Do I have to learn evolution in school .....

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[SayaOtonashi]

You don't have to accept evolution. Once your done forget about it

 

[rijames99]

Why get an exception? Learn what evolution is about. You don't have to believe in it.

I took a Comparative Religons class. We learned about four different religons. It was very interesting, even though I don't believe in most of those religons.

 

[Bananagator]

Since you started this thread quite a while ago, I'm going to assume you already took the course


Honestly, I've taken multiple biology classes that have covered evolution in some form or another and none of it has ever shaken my faith. I thought it might before hand but I found that it... didn't. Lol.

A school textbook isn't going to mention Creation/ID because evolution is widely viewed as "how life changes over time" and does not include "how life began". I actually did have a high school textbook mention creation as being a theory as to how life started but that was talking directly about the beginning of the universe (astronomy class).

That being said, there is no harm in learning about it. Darwin did have some keen observations and the whole survival of the fittest thing just makes sense. I personally think people take these things too far by saying that everything came from one original organism. That doesn't make sense mathematically. ID is needed in there even with evolution. That's just how I view things.

Don't fret about it, once you get through the subject, you can either completely reject it or incorporate it to fit with your own beliefs lol

 

[Shane Plew]

Since you started this thread quite a while ago, I'm going to assume you already took the course


Honestly, I've taken multiple biology classes that have covered evolution in some form or another and none of it has ever shaken my faith. I thought it might before hand but I found that it... didn't. Lol.

A school textbook isn't going to mention Creation/ID because evolution is widely viewed as "how life changes over time" and does not include "how life began". I actually did have a high school textbook mention creation as being a theory as to how life started but that was talking directly about the beginning of the universe (astronomy class).

That being said, there is no harm in learning about it. Darwin did have some keen observations and the whole survival of the fittest thing just makes sense. I personally think people take these things too far by saying that everything came from one original organism. That doesn't make sense mathematically. ID is needed in there even with evolution. That's just how I view things.

Don't fret about it, once you get through the subject, you can either completely reject it or incorporate it to fit with your own beliefs lol

How would 3.8 billion years not be enough for life to get to where it is today? I would like to see the math you are looking at, because 3.8 billion years is a very, very long time.

 

[Bananagator]

How would 3.8 billion years not be enough for life to get to where it is today? I would like to see the math you are looking at, because 3.8 billion years is a very, very long time.

You're right, it's a VERY long time. But there are also a lot of different types of living things. When you take into consideration every single species (or subspecies) of life that's in existence right now, plus all of the ones that are extinct, that's a lot that has to evolve. Depending on how many species there actually are/have been in the world, they probably would've had to have evolved very rapidly. But evolution's a pretty slow process.