I'm still very confused. Why do some Christians say evolution is evil? Please help me understand?

Answer 1

Before public education, books were held in higher regard than they are today. Illiterate people also held the literate in awe. Being in awe of both, they believed that anything in print, was to be believed. That is why people say the Book, is Literal Truth. This is the cornerstone of Fundamental Thought. If you challenge the Book, you challenge their heritage, their authority in their family, and for many, you challenge their nation. Whether you are right or wrong really doesn't matter to a Fundi. You are a threat to their way of life. A predator, so to speak.

Read Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn. Twain explains this very well.

Answer 2

Some Christians don't like evolution because to them it doesn't fit how the world was created in the Bible. The Bible says the world was created in 7 days (if interpreted literally), but evolution says it took millions of years! This is the hardest part of evolution for most Christians to accept.
Also the theory of evolution can be interpreted as a replacement of God. Before evolution, we used God as the only explanation for the creation of life- but now we can just use evolution.
In addition evolution's ideas of natural selection ("survival of the fittest") and an impersonal rule of the universe strongly contrast the views of love for everyone and the idea of a personal, caring Creator that many Christians hold.

Answer 3

First I am Christian and I believe evolution is the best fitting model of system development, including biological systems.

There are two reasons. The first really is the most important. They are the fact that evolution could be seen to invalidate sola scriptura and hence invalidate Protestantism and second it implies that there was death before man existed and that implies that original sin and in particular the Western Christian conceptualization of original sin is invalid. Since Protestants are much more in tune with sin related issues as a group, the more extreme members address this even further.

If your theology is dependent upon sola scriptura, evolution is the falsfying case. In other words, if evolution is correct fundamentalist Christianity is false and most Protestant groups either need to amend the idea of sola scriptura or abandon it.

Far more subtle is the issue of death. The Eastern Church and the Western Church split along the lines of original sin. As such, Catholicism has never really officially chosen one view over the other and Orthodoxy professess one but not dogmatically. Both just accept original sin as theologically correct. The Eastern Church holds a view that would allow most to escape this problem, but the Western Church really does not. Protestantism is really just the logical extreme positions of Western Christianity. If dinosaurs died before Adam and Eve were created, then eating the apple did not cause death. Jesus then becomes, in this conceptualization, not only unnecessary but meaningless.

Of course, part of the reason of the split in the views is Augustine. He did not read Greek, he read his scripture in Latin. The Vulgate translates an important passage as "because of sin, all men die." Unfortunately, Jerome decided to pick and choose between choices. The sentence in Greek can mean that, but the better meaning is simultaneously "because of death all men sin," and "because of sin, all men die." Men sin because we are broken and limited. The imperfection separates us from God who is eternal life. Men die because we sin, we sin because we die. The apple becomes a very different issue then.

It is an attack upon the assumptions of Protestantism. It is the falsifying case. Therefore, it is against God. Therefore, it is evil.

There are far more serious scientific contradictions in the bible than evolution, but only evolution attacks Protestantism directly. The others are explained away.

Answer 4

Evolution goes upon the theory of the Big Bang theory. That is how life began, the gasses from the remains of the star created enough of a mix that it began life, as a bateria or microorganism.
Then everything else on the planet evolved from this.

Christians belive in creationism, that God put Adam and Eve on the Earth and that is where our human life came from. If you have ever read the bible, it goes through the 7 days of the creation of the Earth, he gave light, he gave water, he gave stars and so on until everything on the planet had been created.

That is why Christians don't believe in evolution.

Answer 5

Actually, evolution could very well have taken place in light of scripture. Genesis chapter 1:2 says "and the Earth was without form and void.". According to a Jewish friend of mind that accepted Jesus (she happens to read and speak Hebrew) she told me in a long conversation that in Hebrew that verse says BECAME formess... In our discussion she told me that according to the Hebrew structure, there was something here before man was created.

The idea is that dinosaurs WERE here and that cannot be explained away no matter how well you quote Scripture. According the Jewish writtings/tradition, the Earth was full of life and for whatever reason, God re-created what was here and created man.

Were there dinosaurs? Yes! Did man evolve from apes? NO! On his death-bed, Charles Darwin proclaimed "I have perpetrated the worst error in the history of man-kind" in talking about evolution.

Answer 6

In Genisis, the Bible says that God created all of the animals on Earth. Evolution theory proposes that animals grew from other animals, gradually changing over time until they became the creatures we recognise. These two theories are mutually exclusive. Therefore some christians who take the Bible to be the literal truth are unwilling to consider evolution because it directly contradicts their beliefs.

Answer 7

Because evolution clearly demolishes the foundation of Christianity. Anything that attempts to show the lies of Christianity is considered evil.

Answer 8

The beginning of the Bible discusses creationism, which is different from evolution. If this part is inaccurate, some feel that that would make it likely that the rest is false. Some feel threatened and nobody wants to find out that his/her religion is wrong.

Answer 9

Because the theory of evolution goes against their beliefs.

P.S. That's a long @ss answer above me, is that really necessary? Wow, some people really strive to be chosen for best answers. Good job.

Answer 10

Because they reject the glorious wisdom of Intelligent Design!

God created evolution, evolution proves the existence of God.


Glory be ID