How is it people can believe in "micro-evolution", but...?

Question

not accept that these small changes will eventually amount to big changes? it's like saying you don't believe you'll ever have a million dollars if i give it to you one dollar at a time.

Answer 1

There is this big, thick wall that comes down around their brains when a line of thought leads to something that might mean that some portion of the Bible isn't literally true.  They'll go through all sorts of mental gymnastics rather than face the problem objectively.

Answer 2

The simple answer is small minds can only think in a small way. Hence, microevolution is plausible to some Christians, while macroevolution is not, because micro thinking fits perfectly with their way of thinking. Biblical literalists have a hard time connecting the dots with inferences that make logical sense, however when it comes to fairy tales, they are masters at connecting ideas out of thin air.  

Answer 3

By "micro-evolution" people refer to minute changes that occur in subsequent generations. That is anything but evolution.

The fact that we are slightly different from our parents does not mean we are evolving into something else. It is just that the genes contained in our chromosomes cannot express themselves all in one generation. For example, a person cannot have straight hair and wavy hair at the same time. Other features may be similarly expressed one at a time. In fact, our genes contain the possibility of producing trillions of varieties of ourselves. It's just the different permutations and combinations of genes already present. Nothing else.

Answer 4

Because the entire concept is absurd!  It takes enormous faith to believe that many small changes could be the same as a single large change.

Example:  Small things are measured in centimetres.  Big things are measured in kilometres.  But a hundred thousand centimetres are quite patently not at all the same thing as a kilometre!

Answer 5

the same people that believe only parts of their holy book. go figure.

Answer 6

People will say anything to justify what they want to believe is true.

Answer 7

You know something?  I have never in my life heard the term micro-evolution before coming to this forum.

Answer 8

Micro-evolution is a LOSS of information.

A gain in information does not conform to the second law of thermodynamics. Ultimately, the likelihood of inorganic chemicals transforming into a self replicating complex cell is like ..

"At all events, anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with the Rubik cube will concede the near-impossibility of a solution being obtained by a blind person moving the cube faces at random. Now imagine 1050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have the chance of arriving by random shuffling of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order.    "The Big Bang in Astronomy"  New Scientist  November 19, 1981

There is no law against day dreaming, but science must not indulge in it.

Answer 9

Well, no one has ever seen a dog turn into a cat!

/sarcasm