How is possible thatsome people do not believe evolution given the vast amount of evidence for it?
Some people deny evolution in favour of religion when they have absolutely no evidence to support their belief
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You should get much insight from answers you get to this question. In my sister's case, she was brainwashed all of her life with Christianity and believes it's wrong to even question it. I got the same routine, but my IQ is much higher than my siblings', and no one can make me stop questioning everything. She doesn't want to see evidence for evolution. If I mention it, she has a tantrum and insults me to divert the issue away from something that upsets her by perhaps causing her to doubt religion when she believes it's a sin. The creationists try to divert us from seeing they have no evidence at all to support their naive beliefs by attacking evolution. There are unanswered questions about some mechanisms involved, but no reputable scientist doubts that it is essentially true, for there is just too much evidence to support the fact of Evolution. Creationists exaggerate such things and take statements out of context. This is lying! What they don't realize is that even if one could disprove evolution, he wouldn't automatically prove any other theory, and there'd still be no evidence at all for Genesis creation. A tired chant is, "Evolution is just a theory". This shows pathetic ignorance, for a scientific theory is not a preliminary, unproven hypothesis but an idea that has much evidence to support it but still has some details that need to be completed to make it a law of science.
probably peoples differet opiions
Things are not what they seem.
rhetoric and brainwashing
You don't reach faith by reason
Personally, I use the scientific method. I have never seen an experiment demonstrating how unliving matter can become living matter, which is a cornerstone of evolution. The scientific method thus tells me this is not a fact and only an unproven theory.
Because the belief in evolution conflicts with many peoples religious point of view: people tend to be very protective of their religions teachings.
some people are idiots. the bible is great for teaching and for faith, but everyone should be able to understand evolution. even the Pope.
Religion can be brainwashing to some people. Even the best evidence can't sway the righteous.
There are WAY too many wholes in the whole evolution theory my friend. do some real in depth research. you'll see the gaping wholes and notice some things evolution claims could NOT possibly happen.
because people have their own religions..just the same as you think mayby red is cool brown sucks.or pink is stupid black rules.
Evolution is a more compelling theroy than creationism-but it's not with out flaws. It provides strong evidence for natural selection, but does'nt answer the golden question:how did life start?
I belive in natural selection, but some time have my doubts when I consider just how amazingly complex and intracate life is-take the brain. Creationism brings with it a gigantic advantage. all those uncertainties and unanswered question are answered by "that's the way god made it". They do say ignorance is bliss.
for the same reason they believe the earth is flat and OJ Simpson didn't do it
what would happen if to all the churches if people where smart enough to belive in evolution
you forget that "their" idea of evidence is a book written by unknown authors, thousands of years ago. when you factor this sort of mentality into why they don't beileve in the "evidence" proving evolution, it's not that hard to see where' they are coming from. besides, evolution is learned through logic and the pursuit of knowledge. religion is forced upon you from an early age. these people never stood a chance.
People do not deny evolution in favour of religion, they deny it in favour of creation and it can be proved but the answer would take too long here but I'll tell you one fact for you to get your head round. National Geographic published a graph showing the projected rise in population. Get hold of the graph and project it backwards until you arrive at only two people. How far back would that be, 4000/4500 years ago, the time of the flood and Noahs Ark.
Think of this, carbon dating a live snail gives a date of now, carbon date it's shell, it's age, 2,000,000 years. That's because snails eat lime to grow the shell. Confused now eh?
Faith is the ability to accept the unbelievable on the authority of the unreliable. It requires a disconnect between the relationship of cause and effect. Once this is accomplished, there is no way reason can be part of a conversation that involves faith, since faith is the antithesis of reason.
Because god created the big bang, the initial point from where the universe continues to expand.
I think people deny Evolution because you can't believe in your religion and evolution. I think people believe in religion because they need to know that when you die, you have somewhere to go.. an afterlife. If there is no God, there's no afterlife therefore, when you die, you just die. It's a comfort thing.
How is it possible that some people believe in religion given the total lack of real evidence for it?
People will always be persuaded to believe whatever they want to believe.
