to be surprised when I find an educated person doesn't believe in evolution?

[Bennifer]

I've recently found out that someone I know doesn't believe in evolution. However, they're well educated and work in education. I really struggle to see how intelligent people cannot believe in evolution. I can see how someone might take the view that somehow God inspired the rules or the original divine spark, or something, but to deny evolution seems to be something so bizarre I can't imagine an educated person would do so.

AIBU?

For the record we humans are contemporary of dinosaurs, at least of a special branch that was able to survive extinction, have feathers and beaks. We call them birds. :o
Did you think an entire huge and diverse group would just get extinct like that?

Note to self: on Internet dating profile state: if you don't accept evolution do not bother apply.

I read that as Eurovision :D

Clearly I am not educated :D

YANBU. I recently discovered that the friend I used to sit next to in Biology is now a creationist. It makes me very sad. It's like watching someone actively delude themselves about the world we live in.

Rosieres - I agree, it is depressing when people assume all Christians are ignorant creationists. The trouble is, the ones who are are so damn loud about it. I used to be Christian but would now describe myself as agnostic... I think the thing that first made me start questioning religion (sometime in my early teens) was a growing awareness of how batshit crazy some Christians were about things like evolution and gay rights and various other issues.

Sciencelover, HOW can believing in something that you cannot see, hear, touch, interact with or even prove exists be rational? You can believe what you want, but saying it's irrational to not believe in the invisible and imaginary is bonkers!

I was pretty when people in my biology degree classes said they didn't believe in evolution... in the evolution module. I just don't get why they were studying biology, surely it's like studying maths and insisting the number 7 doesn't exist .

For anyone who hasnt read 'The greatest show on earth' by Richard Dawkins, it goes over the evidence for evolution.

Also, Richard Dawkins has been in the news today, supporting a project to supply bibles to schools

Why do people think that proving the existence of Jesus automatically means we were created by 'God'.

And who said there's no 'picking and choosing from the bible'. I think you'll find there most defiantly is! If someone followed ALL the bible, they'd be stoning victims of rape unless they had cried loud enough :/ or killing people for working on the sabbath. so please don't tell me there's no picking and choosing.

WhiteWidow - I think the argument goes that Jesus is quoted as saying there is a God, and there is no possibility of him being misquoted, misinterpreted, wrong, or simply believing something without proof.

I, for one, would need more conclusive evidence, than a man good with his words claiming to be the son if god.

Of* damn iPad.

Plenty of Christian intellectuals at oxford when I was there. Huge Christian union, st ebbes and st Aldates packed with students as well as those attending university church and the college chapels and many of the philosophy and theology lecturers. . . . I'm not sure where I stand anymore but certainly plenty of them.

Having said that most of the one-s I met didn't have a problem with evolution, just countering that you couldn't be intellectual add Christian.

I'm pretty sure that gravity is 'proved' by the Maths.

Nope the maths is evidence that the theory is correct. Actually more than one theory is not correct everywhere. Newton's theory / laws break down in some cicumstances which lead to Einstein's theory of general relativity, but again in some circumstances that theory also breaks down.