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.
Not exact matches
Difference: atheists that
accept evolution, or the theory that all life came
from a common ancestor, are more often than not willing to discount that acceptance upon evidence to the contrary.
But your example of them saying the earth is 6000 years old but looks 3.5 billion is different
from the Catholics
accepting evolution.
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.
The theory ABOUT
evolution most widely
accepted is an updating of Charles Darwin's hypothesis that all of today's species descended
from common ancestors due to natural selection based on best current fitness for constantly changing environmental circmmstances.
I also hear
from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant churches precisely because they welcome LGBT people,
accept scientific findings regarding climate change and
evolution, practice traditional worship, preach
from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc., but these new attendees never hear the leadership of the church explain why this is the case.
My critique will be
from within the context of
evolution and dialectic, which both the Marxists and I
accept.
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.
The main problem I've seen with people
accepting evolution (aside
from plain old religious grounds) is a lack of concept of the vast amounts of time over which these things happened.
Now those who
accept the evolutionary perspective are generally agreed that the universe is one single process and that there are stages in the process: the
evolution of matter, next the emergence of the first unicellular organisms, then a process of further
evolution of life toward vegetative and animal life, and
from this latter phase emerged man.
To put it simply, the concept of gods bares no merit at this current stage in the
evolution of the human species and it would be a betterment to the species to have the concept removed
from accepted delusional realities so prevalent in todays society.
Yes, religious liberals have
accepted evolution pretty much
from the time Charles Darwin first proposed it, but in contrast to Darwin many of them believe that
evolution is purposeful and that nature has a spiritual dimension.
To
accept evolution is asking a Christian to not only remove God
from the picture but is asking them to deny the power of God.
I did, however, know about
evolution,
from my Biology classes, which I had
accepted as pretty much fact.
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.
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.
Scientists
from all walks of life, around the world
accept evolution because of the evidence and where it leads.
The
evolution of life on earth
from simple matter is
accepted as a fact by secular science.
ROGER: The
evolution of life on earth
from simple matter is
accepted as a fact by secular science.
Cardinal Pell began to answer, saying that
evolution can not explain everything, when the presenter interrupted with the question, «Do you
accept that we are descended
from apes?»
A timeline describes the declension
from the biblicism of Martin Luther and John Calvin to the thought of Descartes, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Darwin and Charles Hodge (he may be an archconservative to most Presbyterians, but his acceptance of Darwinism lands him in the hall of shame here) to a certain Charles Templeton, who once traveled with Billy Graham but unfortunately
accepted evolution and ended up writing the atheist tract Farewell to God.
In the cases, just this last couple of elections, where stem cell politics, for example, has been played out in the electoral process, stem cell research is [has] done better than the winning candidates for offices; and I think, apart
from that, I think that we do have a serious problem in general education of the sciences and that accounts for the reluctance of a large segment of the population to
accept the principles of
evolution and think that there is still a debate about it, which there isn't — and that's a problem we need to solve, — but I still think there is an incredible constituency for science in this country.
We will now get letters
from various disgruntled listeners who contend that they are very well educated because they hold some degree
from some renowned university and yet they still do not
accept evolution.
Most coverage highlighted that the divide between Democrats and Republicans about human
evolution had widened to a 24 — percentage point margin (67 percent of Democrats
accept that humans evolved versus 43 percent of Republicans)
from just a 10 - point margin in 2009.
Collective
Evolution B12 Deficiency: A Serious Silent Epidemic That's Affecting Us All Collective
Evolution There are two common criticisms that vegetarians and vegans are accustomed to hearing on a regular basis
from those who either disagree or refuse to
accept their dietary choice.
The
evolution of the British Parson Jack Russell Terrier will undoubtedly see the conformational and character changes created by show - ring ideals and
accepted kennel club inbreeding practices, until this strain of terrier eventually meets a fate similar to the Fox Terrier, developing into something quite different
from the sound working terrier that has been in existence for a long time.
From there they reject «macro»
evolution (they have no choice but to
accept «micro»
evolution).
Conservatives who deny Darwinian
evolution - natural selection, or who
accept Biblical creationism, or even deny the Apollo moon landings are denying basic, provable facts
from the Past.
I hear
from liberals who claim to believe in
evolution but don't actually
accept that a history of random variation and natural selection is of relevance in thinking about human behavior: as with Scopes, the only part of
evolution they believe is that it contradicts the Bible.