The answers to such questions (if ever answered) are often incredible. Look at quantum physics(for example) where the answers we appear to have are much stranger than the questions!
There a alot of whole in the whole evolution theory especially "Lucy". The skeleton was actually found miles a part and then placed together. Grand Canyon.the deepest part of it is in the middle so if its was a river wouldn't the deepest part be at the beginning or end?
Just because I don't believe that I came from a monkey doesn't mean I don't believe in different part of evolution either. I believe things change in time through natural selection.
But can you honestly say that you have HARDCORE proof for evolution?
Just because someone doesn't hold the same beliefs as you doesn't mean that you need to get up set about it and be mean. I am not running around calling people that believe in evolution idiots. People have different opinions get over it.
Americans!
It is important to distinguish between evelutionary fact and evolutionary theory. The fossil record shows that gradual development toward increasing complexity (ie: evolution) as a historical fact. Many educated people before Darwin accepted this. BUt, they thought evolution was guided by God.
Darwn cam up in with a mechanism by which evolution could proceed via entirely natural causes - natural selection operating on random variation. But, this is still just a theory, not an observed fact. Yes, bacteria have adapted to antibiotics, and moths have turned darker a s camaflague against brighter days. Critics do not deny evolution works in this way. THey want to know if Darwin's theory can account for how there came to be moths and bacteria in the first place.
REad Darwin's Black Box, fo the other side of the controversy.
The same way people follow Islam. If a person prays several times a day or hears nothing else constantly, they believe it religeously.
I think that is what dogma is.
It is the same with politics, if you are bombarded with it. you won't accept any argument to the contrary.
It is because they have been brainwashed into believing that there is a god. All organised religion should be banned.
Whereas me may be of the Genus Homien Sapiens. Our Background,parentel teaching and religious teaching are specific to ..Where in this world of ours we live. Our Status within that place. Our Gender ,our size, too many variables. It maybe a matter of survival that someone complies with certain ideals. Please don't consider your thoughts can cover every case. Bit like telling Wales not to eat plangton, because it's canabilistic.
There is evidence for evolution of some sort, but the theory is very far from complete. There are definitely some things that cannot be explained by it. For instance, how did the single-pump heart of a fish suddenly experience a mutation into a double-pump, fully functional heart where one pump is connected to the lungs and another to the rest of the body? I don't believe our current theory of evolution, not in favour of religion, but because of the ridiculously big holes in it.
For some neurotic, superstitious reason, they are more comfortable being formed out of Play-Doh by an alien than the hideous, revolting possibility of being related to the monkeys!
They can't face that. And they want power to be special, power over death, that might come from being God's toy.
There are lots of reasons why people do not believe despite overwhelming evidence (e.g. evolution):
1) They are too small-minded or lazy to be bothered to read the evidence or incorporate it into their world view
2) They have vested interests in an alternative belief system
3) They were brought up in a bigoted peer system with threats and violence and are trained to be dumbheads
4) They are unable to think logically. These are the chaotics and do not believe anything much.
5) A people with a blindness to abstract concepts. Its a square world.
Although this issue does not come up in England and much of Europe (Ireland is an exception) similiar blockhead lack of thinking causes much of the social misery and distress. The petty Hitlers and lunatics in positions of power.
There is still a flat earth society,it has a website! We have orbited the earth in our spacecrafts,we have taken photgraphs of it, we have filmed it, yet they still insist on saying "Nope it is flat,it always was it always will be".
I have had a look at some of these creationist websites that deny evolution. Even an amateur fossil hunter and geologist like me can see their knowledge of science is woefully inadequate. There is even one website that says that all the tectonic plates actually float on water,(eh?) that is where all the water for the biblical flood came from!
It is as plain as the nose on your face. The deeper you dig down, the more primitive are the organisms that you find in the rocks That is an undeniable FACT.The average 10 year old can see that. As one eminent scientist said when asked what would persuade him that evolution was false he replied :"Someone finding the remains of a Pre-Cambrian rabbit!
"
Well look what was on the news today ! ( no, not a Pre -Cambrian rabbit, quite the opposite )
it is difficult to accept the claim that our great-great-.-grandfathe was an ape.!
