[b]horsechic1990 wrote:[/b] [quote]I had to study evolution last year in my science class (did I mention that I HATE Darwin?) [/quote] I had to study it as well last year, but I dont think that it is right to hate Darwin simply because Darwin did not know what he was saying. He thought that the physical world was extremely simple. Just a 1's and 0's type thing, simplistic stuff. He did not understand that the complexity of life goes from 0 up through infinity, each number randomly placed with no repeats, almost like pi. Also, a lot of the ideas that are taught in the ideas of evolution now are completely different than those originally thought of by Darwin. I dont agree with evolution, but I thought I should defend the guy a bit. If he had known the complexity of life, he would never have proposed the idea. [quote] I have been a Christian for quite a few years now and nothing hurts more than hearing that Creation is false and people evolved from monkies or whatever else goes along with evolution.[/quote] Well.... it depends on which side of the teachings of evolution that you are looking at. The origin of life concept that they made up is against the idea of creation and christianity, but the ideas such as microevolution (which shouldnt be construed with evolution because it is just adaptation, but I dont wanna get started on that one) are not. That does not take away from God, but the place where it does is when they say that life started from single-celled organisms and that those just appeared (they have many discrepencies there because still it had to come from somewhere it didnt just go "poof" and there it was but again, I ramble). Also, the idea of us evolving from monkeys is an idea that has been almost completely thrown out of real-time circulation. They couldnt find the "missing link", so, they decided to say that humans and monkeys descended from a common ancestor. They also have a weird idea about neanderthals living at the same time as modern humans and that we caused them to become extinct, but I dont know much about that idea to say much of anything. [quote] I was actually the person who explained to my science class what Creation was, and it still hurt to hear people say "well, what if God doesn't exist?" [/quote] Well, it's not really a surprise that they asked you this question. That is the easy cop-out when being confronted with a opposing idea. Also, another easy cop-out is to say "Well, what if He does exist?" That one just wont work. A good thing to say would be something like, "Ok... so, let's say that your idea of evolution is right and that everything evolved a long, long time ago from some original material or such. Where did those materials come from? Where did your 'building blocks of life' come from? They couldnt just appear. Even if your ideas are right, there had to be a beginning, something outside of the physical realm to design and start everything." It should hurt though. That is a good thing. If it didn't hurt, that would mean that something was wrong. If it didn't hurt, it would mean that you dont care. [quote] I was wondering what you all thought of evolution and I was wondering if any of you went through experiences with learning evolution like I did with my science class last year. I HATE evolution and I think that it shouldn't be taught in school 'cause it's too controversial and they don't teach Creation. Grrrrr I wish evolution would just go away forever![/quote] Even though I personally dont believe in their ideas, evolution is possible within christianity, just not their whole "origin of life" ideas. God told all the animals to go and reproduce and fill the Earth. He never said that they would stay exactly the same (I agree with microevolution/adaptation). God could've allowed for evolution to happen. This is something that we dont know. The only thing is that for a while, they wouldnt teach evolution and only taught creation. They wont teach creation because it really doesnt fit within any explanation and you either believe in one or the other or possibly a combination of both. They should teach both, and some places are trying to do that. I dont hate evolution because they are free to believe what they want, but I do hate the fact that they teach evolution as fact. They cant prove it. Dont hate evolution. Evolution isnt the one that's tainting people's beliefs. It's the fact that professors and teachers teach evolution as the only possible explanation. I think it will be thrown out of idealogy, personally, just as the Big Bang Theory was (for the most part). Microbiologists and Astronomers are beginning to speak out against evolution because of the complexity they see within things that should be simple under the laws of thermodynamics (things do not become more complex over time). They are finding that it is way more complex at the most simple building blocks of life like molecules. They see this and say that there is no way that this happened by chance. I think they will get through to people, and they will be forced to throw evolution out of the textbooks (at least new ones they will make)