Charles Darwin took his first breath 200 hundred years ago today, February 12, 1809. Today, though his "theory" still plagues our schools and culture, according to a Gallup Poll fewer than 4 in ten believe in Evolution... just 39%.
Sadly interesting, 24% of those who attend church weekly believe Darwin's theory. They're willing to believe that 'nothing made everything.' Personally, I believe it's easier and more rational to believe God made everything out of nothing.
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Truth isn't a popularity contest. Evolutionary theory explains reality better than any other proposal. Whether you believe it or not.
"'nothing made everything.'"
This only shows that you truly don't know what either atheism or evolutionary theory state. You are speaking from a position of ignorance.
Here's a great celebratory note to contrast with El's silliness, as amusing as it is.
Wrong. I'm a biologist and can assure you that the evidence for evolution is overwhelming, and comes from every branch of biology, as well as other disciplines, like geology.
I'll refer you to the National Academy of Science webpage on the topic.
Nice try tho.
I'd take those folks more seriously if they weren't in such stark denial to the problems with their theory and worldview. As is is, they just demonstrate their insecurities over and over.
If it sounds like cherry picking, it is because difficult concepts are difficult to communicate (believe me, I've tried). The 'cherries' are simple, easy-to-communicate examples to illustrate concepts to audiences who may not want to read thousands of primary research articles themselves.
And it is because scientists are tired of fighting the same fight over and over, when the issue was settled decades ago (with the final nail put in the coffin of creationism by molecular techniques).
But it's not just a few cases where the theory works. Our understanding of evolution underlies everything that happens in biology, including many of the advances in modern medicine that have doubled your life expectancy relative to your great grandparents'.
"How can you NOT believe in creation?"
It takes a much bigger leap of faith to believe in evolution than creation by any stretch of the imagination.
Our universe's basic law is TIME. Every person, place, or thing has a beginning and an end. Everything has to start somewhere at some given TIME.
Without the very basic belief that someone or something created the first molecule that started it everything, it makes you sound very foolish.
It's the one thing that has escaped the evolutionists since the beginning of the idea. Where did IT come from... the foundation blocks for the universe. That's why evolution will always be voodoo science.
The evidence doesn't support it and there's no biblical reason to think we HAVE to believe in a six day creation.
Certainly the bible makes it very clear that GOD preceded the earth and will in time outlast it as well.
If you're christian how you choose to accept the creation story is a personal decision. But a literal interpretation of the bible isn't the only valid choice.
Creationists believe the world was created by God, and evolutionists believe man evolved from some random particles swimming around in some primordial ooze somewhere.
Is it possible that God created the world, but not man? Is it probable that God created the earth, and then allowed the earth to create man while He went somewhere and played tiddly winks for billions of years?
My point is God created the earth. Whether it was in 6 24 hour days or six eons is immaterial to me. But when one attempts to convince me that God didn't create man on His first try, I will argue.
To me, it's simple. God could have made millions of rough drafts of man before he finally got it rght and created man in His image, but wouldn't that be illogical?
I mean, why would God need to start with an amoeba? We agree that God made man in His own image. Why would He need to experiment with the template? Or do the evolutionists believe God started off as a one celled creature, Himself?
I don't know about you who believe in both evolution and God, but my God doesn't make mistakes. I believe He didn't need to evolve man to this stage.
My God got it right the first time.
But God didn't need billions of years to perfect man. That would put him into a finite box of our own mortal creation. Anyway, obviously man is not perfect. But if man were perfect, there would be no need for a God.
Hey! I think I finally stumbled on why so many people are so quick to believe in evolution! It removes the necessity of a God.
http://www.
christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/january/32.62.html
I don't think either one is necessarily more miraculous than the other. Slow and gradual or short and punctuated: God is glorified either way. And what I don't doubt is that neither could have happened without help. The more I hear evolution explained, the more obvious it seems to me that it couldn't have happened without having been hard-wired to evolve from the beginning.
Where I think the problems arise is when scientists (from Sagan, to Gould, to Dawkins) insist on making ridiculous pronouncements about things that science isn't qualified to address -- and when Christians (from Falwell, to Ham, to Paley) insist on pontificating about things that theology isn't qualified to address. And honestly, it's embarassing and distressing.
Embarassing because both sides end up looking like morons.
Distressing because untold damage is done by insisting that the Bible be used as a science text-book.
One is not a better or worse Christian because one does or doesn't believe the Genesis creation accounts are literal. The Bible DOES NOT come unravelled if parts of the old testament are allegorical. What does (all too often) come unravelled is the faith of people who are bullied into believing that one can't be a theologically orthodox Christian if they think evolution is somehow true.
Jesus had some awfully harsh words for those who would cause a little one to stumble, saying, "And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck." So what do you think He'd have to say about some of the ridiculous controversies Christians get involved in that do nothing but create unecessary obstacles for those little ones?
The debate is worth having, if only to keep each side honest. But the way each side keeps over-stating their case, while mis-stating the other side's case, makes it clear that to many proponents (on both sides of the issue) honesty is of little or no concern.