Posted on 07/31/2014 6:13:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you will, we’re not supposed to “believe” in the theory of evolution. It’s not a matter of faith, it’s a scientific theory backed up by objective evidence. Tons of evidence. It works.
Believing matter and energy can arise from nothing without outside intervention is even worse than believing storks bring babies.
At least storks bringing babies could be theoretically possible, according to the laws of physics.
“Its not a matter of faith, its a scientific theory backed up by objective evidence.”
Evidence can’t be objective, since that is a property that only sentient beings can possess.
Push come to shove, Darwins theory does not fit the facts. It properly describes variation, and adaptation, because thatwhich he he directly observed . It does not explain how the complex creatures whose forms appear in the Cambrian rocks came into being,with no antecedents in the older rocks.
Because they can see a disproven scientific theory for what it is.
More to the point, it does not explain how life came into existence. Furthermore, our chemistry/physics/geology does no more than provide implausible hypotheses about conditions on the earth at the time before the seas teemed with the rich life forms of the Cambrian.
I suppose an opinion poll is too crude an instrument to find out what kind of evolution various numbers of people believe in. It would seem to me that there’s probably three rather than two groups of opinion, one being an atheist “process of evolution” school, one being a form of intelligent design that incorporates some evolution, and a third school that believes all things we see were created more or less simultaneously, then that divides into a six thousand year camp and a less literalist camp. So actually four schools of thought. Mark me down as “don’t know” because that’s the only really defensible position to take in all of that.
At least a third of Americans will not know what evolution is.
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Most likely because they and their ancestors haven’t been participants.
Intelligent Design and Darwin’s theories fit like hand in glove. The hyper-religious folks tend to think everyone and everything was created in a “flash” and have difficulty understanding the concept of many millions of years.
Who’s to say that the Intelligent Design concept is complete? Evolution indicates all flora and fauna (including humans) is continuing to change. ....No telling what might live on Earth a million years from now.
Ooops. ...Too early in the a.m.
is continuing to change.
Should be “are” continuing to change.
The Bible contains forty or fifty stories about miracles. Evolution requires countless billions of outright zero-probability events, each a sort of a mathematical miracle. It turns everything we know about modern math and probability theory on its head upside down.
FYI, here are statistics from Gallup on US beliefs regarding evolution.
The numbers of those who believe God had no hand in evolution has increased from 10% thirty years ago to nearly 20% today.
The numbers of those who believe God created humans in our present form has remained constant at around 40%.
The numbers of those who believe God guides evolution ("theistic evolutionism") fell from nearly 40% thirty years ago to now about 30%.
In other words: one fourth of these believers have switched to non-belief.
Around 10% had & have no opinion.
Doubtless, these correspond roughly to our political beliefs:
The sad part is that while groups two & three squabble amongst ourselves, the first group, a minority of just 20%, rules over us.
“40% solid believing social-conservatives.”
I know a lot of these that voted for Obama ...
You clearly misunderstand both evolution and probability.
Basic evolution theory combines two observed-confirmed facts:
Of course, "zero probability events" you refer to may relate to various hypotheses on abiogenic origins of life.
Indeed, such concerns are one major reason all such scientific speculations are still "hypotheses", not confirmed "theories".
So long as they depend on low probability events, they cannot be repeated in a laboratory, and will remain, perhaps forever unconfirmed hypotheses.
But do not be surprised if, even in our lifetimes, a long series of high-probability natural chemical reactions can be demonstrated as leading to precursors of life capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution.
Yes, and I'd wager a lunch that nearly all of them now regret their votes.
“Yes, and I’d wager a lunch that nearly all of them now regret their votes. “
The ones I know are happy that they kept the republicans from cutting off their benefits.
I doubt if very many of those fall into the category of "traditional believing Christians".
At best they would be moderates, at worst... well, perhaps they conflate & confuse the Bible's Deity with the current occupant of our White House?
The stats show that you’re more likely to find evolutionary belief in the seminary/philosophy college of a university than you are in the science department.
Dissent is not allowed.
“We don’t let them have guns, why would we let them have ideas?”
Yes, they rule us because group 3 votes for group 1, because group 3 are idiots.
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