my evolutionist science teacher will be getting into the chapter of evolution soon and i am a christian and are afraid i will get really angry and upset when he tries to talk about these lies as if they are truth b/c this is how my science teacher acts. I need some advice on what to say to him and how far is too far when i talk.
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:}\nEact is always acceptable\nremember evolution is a theory\nyou Ara in school to learn  learn the theory. but remember your beliefs. If you have questions ask them out of class to Christians who are well informed. go slowly at first until you find out how much you can say or challenge.
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well im a christian myself but a budding scientist also so i think that a lot of religious people attack science only because they're sheep.  they think that since it wasn't said in whatever their respective holy book is, then it must be false.  the ironic thing though is that because they limit the workings of the world to what is said in their book and by also saying that there is no way that their god cant/doesn't work through science, then they limit the omnipresence of their god.\n\ni havent really heard of anybody attacking aspects of science that do not conflict with their religion.  when you find one, let me know
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I think the most important thing to do is to get rid of the word, 'belief', when it comes to evolution.  It is a tactic used by creationists to marginalize evolution and it bring it to the same level as theology.  It's very important to take out the word, 'belief', when it comes to scientific systems because we're not talking about belief.
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It's a failure of American culture that so many people take Genesis literally. Science teachers can only do so much, you know? And besides, when kids are taught Genesis at like age 1 and then evolution at 15, what are they going to believe? Most likely the thing they've known the longest and is the easiest to understand.
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The Bible tells us Who. Science tries to tell us how (& there are many "hows" that science has figured out). Evolution is just a theory (not a proven fact), it is PoliticallyCorrect (so it is probably theologically wrong) - but it is an attempt to explain how God may have designed His creation.\n\nIn any event, the speculation is not worth much time or worry - it is not a criteria for God's Salvation by His Grace based on true faith (acceptance of His Salvation & acceptance of His Lordship, to be a disciple to seek to do His will). Scriptural fact:\n\nTrue Faith + God's Grace = His Salvation\n\nEvolution (or any other process of creation) is not a belief factor in the equation for Salvation. It doesn't matter if you think green is the prettiest color, or if you think orange is the prettiest color, or some other color - that is not a factor in God's Salvation, either. 'Faith + Grace = Salvation' is a time-tested formula - since Abraham - & it still works the SAME way. Because God is unchanging, His Word is unchanging, His Law is unchanging, His Salvation is unchanging.
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First of all, I don't think you would appreciate me insulting whatever beliefs you hold dear, but you commit sacrilege  out of total ignorance, so you are excused. \n\nSecond of all, it would help you a great deal if you understood the Catholic position on evolution, which I doubt you have a clue. http://www.catholic.com/library/Adam_Eve_and_Evolution.asp\n\nIt seems evolutionists banter on about how religion is opposed to science, and faith and reason are incompatable, blah, blah, blah. Nothing could be further from the truth. \n\n"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.  Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.... We need each other to be what we must be, what we are called to be." (-Pope John Paul II)
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Um, spur4eight, sorry but Creation Science is not what most would consider "true science."\n\nPersonally, I don't understand how anybody who knows anything about science can think that "scientists are lying about evolution" or some silly thing like that.  Just go and talk to a scientist.  Go to a university, better yet.  Seems to be about the only place that people actually think anymore...
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Of course evolution is real and it is the basis for all modern biological science. Many people here at YA debate this but there is no debate among scientists. In fact there's no debate among most of the Christian community; it's just a minority that are anti-science.\n\nThe answers you've received here are typical for this subject. There are a few honest responses with real information but, for the most part, you have misinformation, purposeful confusion, extraneous information, side-stepping, fallacious logic and outright lies. For example:\n\nIf humans evolved from apes why are there still apes?...\nIf evolution is right, why do humans have appendixes?...\nIf evolution is right, there are 30,000 stars being born every second, yet we've never seen one born...\nWe would just be zombies, not knowing anything, because there would be no life force within us...\nOnce upon a time, there was a lot full of weeds...\nIs evolution really scientific?...\n\nYahoo Answers is not the best place to explore evolution with any kind of impartiality. If you wish to explore this topic in more depth, why don't you start here:\nhttp://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/WestTech/darwin1.htm\n\nScience has nothing to be afraid of - there is no debate - just continued research that adds data to a well-accepted explanation of the facts before us. You can believe evolution or not, but you can't use lies and obfuscation to subvert the facts - that may convince idiots but I hope you don't fall into that category. Creationists have no debate either - their faith uplifts them and that should be enough. Science can never investigate salvation - thank God for that – but neither will you find salvation by attacking science. Believing in God is much more than defending a personal opinion or trying to convince everyone that they should think just like you. Tell your friend to forget all this crap and just go find God.
