, Khrishna, Mormonism and all the other "religions" created by man. Relationship is something that man has no control over when their real father is revealed to them, and no one can stop it.
In my personal opinion, about the "big bang theory"---God spoke and BANG! it happened. Just remember, it's a THEORY and not proven just as those who mock creationists that there is an entity who loves them enough to have given them life.
Actually, we're sick of evolutionists forcing their doctrine down our childrens throats in secular schools, without giving them a chance to present the other side of the coin and letting them make the choice.

Answer 9

Try desim, I believe that God made the earth like 4.6 billion years ago and let us evolve. It happened like the science books say but the hand that started it was God's.


Oh and i believe that the Pope believes in Evolution now too and has discredited the book of Genisis too. Check that out.

Moderate, are you a deist? that would be awesome. It sounds like you are.

Near or DN, yep gravity is a theory too. I haven't watched anyone float away though.

Answer 10

As a Christian I don't deny the existence of evolution.
I deny it as a catalyst in permanent genetical change.
The flu virus is a prime example. Used to promote the value of evolutionary research viruses seem to support the theory. However, viral changes are not permanent. They are adaptive. Every year a new vaccine must be formulated to cover the new forms of the flu virus. This is due to the fact that, like all living organism, the flu virus has the ability to ward off attack. Each new form of the flu is not necessarily a new virus in and of itself, just the same one in a different form.
Human beings form antibodies to ward off attack from microscopic invaders, but that doesn't make us a new creature. We are changed because now we have permanent antibodies to whatever tried to attack us.