Do you believe in Darwin's theory?

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Earthling

It's a fact out there. So, of course I believe in evolution theory. Otherwise, I'd be fooling myself.

And I'm from Turkey.

The Babe is Armed!

As I understand Darwin's theory, it was very simple, but it has been added to a lot over the past 140 years. His theory was simply that certain types of animals change over the course of many generations so that where there was one species, there is now two or more. This is why there are so many types of monkeys all over the world. At some levels this is observable, when the life span of the animal is short enough to see the effects of environment on the survival rate of each generation.

In that sense, yes, I believe Darwin's theory on the origin of species.

I believe that Science helps us understand the natural mechanisms by which the Creator created and maintains the world in which we live.

Çetin

Günaydın , devlet_oglu kardeşim,

yes , i do!
This is a scientific reality.
http://www.darwins-theory-of-evolution.com/
and you?

I'm from TÜRKİYE .

ps :Irmak , ben maddi/dünya sorunlarını bilim ile , manevi/ahiret sorunlarını ise İslam ve Kur'an ile çözmeye çalışıyorum.Sana da tavsiye ederim
edit 2: Irmak , "bilimsel evrim teorisi" ile ilgili aşağıdaki kitabı ,bulabilirsen, okumanı tavsiye ederim.
http://korsankitap.esmartweb.com/charles_darwin_evrim_teorisi__darvin_evrimi.html
--Dinsel açıdan,yaratılışa gelirsek...
Yaradanı , yaratılandan dolayı severiz.Kur'anı , tefsiri ile okumak gerekir.Y.N.Öztürk hocayı tavsiye ederim.

Doesnt matter what you believe. Evolution is a fact! Our lives are very brief in the evolutionary chain of events. We are the lucky apes. thats all about it.. Darwins theroy is absuletely correct. what does it matter where i am from. i am russian

carmelo_sabato

they have found nones and human skulls from Ethiopia that are more than 80.000 years old and they had a DNA done a tear or so ago in the us from different people and found they originated in same place the ancient Greeks called Ethiopia which means god made it so i believe in the theory !! from USA !!

istanbul bogazi

I believe in Darwin's theory although.I believe in Science.
I'm from Turkey.

Mr. Bobo

Just another short little answer from me;

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

So Einstein once wrote to explain his personal creed: "A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance of those super-personal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation."

His was not a life of prayer and worship. Yet he lived by a deep faith — a faith not capabIe of rational foundation — that there are laws of Nature to be discovered. His lifelong pursuit was to discover them.

His realism and his optimism are illuminated by his remark: "Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not"

("Raffiniert ist der Herrgott aber boshaft ist er nicht."). When asked by a colleague what he meant by that, he replied: "Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse." ("Die Natur verbirgt ihr Geheimnis durch die Erhabenheit ihres Wesens, aber nicht durch List.")

So yes, Darwins theory has a place in my life. But also, that is the beauty of "faith" it is not to be questioned or tested.

Most of the great scienctists were inspired buy their faith to pursue what yoou cannot see.

Nobel Prize winner Charles Townes on evolution, intelligent design, and the meaning of life

BERKELEY – Religion and science, faith and empirical experiment: these terms would seem to have as little in common as a Baptist preacher and a Berkeley physicist. And yet, according to Charles Hard Townes, winner of a Nobel Prize in Physics and a UC Berkeley professor in the Graduate School, they are united by similar goals: science seeks to discern the laws and order of our universe; religion, to understand the universe's purpose and meaning, and how humankind fits into both.

Understand that regardless of religion people of science are also people of faith.
http://www.adherents.com/people/100_Nobel.html

http://www.adherents.com/adh_influ.html

Charles Darwin on God / Religion
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. (Charles Darwin)

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. (Charles Darwin)

Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress. (Charles Darwin)

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. (Charles Darwin)

I am a strong advocate for free thought on all subjects, yet it appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follow[s] from the advance of science. It has, therefore, been always my object to avoid writing on religion, and I have confined myself to science. I may, however, have been unduly biased by the pain which it would give some members of my family, if I aided in any way direct attacks on religion. (Charles Darwin)

http://www.darwin-literature.com/l_quotes.html

When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, quoted from John Stear, No Answers in Genesis)

What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low and horribly cruel works of nature. (Charles Darwin, quoted by Richard Dawkins in A Devil's Chaplain, 2004)

When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.
(Charles Darwin, reminding his readers that they should always treat "obvious" truths with skepticism, in the context of the apparent absurdity of evolving a complex eye through a long series of gradual steps, in the famous passage added to later editions of the Origin of Species (1872, p. 134), quoted from Stephen Jay Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (2002), chapter 1, "Defining and Revising the Structure of Evolutionary Theory," p. 1 (the bracketed translation is Gould's)

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path toward errors is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened. (Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man)

A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws. (Charles Darwin, Origin of Species p. 422)

About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorize; and I well remember someone saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours. How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!
(Charles Darwin, letter to Henry Fawcett, who had defended Darwin before the British Association for the Advancement of Science against a critic who said Darwin's book was too theoretical and that he should have just "'put his facts before us and let them rest," quoted from Michael Shermer, "Colorful Pebbles and Darwin's Dictum: Science is an exquisite blend of data and theory," Scientific American, May, 2001)

How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is that they have become, in all quarters of the world, so deeply impressed on the minds of men; but it is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, while the brain is impressionable, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason. (Charles Darwin, Descent of Man p. 122)

I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of a universal and beneficent Creator does not seem to arise in the mind of man, until he has been elevated by long-continued culture. (Charles Darwin, Descent of Man p. 612)

I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to show why it is more irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some lower from, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction. The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance. (Charles Darwin, Descent of Man p. 613)

But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice. (Charles Darwin, source unknown)

Frank B

I love the "beliefs" of many in this question.

