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I don't believe in evolution. I'll make a thread explaining why.



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A better question would be: How can some christians call themselves "christians" and still believe in evolution?

In the very beginning of the Bible there are two stories that tells us how the Earth and everything on it was created. On one story humans were the last lifeforms created, on the other less famous one humans were the first to be created. So by saying that they believe in evolution they would say that they don't believe in the second story.

Now, an even better question would be: How can people still be christian even when science and pure moral has proven the Bible to be completely incorrect?



spurgeonryan said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

A better question would be: How can some christians call themselves "christians" and still believe in evolution?

In the very beginning of the Bible there are two stories that tells us how the Earth and everything on it was created. On one story humans were the last lifeforms created, on the other less famous one humans were the first to be created. So by saying that they believe in evolution they would say that they don't believe in the second story.

Now, a better question would be: How can people still be christian even when science and pure moral has proven the Bible to be completely incorrect?

Hmmmm....Completely incorrect? Also what stories are you referring to when it says Man was created first and Man was created last?

I don't know what it's called in english but it's the first and second chapters of the Bible. And maybe I should clarify: Man was not created absolutely first in the second chapter, but before every other animals.

The reason to why the two stories contradict each other is because when the Bible was written there was two tribes with one "creation-story" each, and in order to unify their beliefs they couldn't exclude any of their stories.

Yeah, it's been a while since my religion teacher went through this so my memory is kind of foggy... But that's pretty much it.



spurgeonryan said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:
spurgeonryan said:
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

A better question would be: How can some christians call themselves "christians" and still believe in evolution?

In the very beginning of the Bible there are two stories that tells us how the Earth and everything on it was created. On one story humans were the last lifeforms created, on the other less famous one humans were the first to be created. So by saying that they believe in evolution they would say that they don't believe in the second story.

Now, a better question would be: How can people still be christian even when science and pure moral has proven the Bible to be completely incorrect?

Hmmmm....Completely incorrect? Also what stories are you referring to when it says Man was created first and Man was created last?

I don't know what it's called in english but it's the first and second chapters of the Bible. And maybe I should clarify: Man was not created absolutely first in the second chapter, but before every other animals.

The reason to why the two stories contradict each other is because when the Bible was written there was two tribes with one "creation-story" each, and in order to unify their beliefs they couldn't exclude any of their stories.

Yeah, it's been a while since my religion teacher went through this so my memory is kind of foggy... But that's pretty much it.


The Church of Satan Bible does not count. I must have missed that story in the bible that you are talking about. Did you not read the two wall of words above this? They seem to have everything covered.

The Church of Satan has a Bible?

You missed the very first two chapters of the Bible?



spurgeonryan said:

Lol! I guess I did. Because I do not remember anything about what you are saying. I do remember the first chapter, which I can agree with you on.

So your Parents pushed religion on you , and now that you are 18 you said enough is enough? Or you went to college and your professor said enough is enough, "This is what I want you to believe". Is that the gist of it?

This conversation has no purpose. We have plenty of is God real threads laying dormant in the database. I am sure a Mod will allow it to be opened up. This is a thread that is based on the assumption that God is real, the bible is real, and evolution is real as well. You can be an atheist and believe that Christians should accept it. You can say that if you are a christian then you cannot accept it. Or you can be a Christian and do the same thing. That is pretty much the "gist of it" pending a few other variables that I am sure will be pointed out at some time.

This is not a bible is incorrect thread.

 

So at this point I stick my tongue out and say good day sir!

Sorry if I went too off topic mate.

And yes, my parents pushed religion on me and I believed in it till I became 16. That was when I started to even dare question it.

 

Again, sorry. Good day to you too! :)



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Joelcool7 said:
Well I don't have time to read every page. This is often because atheists and many Scientists bundle all of Evolution theory with fact.

Evolution occurs and within a species is fact. However their is little evidence of a species completely changing into another. Most evidence is circumstantial. Many also don't believe much of what scientists say because they are often wrong. In history how much Science still remains proven fact? Not much.

