Do you believe in evolution, creation, or progessive creation? Why is it one over the other?

Question

Just looking for an explanation. Not for someone to say, "it's logical", but to actually give the reasons, the facts or feelings or influences that have made you accept one idea and reject another.

Answer 1

Evolution has scientific evidence. Creationism has none. Progressive creation is a poor compromise that favors religion and there is no evidence for it. Evolution has never been falsified in 150 years.

Answer 2

I don't have fixed beliefs; That leads to stagnation and wrong ideas. There is a huge amount of evidence in favor of evolution, however. There is no evidence for creation in the biblical sense. Progressive creation is even supider than creation.

A rational person believes in things that are possible and tries to explain things using non-miraculous processes. The lazy person finds it easier to say that whatever he doesn't understand is magic. Then when that is found not to be magic, he says some minor aspect that isn't totally understood so far is magic, but that will eventually be explained in a non-miraculous way too. Eventually there will be no excuse to say things are magic since they'll be well explained by physics, chemistry, etc.

Creation was made up to explain the world by ignorant people who weren't comfortable accepting that they didn't know how the world came to be. Making up creations stories let them think they knew something even though their beliefs were made up stories.

PS. If you actually know anything about the human body, you would know that it is far from perfect and only makes sense through evolution. A human fetus has gills and a tail. Your left recurrent laryngeal nerve hooks under your aortic arch because a past evolutionary stage had the larynx placed lower relative to the heart. Your coronary arteries have very poor collateralization giving us heart attacks (an awful design if done by God), etc. etc. etc. The human body is evidence for evolution not creation!

Answer 3

I believe in the creation of the universe and evolution without a guiding entity.

When I was growing up, I was lucky enough to see the Taung skull on display. It is something physical that could be seen. The lecturer was absolutely brilliant and made human development really exciting.

My teachers at school, when they heard that I had seen the Taung skull, were shocked at my heresy, devil worship and blasphemy. They were strict creationists and their denial that the Taung skull existed, or could be part of human evolution, made me lose faith in them. None of the answers that they gave me from their religious background, could match the actual experience of seeing the skull.

The more I investigated the matter the more convinced I became that evolution was a more logically satisfying explanation to creation than religion. Dinosaurs were also categorised as unholy. Finally a pastor thundered at me: "Would you say, in peril of your immortal soul, that you believe in evolution." I apologised and said: "Yes I would." I was hustled out of the group.

I can accept that the creation stories in the bible are a myth or a parable to explain how the world came about and I think that they are an insignificant part of the spiritual message.

Anyone who says that either straight creation in 7 days or progressive creation with intelligent design is factual, denies the physical evidence.

Religions have a history of supressing science. The concept of the round earth, a spinning ball, has taken centuries to replace the the biblical flat earth with four corners. In 1619 Italian philosopher Lucilio Vanini was burned alive for suggesting that humans descended from apes.


I just wish the biblical injunction of "render unto god the things that are god's and to ceaser the things that are ceaser's," was expanded to include render unto science the things that are science's. Surely religion should be more a matter of the here and hereafter rather than what happened before religions started.

Answer 4

As a Baha'i, I believe in the harmony of science and religion, and that one day science will prove religion.

I am not an expert, but I have done extensive research on the subject to answer my own questions. I believe that evolution is irrefutable, but at the same time, that does not mean that religion is wrong. It is possible for both to be right.

There was a great quote from a poorly written book called "The Case for a Creator." I don't remember word for word, but here is the jist of it:

Imagine a pot of boiling water. How does this happen? You could say the conductivity of the heat passes from the stove to the pot, thereby heating the water, or you could say "I put the pot of water on the stove to boil." Both are describing the same thing; neither are wrong, both are correct.

I was an atheist previously, as I felt I could explain everything away logically. But I've found it just as difficult to disprove God's existance as it is to prove it.

So, I am still actively looking for a concrete answer either way, but until the time that I find it, I must simply wait for the scientific portion to come true. Spiritually, I am fulfilled through the Baha'i faith.

To answer your question, I say Progressive Creation, simply because the existance of God has yet to be scientifically proven or disproven.

Answer 5

I believe in creation. The primary reason is that according to the Bible, there was no sin or death prior to Adam and Eve. Since this is the case, evolution doesn't work. Also, the items that were created on each day are not in scientific order (plants before sun), therefore progressive creation (aka theistic evolution) doesn't work either.

I stopped believing in Christianity for 15 years because I had a problem with the creation vs evolution issue. I finally came back after I read quite a few articles on the site below. They made sense to me and cleared out a lot of my questions.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/

Answer 6

I don't believe any of these things is the absolute answer. I believe it is possible for all these things to be correct. Evolution is a theory that holds much merit. Creation is possible if a supreme being has created us and if a supreme exists. Which I cannot say is true or untrue. I don't believe the stories in the Christian bibles are correct. Nor the Koran. I believe that we have evolved on this planet, I believe that we evolved have from simpler organisms. But from where life springs, I don't know. Good luck in your search for the truth, because that too is a part of our evolution. Just remember, respect the beliefs of others, because none of us truly know what is the absolute truth.

Answer 7

The question is flawed. It doesnt matter if you believe in evolution or not, it will still be there. Does it matter if I believe that 2+2=4? No, 2+2 will = 4 no matter if I believe it or not.

However, creationism is made up by man, along with the god myth.

You must chose one over the other because they are explanations about how we came to be. If you believe the god myth, then you believe that god made us as is, not that we evolved over billions of years from single celled organisms. Of course, if you go the evolution way (which is the correct way I might add) then you are saying that we were not created by a god, but we evolved from single celled organisms over billions of years.

Answer 8

I believe in creation. Main reason because the Bible says In the beginning God created. And-just look around you, the world, what's in it, a person and what the body is made up of and how it's put together. Snowflakes, each one different, no two alike. Evolution could never make all this be so perfect yet so different.

Answer 9

That's a fair question to ask. I believe in the principles of creationism, myself. I came to this conclusion because evolution is an unproven, unscientific, and completely unprovable "theory". For example, no transition species have ever been found between one species and another to indicate that any of them ever evolved from another. In addition there are problems with Carbon 14 dating and other methods used to date the age of fossils that make them unreliable. Finally, all the fossil skeletons used to recreate the supposed decent of man from animals have either been proven to be hoaxes or other recently deceased animals. I also don't believe in Progressive creationism, because in order for God to have created Adam and Eve using evolution, he would have had to use the countless births and deaths of millions of different species over a span of trillions of years as they transitioned from one form to the next (which again has never been observed) before the right man and woman could be chosen by God to take possession of the Garden (which itself would have had to have been refined). The Bible clearly states that before Adam there was no death or sin in the world. [Romans 5:12]. If God used evolution to create the human race, it would make God a liar. Since the Bible also states that it is impossible for God to lie [Hebrews 6:18], we have to conclude that progressive evolution was not the means he used to create the world. If you need any further help, check out www.christiananswers.net. They have the most extensive Q&A on Creationism I've ever seen. God bless you.

Answer 10

Progressive creation is evolution. One is not over the other. There are two, 2, types of time in this world. 1 being the time the moon has given us; and 2 being the time of the universe, be that the star(s) in our solar system, or an interval consisting of something in our galaxy, and/or an interval consisting of something outside our galaxy in our universe, maybe another sun or sun-like star or something completely different.

So, to put it in simple terms, just as the earth rotates counter-clockwise making day and night going around the sun, our solar system may be revolving around something similar in our galaxy and/or out of our galaxy but in our universe.