Why don't many scientists believe in evolution?

In the face of a scientific problem, the first thing we should pay attention to is that if scientists don't know the problem in advance, they won't take any position, which is what Newton once said: "I don't believe in any hypothesis." Any preconceived position will distort our view of a problem, including evidence.

The debate on evolution has a long history, starting with Darwin's publication of the Origin of Species 50 years ago. We should pay attention to many religious people who oppose evolution (of course, almost everyone in Europe was a religious person before 150), but there are also many religious people who support evolution (many members of the Royal Society are actually religious people). Whether you know science or not has nothing to do with whether you believe in religion or not. The key is how you learn and train scientific knowledge.

Because Darwin's theory of evolution denies the view that God created the world and everything, opposing evolution has become a basic complex for many religious people. Under this preconceived idea, it is difficult for many people to calm down and carefully understand what the theory of evolution itself is saying and what the evidence is. Religious organizations, in particular, have strong financial resources and can launch anti-evolution propaganda all the year round. This makes many religious people think that evolution and God's creationism are fundamentally opposed.

In fact, it may not be so. God's theory of creation is only a part of religious belief and belongs to the thought handed down from generation to generation. Evolution is a part of modern science. The relationship between science and religion is complicated. But as I said in another question and answer, both the Vatican Catholicism and the Anglican Church, where Darwin was born and raised, have issued official statements acknowledging the theory of evolution (of course, they also believe in God).

In the past, many propaganda against Darwin's theory of evolution was actually unreliable, such as the so-called "lack of evolutionary link fossils". Although the fossil evidence obtained by Darwin in his life is enough to support his theory of evolution, there are indeed many important link fossils that have not been discovered. However, after 150 years, archaeologists and evolutionists have discovered more and more "lost evolutionary links", which are in line with the prediction of Darwin's theory of evolution. Obviously, today's propaganda on this issue has changed from a scientific problem 50 years ago to a modern lie.

Scientists will not blindly believe Darwin's specific conclusions, but after such a long historical development, Darwin's guiding ideology of evolution, such as "natural selection, survival of the fittest", has proved to be very insightful and basically unshakable. Even religion has begun to move closer to Darwin's theory of evolution. Scientific discoveries have had such a profound impact on society. .