Why do theists reject evolution?

There's every reason to expect that it occurred, though, isn't there?
At one time, there was no life: Then there was: Did that apparent Abiogenesis occur on Earth, through local Earthly conditions, or was it a result of some bacterial or similar basic lifeform, or crucial ingredient for any life, that happened to seed Earth from another planet/star system/galaxy.
Accepted that as yet we have no evidence for such Panspermia.
 
The pedantic part was listing all those citations that simply repeat the same simplistic definition.
That was purely to show you that “Darwinism” is a thing.
The childish part is insisting on a word that's inaccurate in any context and that you yourself can't explain.
("e.g whale evolution" may be a very small nutshell, but is not a summary of scientific concepts)
Lot’s of people can’t explain it, even those that claim it to be true.
 
That was purely to show you that “Darwinism” is a thing.
No, you showed that it's a word. Just as "fairy-dust" is a word, but the thing it names doesn't exist.

Lot’s of people can’t explain it, even those that claim it to be true.
I asked what you, personally, object to that you call "Darwinism" but is not "evolution".
Lots of people who can't explain things don't go out of their way to, and make a big production of, objecting to those "things" they can't explain their reasons for objecting to.
 
That was purely to show you that “Darwinism” is a thing.

That's why it's pedantic. We already know what Darwinism is and that it is a thing, its what you fail to know and understand, which is also a thing.
 
No, you showed that it's a word. Just as "fairy-dust" is a word, but the thing it names doesn't exist.
A word that means something, however loosely it is used.
I asked what you, personally, object to that you call "Darwinism" but is not "evolution".
Lots of people who can't explain things don't go out of their way to, and make a big production of, objecting to those "things" they can't explain their reasons for objecting to.
And I gave you an in a nutshell answer.
 
A word that means something, however loosely it is used.
But the thing it refers to doesn't actually exist. You can oppose things that don't exist: that exercise is usually referred-to as jousting with strawmen.

And I gave you an in a nutshell answer.
You mean this?:
The notion that one type of animal eventually becomes a completely different type. Eg: whale evolution.
That's not Darwinism; that's evolution.
The two matters in which you have been perfectly consistent are 1. insisting on a word with no substance and 2. failing to meet the criteria of your own claim:
Theists who do, don’t reject evolution, they reject darwinism.
 
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But the thing it refers to doesn't actually exist. You can oppose things that don't exist: that exercise is usually referred-to as jousting with strawmen.
What doesn’t exist?
The idea that humans evolved from apes?
Or the idea that land dwelling creatures turned into whales?
That's not Darwinism; that's evolution.
I call it darwinism, because it is based on Darwin’s idea.
 
Dawinism is a useful term because if you encounter someone who uses that term you can be reasonably certain they support the creationist movement and support the manifesto to bring science into discredit and moreover promote the non science of intelligent design.
Alex
 
What doesn’t exist?
Darwinism.
The idea that humans evolved from apes?
That's evolution.
Or the idea that land dwelling creatures turned into whales?
That's a theory within the larger science of evolution.
I call it darwinism, because it is based on Darwin’s idea.
Whatever you call it, you have not made the distinction between the "Darwinism" you reject and the Evolution you accept.
 
What doesn’t exist?
The idea that humans evolved from apes?
Or the idea that land dwelling creatures turned into whales?
They are not ideas...they are factual results of Darwinism and the theory of evolution.
I call it darwinism, because it is based on Darwin’s idea.
For all intents and purposes, Darwinism and the theory of evolution are the same. Your futile attempts to somehow infer different, along with your incessant sometimes nonsensical questions, is actually a cover for an anti science, pro creationist nonsense, that like another, river, you attempt to use to denigrate science. But as I have told you before, and river, the facts remain, and science reigns supreme, as it should, being mankind's greatest achievement, from those dark, dingy ignorant days of mythical culture.
 
What doesn’t exist?
The idea that humans evolved from apes?
Or the idea that land dwelling creatures turned into whales?
Both of those exist. As you claim, they are evolution.
I call it darwinism, because it is based on Darwin’s idea.
You just called it evolution, so that's what I will continue to call it in discussions with you.
 
Good. So when I use the term, there is no need to say there is no such thing as Darwinism, or something similar.

And again, I already explained this to you.

Seriously Jan, you must smoke an ounce of pot every day considering how short your memory.
 
Seriously Jan, you must smoke an ounce of pot every day considering how short your memory.
Oh, his memory is fine. He does this intentionally. Watch - his next move will be to quibble over the definitions of words again, since he literally has nothing else.
 
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