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I'm having the same issue with my sets of questions (you can click on my avatar to see them).  Almost everyone who replied (one real exception) hasn't even bothered to try to answer the questions.  Yet these same people want creationisim taught in our science classes?\n\nI looked at both of your questions and they were good questions.  You were not doing anything wrong, just asking people to answer them.  I think you really do want to here what their answers are.  If you find any that actually do answer, send them to my questions as well please.
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I am not quite sure what you are getting at here, you start with one question and end with a second one.  Frankly, I am not sure that I understand the first question.\n\nFirst let me start by saying that when we try to make scientific facts line up with the writings in Genesis, there are discrepancies.\n\nThe nature of time is somewhat poorly understood, to say the least.  The statements made by both Hawkins and Einstein are attempts to explain the nature of time.  Granted that these two men are among the most brilliant men ever, but they are still men.\n\nWe should take each version of the creation of the universe and keep asking "Where did that come from?" or "How?"\n\nWe would eventually ask the creationist: "Where did God come from?"  or, "How did God do that?"  The answer to each of these questions is "We don't know."\n\nSimilarly, we would eventually ask the evolutionist: "Where did the matter for the Big Bang come from?" or "How did matter form into the elements that we know?"  The answer for these questions is "We don't know."\n\nSo both the evolutionist and the creationist are stuck with the answer "We don't know." or even "God (or the matter) just always was there."  Does that mean that neither one is right?  No.  Does it mean that both are right?  No, again.  Each view requires some amount of faith.\n\nNow, about science being wrong.  Yes, Yes, Yes!  Science can afford to be wrong and often is.  The whole premise of science is that we come up with a theory, test it and make adjustments when we are wrong.  We often learn more by being wrong than by being right.
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A belief in god and evolution is mainly a problem for closed-minded bible literalists...typically fundamentalists, who believe that every word in the bible is written as god intended.\n\nThe problem you face is this. If the bible isn't taken as a literal document of belief, how do you choose which bits to believe and which bits not to believe? So, is execution right or wrong...because the bible is both "for" and "against". Same for homosexuality (although not in modern terms).\n\nMost scientists I know who are christians accomodate this dilemma by using the bible as a broad belief framework - which is perfectly acceptable - and they talk about how they are able to draw their values from this position, but they keep an open mind about what science discovers and how science can help. \n\nBible literalists have a hard time trying to present their ideas without attacking science, as though science is some kind of enemy - the kind of enemy that will end up saving their lives from cancer or serious accident someday. The greatest disservice these people play in society is to present the idea to children that science is somehow seriously flawed and that nothing can ever be proven - unlike their belief system, however, which has a complete video record of god creating the earth in 6 days (sorry, that was sarcasm...something bible literalists will have a hard time understanding).\n\nTo Vangyblue below - that's the biggest pile of nonsense I've read for for at least 30 minutes. All the evidence of the failure of American education is present in your response.
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As a teacher, I always tell my students to stand up if they think I'm wrong. However, there is a right way to do it and a wrong way. If you are old enough to be asking this on line, it is best not to approach the teacher in a confrontive, competitive way. And that goes not just for situations with teachers, but conflicts with others in general.\n\nWhen dealing with someone in authority, tell the person you'd like to meet and ask when a convenient time would be for that person. If asked why, just say something like - "I need to ask you something and I don't think it would be appropriate in front of others." When the teacher finds out what it is, she or he will appreciate your not challenging them in public.\n\nThen when you meet, nicely explain your point of view. If you are friendly and approach it as a misunderstanding, your teacher will very likely be receptive to your point and be willing to work with you on a solution. By the way - it's always good to go in with clear idea about how you want to change the situation. But if you don't know exactly what you want, you can always ask the teacher what she or he thinks might be a fair way to solve your disagreement.\n\nThe teacher may or may not budge (it depends on the situation), but it shows you are willing to work with the teacher, without causing unnecessary conflict.\n\nTo your P.S.\nIt sounds as if the teacher thinks you are not listening to her when she is making a point. Something can happen in book - but what happens may not be what is happening - in other words, people can take actions, such as leaving to deal with something. But are they leaving to run away from something - or to go toward something else?\n\nDon't get in a competition with her. Be willing to show her you are willing to learn, even if you don't agree. And if she is mean - OK, she is. Some people are nicer than others - we have to deal with all kinds in life. It's just a fact. But you'll win nothing by getting in a power struggle in your situation.\n\nA good teacher will respect you if you approach her in the way mentioned above.
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I just don't see that great a need to appease science.\n\nScience is supposed to be what we know.  Not what creative thing we can come up with.  Show me something that crossed the line of species and was an IMPROVEMENT, and could reproduce after it's kind (not man cross-breeding species to come up with some infertile something), and we'll talk.\n\nScience doesn't know it can happen because in all of recorded history we've not seen it happen.\n\nI'm not going to doubt God because some man thinks he knows better.  Or even because it's just not the intellectual thing to do.  Or because people make fun of what I believe.\n\nI'm not afraid of science.  I think all honest science (things we actually know) do not conflict with the Bible.  Most theories do.  But they're just theories.  \n\nIf I'm putting my faith in something or Someone, it's going to be God.
