I need good advice from peoples with good opinion?

Question

How would you respond to someone who tells you (a) that he or she does not believe in biological evolution because it is "just a theory," and (b) we should not worry about air pollution because through natural selection, the human species will develop lungs that can detoxify pollutants?

Answer 1

Let him/her believe what they want to. We all have the right to our own opinions, but don't be afraid to explain your beliefs to them as well. It could lead to a very interesting conversation.

Answer 2

I wouldn't bother. They are entitled to their opinions. You don't have to agree with them or convince them otherwise.

Answer 3

Those are just opinions...everyone is entitled to his/her own.  Don't let it bug you.

Answer 4

I would say that they have very inconsistent answers, and to

a) Well if you exclude all theories then what about the theorey of relativity? Gravity is even a theory because it can't be proved.

b) you know how many people would die because of that? Even if by the small chance that a couple of people survived, human kind would have to restart all over again

Answer 5

well, unless you strongly disagree, just say "i dont agree but i respect your believes." or something polite like that

Answer 6

I'd a) ask if they don't believe in biological evolution, then how can they believe the human species will develop lungs that can detoxify pollutants (in other words, "evolve"), and b) point out that natural selection kills off hundreds of species that can not evolve quickly enough to counteract the changes to their environment, that it isn't simply a matter of changing but rather one of changing in time.

Answer 7

first, tell them they're stupid, and that they're contradicting themselves. for the human species to develop lungs that can detoxify pollutants, you would have to have biological evolution. and that air pollution hurts the earth as well as us.

Answer 8

Ignore them.

Answer 9

Don't even respond if you do not find it worth your time.

Answer 10

Ask him to explain why he believes in natural selection but not evolution.  Based on what you're saying, this person is contradicting himself.

Answer 11

Tell them to read this...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._Hamil...

Answer 12

k that person contradicts himself by not believing in evolution and then saying that humans will evolve and have special lungs that filter the air.

if u meant 2 separate people, then

a) it doesn't really matter because religion is also just an opinion....trying to convince someone that their religion is wrong is the same as trying to convince them that blue is the best color in the world

b) in our throats are little hairs that already acts as filters that keep our lungs clean....and natural selection states the survival of the fittest....meaning if we pollute the air and we aren't able to adapt....then the human race becomes extinct...if there is a 10% chance.....or even a 50% chance that we will be able to survive in polluted air.........would you bet your life on it? would u rather breathe smoggy air rather than clean air?

Answer 13

sein O.K. kannst du sagen, was überhaupt du, wo du wünschst und die Zeit wünschst, die du wünschst. sein du Meinung.

Answer 14

Explain that the theory has been proven through moths in England, snakes in Asia and bats in South America. Then add that, since no significant adaptation has occurred in man in several thousand years we will be dead long before natural selection can provide a solution to that problem.  Natural selection works VERY slowly, over millenia to achieve an adaptasion that we have caused in just over 100 years.  If that person does not believe we will die because of the health risks presented, have them talk with my son who died of cancer one year ago.

Answer 15

well they'r kinda a walking oxymoron cause natural selection is biological evolution.. and natural selection only works if all the ones that fail to adapt die so letting that happen would be somewhere along the lines of billions of ppl dying and letting the air bet bad enough to kill people