Friday, February 12, 2010

Did any of you have parents who taught you that evolution is false.?

When you got an education what did you think about them? Did you understand that they just lacked education or do you think they chose ignorance and tried to make you that way too?





I, honestly, don't remember ever having a discussion about evolution with my parents. My father is a very intelligent man who finished a 30 year career in the Air Force as a Colonel. If I had gone to him and stated the earth is 10,000 years old and dinosaurs walked with Adam and Eve, he would have laughed in my face.Did any of you have parents who taught you that evolution is false.?
I was raised as a JW and they are very much creationists. I was afraid to take biology class in high school because I thought I would have to 'lie' about evolution being true on tests. When I went to college, I still had that 'fear' of evolution and losing faith in God and so I avoided biology classes. I so regret that because now that I am out of that religion and thinking for myself, I know what I missed. I have since read about it and the many ideas surrounding the mechanisms.





As far as my parents go, I think they were brainwashed by the JWs to believe or get out. I think they chose ignorance because they thought they had to, and then they believed the ignorance and 'taught' it to me. Did any of you have parents who taught you that evolution is false.?
I vaguely remember my mom being annoyed that they were teaching about evolution in my science class, but it was never an issue. She's a very intelligent woman who simply hasn't studied a lot of that stuff. The older she gets, the more open-minded she is.





She also didn't like it when our social studies books taught about religious beliefs other than Christianity. Her opinions on that have changed dramatically, too.
Yes of course. My parents loved me enough to tell me the truth. In the beginning God created the heaven %26amp; the earth..This truth has been handed down from parents to children since the beginning of time. Unfortunately there are many who refuse to believe the truth . You and your father appear to be two who do refuse.





You think you are intelligent because you do not believe in creation?





Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.



I was taught evolution in primary school. My parents never told me that it was false. What I was grateful for and still is today is that they taught me that God is love and that the creation story is true. Now that I could use my brain and research for myself between evolution and creation; I came to the conclusion that God is real and creation is also.
No. To be perfectly honest we never really discussed it.





My father is a Deist with a degree in chemistry. Science was not my mother's bag, but she was a smart lady.





I spent my childhood watching nature shows. I know some religious people say they see gods work in nature. I saw the majesty of nature and evolution just made sense to me. You don't even need any formal science degree to see how species are related and a god never came into my picture. Evolution wasn't even formally taught when I was in High School. It wasn't till years later in college I had any kind of formal education in evolution.
My folks are super old-school, pre-Vatican II Catholics that don't believe anything the Pope or the Bible doesn't tell them. They are biblical literalists. I was sent to Catholic boarding school my entire life ... and I don't think I once discussed evolution (or really science at all, for that matter) with them.





My being an atheist is a huge deal ... my being a grad student in evolutionary biology/marine science is horrifying to them - especially when topics on the origins of life come up.





We just don't talk about it anymore. It gets ugly. And I really hate to see my folks worked up. I'd like to think they are smart. What they do know and believe, they know well. They are just selectively intelligent, I suppose. Willfully ignorant, for sure. But I love them and their old school ways nonetheless :)
';Did any of you have parents who taught you that evolution is false.?'; - I did not. My parents separated religion from state, and stayed out of my education, except to get my homework done on time. It was my responsibility to learn and prepare for my life, with their help I think I am doing pretty good. My parents understand GOD works mysteriously, and that the gifts we are given help understand our planet, universe, and used to help each other live better.





Peace.






My parents are very religious fundamentalist protestants, and neither went to a day of high school, but both were smart enough to know that the mysteries of creation of the universe and its life were beyond simple story book explanations.





They believed God is ultimately responsible for it all, and that was enough. They never wanted to ignore or argue with basic science.





