It shocks me to this day that people don’t believe in evolution. Intelligent people, ones I find technologically advanced. And yet, if you ask them, they say quite emphatically, no! I ask, ‘is it religious?’ Some will admit that it is, others will hem and haw and just say ‘no, I just don’t believe that the complexity of humans can happen without a designer.’
I follow up, I ask about DNA, viruses, changes in human height… They acknowledge those items, but say they cannot believe. I find it surprising that it is easier to believe in a non-defined being, magically creating us from a thought than nature over millions/billions of years producing the creatures that populate the planet.
I remember the first time I met someone who didn’t believe in evolution, I was in my mid 30’s. I was on a boat in the middle of the Great Barrier Reef, watching the whales. She was a young girl, 16, and she just didn’t believe. It was part of her religion. There was no communication on the subject, no discussion, just ‘no, there is no such thing because God created all of us.’ From that one simple moment in time, I have started to focus on this concept and read about it and the background. I am still flabbergasted about it.
