Evolution is a field of science that can be approached from several disciplines, including genetics, biology, zoology, paleontology, primatology, etc.
To call it a religion is a lie being spread primarily by a group of narrow fundamentalists, who for some reason seek to denigrate evolution by making it equivalent in nature to the religion they practice.
It is not equivalent. The theory of evolution is based on evidence, while religion is based on belief, in one form or another, in revelation, and that revealed knowledge is the exact opposite of scientific evidence.
But knowledge won't stop the lies, nor will facts affect fundamentalists' beliefs. Again this is just the opposite of science.
Good afternoon sir,
“The theory of evolution is based on evidence, while religion is based on belief…”
What “evidence” is there that life began with a single cell organism ?
regards
I am frequently reminded of a comment by a longtime but long-departed participant in these threads, to the effect that people who are accustomed to getting their beliefs handed to them from some infallible source assume that everyone forms their opinions the same way. The quote was something like "they think we believe in evolution because we revere Darwin; they don't get that it's the other way around, that we respect Darwin because we see the brilliance of the theory of evolution." That mindset explains why they keep calling evolution a religion, because that's the only way they can understand reaching conclusions about their relationship to the universe. And it explains why they're so interested in proving Darwin was a plagiarist, because an attack on their infallible source *would* call their belief system into question, while it doesn't affect the merits of a scientific theory at all.
Apparently the evolutionist can never talk about evolution without importing religion into their conversation. It keeps the focus off the the belief of evolution and all of its scientific weaknesses.