CHRISTIANS: Why dont you accept evolution...?!?

Question

..this is a really serious question! and id like you to think about it a lot!

Ok, do you deny evolution, because you think there isn't enough evidence to support it...

OR,

do you deny it because if you accepted it, it would prove the basis of your religion wrong? and it may make you think twice about your beliefs,

I think you know deep in your heart that the second option, is the true answer! If it isn't, then please explain to me, how you know, Evolution, didn't happen, and that it still isn't happening!

Really please try to tell me why you dont believe it! im looking for real answers!

bye

Answer 1

Most of them do, I think you'll find.

Answer 2

Fear is the real reason.

Answer 3

How's this for a "real answer" *smile*...

I don't accept evolution simply because I don't care.  Seriously...I simply don't see the value of the questions answered by the theory of evolution (and no, I'm not going to say it is "just a theory"...I understand that the theory is supported by a boatload of physical and mathematical evidence).  Thing is, I think the questions it addresses are trivial...and the fact that it IS supported by so much scientific evidence supports my assessment (see Popper, philosophy of science)...and the more evidence that supports it, the more trivial it becomes!

You see, I made the choice to believe that "in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."  No where in the bible does God suggest that he created us so that we could figure out HOW he created us...instead, he clearly wants us to figure out WHY he created us.  I was forced to learn about evolution in at least half a dozen high school and college science classes and none of them ever demonstrated that what I was learning would help me figure out why God created me!  

...and no, I do not know that accepting it would prove the basis of my religion wrong...no evidence ever has (or ever could) eliminate the possibility that "in the beginning" God was there...and HE did it!!!  Nothing could "prove" my faith wrong because my faith isn't based on evidence...it is based on a choice I made many years ago.  ...and once I accepted that "God did it", "how" became irrelevant and I focused all my attention on "why".  Evolution theory can't help much with that question so to me it is trivial knowledge!

Personally, I think "why" is a much more challenging question than "how".  I don't object when people want to study evolution because they find the questions interesting...I just object when someone suggests I'm illogical or ignorant for prefering to focus my attention on a different set of questions related to my existence!

Answer 4

I'm a Christian, yet I believe it. But I also believe that God is the ultimate creator of life. He's the one gave life.

Answer 5

Why is anyone have to accept anything

Would it make a better place, if they believe in this

and if they dont believe, so your opinion is that we got an enemy?

Answer 6

Well, from these answers ny last question was sure a waste of electrons!

safyre. You dont seem to be any closer to discovering what is meant by a scientific theory!

Answer 7

I think Evolution theorists could make 40 more unrelated theories for Genesis on Earth, yet just because of the lack of "evidence", God remains the only answer for these people.

...That right, the lack of evidence makes them turn to the Bible for answers to where we come from and the meaning of life. A book written by humans, subject to Godel's incompleteness theorem just as much as any other book or theory ever to exist is.

If thats not hypocrisy, I don't know what is.

Answer 8

I'm a Christian. I don't have a problem with the theory of evolution, and neither does my church. I grew up attending religious schools, and we were taught the theory of evolution, not Creationism. You'll find that Creationists form a definite minority within Christianity.

Answer 9

Hello,

Many Christians do. The RC's have said it has been acceptable for 70 years and actually it is the American fundamentalist who do not and are very vocal about it.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Answer 10

Many Christians do believe God created evolution.

Answer 11

Evolution is only a THEORY.  It is not scientific fact.

You obviously believe in a theory that (in all likelihood) is highly improbable at best.

Why do you put your faith in an unproven improbability?

What is it that you are afraid of that makes you believe in a highly illogical hypothesis?

Answer 12

Both Creationists and Evolutionists have misinterpreted Yahweh's explanation of evolution in the creation story in the beginning of Genesis. We will soon come to realize that Yahweh has been the "missing link" in the chain of evolution for the past millions and possibly billions of years on planet Earth.

Answer 13

I do believe in it to a certain extent.

Here's what I think- God is the creator of everything, including life. After he created earth, sun, and all the animals/plants, and all that (see Genesis) the life evolved slowly over time into what we have today.

