Let take a poll about evolution:Completely believe evolution, or completely believe evolution is BS?And why?

Answer 1

Evolution isn't something you believe in or not. It's something you understand or not. If you understand it, there is no problem accepting it.

Answer 2

Well, evolution is BS.

There are many, many reasons why I think evolution is BS but the main reason is why? Why evolve? If a species is doing well, why then would it evolve?

The theory of evolution and it's process "natural selection" wants us to believe that "natural selection" picks and chooses
the best and then moves on, and so on.

If we, ( humans ), are primates and evolved from a common ancestor with Apes, then why do the Apes, all Apes, have so much more physical ability then we do? Wouldn't "natural selection" have been more about the physical then anything else? Compared to Apes, humans are very fragile, our bones break easily, and our skin can be easily damaged.

Btw, the "from monkeys" came from the theory of evolution and was the standard idea until about 1975, when it was changed to common ancestor. Up until then the researchers were looking for the "missing link."

If one looks at the world today as it is, then evolution makes no sense whatsoever.

Btw, once something is assumed to be true that makes the research worthless because then all "facts" are assumed to point to that conclusion. That is, not looking at a fossil as to what it is, but rather looking at it as to how it fits into the conclusion. This is no longer research, it is searching for that which one has already assumed to have happened.

Answer 3

As a scientist, you do not believe something or not believe it--this assuming you're a pure scientist. The way science works right now is in the Kuhnian belief in paradigm. Scientists live within their paradigm--a set of facts about the world and interpretations of those facts, which we use to understand more about the world around us. When there is a shake-up like, say, the discovery of quantum physics, we encounter a "paradigm shift"--where we adopt the new way of explaining things, because it explains more about the world more accurately.

I am a biologist, so I scrutinize things. I believe in a higher power, personally, and I use the facts at hand to make conclusions about phenomenon. Currently, the facts I have support evolution. If we find new facts, I will need to change.

Science is fluid, that's how we get things done. If you're interested, try reading the book "The Scientists," which talks a little about the philosophy of science. It's intriguing. :)

Answer 4

It would be hard to 'completely believe' in evolution. Logically evolution is the best and most completely explanation but "completely believe" implies, at least to me, some sort of blind faith in the process. I believe in facts but that doesn`t mean I completely believe in evolution and if someone was able to better explain the history of the planet I would disbelieve simply because I believe in evolution.
That being said, of course I believe in evolution. Faith is not a scientific fact and it shouldn`t be. I wouldn`t take random bits of my faith and try and squish them in with science. Faith based science all exists to support a pre-existing belief. That is not how science should work since it`s a dangerous approach.
Say I have a rock and I have faith that it cures disease. I could use the faith based approach to science and prove it since I already know it works. Then I could go around telling people how my rock cured people. Nothing good would come of that and real science would be able to say why I was wrong.
Any other logical theory that didn`t come from someone trying to prove their rock was magic I am willing to look at. Until that point I will pick logic and science, which in no way discounts the existence of God, over conjecture and personal agendas everytime.

Answer 5

Negative on both accounts.

I accept what I have read, as well as what I have observed in nature and in museums and public displays, as well as fossils found in my back yard and ultimately variation in species to be evidence that natural selection not only occurs, but contributes to the gradual evolution of a species.

I accept the fact that not every answer has been found surrounding the theory, however there are millions of found facts and evidences that all support the theory- and have for over 150 years.

Do I "BELIEVE" in evolution? No. Belief would suggest a lack of evidence- which there is not. I verified my convictions.

Does it make sense to me, does it seem the most likely?

Oh yeah.

Answer 6

I do NOT believe in evolution...but here may be a good reason why others do:

An additional reason for evolution’s acceptance is the failure of conventional religion in both what it teaches and what it does, as well as its failure to represent properly the Bible’s creation account. Informed persons are well aware of the religious record of hypocrisy, oppression and inquisitions. They have observed clergy support for murderous dictators. They know that people of the same religion have killed one another by the millions in war, with the clergy backing each side. So they find no reason for considering the God whom those religions are supposed to represent. Too, absurd and unbiblical doctrines further this alienation. Such ideas as eternal torment—that God will roast people in a literal hellfire forever—are repugnant to reasoning persons.
Also, many religions have capitulated on the matter of evolution, thus providing no alternative for their people. For example, the New Catholic Encyclopedia states: “General evolution, even of the body of man, seems the most probable scientific account of origins.”13 At a Vatican meeting, 12 scholars representing the highest scientific body of the Catholic Church agreed to this conclusion: “We are convinced that masses of evidence render the application of the concept of evolution to man and other primates beyond serious dispute.”14 With such religious endorsement, are uninformed church members likely to resist even when, in reality, “masses of evidence” do not support evolution, but, instead, actually support creation?

The vacuum that this causes is often filled by agnosticism and atheism. Abandoning belief in God, people accept evolution as the alternative. Today, in a number of lands, atheism based on evolution is even the official state policy. Responsibility for much of this disbelief can be laid at the feet of this world’s religions.

Answer 7

I believe that evolution is the best explanation for the diversity of life we observe. I don't know if that means I "completely believe evolution" or not. I acknowledge that it could be wrong, but that it would take massive amounts of evidence to show that it was wrong.

Answer 8

I know evolution is the only explanation of the facts gathered.

The evidence offered is overwhelming and it can be observed.

Answer 9

completely believe evolution is BS because, in the words of Werner von Braun, "To be forced to believe only one conclusion — that everything in the universe happened by chance — would violate the very objectivity of science itself." Kinda goes cross-grain against all the other parts of science where everything is objective.

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Answer 10

I believe in evolution designed by God.

Answer 11

I believe in evolution but that does not mean 100% of all the details are worked out.


I'm a biologist and I understand science.