If we could only get back to such farmer-style common sense.
I was taught that both creationism and evolution were true to an extent. It was up to me to decide what that extent was. At the time, it was rather confusing as each theory seemed to contradict on many levels. But, now I'm very thankful that I wasn't given only one ';truth';. It gave me the Independence to search for my own answers.
Nope they sent me to church, Never need to ask about evaluation because the school crammed it down my throat, so they thought. On my test day the Questions on Evaluation ,I wrote out the truth from the Bible,LOL . She didn't mark them wrong,LOL. I know this my parent my mother is no longer here, but I know she would say the devil will deceive whom ever lets him do so. D+evil=Devil and God+o=good. the Bible mentions of a story before the cleansing of the earth(Noah and the Flood) of the Fowls (UFO possible,lol) having wrong relations with humans and having children that looked thousands of years older then their parents. Noah did live 950 years, and we now only could live 120 years if we obey the Laws of the word and stay healthy. Note in the first 4 books of the Bible their are 613 Laws, now some of witch were for those days Most of witch are still needed today. And even God has his top 10 list ,LOL.
My parents didn't tell me a thing about evolution, What I learned about evolution I learned in high school and college (I did used to be a biology major), and looking at the ';facts'; to support evolution, I'd personally have to say that people and really really REALLY making a HUGE stretch to call it a scientific fact. I came to these conclusions on my own by carefully looking at the arguments and supposed evidence for evolution, and i'm sad to say that it really all falls short.
My Dad was a science teacher and my Mom was a nurse. We had tons of literature lying about the house, but the most we got out of them was nagging about getting the chores done and saying our daily prayers, and our prayers at meal times and our prayers when we slept and when we woke.....nothing about evolution at all. The nuns didn't make any such fuss either. It was a school subject, like Music or Shakespeare
Yes. My fundie parents taught me that god did it. I used to think they were the smartest and most honest people in the world when I was a young child. I was so deeply hurt and disappointed when I learned otherwise. The whole santa thing (and other lies) didn't help either.
My father, who believes in Christ but is not a member of any denomination, believes in evolution.





My mother, Catholic, never showed any interest in talking about it.





Neither of them ever told me evolution was false.
No, evolution is true. Evolution theory is a theory and not a fact. They did not think we evolved the way the evolutionary theory guesses it. My family believes in the Bible record
No, although I had a babysitter who was a YEC. I was four or five and obsessed with dinosaur books, and we got in an argument about carbon dating.





Yeah, I was a weird kid.
They have to be taught that nonsense at an early age and be made terrified by stories like Noah and Elisha and the bears to keep from questioning it .
My parents didn't really acknowledge it one way or the other. My mother had some sort of wacky doublethink mentality where she believed both science and Genesis... probably as a lot of Christians do.
No, thank pasta! My parents are atheists. They mostly let me figure it out for myself (with the help of the public school system).
i originally tried to argue against evolution with my dad (christian) and lost, horribly. now i understand evolution
i don't think my parents have any idea of evolution nor do they care. they don't talk about it.
My parents told me the evolution fairy tale to help me sleep at night.
No. But then, neither of my parents knew dick about science, so they never really mentioned the subject at all.
Nope, my parents were educated too.


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My dad has his MBA from Harvard.





And no. He doesn't think the earth is 6000 years old.
No. My parents did not lie to me.
Yes
my parents let me decide for myself
my parents never made it an issue
No. I figured it out myself (with God's help).


On another subject, I was just looking at your profile and your quote from Abraham Lincoln. I would like to point out that Lincoln was not converted until shortly before his death. He grieved a long time over the death of his son and one day a Christian was talking to him and reminded him that he would see his son again in heaven. It was at that moment that he ';saw the light'; and trusted Christ. So it doesn't surprise me that he made a remark like that in earlier years.
nope


my mother was atheist


and public schools taught me what to believe.


which is evolution





it was the appearance of jesus in a vision of glory that proved to me that evolution is wrong.


the book of genesis says that God created man to till the earth. he created man from the dust, the mud and elements of the earth. He created EVE from the rib of adam. NOPE created beings both of them.

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