Why did people reject natural selection?

Answer 1

Because many people found it contary to The Bible's - and the Church's - teachings that man had been created by God. Also many people thought the concept repugnant and or impossible that man had 'descended from the apes'.

Answer 2

Because you need a whole, complete, perfect eye to be able to see. It is unlikely that creatures could have evolved let's say an eighth of an eye, then a quarter of an eye, then half an eye, then a full eye... it just wouldn't work. One of the reasons why I don't believe in evolution. :)

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That's no reason at all! Nor would eyes evolve in fractions: that's daft, unless you mean in volume. I'm afraid if you are going to disbelieve in evolution you will have to understand it and basic Biology first.

Very simple organisms have very simple eyes that essentially just detect light or dark, and might be sensitive to particular wavelengths of light in perhaps a narrow spectrum, depending on what the animal needs. Our own eyes have different sensitivities to those of other animals, for example. This holds true now, and there is no reason to assume the first multicellular organisms would have been any different.

Over time, as animals evolved in complexity, their organs including the eyes would have developed in parallel, but again reflecting species' own needs. By the time of the early terrestrial animals, the principles of physiology would have been well advanced, and that includes sight.

Answer 3

Natural selection is a blind, mindless natural process. Many people like or need to believe that their lives have some meaning beyond what they themselves and their societies attribute to it, and therefore have trouble accepting a model that says that there is no special reason for humans to exist, but that we are just one possible outcome of many.