Is it wrong that i think evolution denyers are absolute tools?

I am a Christian and God is not just a “big man in the sky.” The fact that with all the modern science and technology, they can still not prove that God isn’t real speaks for itself. I don’t think many people in developed nations deny science, there is still no 100% proven explanation for how the Big Bang started

*Denier

You tool.

this must be that rule 34 ive read so much about

What!!?? 34 fucking percent....holy fuckballs. I had no idea it was that high. I suppose it should have been obvious due to all the retards milling around, but one in three people is shocking.

By complete chance, earlier this morning I typed this comment up, so I might as well repost it here. It's me starting off with listing some proven facts and then explaining why they're difficult to reconcile with the Bible even when thinking symbolically:

About plants, it's a bit fuzzy. Eukaryotic cells developed about 2 billion years ago when one cell engulfed another and formed a symbiotic relationship with it instead of digesting it. This is what led to organelles (a cell's internal organs). The engulfed cell became mitochondrial in nature.

At this point, cyanobacteria already existed. They were photosynthetic and predate plants, animals, and fungi. They helped oxidize the Earth, as oxygen is the byproduct of their form of photosynthesis. This is very plant-like but they weren't plants.

About 1.5 billion years ago the previously mentioned eukaryotic cells branched out three ways so as to later form fungi, animals, and plants. The plant lineage engulfed aforementioned cyanobacteria and gained yet another new organelle: the chloroplast. This was the true birth of plants.

Technical animals, plants, and fungi were born more or less simultaneously. While they had new features from forming symbiotic relationships with engulfed cells that became organelles, they were technically single-celled at this point and didn't behave much like the animals, plants, and fungi we think of today.

About 900 million years ago, various eukaryotes of all three of these branches began to exhibit colonial behavior, eventually making the jump from close-knit colonies to true multicellular organisms. We can see this sort of jump happening again today with choanoflagellates, which are incredibly similar to early unicellular animals.

There were some important developments in all three branches after the jump to multicellular but it wasn't until around 535 million years ago that life finally went nuts; after several billion years of playing the long game and developing a foundation for this, life finally had the means to immensely diversify and something resembling the modern ecosystem began to emerge via natural selection during something known as the Cambrian Explosion. It required just 5 million more years for vertebrates to appear among countless other new body plans.

While the aforementioned three branches developed essentially simultaneously, it was 465 million years ago that plants indeed first started making a serious jump from the ocean and taking over the land before the other two branches.

440 million years ago, lobe-finned fish developed sacs that allowed them to gulp a small amount of air when oxygen levels in the water fell too low. These sacs eventually became lungs and allowed for tetrapods (four-legged animals) to live in shallow water. About 397 millions years ago they left the water altogether and later even gave rise to amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Contrary to common thought regarding animals, it was the ancestors of modern mammals, not modern reptiles, that first dominated the land. Sauropsids were the ancestors of dinosaurs and synapsids were the ancestors of mammals. Synapsids were extremely reptile-like though. About 320 millions years ago, they dominated the land as various huge creatures well before the dinosaurs did.

Then about 250 million years ago, an extinction event far worse than what later happened to the dinosaurs occurred; it wiped out 95% of life on Earth. Despite that, sauropsids survived in small numbers and gave rise to the dinosaurs that would now dominate the land. The previously ruling synapsids survived only as small, nocturnal creatures that would give rise to modern mammals.

Well, just when dinosaurs were getting cocky, SMASH! They had a good run, but as we all know well, 65 million years ago they suffered an extinction event when an impact offered an Uno reverse card on top of that last extinction event. This event wasn't as bad as the aforementioned one overall but it spelled the end for dinosaurs and mammals took over.

6 million years ago the ancestors of modern day humans branched away from chimpanzees and bonobos.

There's little hope of rectifying the Bible with all this. As I have said, to even attempt to you have to jump through some serious hoops and there's zero hope of condensing it into seven literal, modern days.

This is far from the first time I've encountered the possibility that we're using YHWH's thousand-year days. All the same, Earth spent its first 7,000 years with a lava ocean for a surface, so that's not looking good. In fact, I can even offer a handicap and allot YHWH million-year days. All the same, those first 7,000,000 years Earth was a hellhole daily experiencing bombardment as it coalesced, impacts worse than what would later be rare extinction events.

So I suppose we can allow YHWH to cheat just to _really_ play the Devil's advocate here because it's the only way. We can ignore the fact that the solar system formed simultaneously from a solar nebula and that we've confirmed Earth and the moon are the same age via radiometric dating. We can pretend the sun illogically didn't yet exist until the fourth day and allow him to use whatever duration he wanted before that point so as to ensure the Earth isn't a horrible hellhole at the point that he supposedly makes oceans, land, and plants such as trees.

Well we immediately run into some serious trouble. Most obviously, we're using units of many millions of years, so plants are expected to have survived this without the sun. This is ignoring the millions of years it required for plants to evolve and that the necessary cyanobacteria, as photosynthetic organisms, could never have thrived without the sun. This is all ignoring that the Earth would be frozen without the sun, but again, we're throwing logic in the garbage left and right to make this work. Frankly, you have to have the sun in place.

So when YHWH creates the sun, he also creates the moon. As the moon has a powerful tidal effect on the planet, its sudden introduction would have absolutely _shit-wrecked_ the land until things stabilized, ruining all the previous progress there.

So on the fifth day YHWH makes creatures of the sea. It's nice that he creates them before creatures of the land. It's not so nice that he creates them after flowering plants which didn't exist until _billions_ of years after creatures of the sea. He also creates flying creatures before creatures of the land, which didn't happen that way.

There's simply no reconciliation here. To even _speculate_ that this is true, one has to perform Olympian level mental gymnastics and certainly resort to so much symbolism and "because magic" arguments that one can just as readily argue the credibility of any book of the fantasy genre.

Why do you care about what someone else believes? It's a weird thing to get upset over. And do you know the sample size of the 34% who surveyed?