If Evolution is true... how can you trust your thoughts?
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Your brain isn't firing randomly. Its a heuristic system, just like evolution.
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One question: What blew up (Big Bang)? For this theory to work, you either choose to believe in eternal matter (that stuff that blew up and we all "evolved from" to begin with) or an Eternal God. Therefore, evolution is a "Belief System." Like it or not, you have to take a step of faith in one direction or the other to believe in the THEORY of evolution, either way, faith and belief are still a requirement.
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no matter what anyone says sounds like your mind is made up\nthe only thing Ican say is do your research,If you beleive in evulotion the chances of people being so perfect (two arms legs eyes we are not cyclops here)is so slim of a chance. why haven't they found fossils of messed up people. You are the one who decides for you. But I can pick more holes in the evulotion thought then the bible.Jesus did say one must be born again to enter the gates of heaven.RESEARCH both notions. then decide
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If you are going to comment about evolution, at least do yourself the favor of actually learning what it is.\n\nHumans did not evolve from the species of apes and monkeys that you see today.  Instead, all current primates (including humans) evolved from a common ancestor.  That was an "ape" that lived thousands of years ago, but it didn't look like the monkeys and gorillas you see today.\n\nGo to a museum, read a science book, or watch the Discovery channel sometime.  They all show you how humans evolved.\n\nIt doesn't take faith to believe in evolution.  It just takes the ability to open your eyes and look at the evidence.
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I understand what you're saying -- I believe in the theory of evolution.  But you do realize that people are just going to say God put it there in the beginning?  As fossils -- not as ancient creatures imprinted or encased in stone.
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You must have a lot of time to spare if you invite creationists to "debate" with you. You cannot convince them of the truth because they don't want the truth. They have no understanding of scientific method or principles. The scientific world accepts evolution and continues accumulating molecular evidence that shows beyond any doubt evolution has occurred. There is a Mount Everest of evidence out there, yet every creationist/IDer ignores it. Why? They are not interested in truth.\n\nThe world has moved on - IDers are wallowing in the dark ages. Do yourself a favour, do something where you will achieve an outcome. Talking with creationists won't get you there.\n\n(As a rule of thumb - the more rabid the creationist, the worse the spelling and grammar. There IS a correlation, I swear!)
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Either you believe Gods Word or you dont.  There is no inbetween like believing God allowed evolution.  God said He created everything in six days, do you take it by faith or do you need proof.  Their's the 2 choices.  Its not that difficult.
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No evolution does not disprove god.  But it does pose a very large challenge.  Evolution and Christianity are not as compatible as you may think.  If evolution is the correct theory, then that means that the literalist biblical theory is not right.  Sure you might be able to save it by saying that it is metaphorically true (say, a day to god equals a billion years or whatever).  But if some parts of the bible are not literally true, then why think that any of it is literally true?  Jesus, God, etc. can all be seen as being metaphors for the natural world and the human condition.  With no way to really tell what is literally true and what is metaphorically true, allowing that at least some of it is not literally makes the rest questionable.  If one part is not true, or only becomes true if you take it as a metaphor, what does that say about the rest?  What the bible says then cannot be believed just because it is in the bible anymore, and one of the central justifications of christianity crumbles.  of course god can still exist, but its a major challenge.\n\nOk as for your other question about how can an atheist account for the existence of anything without a God:  all i have to do is ask you where god came from.  Did god come from nothing?  Was he always there?  If you say god came from nothing, then you violate your own rule that nothing can come from nothing.  If you say he was always there, then why can't the atheist just say that the universe was always here?  Why can't the atheist just say that the universe always existed?  Its more likely (by occam's razor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor ) than the belief that god was always there.  Religion doesn't answer the question of where things came from, it only begs the question of where god came from.  Under the religous explanation nothing is really explained.\n\nI admire your call to tolerance and hope of compatibility, but i'm afraid its nothing more than political correctness.  It would be nice if both sides could be right, but when you think about it there really is a tension.
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I think it's just a random fact that neither proves nor disproves anything.  I do, however, believe in creationism (intelligent design) based on the fact that believing in evolution is the equivalent of watching a tornado rip through a junkyard and expecting a perfectly assembled 747 ready for takeoff.
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I suspect that you will find your answer here...\n\nTalkOrigins essay "Evolution is a fact and a theory"\n\n"Well evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them."\n\n"Moreover, "fact" doesn't mean "absolute certainty"; there ain't no such animal in an exciting and complex world. The final proofs of logic and mathematics flow deductively from stated premises and achieve certainty only because they are not about the empirical world. Evolutionists make no claim for perpetual truth, though creationists often do (and then attack us falsely for a style of argument that they themselves favor). In science "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional consent.""
