Who created the earth?
1. God
2. No one
3. Aliens
4. None of the above
HOW was the earth created:
1. Big Bang + Evolution
2. None of the above
It seems that people are asking the wrong questions regarding the creation of the earth and mankind. There are 2 questions. To me this is how it goes:
Who created the earth? God
How did he do it? Don't know, but looks like he used natural selection and possibly evolution.
How long did it take: 7 "periods of time". most likely billions of years.
What about the monkeys? If god wanted to make me out of a monkey, i have no problem with that. He's god, not me. Not sure how he wanted to do it. His business.
So why is it that there's such a clash between the evolutionists and the creationists? I suppose I'm an evolutionary creationist.
BTW, in Genesis 1 the creation process follows EXACTLY the proposed evolutionary process (life in the water, then land, then air, then inteligent life).
2006-06-23 06:09:35 · 16 answers · asked by Ender 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the clash doesn't involve people like you. it involves those who take one belief as fact and close themselves from hearing about the other.
2006-06-23 06:16:13 · answer #1 · answered by texandiva2006 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The validity of the existance of God vs the validity of evolution depends on where you look, and HOW you look. Evolution is based totally in the physical realm of time and space and science is at peace with it since science can only accept as theory that which it can prove.
God is eternal and cannot be subject to testing and scrutiny. God designed it to be that way for the purpose of free will choice. To see which you desire to cling to for your personal doctrine of origin. The problem is, upon death you go from the physical to the eternal, and there, all that you concluded regarding evolution, will be of no value. Remember Esau and do not trade your destiny for a bowl of beans.
"The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness?" - 2 Peter 3
2006-06-23 13:13:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've often wondered the same thing.
I've often wondered why those who believe in evolution don't seem to realize that even if evolution happened, it was God behind the whole thing.
Likewise, I've wondered why believers in God seem to feel so threatened by evolution. Surely they know that everything is possible with God -- which means that it's entirely possible that evolution took place within a Creation framework!
2006-06-23 13:20:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Keep going, you are one the correct track in answering the questions you seek answered.
"If religion suffers in some respects by these contradictions, the wrong must not be science, which cannot agree with unreasonable statements, but to men for having prematurely founded absolute dogmas, which have been made a question of life and death, upon hypothesis susceptible of being overthrown by experience."
2006-06-23 13:50:53 · answer #4 · answered by Joe Carioca 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But what about the Aliens? I heard, God created the universe, and earth and all the animals and plants and the ape men, but then the aliens came down and mixed their DNA with the ape man and made Adam and Eve. So it was both plus the aliens.
2006-06-23 13:23:47 · answer #5 · answered by cj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We did evolve from apes, just look at the chromasome count. Why assume that us humans are so special? Apart from intellect we are inferior to many other species on this planet, including life-span.
Sadly, apart from destroying his planet, the only thing man has done with his superior intellect, is invent a God to explain what he can't understand. How absolutely ridiculous.
2006-06-23 13:22:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel no need to answer I like the way you look at evoulution and God and it being both. Interesting. Glad someone finally put something educational out there.
2006-06-23 13:14:08 · answer #7 · answered by AngelBaby 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The way I see it, it's much easier to believe that God created life instantly than to believe that we evolved and then suddenly stopped evolving at the perfect time. And why are there still monkies if we evolved from them?
2006-06-23 13:14:36 · answer #8 · answered by smasher491 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your Bible isn't a book of irrefutable facts. It was written at a time when people were even dumber than they are now.
2006-06-23 13:16:34 · answer #9 · answered by Warp 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
finnaly some one else see that it can be both god and evolution. see god put many sub-specis and pitted them against each other and the winner would recive his word
2006-06-23 13:36:07 · answer #10 · answered by Mike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