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I am fully convinced that the vast majority of Creationists or Christians in general who reject evolution simply do not understand it.

I think a lot of y'all only know of evolution from what a preacher or sunday school teacher has told you.

Any questions i can answer for you? Criticisms i can address?

I don't mean to convince you that evolution is true but i bet i can educate you on what evolution actually is.

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FreddieUK · 70-79, M
Not all Christians are Creationists in the narrow sense of a 6 day literal account in Genesis 1. All Christians believe that God created the 'heavens and the earth'. After that you will find a range of opinion on how it happened. The problem for many with no faith is that the loud voices of certain American (and some other) Christian groups dogmatically pronouncing their certainty, make it seem that there is no room for dialogue (or science).
@FreddieUK

Yup. I'm well aware.
Most Christians (at least in north america) accept evolution.
Punxi · F
My faith in Christ tells me why I exist; evolution helps explain how life unfolds.

My truth isn’t threatened when God’s design is deep enough to include growth.
@Punxi

I think there are certain theological issues that arise but it seems plain to me that if indeed there is a god who created life then evolution is necessarily the mechanism.
gregloa · 61-69, M
@Pikachu
Miyagi have hope for you Daniel San.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@Punxi Evolution isn't growth... it's change.

It's change in the frequency and distribution of alleles driven by a constantly changing environment.

There's no 'ideal' against which those changes can be assessed, so the idea of growth is invalid.
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
Many Christians do believe in evolution. Most in fact. Most of the major Christian denominations include Roman Catholism accept evolution. It's mostly in the US where people are a little behind.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@JimboSaturn
where people are little behinds.
Fixed it for you. 😆
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@JimboSaturn Catholicism pretends to accept Evolution, but tries to exclude humans from the evolutionary process, so... no
JimboSaturn · 56-60, M
Yes they just don't understand it. They were not taught it properly or it at all I imagine.
@JimboSaturn

And you see it all the time when a creationist comes up confidently saying evolution didn't or couldn't happen and the proceed to demonstrate virtually no idea of what it is or how it works.
peterlee · M
Surely the topic of evolution should be under ‘Science’, not Spirituality’?
peterlee · M
@22Michelle Spirituality has a wide berth these days.
22Michelle · 70-79, T
@peterlee Has, or gets?
@peterlee

lol right? What they hell?!
peterlee · M
I don’t understand Quantum Electrodynamics or the General Theory of Relativity either.

How is evolution explained in this paradigm, or does it need Newtonian Physics.
@peterlee

No idea
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
All it took to convince me of that was listening to them try to describe it.
@LordShadowfire

I mean, i still sometimes get the "If we come from monkeys then why are there still monkeys?" question lol
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@Pikachu I know, right? They think that's so clever.
@LordShadowfire

Well they just don't know any better. I don't say that to be condescending, it just is often the case.

I recently had an interaction with someone on here who was sure they were way ahead of me, knew everything i could possibly say....it became rapidly apparent that this was not the case because their response boiled down to "Well God could have deceitfully made the world to look that way."
VladG94 · 31-35, M
Fyi, not all Christians deny evolution....
VladG94 · 31-35, M
@Pikachu BYE
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OriginalDumbMan · 36-40
You even do not understand evolution.
OriginalDumbMan · 36-40
@Pikachu nope. With evolution, you are closing a human’s path to god . When he believes in evolution, he will believe that he/she is an organism just a body to survive. Eat, gather money to fulfill desires by any means. If others are doing wrong he/she should also do as it is giving positive results and in that way he/she keeps on accumulating sins. And for your evolution point , if genes are closely matching that doesn’t mean one species is evolving from other. Both species can be separately created by god. If you have witnessed in front of your own eyes any evolution process then tell me. And I am not close minded. I have searched and found.
@OriginalDumbMan

lol Nope
Tell that to the literal millions of Christians who accept evolution, may of them are even evolutionary biologists.
See? Your mind is closed.

And for your evolution point , if genes are closely matching that doesn’t mean one species is evolving from other. Both species can be separately created by god.

Actually it does mean relatedness in the same way a paternity test means relatedness and there are a few reasons that make the notion of them being separately created with the appearance of relatedness illogical if not impossible.
Buuuut i know you don't care to actually have that conversation in good faith because you've made up your mind despite not being familiar with the subject or evidence.
Don't be close-minded. Keep searching for truth✌
ItsMeMorgue · 46-50, F
@OriginalDumbMan
With evolution, you are closing a human’s path to god .
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