Richard Dawkins Evolution

Evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins once said, “Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence.” What needs to be understood today is that many Christians have put on blinders to the world and the only answer they have for such proponents of evolution such as Mr. Dawkins is their faith and their faith alone. While faith is very important to the Christian it is also necessary that they are able to defend that same faith. The reason that you must be able to defend your faith is that Mr. Dawkins also stated, “I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.” Christians must be prepared to respond to such statements with confidence and the only way to …show more content…
“Since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” (Romans 1:19-20, …show more content…
People want to know how it all began and how did we become the people that we are today. The ones that are asking these types of questions don’t necessarily understand physics, geology or astronomy and really don’t care about all of the debates. They want a truthful simple answer. As a Christian you need to be able to answer the questions on evolution or creation when they are presented to you. This paper is not a once and for all paper that will settle the bottom line but this paper will allow you to open your mind and to further your study into how much we do not know about the power of the