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Answers:
You should get much insight from answers you get to this question. In my sister's case, she was brainwashed all of her life with Christianity and believes it's wrong to even question it. I got the same routine, but my IQ is much higher than my siblings', and no one can make me stop questioning everything. She doesn't want to see evidence for evolution. If I mention it, she has a tantrum and insults me to divert the issue away from something that upsets her by perhaps causing her to doubt religion when she believes it's a sin. The creationists try to divert us from seeing they have no evidence at all to support their naive beliefs by attacking evolution. There are unanswered questions about some mechanisms involved, but no reputable scientist doubts that it is essentially true, for there is just too much evidence to support the fact of Evolution. Creationists exaggerate such things and take statements out of context. This is lying! What they don't realize is that even if one could disprove evolution, he wouldn't automatically prove any other theory, and there'd still be no evidence at all for Genesis creation. A tired chant is, "Evolution is just a theory". This shows pathetic ignorance, for a scientific theory is not a preliminary, unproven hypothesis but an idea that has much evidence to support it but still has some details that need to be completed to make it a law of science.
probably peoples differet opiions
Things are not what they seem.
rhetoric and brainwashing
You don't reach faith by reason
Personally, I use the scientific method. I have never seen an experiment demonstrating how unliving matter can become living matter, which is a cornerstone of evolution. The scientific method thus tells me this is not a fact and only an unproven theory.
Because the belief in evolution conflicts with many peoples religious point of view: people tend to be very protective of their religions teachings.
some people are idiots. the bible is great for teaching and for faith, but everyone should be able to understand evolution. even the Pope.
Religion can be brainwashing to some people. Even the best evidence can't sway the righteous.
There are WAY too many wholes in the whole evolution theory my friend. do some real in depth research. you'll see the gaping wholes and notice some things evolution claims could NOT possibly happen.
because people have their own religions..just the same as you think mayby red is cool brown sucks.or pink is stupid black rules.
Evolution is a more compelling theroy than creationism-but it's not with out flaws. It provides strong evidence for natural selection, but does'nt answer the golden question:how did life start?
I belive in natural selection, but some time have my doubts when I consider just how amazingly complex and intracate life is-take the brain. Creationism brings with it a gigantic advantage. all those uncertainties and unanswered question are answered by "that's the way god made it". They do say ignorance is bliss.
for the same reason they believe the earth is flat and OJ Simpson didn't do it
what would happen if to all the churches if people where smart enough to belive in evolution
you forget that "their" idea of evidence is a book written by unknown authors, thousands of years ago. when you factor this sort of mentality into why they don't beileve in the "evidence" proving evolution, it's not that hard to see where' they are coming from. besides, evolution is learned through logic and the pursuit of knowledge. religion is forced upon you from an early age. these people never stood a chance.
People do not deny evolution in favour of religion, they deny it in favour of creation and it can be proved but the answer would take too long here but I'll tell you one fact for you to get your head round. National Geographic published a graph showing the projected rise in population. Get hold of the graph and project it backwards until you arrive at only two people. How far back would that be, 4000/4500 years ago, the time of the flood and Noahs Ark.
Think of this, carbon dating a live snail gives a date of now, carbon date it's shell, it's age, 2,000,000 years. That's because snails eat lime to grow the shell. Confused now eh?
Faith is the ability to accept the unbelievable on the authority of the unreliable. It requires a disconnect between the relationship of cause and effect. Once this is accomplished, there is no way reason can be part of a conversation that involves faith, since faith is the antithesis of reason.
Because god created the big bang, the initial point from where the universe continues to expand.
I think people deny Evolution because you can't believe in your religion and evolution. I think people believe in religion because they need to know that when you die, you have somewhere to go.. an afterlife. If there is no God, there's no afterlife therefore, when you die, you just die. It's a comfort thing.
How is it possible that some people believe in religion given the total lack of real evidence for it?
People will always be persuaded to believe whatever they want to believe.
The answers to such questions (if ever answered) are often incredible. Look at quantum physics(for example) where the answers we appear to have are much stranger than the questions!