However, humans did not evolve from apes and life as we know it was not just a random chain of coincidences started by some huge explosion that somehow created the entire universe.

Answer 14

when "macro-evolution" is observed...i will accept it...i don't think adaptations equate to new animals from other animals...like a deer like animal evolving into a whale...

Answer 15

I do not think there is not enough evidence i know there is not enough evidence.

The "evidence" that can be provided is not really evidence at all but theory compounded upon theory.

Further the material "evidence" itself is in question as to weather or not we know what we are looking at.

And finally your acceptable way of determining the age of "evidence" is flawed beyond the ability to reasonably call it science.

In short your theory is more science fiction than science.

Answer 16

Because Christians believe in God who creates.

Answer 17

Some Christians DO indeed accept evolution.  For them, it poses no contradiction to how they approach the Bible.  As for the Christians who don't, in my experience it's almost always because they have an inaccurate view of evolution (sometimes willfully so).  When I see somebody throwing lines like "...then why do we still have monkies [sic]" or "Darwin recanted!" or "I don't believe in macroevolution" or "Evolution says it was all random chance", then I know I'm dealing with somebody who hasn't researched the subject at all.

Answer 18

I choose door #2.  (The Tiger or the Girl?)

I think the girl is more dangerous...

Answer 19

1) It's fake.

2) Made by the devil.

3) Doesn't possibly make any sense.

4) No evidence.

Answer 20

would you please not generalize, I'm Christian an I DO believe in evolution, only a SMALL fraction of Christians (the fundamentalists), don't believe in that.

did you even know that a Catholic priest was the one that presented the theory of the big bang?

his name was George Lemaitre you can google it if you want

Answer 21

I do not accept evolution because it is false, I accept God because he is truth.

peace and blessings

Answer 22

There is a lot of evidence for micro evolution, changes within a spieces but I am not convinced by anything I have heard for the development of new organs or organisms.

What I have heard for, say, the development of the eye is that it started as light sensitive lumps that slowly developed into a complex eye... the problem with this and all the examples I have seen is... we don't see adaquate intermediary stages AND we do not see partially developed systems in creatures that exist today. A mutation would not be a partially developed system. Seriously, if evolution is true why did it stop?  Why are the only examples slight changes in already existing things instead of (out of countless animal examples) the development of new systems, which would be required if evolution is true.

Answer 23

show me evidence that tells me that i came from monkeys

o and for all the idiots who are gonna try and scream at me we did not come from monkeys please then tell me were did we orginate from dogs?

i have found less evidence supporting evolutions than God so i followed my heart nd found God

Answer 24

I don't believe in evolution because as a Christian we believe that God created everything.

And anyway, if we really descended from apes or whatever, then why do we still have apes today?

Answer 25

They'll say #1 when everyone knows that #2 is the real answer.

Answer 26

Some Christians DO believe in some parts of evolution.

Answer 27

You can believe in evolution, as long as you believe that it was in God's plan--that God created everything and planned to have humans evolve as part of His plan. Amen!

God Bless.

Answer 28

Because...

It is an error and an imaginative idea. Like the space between the first word and the rest of the post:

There are no missing links. There are no interelationships as built by the spinmakers.

Answer 29

We accept evolution as a change. We do not think that the theory of evolution is a fact. We believe in the Bible record

Were you there when it happened?? I was not either, but I know the One who was

Answer 30

Sorry doc, nothing but de-evolution going on here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NobZ_wliE...

Answer 31

I believe that Evolutionists believe

In the beginning there was nothing

Then some nothings got together and became something

Then something exploded ( the “big bang” )

Millions of years passed by.

As the gaseous remains of the “big bang” spread out

Some of it became galaxies, stars, and planets

Millions of years passed by.

On the planets it rained and it rained

Millions of years passed by.

Some rocks dissolved into puddles,

And this became the primordial soup

Millions of years passed by.

Something in the soup decided to be life

Millions of years passed by.

This “life” mutated and mutated and

Millions of years passed by.

this is where ALL life comes from!

Yeah Right!

Give me CREATION as it is much more believable

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