They are a perfect match for evolution, but how do they work in a biblical sense?
2006-07-02 06:51:49 · 13 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thank you johnslat.
Correction: fundamentalist Christians...
2006-07-02 07:00:48 · update #1
Simple. If you lazily keep yourself ignorant of actual facts, it is easy to believe anything.
2006-07-02 06:56:49 · answer #1 · answered by cornfunkel 2 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I think you may have a wrong idea about "theists."
Here's the dictionary definition:
"belief in the existence of one God viewed as the creative source of man and the world who transcends yet is immanent in the world."
I consider myself to be a theist (or deist), and I have no problem whatsoever reconciling God with evolution.
Maybe you meant "fundamentalist Christians" who believe in the literal Bible - i.e. Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, the seven days (literally) of creation.
2006-07-02 06:58:37 · answer #2 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a theist (I believe in God) but I don't accept any scriptures as "word" of God. Instead I believe that the cause and effect and laws of order, circumstance, action to reaction, are signs of intelligent design. For some strange reason I think of evolution as a sign of intelligent design, and of a God.
2006-07-02 06:56:57 · answer #3 · answered by too_live_forever 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible that when we send the young people to the next earth with technology and the old bible that they may not form a civilization and become so badly inbred that they will become close to the apes in appearance again. Another implantation of man and a bible would become necessary for that earth to progress as we have. We have progressed so well that we are not likely to become cave men again in this cycle of life .
2006-07-02 07:01:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that God was the motivating force behind evolution. As we mature, we find better words to explain this fact. I don't believe evolution contradicts the bible, as a matter of fact, I think it upholds it. We are given what we can understand as to Who God is as we mature as a race. Young race, simple answers. Maturing race , complicated answers. They are still the same answer. As the Navajo and Lakota say. "What is, is."
Peace and Love
2006-07-02 07:05:33 · answer #5 · answered by digilook 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible clearly warns against homos getting erections and as for Australians picking their nose, well the Bible doesn't say, but I'm sure it's frowned upon.
2006-07-02 07:04:31 · answer #6 · answered by Nerdly Stud 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
can't answer that right now-but you just made me look up 'theism' i never knew there was a title for some one that doesn't believe in religious dogma but still knows the truth!thank you ! from now on when i'm asked i can truly say i am the opposite to an atheist.....yahoo! xxxxxx thank you for the question it triggered an answer for me and i'll work on your's: ktf.x
2006-07-02 07:08:26 · answer #7 · answered by Tommy D. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm Roman Catholic, so I don't know if I count: I'm Franciscan...we're pretty "liberal," if you MUST label us.....
Catholics have NO PROBLEM with evolution. PROTESTANTS (and even then, not all of them) are the ones YOU have a problem with.
We LIKE science. In fact, a LONG TIME AGO, the pope himself said that Catholicism and science were COMPLETELY COMPATIBLE.
Someone explain to me why I still have to clarify that? Please?
2006-07-02 07:43:32 · answer #8 · answered by tslittleflower 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Devil put your evil fossils there and then invented universities and science so that evil scientists would learn about those fossils and spread lies about them, causing people to doubt God. The Devil likes that!
2006-07-02 07:00:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
Being a theist doesn't require one to believe in the Bible or to DISbelieve in evolution.
2006-07-02 06:56:08 · answer #10 · answered by professionaleccentric 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do not fit into traditional christianity. There are other options however for those who have met God.
2006-07-02 06:57:25 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