EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something to add.
Surprised I didn’t see it here, but this is the big one. I was raised in a very religious household and, while I no longer subscribe to that or any other religion as the absolute truth, I still don’t believe in evolution. I don’t think capital-G God made Adam and Eve, but I believe in the possibility that a powerful extra dimensional being organized things and set them in motion so that life as we know it exists.
So this powerful being set up the rules and universe so that “life as we know it exists”.
And science calls that process of life existing, which was set in place by a creator, evolution.
Evolution just describes the process we see. It doesn’t dictate what started it. You can have both.
In my experience, nobody who understands evolution disbelieves evolution for scientific reasons. Ergo the creationist movement is inherently religious which would explain why you don’t see it much outside the religious bubble you were born within.
The evidence for it is overwhelming. We can watch it happen with bacteria. We can make it happen with food and fruit flies. We have fossil records of it happening with pretty much every species.
The only way you disbelieve it is you are taught a strawman version of it that Jesus can easily knock over.
Yeah basically there was a comparison in some book that we have ton more evidence for evolution than we have for the Holocaust. So if denying Holocaust is ridiculous, how damn dumb is it to deny the evolution theory?
But that’s Scientology?
That’s cool. We can disagree and still be friends, especially cause your name is awesome. Have a great day!
The rules for life actually appearing and remaining viable may as well have been created by something, no one can confirm or deny it scientifically with today’s information, but what evolution describes is how those rules lead life to take the forms that it takes and how it continues to change as centuries go by. It describes observable facts about life on our planet and nothing else. I would say it doesn’t actually disprove creation completely, just the so called intelligent design of individual species, including humans.
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We humans just do a bad job explaining evolution to the general public, be it at schools, by science communicators, etc. Most laypeople want to believe in evolution so in the end they just kinda think it works like magic or that it’s guided by some kind of intelligence (whatever that means for them: divinity, we live in a simulation, an invisible natural algorithm that governs everything, the Universe itself as a sleeping deity, etc).
When I was explained evolution as a kid (granted, around the year 2000) they made it seem evolution was an intelligent mechanism that somehow chose the best traits for the survival of a species based on its environment, as if this invisible mechanism had somehow the ability to analyze its environment, reason creatively and predict future scenarios. It was only on my mid 20s when I happened to read an article out of curiosity that I got a bit of a more clear picture. There’s gotta be a better way to explain it to laypeople: maybe that it’s more of a massive, long, non-directed trial-and-error process where there’s not an actual intention or intelligence, it just happens. Individuals with critically bad traits die because of those traits and the ones with better or non-harmful traits live and get to have descendants. But there’s not an intelligence guiding this, it just looks like an intelligence to some of us because we humans tend to apply personification to everything.