The ability to evolve and adapt is not a theory but a fact. The science of biology is based on that and the evidence is overwhelming although not obvious to those outside the field. Theories exist on how evolution works (on the mechanisms of evolution) not whether evolution exists or not.

The complete set of observable traits that make up the structure and behavior of an organism is called its phenotype (how we look like). These traits come from the interaction of its genotype (our DNA make up; genome) with the environment. And these interactions change constantly and affect each and everyone of us so that everyone can tell who is form Sweden and who is from Turkey within a fraction of a second. Lets magnify this: If these forces were to continue the way they do for thousands of years and there would be no interaction between any human from Turkey or Sweden, the probability is there -most certainly- that Turkish and Swedish would have evolved into two different species. Natural selection, genetic drift and gene flow would have contributed to this.

No intention to insult anyone here but you better let science do its job and keep the rest for your religions, beliefs and (in)conveniences. Religions change, beliefs change, you change, but science always stays at the end and it is the only thing remaining for the next generation to come.

To Johanna: I am afraid that what you suggest there is complete nonsense. But I love your confidence though...

Notes to confusion:
Monkeys are a contemporary species with humans. Both have evolved from a common ancestor and this mammalian class defines the primates. Thus, we do not originate from monkeys but from a common ancestor with monkeys.

mertev

Of course i do believe it
I believe in science,nothing but the science
I am Turkish

anlarm

I am a Turkish Cypriot. Yes, I believe in Darwin's theory to be the best scientific explanation of the creation and evolution of all living things.
Life on Earth, and all universe is governed by certain laws of physics, mathematics, chemistry etc. The more we discover these laws, the better we understand how the system(s) works.
Philosophy and religion, on the other hand, try to find and explain the meaning and purpose of all these scientific laws; they attempt to explain the purpose of man on earth.

ps. Irmak is not a religious fundemantalist (for those who don't know her).
Do remember what Prophet Muhammed said: "Seek and learn science (knowledge) even if it is in China."

Tanju

Hi Devlet,

I do not believe Darwin's Theory .
We are human, we were created ...

Thanks Irmak, You are right, I corrected...

Qu'est ce que tu pense?

Yes. I don't think you can deny the studies that Charles made in the Galapagos. His evidence clearly proves that there are adaptations to every specie.
And most people believe the common myth that humans evolved from monkeys. That is not true. At one point in history, there was a species that was similar to man and monkey, but it eventually divided. That species divided into 2 which made monkeys and humans. So, humans did not evolve from monkeys, but a similar species related to the monkey family. Likewise, for the evolution of the monkey.

MORTİCİA

Yes I believe in creation and mostly in evolution.

Totally Blunt

Belief? That's a religious concept. Let's say, I am CONVINCED that the evolution theory is true and evidence is everywhere.

As for where I come from, I guess I could safely say that I come from oceans. If you want a more recent place of origin, how about Africa? Or a more recent one, I am from Turkey. Summarily, I am human and is the sister of all species on earth.

hanibal

Yes.

Ayrıca Kuran ' da da evrim harfiyen yazmaktadır*. Yazmasa da evrim vardır.

*''Yuaddilu '' üzerinizde tadilat yaptık.

Is any one needs I can prove it by scientific way also.

Yahooz

No, it degrades human being! it says that we all from animals and that its survival of the fittest --I mean there no human moral or dignity. every one is out to get everyone else -its a dog eat dog world --he is crazy!

Irmak

I believe in some parts about animals of it but not all (human part)..I believe and support science too but not this subject.

I'm from Turkey.

PS to Çetin and Earthling: If I were u, I wouldn't be very sure.Because not all scientifical things are true.Also there is a creation idea too (http://www.kuranoku.com/sureler/kaf-yaratilis/ ) ..But of course I respect ur idea.

PS to Tanju abi: Tanju abi if u say 'we created', u mean 'biz yarattık' but if u say 'we were created', u mean 'biz yaratıldık'.

PS to Çetin: Ama yaratılış bir sorun değil ki.Bence bu konuda Kuran'a inanmaman senin için bir sorun.Ayrıca ben zaten sorunlarımı bilim ile çözerim, şurda 1 Kuran sitesi linki verdim diye beni dinci, örümcek kafalı sanmadın umarım?

ipek

Good morning ... I dont believe it. I didnt come from monkey. I was born human. Did you see any monkey came from the forrest and said that it changed to human. I havent seen the evolution yet. I am human and happy.

Joannah

I don't.

Evolutionists claim that the genetic as well as biological similarities among the species is evidence of a common geneology. But, that is but one interpretation. The similarity can be attributed owing to a common genetic code with the same functions for same purposes in all various forms of life. Until now this position cannot be scientifically proved or disproved.

Darwin was in fact somewhat correct by exposing nature's fact about natural selection, the problem about natural selection now is that it is not a something that can create something else deviant from that similar genetic code. The theory behind Natural selection is that it can only work with biological variations with similarities.

Modern science has shown that there are genetic limits to evolution or biological alterations in nature. Evidence from genetics suggests the probablity for "horizontal evolution" ( Like the kinds of dogs, cats, anf cows among others) but not to "vertical evolution" (fish to human). Unless Nature can produce a mermaid or a merman's fossils, vertical evolution will not be possible.

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