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Of course evolution is real and it is the basis for all modern biological science. Many people here at YA debate this but there is no debate among scientists. In fact there's no debate among most of the Christian community; it's just a minority that are anti-science.\n\nThe answers you've received here are typical for this subject. There are a few honest responses with real information but, for the most part, you have misinformation, purposeful confusion, extraneous information, side-stepping, fallacious logic and outright lies. For example:\n\nIf humans evolved from apes why are there still apes?...\nIf evolution is right, why do humans have appendixes?...\nIf evolution is right, there are 30,000 stars being born every second, yet we've never seen one born...\nWe would just be zombies, not knowing anything, because there would be no life force within us...\nOnce upon a time, there was a lot full of weeds...\nIs evolution really scientific?...\n\nYahoo Answers is not the best place to explore evolution with any kind of impartiality. If you wish to explore this topic in more depth, why don't you start here:\nhttp://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/WestTech/darwin1.htm\n\nScience has nothing to be afraid of - there is no debate - just continued research that adds data to a well-accepted explanation of the facts before us. You can believe evolution or not, but you can't use lies and obfuscation to subvert the facts - that may convince idiots but I hope you don't fall into that category. Creationists have no debate either - their faith uplifts them and that should be enough. Science can never investigate salvation - thank God for that – but neither will you find salvation by attacking science. Believing in God is much more than defending a personal opinion or trying to convince everyone that they should think just like you. Tell your friend to forget all this crap and just go find God.
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Um, spur4eight, sorry but Creation Science is not what most would consider "true science."\n\nPersonally, I don't understand how anybody who knows anything about science can think that "scientists are lying about evolution" or some silly thing like that.  Just go and talk to a scientist.  Go to a university, better yet.  Seems to be about the only place that people actually think anymore...
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I completely agree with you. I've done my research and evolution in reality has not been proven. It is the media that propagates the myth of evolution, even brainwashing children with pictures of monkey-men in textbooks to do it. They've even go so far as to make whole skeletal structures of out of small bone fragments in order to provide "physical proof" of evolution, like with "Piltdown Man", a fraud  that was not discovered as a fraud until 40 years after it was made. It's a big lie, one of the greatest frauds in history. Even Darwin said, "If evolution has occurred, where are the missing links?"\nBelief in God and science is completely compatible. In fact, the Bible has a lot of scientific foreknowledge that "scientists" didn't even discover until centuries later, even just in the last century when it was right in front of them all along.\nThe Bible says it was God who made everything, and that it was God who established laws that hold everything in its place. Hence to see science for what it really is is to see the fingerprint of God.
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probably not, there's no such thing as evolution!\nthough that is a funny thing to think about!
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Proof.  I just read through the above answers, and sorry, but no amount of religious zeal or "because I said so, and I believe, therefore I'm right" is going to convince anyone.  quoting scripture, or saying that because you believe Darwin to be wrong, and have some piece of spam to back you up.  The one sentence that would convince me?\n"This is God, you have some explaining to do!"
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I believe in the Creation as stated in the Bible.  Mathematically, the odds of one animal evolving into another animal is about 6 trillion to one, so if you apply that to ALL animals having a 6 trillion to one chance of evolving into something else, it boggles the mind as to how high the odds are against it.  For example, there is a fish that has 4 eyes.  Two look up to watch out for birds coming to eat it, and 2 eyes look downward looking for food.  If the eyes had to evolve, it would have been eaten before the eyes had completely evolved.  Another example is a wood pecker.  If the neck had to evolve in order to take the tremendous forces used in pecking holes in trees, it would have died of a broken neck.  A further example is that if you had a box full of watch parts and you shook it up, and then you opened the box, would you ever find a working watch there?  If the box were filled with letters of the alphabet, and you shook it up for 1000's of years, would you ever get a poem or a book?\n\nSo, I believe in the Creation rather than the evolution theory.\nThe book listed below as my source has the words of many famous scientists who, although being scientists, could not believe Evolutionary Theory because scientific facts don't support it.  Famous scientists in the field such as John Wickramasinghe and many others plus my faith in the Bible has shown me why I don't believe in Evolution.
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to go both ways on this, no, it's not a fake.  and evolution can be proven all the way back to the very beginning of life, this just being one example.  the only thing that can't truly be proven is how that first spark of life actually happened.\nand to go for the religious side of the world, at what point does it say in evolution that we developed all the higher brain functions that seperate us from animals?  isn't it possible that that is where god intervenes and life as we know it begins?\npersonally, i don't actuall have any answers, and i don't feel like arguing about it, because every truth we know is a truth for an individual.  it's how we view the world and what's in it that sets the truths we live by.