Evolutions Deniers - Please Explain
@snarkymolarky (76)
United States
March 11, 2007 10:11pm CST
Please explain to me, and all other scientific thinkers, your basis for denying evolution.
Evolution has been proven. It is people like you who prevent further learning, because you think that a 4,000 year old book is more likely to be right than something which has had billions of dollars and hundreds of man-years of research put into it.
So, skeptics of evolution, please put forward your evidence.
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@Fargale (760)
• Brazil
12 Mar 07
My best bet is, your responses will be one of two kinds:
- Those that are faith-based, thus not qualifying as evidence
- Those who are not real evidence, they're just attempts to cast doubt at one point of other in the scientific theory of evolution and expect the rest of the world to think that if there's doubt in one point, the whole theory is invalid and the other one they're proposing wins by default.
But hey, I'm always willing to be surprised.
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@leavert65 (1018)
• Puerto Rico
13 Mar 07
How about your faith-based responses? Do they qualify?
Leavert: Choice 1 - Nobody did it (no intelligent agent)
Choice 2 - Somebody did it (intelligent agent)
Choice 3 - ___________???
Fargale:
"A different more refined evolution theory, that we will have 5 years from now as our discoveries continue."
@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
12 Mar 07
Although I partially believe in the theory of Evolution I do agree there are problems with it. There is a lot of research into it but there are still holes in the theories. The main one of not finding any examples of a link between apes and man. You have found evidence of early man but nothing that proves that we came from apes. That is why people still doubt the theory and it is a theory. It is not a proven fact. That is a big thing for many people, myself included. Now I do not neccessarily believe in what the Bible states I'm just stating that both have their flaws and that neither is 100 percent proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. Until that is done you will always have some who deny either theory.
@snarkymolarky (76)
• United States
12 Mar 07
Which do you think is more likely?
-A theory with a hole in it, but is otherwise a sturdy theory.
-A story which claims that a single entity created everything that exists in 6 days, with out any substantiating proof.
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@Chiang_Mai_boy (3882)
• Thailand
12 Mar 07
There are two problems with your statement. The first is that no one has said man evolved from apes so there can be no link between man and apes. The current thinking is that man and apes are separate branches on the evolutionary tree and that we share a conmen ancestor. The other problem is your bringing up the old straw man that the theory of evolution is not 100% proven. It is the nature of theories that they are not 100% proven. If they are they become laws. That being said, The theory of evolution is supported with enough evidence that only a fool can reject it as fact. The story of creation is just that, a story with no supporting facts.
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@leavert65 (1018)
• Puerto Rico
12 Mar 07
You're absolutely right that macroevolution has not been proven but that's not why it's not considered a law.
Dogmatic evolutionists erroneously think "science" must be always based on naturalistic, materialistic philosophy: they think that to admit that evolution might not be a fact would weaken their whole belief system, so they compensate by claiming the theory is fact.
There is a growing number of objective scientists who no longer place confidence in the evolutionary theory. Their views don't receive the same publicity and media attention as evolutionists advocates, even though the evolutionists have less in the way of empirical support for what they say. Under these circumstances , their insistence that evolution is a fact, has become ludicrous, yet because of their boldness, their false claim is unwittingly believed by many.
Most people think that science follows the evidence wherever it leads. But it is impossible to avoid letting our world view color our interpretation of the facts. Naturalists often pretend that they don't operate from any philosophical basis. As you can clearly see the constant attention and long hours that these psters devote to this topic isn't exactly because they have a thing for science. In fact you'd be amazed given their bold statements at how little science thy actually know! Just the other day this guy was telling some supposed faith-minded believer that Carbon14 was used to date rocks! In all fairness, he did do some quick research and later retract his statement. But like us they're learning as they go along. Let's hope for their sake Talk Origin doesn't shut down on them.(lol)
@leavert65 (1018)
• Puerto Rico
12 Mar 07
I think the guy's name who I spoke of was called Fargale or something like that.
@maildumpster (3815)
• United States
14 Mar 07
I am a person who believes in both evolution and creationism.
I wish only to say that evolution HAS NOT been proven. If it had been proven they would no longer call it a theory. They would call it a scientific fact. (I am saying evolution in regards to humans evolving from apes.)
Thank you for your time.
@headhunter525 (3548)
• India
12 Mar 07
I don't have any problem in accepting Darwin's theory of evolution as long as evidences are provided. Evidences are being piled up gradually and the cases made stronger each year. Fine, as long as it remains within the realm of science.
And I hope all would be open to learning truth as the evidences suggest. However, I can't understand how skeptics of Darwinian theory prevent further learning. Is it because they opposed funding of scientific research or how they do they prevent further learning? I have heard this charge again and again, but never seen any evidence given.
I don't believe that the universe is created in 6x24 days. Such kind of belief, as far as I know, is more common in American Christian. We who are not from America don't have problem in accepting the finding of scientific research. And so far I have not read any scientific finding that contradicts with what the Bible affirms. There may be cases, but I don't know any.
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