Why do many religious groups deny human evolution which is accepted in the scientific community?

The reason is that evolution is a theory, and not a very good one because it is man's attempt to take God out of creation. It is man's way of slapping God in the face. Even Darwin said at the last, "Those fools have turned a theory into a fact.' That should tell you something. It is when mankind doesn't want to come to God in the way He wants us to that mankind looks for ways such as evolution to circumvent what they should be doing.

Religious groups are not the only ones who deny human evolution. Scientists do as well since it is not actually a scientific fact at all. Religious groups deny it since it is not a fact, nor is it even implied in the Bible anyway and so there is no need either way to 'bend the Bible' to make it fit with the fallible theories of men.

So, religious groups are not in denial, they are in reality. In fact creationist groups are keen not to use fallacious argumentation and actively discourage it. They want to deal with, as Francis Schaeffer put it,' the world that is,' not a made up fairy tale, dressed up in scientific language.

The more evidence that comes to light the more problems are uncovered with the the theory of evolution. More than that, arguments found to be scientifically fallacious, even fraudulent, are still used to support it.

Christian believers also have problems, not with the data but with the way it is interpreted. Hence two people loooking over the rim of the Grand Canyon for example will say two different things. The evolutionist will say 'a little water over lots of time.' The creationist will say 'lots of water over a little time.' Evolutionists have specifically linked evolution to an agenda which is deliberately and militantly anti-christian. Thus it is not science as science that requires evolution to be true, but a philosophy. Not a few leading evolutionists have plainly stated it so.

Christians involved in scientific endeavour do not find the fact of evolution to speak for themselves. They see that evolution contradicts known scientific facts and even more so than in Darwin's day. So it is not really religious groups who are in denial. Proven laws of science, not theories, are against evolution so there is no denial.

A different answer

It could be argued, and quite fairly, that many religious people actually believe (rather than deny) evolution. That is, as far as the theory goes. The question seems to make the supposition that evolutionary theory is complete as well as being scientific fact. It is scientific, but it isn't complete, and it isn't fact. It's the theory of evolution. Another "answer" to the question was that the theory of evolution is "not a very good one." Nothing could be more wrong. There is a mountain of evidence to support it. Oh, and that's scientific evidence, by the way. Not just rhetoric or philosophical argument.

"Man's attempt to take Go out of creation" is a label. Something that has been spray painted on the theory of evolution like so much graffiti. Who are the taggers who would do such a thing? Myopic fundamentalists would as they run around to rally other like (narrow) minds to the idea that man and/or science is out to prove that God does not exist. Science isn't in the business of proving that God does not exist. Why don't the Chicken Littles see that the faithful hold the trump card? God can do anything. He is omnipotent. Theory can't compete with that. And it does not try.

With each turn of the spade or stroke of the dust brush, new evidence comes to light. It's happening right now. Somewhere in the world a crew is on a dig, and the next revelation is a millimeter away. Does this new find fill in a gap? No wonder zealots are in panic mode. What are they afraid of? Of what will be uncovered next? The rational person, the thinking person (be he a non-believer or a Christian) is excited about what that next find will be! Aren't you?

Man uses the power of his God-given intellect to see the world and everything in it for what it really is. And in so doing, he honors the One who gave him the gifts he applies to that endeavor. He neither deceives himself nor others, and neither does he bear false witness by distorting what science is saying to prop up his own ideas.

From a theological point of view, evolution can prove what it can prove. Nothing less, nothing more. The faithful would hold that nothing will come to pass that will dethrone God. And they would be right. That's the nature of their faith. That's what faith is. "Be ye not afraid...."

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