So you reject all of science then? That's a pretty extreme position

Also the fossil record is inconsistent. Species are found on a regular basis that are supposed to be extinct some over 400 million years ago. Yet their found living and breathing today. So when a scientist says this animal was.extinct 400 million years ago or a billion years ago not many take them seriously.

'Meant' to be extinct? The theory of evolution can't say when a species is meant to die out? Are you referring to living fossils, species which have not evolved much over a very long period of time? If there is no natural of sexual pressure on these species to evolve then species will quite likely remain largely the same over long periods.

Abiogenesis and Big Bang theory are both unlikely to ever be recognized. Because they are used to disprove God which they might but they also might not.

Abiogenesis and the Big Bang are not part of the theory of evolution.

Many Christians today support Micro Evolution and even convergent evolution. They will not support anything that is scientific theory. Only fact.

Like so many other people you misunderstand the meanings of fact and theory in science. In science fact is an observation, theory is an explanation of that observation. As such in science evolution is considered both a theory and a fact, the fact is the observed evolution throughout the fossil record. The theory is the explanation behind this consisting of things like natural selection.

Christians often hold a view that the English translation Genesis is completely fact. If they read the actual Hebrew and other translations. Their is reason to believe that the story was fact but not as the English translation necessarily says.

The Genesis story does not explain in detail how God created the earth. So much theology and interpretation involved. No believer in any belief system is going to be swayed by anything not entirely proven in fact. As such Atheists and Christians and Jews, Muslims they will never be swayed and science will never prove God does or does not exist.

 





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Joelcool7 said:
Well I don't have time to read every page. This is often because atheists and many Scientists bundle all of Evolution theory with fact.

That's because the occurance of evolution is a fact, the theory of evolution by natural selection explains the fact. This is basic science. A theory doesn't then turn into a fact once it's proven, a theory gives explanations for facts. 

Evolution occurs and within a species is fact. However their is little evidence of a species completely changing into another. Actually, there is a lot of evidence, we've found many transitional forms, even by it's strictest definition. Homologous structures? For example: In the calf of humans is the Plantaris muscle, it looks like a ligament due to it's length and width, but with the use of a microscope, we can see it's made out of muscle tissue. Heart surgeons usually harvest this muscle when needing extra muscle tissure for heart surgery, and after removal there is no effect on the patients walking or balance, at all. But although this muscle is useless in humans, the same muscle is much more developed in other primates and serves an important purpose. This muscle allows other primates to grasp with their feet. This is just one out of the huge amounts of examples of a homologous structure that acts as evidence of common ancestry of humans and other primates, this is macro-evolution. 

Most of the evidence is found in genetics. Here is a massive compilation of the evidence for macro evolution: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

And with a quick google I've found that macro-evolution has been observed: http://www.dbskeptic.com/2008/06/21/macro-evolution-observed-in-the-laboratory/

Most evidence is circumstantial. Many also don't believe much of what scientists say because they are often wrong. In history how much Science still remains proven fact? Not much. We improve our understanding based on new evidence, the only instances where it changes drastically is something that isn't a proven fact, like the world being flat. E.g. Evolution is a fact, and though incredibly unlikely, if another theory were to replace Darwins, this wouldn't disprove evolution, it is still a fact that evolution occurs, what this would do is change our understanding of HOW it occurs.


Also the fossil record is inconsistent. Species are found on a regular basis that are supposed to be extinct some over 400 million years ago. Yet their found living and breathing today. So when a scientist says this animal was.extinct 400 million years ago or a billion years ago not many take them seriously. Urgh, I'm just getting sick of these fossil record arguements. The fossil record isn't inconsistent, your understanding of it is. It'd be great if you could watch all of this, but for a specific part of the fossil record skip to 7:00:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w57_P9DZJ4&list=PLD07D73CD6333903F&index=3&feature=plpp_video 

Abiogenesis and Big Bang theory are both unlikely to ever be recognized. Because they are used to disprove God which they might but they also might not. "Are both unlikely to ever be recognized"? By who? You? This has nothing to do with evolution, and I doubt I'm educated enough on these topics to argue either way, so I'm not getting into this.

