fundamentalists, when you learn(ed) about evolution?

Question

this question is for the fundamentalist christians who don't believe in evolution? when you learned about evolution in high school did you ever roll your eyes and shout out, "evolution is just a theory!" i guess, the same question goes to younger fundamentlists who haven't started high school yet. when you take biology class and you have to learn about evolution, will you express your disaproval of evolution?

i love it when people change the word evolution to adaptation. it's still talking about the same process. it's like getting made at me for calling an automobile a car.

it's not illegal to teach evolution in schools. where do you get your facts from. it's illegal to teach creationism in schools. and not even all schools, just most schools that have learned to accept facts as truth.

dinger, sure you did. and your name is in what science journal again?

shaolt, lucky for your there were other topics being taught...

Answer 1

I've never seen a fundamentalist that HAS learned about evolution.

And I'm being quite serious. I know that a lot of schools will allow a student to skip that subject if their parents say their religion forbids it.

I'm guessing that's how these fundies you see today managed to graduate high school without understanding even the basic principles of evolution.

Answer 2

I asked the same question that my children did.. I can see how life mutates, such as bacteria, and insects. However do you have any examples to offer that shows these same mutations occurring in warm bodies animals, i.e.: Cats, Dogs, sheep, or even Humans? You are teaching that the modern humans showed up on the scene aprx. 150,000 years ago, We can clearly show that what we would call towns and cities start to develop around, 6-8000 years ago. But what we don't see is physical evolutionary changes taking place. Why is that? We can see insects become DDT, immune in less than 3 life cycles, but NO change in humans in the past 150,000 years? Is that not a bit odd? A increases in height, does not really count now does it, unless you think the evolutionary picture of man is to be 7 foot tall.


If we can accept that we simply have not noticed these changes in humans and other warm-blooded life, that brings up the second point. How did life originate in the first place to allow it to evolve? Forget the 'out in space' nonsense, it would have still had to start some way, regardless of where it took place. If you wish to say abiogenesis, then lets look at that. For life to have spontaneously occurred, you would have had to have had the exact mix of chemical, the exact temp, the exact growing medium, the exact amount of sunlight, the exact amount of life sustaining atmosphere, the exact amount of what ever would have been required for a food source, the ability to self replicate, the list goes on and on and on, and regretfully my teachers, as well as my children’s teachers who honestly believed in evolution have never been able to answer these questions with anything other than, "we think, we believe, perhaps, possibly" all in an attempt to keep from admitting that they simply do not know.


Once this had transpired, the subject has always been dropped, and the class moved on.

Answer 3

I graduated from high school in 2000. I don't at all remember being taught about evolution. We learned about how organisms function, about the animal kingdom, some genetics, etc. But I can't remember any of it being labeled as "evolutionary". But when I was in college and was interested in environmental aspects of politics I was taking biology, and had to take this ridiculous intro to bio class. Basically we spent the semester relearning what a graduated cylinder is and how to use excel. The only thing even remotely biology related they taught us was how important evolution is...not even about evolution itself. That class sucked, and was a huge waste of time....anyways, I have never rolled my eyes and shouted in complaint that it is just a theory...I just wish I had actually been taught something in that college bio class...biggest waste of time and money on one class in my college career...

Answer 4

I learned it in 10th grade from an openly atheistic teacher. I didn't see any convincing evidence for it, she didn't really present anything besides a drawing of an ape becoming a man, so I didn't accept it. She had us write a paper about evolution, and so I made a drawing of the fish evolving into the moon just to show her that drawings prove nothing, especially when the theory clearly states that we did not evolve from an ape.

I got a C+ in the class I believe.

Answer 5

Evolution is a scientific theory, not a belief-system. I actually call it "adaptation," as true evolution (one species changing to become another distinct species) has yet to be demonstrated. I have a pre-nursing degree, so I consider myself fairly well-educated, as well as being a Christian.
Still open -- still learning...
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BTW - I'm not mad at you -- we simply disagree. Glad you "Love it" -- but it's not the same thing at all. Species are constantly adapting with small changes without becoming something different. Organs that were once useful are now atrophied; antibodies are formed to fight diseases...the list of adaptations is endless. I have no such list of proven evolutionary responses to the environment. Cars are not capable of either....

Answer 6

I learned about evolution in a Christian high-school. You can't teach creationism in a science class.

I, however still do not believe in evolution as it is taught.

Edit: DDking is lying. If it was taught in a protestant school which takes NO state money, it was taught in a catholic school which have no problem taking state money.

I smell a commissar!

Answer 7

When I learned about evolution I was not a fundamentalist and I bought into it lock stock and barrel. As an atheist it made it intellectually acceptable to be a non believer.

As a Christian I reject it for that among many other reasons.

Answer 8

i think of the anger is that there are no longer any selection theories taught in colleges. in the event that they taught the two evolution and creationism, say, then there must be an exciting philosophical debate among the scholars. yet while they're in basic terms taught one subject then how can there be any room for debate?

Answer 9

i went to private catholic high school, and the "subject" was NEVER taught or even brought up. we had just regular ol' biology, disected the frog, etc.
and come to think of it, i don't remember it in the biology class i had to take in college--but that 9 months is a fog anyway...it was about 100 years ago...

add: Squirrell, you got some balls calling someone a liar...if i'm lying then the person (chavito) underneath me is, as well. you are more than free to call St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Augusta, Georgia and ask their curriculum for the biology class. i see you're a law student...figures...everybody, even your own momma is a liar to you...
btw; i learned about evolution in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL--the question is about high school, you tool.

Answer 10

It is illegal to teach evolution in schools. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Biology is not the same as Evolution. Biology is a wonderful Subject.