Some believe in the «micro-evolution» of nonhuman species while others
accept evolution as part of a divine order.
You said, «We scientists do not
accept Evolution as truth yet.»
And I don't personally know a lot of Christians who
accept evolution as fact.
I know there are many scientists, Christian and non-Christian, who do not
accept evolution as fact.
How can atheist be more «moral» when most
accept evolution as a fact?
Related to the litmus test comments — How about this litmus test: if you don't
accept evolution as the only rational explanation for the diversity of life on Earth you can not run for office.
American Muslims are almost twice as likely to
accept evolution as American Evangelical Protestants and Jews are more than three times as likely to
accept evolution as Evangelical Protestants.
Some religions
accept evolution as true and assume that god left it to run it course, with some» direction» of course.
For example,
I accept evolution as the best explanation of how we got here.
Many theists
accept evolution as true.
Real scientists who work in the field of immunology
accept evolution as a fact.
Obviously the Catholic Church compromised with
accepting evolution as fact since it is irrefutable.
None of that belief was ever predicated on a specific interpretation of Genesis with respect to scientific details, and as such,
accepting evolution as a mechanism by which God creates did not alter those beliefs.
Your formula is meant to be simplistic and «powerful», but your understanding of really large numbers is what is actually what is holding you back from
accepting evolution as being true.
Every one of them fully
accepted evolution as a fact.
Even the sick catholic church
accepts evolution as FACT, why should it be so difficult for the Talibangelicals.
Not exact matches
I think most non-Cathotic Christians who
accept evolution think along those lines
as well.
Have the JPL scientists get jobs at his church
as deacons, then have them hand out DVD's on
evolution and the Big Bang theory after Sunday service and then see how
accepting and open minded they are (G).
The theory of
evolution is also embraced by many who claim to
accept the Bible
as the word of God.
When the nation of Cyprus has a higher percentage of people who can
accept evolution, you
as a nation have a problem.
= > current
accepted Chuckles «
As for your
evolution question, chad... give up, seriously, you're asking pointless questions that have no bearing a) on the theory itself and b) are important to answer.
It is one thing to
accept Evolution, with its overwhelming evidence,
as proof of God's work.
The Science behind the big bang has some gapping holes yet its put forward all the time to the public
as the only other option is...,
as well
as Macro
evolution but well we all know that they say its the only option... Could it be that science doesn't
accept a concept of God from the outset so then the big bang and
evolution are the only options.
Dala, you believe (
as I understand) in
evolution and the
accepted conclusion that the earth is over 4B years old.
«Darwin
accepted Jesus
as his Lord and Savior at his deathbed... he renounced his theory (it is a «theory,» after all), thus,
evolution is nothing but... but... but a «theory»!»
It is
as a lawyer in the Bible said, that it is «inexcusable» to cast aside all the «proof» that life and all the universe just arose at random and
accept a mindless speculative theory called
evolution.
Today, the religions of Christendom display a similar disrespect for the truth of the Bible, by giving preference to scientific theories, such
as the Catholic church
accepting evolution.
«If you
accept evolution, even a well - meaning, theistic
evolution, this will eventually become pantheistic
evolution, which in turn will become atheistic
evolution» —
as if this were a series of logical steps to inevitable conclusions.
You continually dodge the fact that your quotes are out of context, that you jump to invalid conclusions, and that the scientific community
accept, no embrace,
evolution as fact.
Pew reports that «in their social and political views, young adults are clearly more
accepting than older Americans of homosexuality, more inclined to see
evolution as the best explanation of human life and less prone to see Hollywood
as threatening their moral values.
As for me, I think I was thinking of 98 % because that is the figure for the number of professional scientists that
accept evolution.
But
evolution is more than change, and every theory
accepts as evidence only what fits the theory.
We concede that not all who doubt the existence of a personal God do so because they
accept the theory of
evolution, whether the word be restricted to biology or enlarged to its cosmic significance, but we do say, and from experience know, that most modern agnosticism is bound up with those non-theistic philosophies of
evolution that stream off from Hegel
as their modern fountain - head.
If the traditional formulations of God show him to be the Perfect Good, Absolute Truth and Supreme Being, since goodness, truth and being are positive values, then there should not be too great a difficulty in
accepting a formulation of God's eternity
as Absolute or Perfect Time, since time is now revealed to us
as positive, thanks to the discovery of
evolution.
science is not everything, the problem is when the critical and objective philosophy of science is
accepted as absolute in reality.God is beyond logic at this point of our consciousness, The process of gods will manfistation is
evolution which
accepts all variables in the process, the input could be not what scienctists wants.Thats why faith or religion is part of reality.
Many scientists are certainly skeptical of many of the finer points of
evolution, but
as a whole, the evolutionary process is
accepted as fact amongst any and all biologists that put science ahead of religion.
If
evolution is a law,
as so many seems to
accept, you would see apes evolving into human beings since beginning of human history and everyday of our lives.
The Big Bang theory and the theory of
evolution can not be proven so they are not scientifically proven laws and are
accepted on faith
as true by some.
I do not «believe» in
evolution, I
accept it
as fact.
I did, however, know about
evolution, from my Biology classes, which I had
accepted as pretty much fact.
The Church has
accepted evolution since its inception,
as well
as the Big Bang theory, etc..
Many or all of these hypnosis / problems that you mentioned here and in other posts
as objections to flood and / or evolutionism (such
as Coconino Sandstone) are not new and are addressed in sites like creation.com Finally, because you mentioned Christians who
accepted evolution, how about some atheists who oppose Darwin's evolutionism such
as Nietzsche or, more recently, Jerry Fodor and Piattelli - Palmarini
The nine benchmarks also
accept the contemporary understanding of time, the role of unpredictability (novelty), persuasion
as a higher form of power than coercion, and the priority of
evolution and change (instability) over equilibrium or stasis.
The theory of
evolution is
as widely
accepted and
as well supported
as the germ theory of disease, cell theory, etc..
Freddie has written a post that forces me into the odd position of defending Sam Harris; the crux of which is the claim that once we
accept the human mind
as being a contingent accident of
evolution, we necessarily must abandon any faith in the intellectual edifices constructed by such minds:
In Roman Catholicism, for example, one goes from the official condemnation of the «modernists» in an early part of this century to what might be appropriately described
as the dominant position today, found in Pope Pius XII's Human generis (1950), which, concerning the relation between
evolution and creation,
accepts evolution yet insists on the special, «second» creation of the human soul.
This takes the widely
accepted fact that the strength of basic forces of the universe,
as measured by fundamental physical constants, are exactly right, and «fine - tuned», for a development upon the Big Bang which produced planets like ours, fit for the
evolution of life.
You begrudgingly
accept evolution (about a century after Darwin proved it and after
accepting Genesis
as literally true for about 2,000 years) and that Adam and Eve was totally made up, but then conveniently ignore that fact that your justification for Jesus dying on the cross (to save us from Original Sin) has therefore been eviscerated.
But once we have
accepted the general Law of Recurrence linking the growth of consciousness to the advance of complexity within a process of universal
evolution, nothing can arrest the logical sequence in which two worlds which we were accustomed to regard
as being completely separate are seen to approach and complement each other.
The Britannica tells us that «
evolution is
accepted by all biologists and natural selection is recognized
as its cause....