Many Christians today support Micro Evolution and even convergent evolution. They will not support anything that is scientific theory. Only fact.

Again, observations are facts, a scientific theory is the explanation of these observations. People like this won't support scientific theory because they don't know what a scientific theory is. You demonstrated this clearly.

Christians often hold a view that the English translation Genesis is completely fact. If they read the actual Hebrew and other translations. Their is reason to believe that the story was fact but not as the English translation necessarily says.

The Genesis story does not explain in detail how God created the earth. So much theology and interpretation involved. No believer in any belief system is going to be swayed by anything not entirely proven in fact. As such Atheists and Christians and Jews, Muslims they will never be swayed and science will never prove God does or does not exist.





Rather knows what he's talking about. As for the other reply ummm no the link does not support Macro evolution also my understanding of evolution comes from my biology class and secular text books which defined Macro evolution as evolution of one species into another.

The evidence that we all contain DNA road maps belonging to other species really proves nothing. Assuming a God created us their is no reason to believe he did not design us using such traits. We really don't know precisely how God created us the Bible defines a time line it does not explicitly give us a road map.

The idea that big bang theology and abiogenesis can never be accepted as factual is even if they are proven to be possible nobody can ever prove that they did occur and nobody could prove even if they did that God did not cause or use them.

As for living fossils. The coelecanth was declared extinct it was gone no record in the fossil record of it living recently. Then suddenly it was found alive and the fossil record was corrected. Just watching Discovery channel and History Channel you will notice very fast that the record is constantly changing and that even discoveries we have made get proven and disprove on a regular basis. Example a megaladon tooth was found it was dated only thousands of years ago. The researchers pulled the tooth out to re-test it. They said they couldn't test it the documentary left it as unknown but it was then classified as millions of years old with no evidence.

Constantly if you watch science programs their are inconclusive results or things that cannot be dated. Different groups then twist the evidence to support their theories.

I do not reject science. I however only rely on scientific fact not theory I am skeptical and will always question any science that cannot be observed and repeated. I take science for what it is.

It wasn't all that long ago that science claimed the earth was flat their was evidence to support that. If you lived at that time you'd look at the ground and say ya its flat. But as we improved we realized hey it isn't flat. Wow the earth isn't center of the universe. Holy crap we rotate around the sun not vice versa?

Scientific theory should always be questioned and always improved upon.

The idea of evolution being both theory and fact is true. But one does not have to say all evolution is fact because it isn't. And one can't say all evolution is false because it isn't.

Things are more complicated then that. Also yes I only have a Bio 11 education in evolution but of course that is also a Canadian one.

Again I do not reject science, I question anything that cannot be observed and repeated. I don't think its a bright idea to throw your entire belief system behind a set of theories.

Lastly the Bible does not disprove evolution or refute it for that matter. Anybody with any kind of Biblical education is aware of this. As a matter a fact the Bible actually suggests micro evolution, the Ark carried two of every animal now was that two of every breed? Was it two Dalmatians and two Doberman? No it was two dogs and so fourth. So how do we have so many species today? Well obviously the Bible clearly suggests they had to have evolved.

It is fairly ignorant to say a Christian cannot believe in evolution. Evolution does not disprove the existence of God nor does the proven facts refute the Bible. In fact even Macro evolution doesn't disprove the Bible. Again if you study the Bible and by that I mean the Hebrew texts and study biblical theology you will not make a claim that a Christian cannot believe in evolution.



-JC7

"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer

 

Also my not understanding scientific theory. Their isn't much to not understand I understand the definition of theory. No matter how you candy coat it they wouldn't call it scientific theory if it was fact. Theories explaining facts remain theories. As I said science is constantly evolving and these theories rarely if ever remain in tact in the long run. I do not reject all scientific theory rather take it as theory and until I see repeatable observable evidence that makes the theory fact I continue to question it.



-JC7

"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer