Key points of Evolution

Its worth bearing in mind that they may well believe these things but not consider them to be scientifically viable hypotheses. It surely isn't a requisite of faith that its tenets are all able to be substantiated with scientific evidence, even for a scientist.TTFN,WK

What makes you assume they have evidence? Have you never encountered people who hold on to beliefs in spite of evidence to the contrary? They may be scientists who work in fields totally unrelated to evolution and therefore have had no exposure to the evidence. For an easy life? As a form of placebo? Really, are you sure thats what you mean? At best we might have some nth generational copies of old written down eyewitness accounts, I doubt that any actual eyewitnesses to that event are going to be in much of a state to testify. And what evidence do you have that these 'accounts' are objective?TTFN,WK

Thats a pretty huge assumption, for my own part I would assume most of that 40% probably believed in god before they became scientists, so they would already be convinced of his existence. Thats a pretty huge leap there, you just magically poofed some contrary evidence out of nowhere. Do you have anything to suggest that such evidence actually exists? No, I don't think you will find I did say that. Although it is worth noting that in many more recent historical events we still have original documents to draw on, what original eyewitness documents are there for the resurrection? The earliest written accounts are apparently from Paul's letters, and Paul surely wasn't an eyewitness, except of his own Damascene experience. We could find many examples of original newspapers reporting Lincoln's assassination the day after it occurred and original letters from the doctor who attended him. Do you really not see any difference in the standards of evidence available?TTFN,WK

As I said it was an assumption, but I would imagine the majority of the respondents were American, America is a predominantly Christian country and children are often brought up in their parents religion. Therefore I don't consider the assumption that most of the respondents might have been brought up to believe in god to be that large. No I wasn't. So you keep saying, but there still isn't any evidence for it being scientific evidence that contradicts modern evolutionary theory. Why can't it be based on a pre-existing belief in god and the literal truth of the bible? We know that exists in a lot of people. so what is the contrary evidence you are studying? Why shouldn't we when you give us no reason to believe it does exist?TTFN,WK