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I too am shocked at the amount of misunderstanding and especially the amount of animosity. I know many esteemed scientists (including anthropologists and geologists) that have no problem being religious and believing in evolution. If you search the internet you will find many websites giving completely non-factual descriptions of how istopic dating works and using the small amount of uncertainty to claim it refutes all sorts of science. I have even seen attempts at disproving the sedimentary record of the Grand Canyon using this. Never mind that these self-described experts have no qualifications to evaluate these things. In my opinion they are motivated by greed and not altruism. Debunking science seems to have become a cottage industry for what I consider pseudo-religious crackpots. \n\nI think the source is a recent trend as I don't remember this hostility in the 1970's or 1980's. There are now television programs that are done professionally and broadcast daily (TBS) that try to refute all sorts of science using PhD's of theology to describe why carbon dating doesn't work, and even to refute things like dinosaur trace fossils by citing the rate of diagenesis in carbonate rocks. There is a constant problem in Texas where the creationists try to remove and destroy fossils whenever a new location is found. \n\nThe mainstream media doesn't help because the reporters and editors appear to be poorly educated in science. I recently watched a CBS Sunday Morning news piece comparing evolution and intelligent design and to my horror they constantly referred to both as scientific theory- effectively equating them as equal in status to millions of viewers. They hardly even mentioned that ID is not science and that it will never qualify as scientific theory. \n\nThere seem to be so many people who never learned the scientific definition of a theory that it becomes easy to confuse the public by implying that anything labeled as a theory is only a conjecture, and I think with this weakness that far too many people decide evolution can be dismissed as unreliable and unproven. I almost wish science would create a new terminology to replace the word 'theory' in order to clear up this semantic confusion. \n\nI have been very impressed by the magnitude of this problem by watching Yahoo Answers. As a former science teacher I am very disappointed that at least part of it seems to come from many young participants. I had hoped they were getting a better education in science, and at the very least had learned better reasoning skills.
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tell a scientist that a truck can evolve given a billion years and he would say you are foolish.  The same scientist would say you are foolish to say that the theory of evolution is to be believed otherwise you are foolish.  truck is much much much less complicated than even a single celled oraganism. If a scientist can't even agree that a truck can never be made without a creator how in the world can he prove that the whole world with all its extrememly complex designs which are interdependent on each other so much that its so delicately balanced evolved itself? Doesn't that sound more stupid?   plus just because there are a set of evidences that support evolution that does not mean that evolution is proved. just because you see small footprints in the sand you can't conclude it is of a dog, it could be any other animal , hence the conclusions drawn from evidences can't really be conclusive.. whatever you think I can't ever understand evolution though I have really read and seen a lot about it.\n\n-----------------\n\nlol, see its hard to believe a truck could construct itself in a billion years.. taken as a big blunder said by me .. haha..  after all scientists say that evolution did happen through a series of random chances.. so why not a random chance of getting a truck? sounds absurd, huh?  thats the kind of absurdity that even the theory of evolution has because its says that so many things much much more complicated than a simple truck evolved itself from nothing.. I mean from no life. which is really much harder to believe.. and just one sentence out of a whole argument might look stupid, but when you take the whole argument it would not look that stupid. And evolutionary proof is not conclusive.. its only supportive.. there is much difference between supportive and conclusive.. and I am not an ignorant person who simply states without knowing anything, I am really much interested in science and read and see a lot of things..
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I can understand where your coming from but before you make any conclusions on evolution take a look at this website.  It has all you need to know about evolution vs. creationism.  http://www.talkorigins.org/.  The reason so many people believe in evolution is that every field of natural science supports it independently from geology, biology, genetics etc. and it makes a lot of sense once you sit down and really analyze the fact.  Unfortunately there is much misinformation out there so I urge you to read the information on the website and then make up you mind on evolution.  Personally I feel that evolution and religion can co-exist.  I feel that its a shame religious leaders exploit controversial topics in order to rally their base.  The true teachings of religion are of acceptance and forgiveness and any dogmatic interpretations of the bible (or any religious text) only serve to weaken message.
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Good job!\n The timelines are the key to the fallacies in the Evolution THEORY! Oh, did I mention that it IS a THEORY?\n\n Who created the timelines anyway? Scientists.\nThe reason evolution has to REMAIN a theory is because there is no human eyewitness documentation of the timelines...\n\nThis is exactly why every time an Athiest Scientist sets out to prove the Bible wrong....they end up becoming Creation Scientists! Because, if they are TRUTHFUL there IS NO evidence to support Darwins' claims.\n\nCheck it ALL out on...\n\nwww.answersingenesis.org   ~Ken Ham(from Australia)\n\nwww.drdino.com  ~Kent Hovind (American)\n\nBoth of these men have EXTENSIVE info on this subject\n\nYou can find everything you need there and other