Many people believe that the theory of evolution is inaccurate and a lie against their religious beliefs.
However, can the evolution theory be proven wrong. If so, please explain.
Inane answers such as 'Because God said so' need not be posted. Detailed explanations only please.
2007-12-05 07:53:22 · 47 answers · asked by Wine Apple 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It cannot be disproven.
Take the following conditions:
1. heritable variation in traits
2. traits related to survival and reproductive success
3. differential rates of survival and reproductive success
reduce to mathematical algorithm
the mathematics show that evolution must occur as a consequence of these factors.
Besides this, molecular genetics has now provided the ultimate forensic proof of evolution.
2007-12-05 07:59:13 · answer #1 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 5⤊ 4⤋
About as easily as I can disprove any other theories. I happen to like the theory of evolution, so I won't even try to disprove it. How is the fact that there are still monkey's in todays world used to disprove evolution? Is it because as we know, all monkeys, apes and gorillas are actually the same thing? Couldn't it be possible that certain species evolved differently than others? Oh well.
2007-12-05 08:01:12 · answer #2 · answered by Nic A 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Listen up. If evolution were proved totally wrong tomorrow, it would not stop Genesis 2 from contradicting Genesis 1. It would not make Genesis 1-11 literal rather than allegorical. It would not make Young-Earth Creationists into honest, decent citizens fit to mix with the rest of us.
And another thing. If evolution was proved so convincingly that even a Creationist would have to believe it, would Creationists lose their faith?
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2007-12-05 08:51:50 · answer #3 · answered by miller 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Theory- conjecture,or speculation, a proposed speculation...
(websters definition) ...I studied evolution in depth and found it to be greatly lacking in the missing holes department...I've seen a group of 'them' handed a box of bones ...marked 'new find' and to my horror watched as they meticulously , with a thorough hand put these bones together , and the end result was a new little dinosaur friend complete with a new name , scales ect...what they were given were simple 'poodle bones but they did not know this.....nor does the general public most people just believe whatever ....but I get on the inside, I am not satisfied with others teachings or beliefs or opinions...and yes I have studied all other cults , beliefs , faiths, sciences ect.......And you want me to base my whole future and eternity on that ......I only look stupid...........And no I am not a christian nor do I have a religion......I am however in love...Be informed you owe it to yourself ..narrowminds are a waste of space......
2007-12-05 11:26:56 · answer #4 · answered by o 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One of the most inconvenient facts faced by the evolutionary philosophy is the law of entropy, also known as the second law of thermodynamics, (order tends always towards chaos). Although I see that some folks are trying to deal with this 'problem', perhaps it is true to say that they have not yet succeeded. Even for the synthesis of the dumb elements, it takes vast amounts of heat energy to produce carbon atoms from other atoms of lower atomic weight in the periodic table. Nevertheless it is true that this could happen by chance in stellar explosions and it is also true that the elements are highly structured in their make-up. But, I challenge you to explain how the gap between atoms of matter and the wondrously intricate and structured make-up of a single living cell could possibly be breached by any natural process. I think that that gap is wider than the gap Darwin claimed to have breached between a single cell and the largest animal, (but I don't think his theory adequately explains that either).
2007-12-05 09:04:43 · answer #5 · answered by Steven Ring 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Evolution theory is easy to disprove. Just find something that contradicts it's predictions. A pre-Cambrian rabbit for example.
The problem is that in all these years no one has found any real evidence that has contradicted the main argument of the ToE.
There have been discoveries that have refined the theory, but none that have proved it totally wrong.
In fact it is one of the best supported theories in science today.
2007-12-05 08:03:12 · answer #6 · answered by Simon T 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
just give up,must of the people above me are morons, they should really read and study before they can make an answer about evolution. i mean there is an explanation on why we think there are still apes/monkeys around just read Charles Darwin and it well give u a reasonable explanation on why they're still here. and yes i read the bible my family is christian. and evolution IS a scientific fact its just labled as a theory for the respect of religion. because if it was labled as fact....well.... lets just say it well be out of control.
2007-12-05 12:18:54 · answer #7 · answered by Fred 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the evelution theory is not fact as some have said but an accepted theory waiting to be completed , and is still growing with new data being taken into account, for instance it was shown that humans have mutated due to desease more than evolved and chimps have evolved more than mutated. (and no mutation is not a jump up the evelutionary ladder) as far as i know the only way to disprove evelution is to show a better scientific theory or to prove the bible is correct in genesis, but only one of those i think has a chance to happen.
natural sciences are not like other sciences as the theories in them can not always be completed or take much longer to complete remember darwin published a draft version first and spent the rest of his life trying to complete it fully.
2007-12-05 08:16:29 · answer #8 · answered by manapaformetta 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Detailed explanations against it abound. You can also find detailed explanations for why the world is actually flat, or why the earth is actually the center of the universe/solar system.
People need to college, and not read the anti-science creationist websites.
2007-12-05 08:03:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, and I don't need to. Maybe God consciously caused the evolution process, maybe he started it and sat back and watched it til it got to where he wanted it to go, maybe he decided to make fossils and put them in the ground and designed DNA to look like evolution had happened without bothering to sit and wait for a million years til he got to the human stage. I don't know, I don't need to know. Maybe I'll bring it up with God over dinner after I meet him in heaven and he'll tell me all about it, maybe once I get to heaven I'll be so awestruck I won't care anymore about the little questions. God is bigger than evolution, or creation. As such, either one could be a part of him, or his plan. So I'll just get on and praise him for his greatness and give thanks that he is in control.
2007-12-05 08:06:18 · answer #10 · answered by itchy 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