There a alot of whole in the whole evolution theory especially "Lucy". The skeleton was actually found miles a part and then placed together. Grand Canyon.the deepest part of it is in the middle so if its was a river wouldn't the deepest part be at the beginning or end?
Just because I don't believe that I came from a monkey doesn't mean I don't believe in different part of evolution either. I believe things change in time through natural selection.
But can you honestly say that you have HARDCORE proof for evolution?
Just because someone doesn't hold the same beliefs as you doesn't mean that you need to get up set about it and be mean. I am not running around calling people that believe in evolution idiots. People have different opinions get over it.
Americans!
It is important to distinguish between evelutionary fact and evolutionary theory. The fossil record shows that gradual development toward increasing complexity (ie: evolution) as a historical fact. Many educated people before Darwin accepted this. BUt, they thought evolution was guided by God.
Darwn cam up in with a mechanism by which evolution could proceed via entirely natural causes - natural selection operating on random variation. But, this is still just a theory, not an observed fact. Yes, bacteria have adapted to antibiotics, and moths have turned darker a s camaflague against brighter days. Critics do not deny evolution works in this way. THey want to know if Darwin's theory can account for how there came to be moths and bacteria in the first place.
REad Darwin's Black Box, fo the other side of the controversy.
The same way people follow Islam. If a person prays several times a day or hears nothing else constantly, they believe it religeously.
I think that is what dogma is.
It is the same with politics, if you are bombarded with it. you won't accept any argument to the contrary.
It is because they have been brainwashed into believing that there is a god. All organised religion should be banned.
Whereas me may be of the Genus Homien Sapiens. Our Background,parentel teaching and religious teaching are specific to ..Where in this world of ours we live. Our Status within that place. Our Gender ,our size, too many variables. It maybe a matter of survival that someone complies with certain ideals. Please don't consider your thoughts can cover every case. Bit like telling Wales not to eat plangton, because it's canabilistic.
There is evidence for evolution of some sort, but the theory is very far from complete. There are definitely some things that cannot be explained by it. For instance, how did the single-pump heart of a fish suddenly experience a mutation into a double-pump, fully functional heart where one pump is connected to the lungs and another to the rest of the body? I don't believe our current theory of evolution, not in favour of religion, but because of the ridiculously big holes in it.
For some neurotic, superstitious reason, they are more comfortable being formed out of Play-Doh by an alien than the hideous, revolting possibility of being related to the monkeys!
They can't face that. And they want power to be special, power over death, that might come from being God's toy.
There are lots of reasons why people do not believe despite overwhelming evidence (e.g. evolution):
1) They are too small-minded or lazy to be bothered to read the evidence or incorporate it into their world view
2) They have vested interests in an alternative belief system
3) They were brought up in a bigoted peer system with threats and violence and are trained to be dumbheads
4) They are unable to think logically. These are the chaotics and do not believe anything much.
5) A people with a blindness to abstract concepts. Its a square world.
Although this issue does not come up in England and much of Europe (Ireland is an exception) similiar blockhead lack of thinking causes much of the social misery and distress. The petty Hitlers and lunatics in positions of power.
There is still a flat earth society,it has a website! We have orbited the earth in our spacecrafts,we have taken photgraphs of it, we have filmed it, yet they still insist on saying "Nope it is flat,it always was it always will be".
I have had a look at some of these creationist websites that deny evolution. Even an amateur fossil hunter and geologist like me can see their knowledge of science is woefully inadequate. There is even one website that says that all the tectonic plates actually float on water,(eh?) that is where all the water for the biblical flood came from!
It is as plain as the nose on your face. The deeper you dig down, the more primitive are the organisms that you find in the rocks That is an undeniable FACT.The average 10 year old can see that. As one eminent scientist said when asked what would persuade him that evolution was false he replied :"Someone finding the remains of a Pre-Cambrian rabbit!
"
Well look what was on the news today ! ( no, not a Pre -Cambrian rabbit, quite the opposite )
it is difficult to accept the claim that our great-great-.-grandfathe was an ape.!
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