Why do people believe in evolution?

[AV1611VET]

As most here seem to know, your version of what you have 'total reality' mean there, is a total belief, (by way of that also being your personal preference) .. and yet you persist in using the term 'the universe', which was distinguished by science.
You are confused by beliefs (as was 'Paul' thousands of years ago). You should update yourself .. (he couldn't).

Thanks for the QED.

 

[dlamberth]

Evolution assures that, no matter what you do: from shielding your children from harm to eating them; from loving your neighbor to hating them and driving them away with bodily harm; from adopting a child, to kidnapping one for your own; no matter what you do, it's all relative.

That's a weird connection AV.
All it looks like to me is that your trolling.
But you wouldn't do that, would you?

 

[AV1611VET]

That's a weird connection AV.

Sure is.

It's called connect-the-dots, and the picture is ugly.

All it looks like to me is that your trolling.

Then so are you.

 

[Frank Robert]

are you alluding to survival of the fittest amongst deities?

Not that I am consciously aware of. My thought when I wrote it was religious dogma that doesn't change is likely why deities fade away.

 

[SLP]

Like the Wright brothers, most creative pursuits are likewise, and planes have evolved along with our digital information systems.

i.e. intelligence is the proven creative method here, achieving the same by chance is not

Yes, human intelligence is the driving force behind human contrivances.

Do you really think this is profound?

 

[SLP]

...human evolution based around Piltdown man etc-

Why rely on such foolish strawmen?

it leaves a lot more freedom for speculation, ideology, peer pressure, when a theory cannot be directly demonstrated.

Then surely you can provide evidence of your preferred deity, that is, 'Intelligence", intervening in natural history to do whatever it is you believe it has done?

No, I suppose you cannot do this, any more than you were able to replace the terms in a molecular biology paper with computer engineering terms because they are so similar, eh?

 

[SLP]

Just one example of science v atheism, or 'methodological naturalism' - imposing arbitrary rules rather than following the evidence wherever it leads, whatever the implications

So, you are not aware that creation science organizations require their members to agree to statements of Belief that prohibit them from ever doing anything that might cast doubt on their interpretation of Genesis?

 

[BeyondET]

Well either way underwater dentist office pretty cool

 

[Estrid]

So, you are not aware that creation science organizations require their members to agree to statements of Belief that prohibit them from ever doing anything that might cast doubt on their interpretation of Genesis?

I'd like to see an answer to that q.

 

[AV1611VET]

I'd like to see an answer to that q.

I have a feeling he was being melodramatic.

God seems to have a way of making people go overboard one way or the other.

Acts 7:57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

I think FB may have meant Edwin Hubble's observations there(?)

Yes.

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Thank-you for your reply. You may be right, but I think that there may be some confusion here. Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) measured the radial velocities of the galaxies and discovered that almost all of them were receding from the Milky Way, and that their radial velocities were directly proportional to their distances. Before Hubble's time, astronomers thought that the universe was static; indeed, most astronomers thought that the 'extragalactic nebulae' were part of our own Galaxy rather than being independent 'island universes'. Edwin Hubble's observations disproved this 'static universe' model and showed that the 'extragalactic nebulae' were star systems of the same type as the Milky Way.

However, the pre-Hubble 'static universe' model was not the same as Hoyle's 'steady-state' or 'continuous creation' model. Hoyle accepted that the universe was expanding and therefore that the density of matter ought to decrease, but he thought that new matter was continuously being created in the form of hydrogen atoms to maintain a constant density. This newly created hydrogen condensed into new galaxies and stars, with the result that the universe was eternal and looked much the same at all times. Hoyle called this 'the perfect cosmological principle'.

My understanding is that Le Maitre's derivation of an expanding universe from GR and the acceptance of his 'primaeval atom' hypothesis bracketed Hubble's observational confirmation of an expanding universe. IOW, the period after Hubble's discovery is when the big bang idea became known.

 

[Confused-by-christianity]

Watching us bicker with each other on forums over every detail as though we were experts - It's not too much of a stretch to compare us all to a bunch of monkeys.

I'm just as bad if the mood catches me haha

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Watching us bicker with each other on forums over every detail as though we were experts - It's not too much of a stretch to compare us all to a bunch of monkeys.

Tsk! A bunch of apes, not monkeys!

 

[BeyondET]

Watching us bicker with each other on forums over every detail as though we were experts - It's not too much of a stretch to compare us all to a bunch of monkeys.

I'm just as bad if the mood catches me haha

we are all just filthy rags not even monkeys haha..

 

[dlamberth]

we are all just filthy rags not even monkeys haha..

Na, we are a part of Life, vibrant, creative and alive.

 

[BeyondET]

Na, we are a part of Life, vibrant, creative and alive.

And life on earth fades like a leaf,

Isaiah 64:6

 

[HitchSlap]

I have a feeling he was being melodramatic.

God seems to have a way of making people go overboard one way or the other.

Acts 7:57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

If we’ve learned nothing else during this pandemic, at least we know ChristianNationalistAltRightChumpers can go overboard and go full Karen.

 

[HitchSlap]

And life on earth fades like a leaf,

Isaiah 64:6

All things must pass.

-George Harrison

 

[BeyondET]

All things must pass.

-George Harrison

In the yellow submarine