Are there any people who don't believe in evolution for reasons other than religion?

Question

Please allow me to clarify - I am not asking "did you find information to back your religious beliefs about evolution" I am asking "does anyone feel evolution is not true AND is not influenced by their religious beliefs".

i am not trying to be rude, just trying to get my question answered. thanks!

Answer 1

I am no scientist, and I am also no religious freak. I believe in evolution, it makes complete sense. Humans were once something else...but monkeys? Maybe dumber, stupider looking humans...but monkeys? Just seems weird that because our bones are similar that we are actually monkeys...that just seems crazy. But I have a real reason why I don't believe humans came from monkeys.

Monkeys are still here.

Horses came from little minihorses but we don't see them around anymore

Elephants came from Wooly Mamoths or something like that but there are none of those around anymore

But monkeys walk around with us. That just doesn't make sense to me. If we evolved from it, why would it still be here? Where are the cavemen? Ya know?

Answer 2

I am a religious person who knows the evidence behind evolution.  Evolution deals only with the physical body but it is a mountain of evidence that confirms it.  The only reason to not beleive it is ignorance of the evidence or lack of understanding of the science.

Answer 3

Though through religious reasons, I believe in creation, there is also alot of evidence to back up creationism and alot of the same evidence thwarts evolution. So yes based on scientific reasons, I do NOT believe in evolution.

Answer 4

I am convinced by the evidence that the theory of evolution by natural selection is true. My belief would have nothing to do with supporting the theory. There are people who have putative reasons, which they call scientific, for not being convinced of evolutionary theory. Not one has mounted a coherent attack on evolutionary theory. Read " Darwin's Dangerous Idea ", by Daniel Dennet and find in there discussions of supposed attacks on evolutionary theory.

Answer 5

i DO NOT BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION, THERE IS NOR HAS THERE BEEN ANY IMPROVEMENT TO MAN OR BIRD OR FROG , NOR HAVE THERE BEEN, OTHER THAN IN EXTREME CLIMATIC OR ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS, ANY CHANGES IN ANY "GROUP" OF ANIMALS.  THERE IS NO PROOF , EVEN IF IT SEEMS REASONABLE!

Answer 6

I know a couple of people who believe we originate from aliens.

Answer 7

existentialism, i think therefore i am as the one self evident truth  this reality as we know it could just be an illusion and nothing exists save one very crazy conciseness. it is a philosophy rather then a religion

Answer 8

interesting question.. and yeah, people tend not to directly answer questions on here, they just answer the questions they *want* to answer.. lol

i would suspect that anyone who doesnt believe in evolution rejects it in favor of creationism, which would make it a religious reason... or maybe there is a competing, popular theory of how we got here that is another option some could choose, that doesnt involve some kind of religious experience...

i dont know of anyone who disbelieves evolution for reasons other than religious ones.. but I do have a friend who doesnt believe in molecules.. lol, and its not a religious thing... so its possible there is somebody out there, who just refuses to believe in evolution for no reason, lol..

Answer 9

I dont know if I believe in evolution.  I do believe that we evolve over time, but not from one species to another.  We did not start off as chimps and over time become man.  We were man from the beginning and over time our appearance could of changed and other thing could of changed but we were always a sub group of a species that is man.

Answer 10

You're not going to get a satisfactory answer to this question, except perhaps this:

There are a lot of people out there who will tell you Yes, that they believe evolution is wrong because of evidence and not because of faith.  But such answers are meaningless.  

These folks may say that their religious faith (which is always there, in such cases) played no part in their discounting proof of evolution, but they are simply in denial if they believe that.  The evidence points only one way, and it's in a direction they perceive to be opposite to that of their faith, which they simply value more (what could you value more than your soul, and God, right?)

If they are so steeped in today's doctrine of what is acceptable to believe and what is not, that they refuse to admit proven answers to some of our most important questions, then they are always going to see the world through that kind of filter, and are always going to be sure they are right to do so, and that others are wrong.

Denial.

Answer 11

Yes. Many scientists fail to see how evolution is statistically possible.

Humans have 30,000 genes. Most mammals have around the same amount. Birds and other "lower" life forms may have less. Now, each gene corresponds to one protein, and each protein is responsible for one task. Each gene is made out of hundreds of nucleotides and each protein out of hundreds of amino acids. Each nucleotide and each amino acid is a very complex molecule in itself.

Now, survival of the fittest means that a genetic mutation occurs in the animal that not only gives it an edge on the others, but that allows this new trait to be passed on to the next generation. (A genetic mutation usually means that one nucleotide is added, missing or changed).

Lets take the dinosaurs-to-birds theory. A dinosaur would have to be born with certain mutations to grow feathers, wings,hollow bones and a whole new set of muscles, not to mention the brain power to use them. The mutation required to cause one feather to grow is quite complex. For this mutation to be repeated thousands of times, in conjunction with the mutations required for the brains, bones and muscles is beyond staggering. It's astronomical.

You might say that these mutations can appear slowly, over the course of generations, but that can't be so. Because what benefit does a dinosaur have with a single feather ion the back of it's hand? None. There is no guarantee that this mutation will make it to the next generation. On the contrary, the other dinosaurs will recognize a freak, and shun it. Plus, many mutations cause sterility.

Even if the last two sentences are not true, not enough generations have passed for this to have come about.

Statistically speaking, evolution is impossible.

Answer 12

I don't think you could find one.  Even the space alien people usually fall under a religion like Scientology or whatever that comet-riding band of eunuchs was called.

Answer 13

Religion is NOT the main cause of creationism. Belief in creationism

is caused mostly by an innate desire to disrupt fundamental truth,

particularly the truth of naturalism. The innate truth-disruptors just

adhere to whatever religion is convenient to justify their innate belief.

The innate truth-disruptors likewise say that they believe in creationism

for scientific reasons, yet they believed in creationism long before

the mustered up any flimsy pseudo-scientific arguments to back it.

Answer 14

Ok. so I am not answering your question, but I am commenting on the answer above mine...Have you ever read any actual articles on evolution??? Evolution does NOT say that humans came from monkeys, merely that apes and humans share a common ancestor...please buy a copy of an Evolutionary theory book and read it! You can't believe in something you can't even explain!

Answer 15

I believe that there must be micro-evolution (natural selection/genetics) but as far as humans developing from tiny unicellular organisms, we just can't know for sure. Evolution is a theory, creationism is a theory, but anybody who tells you that they KNOW how the world began is kidding themselves.

We cannot know why we're here or how we got here or the meaning of life, we can just theorize. I wouldn't say my reasoning is religious.