Your thoughts on evolution?

Everything is constantly evolving and progressing.

On the other hand I doubt we've evolved from nothing.

I lean towards some intelligence to expain our universe's beginnings.

Thoughts On Evolution

Evolution is the Idea, supported by the Scientific Method as Theory. The Scientific Method is a Rational perception. Religion and Science are complementary, in fact.

It is not a matter of Belief. A Theory is not a Dogma. Our approach to a Theory can be dogmatic, but not the Theory itself. Belief is only in the realm of where Evolution is taking us, traceable but unanswerable. As far as Belief, I believe there is Hope.

I am completely against Creationism, because they are stuck with materializing the Idea and pushing it beyond coexistence, just like the Bible is not to be read literally, but no one can tell you not to if you want. Seems that for some people it is hard to understand the allegories and symbolism of the Bible. The Bible is showing us one more delightful characteristic: idiots are and will always be part of the society. There will always be a child capable of smashing the 1000 piece puzzle box against a wall. It sounds frightening that these people are organized politically and are even opposed to Christians over Evolution.

Perhaps this percentage of population is a statistical constant; a necessary residual (disposal basket) of the selection :P We have a picture of who we do not want to be :) Have you ever seen how a Creationist explains about the ant (or where it the termites), eye structure, bird wing, "so perfect that it could only have been created by God", etc. - that self-fulfilling madness?

The pieces of puzzles we collect from our past give us an Idea of the picture of Existence. The pieces can always be rearranged if new pieces fit better. When I was a child, we were taught in school that we descend from Neanderthals. That has changed. No big deal. The Idea Charles Darwin had, has not changed. Only a puzzle piece was put in a better place.

Please do not give equal importance to the Tony Blair's Creationist school somewhere in England and a normal school anywhere in most of the world. That insults Common Sense.

My take on this is a little bit of both.

There is evidence of evolution all around us. just recently I saw this study that showed that humans not only had grown in height, but in the aspects of intelligence, aesthetics, abilities, and overall as a species. We just dont take the time to observe/ think about these changes.

There's also fossil records and other kinds of records but there is one thing that i do not believe we ourselves (implying we might have to team up with other planets out there, if any, and they're life forms to come to some conclusion) will ever explain and that is how it all started.

I was watching a program that said people theorize that before the big bang, there were gases and before that darkness, but where did it all come from? Its just hard to even fathom and for that reason, I leave it to some higher entity(not god per say) to explain it to some life form, if there is any. I'm particular on this because both ideas fail to fully answer the complicated yet simple answer of how we came to exist.

* EDIT: HAHA LMAO I LOVEEEEE how I was thumbed down. Lol the fact of the matter is this, if we knew that we could seriously base life and its existence on just science or on creationism, we all wouldn't be here arguing over it. SO SUCK ON THAT AND SHOVE THOSE THUMBS DOWN YOUR BUTT!

I'm also an anthropology major. It's not something you can really "believe" in, it's not a religion. The great thing about science is there's always room for error, nothing is absolute. There are some holes we haven't figured out yet, but if you even look at the simple concept of it, evolution is happening today as we speak.

Evolution is more of a science question, less of a R&S. But I'm Christian and I believe in Theistic Evolution. I do have some doubts at points about evolution, but it is from a strictly scientific standpoint. Theology doesn't effect my scientific beliefs.

I don't know whether Evolution is true or not, as I wasn't there to see all the fish turn into monkeys. I personally am a Creationist. I believe that God created the world, and it took seven "days". Of course, that was before time began, I suppose, and so the seven days could have been seven long periods of time, and just called days to make it easier to understand...I don't know.

There's no conclusive proof for either of them. We have old fossils, but they can't speak and tell us what happened- We can only guess. I just have faith that a higher being (God) started everything, and that He's keeping an eye on us, so to speak.

Don't thumb me down (or up) just because I said I believe in God. I know that there are many many people who do that, and it's just abusing the system. Rate this comment based on how well I answered, and not on whether you agree or not.

I believe in it to a point.

I believe that God made the human being in His image. But, I'm also open to the fact that evolution could be one of the methods as to how He created everything else. Many animals can be linked as to having evolved from earlier creatures. And then there the platypus.....

Non belief in evolution is seated in the primitive cult churches of America and the home schooled!!

The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of England and mainstream churches all accept the big bang and evolution!!

Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury put it rather well – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach to scripture, ignoring scholarship and critical learning, and confusing different understandings of truth”!!

i'm a christian and i believe in most evolution theories only b/c we know god made everything and because of how ideas usually generate. one idea births another. i can't argue that he didn't create one thing and then decided to make something similar that was a bit different in characteristics and built on from that continuously. i can't even argue that there wasn't a big bang w/ him perhaps clapping his hands and making a universe. no one knows how god did what he did. we just don't

As a 29 year old with a college degree, who has also done his own independent studies on the issue...

I find that the theory of evolution has enough holes in it, to doubt it as a means of explaining life on Earth.

I am a Christian Creationist. I will freely admit that.

I have seen examples of atheistic dogma and therefore I have no real reason to trust any "so called" authority on evolution.

I consider myself to be a "free thinker" just like most self respecting atheists do. I look at the same FACTS that they see, but I come to a different conclusion.

I went to church with my mother and sister as a young child. But that was ages ago. I might have been in 1st grade when we stopped going. I felt no fear or compulsion to keep being a Christian, thus at that point I was free to believe or not! I was exposed to enough atheistic dogma in school, I could have easily become an atheist. If I had accepted what they think, I am sure I would be in full support of evolution.

The truth of the matter is that, after seeing all of their "facts" the whole thing still seemed highly lacking.

Therefore, to this day I still believe in God and that will not change!

Otherwise, I suppose evolution is an acceptable alternative to those that buy in to it.

It's just not for me.