Why do that creationists feel that the theory of evolution attacks religous veiws?

Question

why is it that creationists feel that the theory of evolution somehow attacks and rebells againt religous veiws..?

it has nothing to do with the origin of the universe, or how life started on the planet..

it only states how things came from being the simplest forms of life, barely anything more than replicating genetic material.. to the vast diversity we see today.. nothing about how there's no god or anything..

i myself was raised a firm catholic.. and find myself looking more towards a diest guidelines that science can explain it all except for the creation of existance.. i believe god created the universe.. or at least some omnipotent being sparked life on our young planet.. i have no better explination for how it happened..

but evolution as an explination of speciation is a scientific law in my opinion.. hopefully soon the entire scientific community will agree.. there is so much tangible, reliable, testible proof.. and only a few philisophical ones that could even be

Answer 1

Evolution does not include God.  Therefore, it "attacks" religious dogma.

Also, it presents a direct or indirect link to apes.  This "attacks" the religious notion that we were created in God's image.

Answer 2

It all comes down to faith.  People that believe in evolution typically believe that humans have evolved from lower forms of primates.  People that believe in creation believe that we were created as humans in the image of God.  There is a big difference in our origin between having evolved from lower primates and being created in the image of God.  I think many Creationists have no problem with the evolution of species other than humans but draw the line when evolutionists say that we evolved from monkeys.

Answer 3

I agree with you...I do not believe that they should think it attacks religion...but this is why they do (at least some do).

First off, some people hear of darwinism and interpret it the wrong way; they believe it disproves God, because they do not read into it enough.

The church gets wind of people saying these things, and (without examining it properly), puts full blame on science.  Religious people, who are so dedicated to the church that if the pope said to kill their kids they would, go off and criticize science more and more....which only makes some people very dedicated to science lash back at the church.  

Before you know it, people who aren't qualified to argue on either side (science or religion) are on tv talking about a bias opinions.  The average person hears these ideas on tv, and whichever one sounds reasonable to them, they choose to believe and tell others about their opinion (though they dont even know 50% of what one would actually need to know to understand the difference between science and religion).

This has been happening for thousands of years...

so there you go...there is what I think about it...of course I can go on for much longer, but I think that got to the point

Answer 4

There are many reasons for the religious v. evolutionist battle. Since the evidence for both is incomplete, I prefer the agnostic viewpoint, but the religious see this as another form of atheism, while atheists see it as ignorance. So you really can't win. Faith gives hope and humans will always sacrifice reason for hope, it's a biological thing. Atheists derive hope from science and overlook it's shortcomings as irrelevant. Buddhists don't even ask the ontological question, and believe that to do so is futile and a distraction from truth.

Answer 5

I am a Christian, and believe in Creationism.... I also, however, believe in evolution... to a point. The problem occurs, when other people who believe in creationism, aren't educated in what true evolution is and stands for. I feel that science and religion can indeed go hand-in-hand. I guess people's view can become clouded by arrogance and the determination to prove that they are right...

This is an excellent article to show how creationists are using science to prove Biblical events.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7013405/

I hope that this helps just a little, and shows that not all creationists think alike.

Answer 6

The Clergy Letter Project is a letter that has been signed by over 11,000 Christian clergy members (priests, ministers, bishops, preachers, deacons, etc.)

http://www.butler.edu/clergyproject/reli...

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"An Open Letter Concerning Religion and Science

Within the community of Christian believers there are areas of dispute and disagreement, including the proper way to interpret Holy Scripture. While virtually all Christians take the Bible seriously and hold it to be authoritative in matters of faith and practice, the overwhelming majority do not read the Bible literally, as they would a science textbook. Many of the beloved stories found in the Bible – the Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah and the ark – convey timeless truths about God, human beings, and the proper relationship between Creator and creation expressed in the only form capable of transmitting these truths from generation to generation. Religious truth is of a different order from scientific truth. Its purpose is not to convey scientific information but to transform hearts.

We the undersigned, Christian clergy from many different traditions, believe that the timeless truths of the Bible and the discoveries of modern science may comfortably coexist. We believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth, one that has stood up to rigorous scrutiny and upon which much of human knowledge and achievement rests. To reject this truth or to treat it as “one theory among others” is to deliberately embrace scientific ignorance and transmit such ignorance to our children. We believe that among God’s good gifts are human minds capable of critical thought and that the failure to fully employ this gift is a rejection of the will of our Creator. To argue that God’s loving plan of salvation for humanity precludes the full employment of the God-given faculty of reason is to attempt to limit God, an act of hubris. We urge school board members to preserve the integrity of the science curriculum by affirming the teaching of the theory of evolution as a core component of human knowledge. We ask that science remain science and that religion remain religion, two very different, but complementary, forms of truth."

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P.S. I am also a Catholic and a firm supporter of evolution.  I am constantly frustrated at how small-minded Creationists have hijacked the Christian message and presented the misperception that Christians are all simplemined, scientifically illiterate, ignorant, gullible, and generally *dishonest* (as Creationist arguments use often blatantly deceptive tactics like quote-mining and deliberate misrepresentation of evolution and scientific terms and arguments).

Answer 7

They believe in a literal or almost literal interpretation of the Bible

it all about the Bible and what it says

Answer 8

They feel anything that attacks the literal interpretation of Genisis is a lie that was created by "athiests" you can't reason with such willing ignorance