Why do some people NOT understand Evolution?

[DarkSun]

Evolution withing the species does exist. However, Maco-Evolution which is the driving force of Evolutionism has never been seen nor tested by any scientific meathod. Evolutionism (man evolved from single cell over time) has never been witnessed. It goes against the fundamental laws of science itself.

Evolutionism is the apearance of new genetic material at a higher level of organization than existed before. This has never been seen. All Genitic defects are all negative

Evolution is not just "Change", it is an upward Change to a higher level of organization. The Laws of Thermodynamics say otherwise and stand against the Evolution of Man.

The Scientific Method today doesnt have room for God or inteligent maker. Think of it this way, If God does exist, then everything you know about could be dead wrong. Todays science starts off with a bias that God does not exist and explains everything without a creator.

science has never shown evidence of evolutionism. They have pastic models of what they would like to find, but have never found. They have made frauds that later where found, but only after the ball got rolling. If you look at everything Evolution has to prove itself today, it has nothing but a philosophical view of what they believe happend. (FAITH = Religion)

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How do you sugest one proves the existance of God? Many will say man created God, but the truth is God created man. one would have to assume way too much and make claims that go agaisnt scientific laws themself to believe in the Evolution of man from nothing...

 

[Man of Faith]

If evolution were to start again, would we get humans everytime? Probably not. If evolution was replayed to the current time, we would have a suite of entirely different organisms, all based on an ecology different from what we see and have seen.

But your question doesn't address people's lack of understanding of evolution. What do you understand by the term 'evolution'?

When I am in discussions with evolutionists on the internet, most of the time I address evolution to be Darwinism which is common ancestry of all life forms from one or a few original life forms through mutation and natural selection. Of course evolution has many different meanings and most creationists accept it to be true to some degree, and I certainly do. We can observe it happen. However we also see that it has limitations and phylogenetic discontinuities near the taxonomic ranking of family. I understand that one definition of evolution is just simply, change over time but I hardly discuss that because that is not in contention and is observable.

The way I understand evolution, from a Biblical perspective as opposed from The Origin of the Species perspective is beings were created in certain whole forms, with all the body parts they have today, brains, lungs, arms, legs, hair, teeth, sexual organs, etc… and they evolved from there into the variety of forms that we have today. Humans were created humans and evolved or changed via natural selection into the many varieties that we have today. Each original created kind of being was created with the DNA and genes that it takes to get the variety we have today and to survive in the variety of habitats on the earth.

Now conventional science, the science that is required to leave any supernatural creation out of its theories has to embrace a natural explanation of the variety of life. Along came Darwin and others to come up with that natural, without God explanation which is propagated today even though it isn’t observable science, but more of a forensic science that is assumed to be true and all evidence for evolution is interpreted as if evolution were a fact. They have no other theory and they aren't allowed to say that there could be a creator, so the theory stands. And today evolution is the opium for the atheists to show that God isn’t needed, necessary, or true. Even though it is obvious to some biologists, such as Dawkins that the world looks designed.

 

[painted wolf]

To the OP... because a segment of the population is uncomfortable with things that make them question their faith... because that segment of the population has a powerful and well funded lobby that seeks to keep science education limited.

Because we let it happen.

wa:do

 

[logician]

I owned "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory" for a good 2 years and never read it. Mostly because I already had an understanding of evolution and because damn... that book was thicker than the LotR trilogy stacked beside it. Seriously.

Normally the size of a book doesn't intimidate me but it does when it's on a pretty dry subject like evolution. Don't get me wrong, it's fascinating. But when you're just reading about how it works... boring city. I never made it all the way through On the Origin of Species either. Darwin sucks at being entertaining. Gould is usually better but I can only handle so much of dry, pure science.

Edit: Yeah I did mean "owned," past tense, I eventually gave up and just sold the thing to purchase Principia Mathematica. Don't ask me why pure math/symbolic logic is more interesting to me than pure biology because I don't know. I really don't. Maybe that's why I'm a physics major instead of a biology major as I originally planned (was wanting to get into parasitology).

Admittedly, Gould's "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory" is for serious readers only, however most of Gould's other books are very entertaining. Dawkin's "The Ancestor's Tale" should hold a person's interest though. I attended a lecture given by Gould once given at the local public library; a great speaker, with a broad knowledge of many subjects. It's too bad he couldn't have lived longer.

 

[Magic Man]

Why do some people NOT understand Evolution?

Because they don't want to.

 

[Mister_T]

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