Do you believe that God was the motivating force behind evolution?

Question

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. Peace and Love

Answer 1

That makes total sense to me. Why cant God have caused evolution?

Answer 2

Your obsevations are on point. There are things we must ask ourselves:

What do we understand about God, evolution, or the bible? Are these understandings based on using our reasonning along with research, i.e. reading unabridged Darwin, earliest versions of bible, and most importantly other viewpoints of how the rest of the Human family conceives God and evolution?

Evolution means gradual change. From sperm and egg to embryo to fetus to infant to child to adult is evolution. Creeping to crawling to totling and falling, to walking and falling, to running and more falling.. is evolution.

The entire populations of the Human race from the beginning of the first ones and all of those who have died and all of those with us at this instant, represent a less than a second in Geologic History. If Geologic history were recoreded on a 1 hour video, Human history would not be long enough to qualify as a 10 second commercial announcement. This includes all of the discoveries, triumphs, inventions, wars, 7 wonders of the world, your questions our answers, etc.

The First Cause of All Causes is the Lord of All of the worlds. This includes living, dead, awake, asleep, dream, thinking, primitve, advanced, rational, crazy, poor, rich, theist, deist, and athesist. The First Caused of everything there is, was, or will be, caused us and the questions within us. The First Cause caused the Cogito, the Ergo, and the Sum. Creation of Everything means Everything.

Humans have a poor track record where truth is concerned, we are sophmores (wise but stupid). Stupid beings should ask the All Knowing, All Wise Being for guidance to the answer. Get ready for an odessy that is glorius. Pack a microscope, telescope, calculator, PC, internet access, and a Free Thinking Mind. Discernment is the rudder of Free Will, Thinking and Choice exercise it, protect it from tyrrants.

Answer 3

It is not so much a process of 'change' , but of evoltionary emergence. The larva does not change into a butterfly but instead becomes the fulfillment of its potential as a product of the evolution of Creation. To repeat, Creation is evolution by virtue of the emergence of potentiality into actuality. Intention of the spiritual will is sufficient. The seemingly 'new' represents the unmanifest's becoming Manifest, just as unclencing the fist reveals the open hand.

Actaulization is an option and a choice as an aspect of the will. Each postivie choice incresases the likelihood and probability of additional positive choices ( which is in accordance with the quantum theory).

Each positive choice moves one closer to a higher attractor field of consciousness. In the secular world where 'the righ get richer and the poor get poorer' , it is equally true that by integrity and effort, the formerly poor can become rich, and the formerly rich, through error, can become bankrupt.

" Behold I make all things New "

Human life offers a great value as being as being the optimum opportunity for spiritual evolution.

Answer 4

look up entropy. i trust God is the utilizing stress in the back of entropy - because we stay in fallen international and each and every thing is falling aside. and some day Jesus will come back and positioned issues back jointly back. Evolution teaches the different result. That each and every thing became in products and that is now coming jointly, that issues have become better. this can describe a international that a starting to be form of would not want God. acquaintances and that i have been speaking about this the different nighttime. merely concept i'd grant you with something to imagine about. And to respond to your question. No. guy's opt to stay without God is the utilizing stress in the back of evolution.

Answer 5

Could very well be. I never viewed believing in evolution and believing in God to be mutually exclusive.

Unless you are a strict fundamentalist that takes every word in the Bible literally, it is reasonable that at some point in evolution God decided his plan had evolved to the point that he gave a soul to one of his creations, thus separating it from the animals.

Of course, this theory will satisfy neither hard core atheists nor hard core fundamentalists, but it is plausible.

Answer 6

"The sole way of maintaining a meaning for the concept "God" would be: God *not* as the driving force, but God as a maximal state, as an epoch - a point in the evolution of the will to power by means of which further evolution just as much as previous evolution up to him could be explained."
[Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, section 639.]

Answer 7

I think your question is a question in three parts: God, Evolution & the Bible. I Believe

that "God" (that is to say a singular all powerfull omnipresent entity) is unknowable.

Any and all takes on who or what "God" is, or what "God" intends is speculation

because "God" is unknowable. Does "God' exist? Did "God" create us? etc. I believe

that we all come to terms with our own personal perspectives on those questions, and

No People should impose thier beliefs upon you when you decide for yourself what

you want to believe. Above all, always search for Truth. Take time to realy know and

understand the reasons why you choose to believe the things that you end up

believing. Take time to listen to everyone elses different perspectives without

judgement. Try to understand what brings joy and meaning to the other people that

dont share your belief, respect thier points of view and demand respect to your

points of view as well.
Evolution and "God" seem to be topics that go hand in hand but I feel that they

realy should'nt. Evolution describes a process of life living and growing and learning

and adapting to change thru time. I believe that concepts of "God" go way beyond

what small processes occure on this one tiny planet we call Earth, that floats like

miniscule plankton the sea of Everything. If you truely believe that "God" is

omnipotent, then by its very deffinition "God" is the motivating force behind

Everything.
The "Bible" has many versions and interpretations. Whats right for some peoples

"Bible", seems to be wrong for other peoples "Bibles". I dont know what Bible you are

refering to and I dont think it realy matters. I believe that the "Bibles" are catalysts

for trying to find answers to life and beyond. I believe any catayst for thinking is

good. But many people will use thier books called the "Bible" as proof of what is

truth. It is saddening that this book is used by people to say one group of people are

"Right" and all else, that dont believe similar, are evil. Does evolution contradict the

bible? The answer to that question is yes and no to different people. What realy

matters is that you have/find personal reasons for what you believe, and not just "I

believe this because other people tell me I have to believe this way."
This is all only my opinion. Do not take it as Truth. Just respect it and find joy in

all the diversity of people and culture that lives on this planet.
Take care.

Answer 8

Does that supreme intelligence explain why there were 15 or so hominids other than man's ancestors that didn't 'make it' (the most familiar being the Neanderthals)? Maybe, we're the new and improved models, altho we still have the tailbone, appendix and other unneeded apendages left over from our simian/reptilian past.

Answer 9

it depends on the type of evolution you are talking about. if you mean the whole humans came from monkeys thing, no that is crap. the man who made up that theory didnt believe it when he died. if you mean humans grow and develop throughout the generations, yes we are meant to learn fron past generations, that is what God intended(or at least that is what i think) i mean, he had people write the bible to teach us about not only him but the mistakes our ancestors made so that hopefully we wont make them as well and what we should do if we do make them.

Answer 10

nonsense, the believers of god simply need to upgrade him regularly to incorporate present understanding. They used to claim he caused disease, that it did not spread it was divine punishment, we now know what causes it and how its spread, they used to think as it says in genesis that there are two luminaries, they didn't know that moonlight is simply reflected sunlight, they used to think god picked when and where it rained, we now know about the water cycle. they used to think that the universe was created in seven days, we now know that it took much longer. everytime we gain new understanding believers simply upgrade their gods power, even going so far as to say "well he didn't relly mean seven days, that could have meant billins of years", and he chose the word "seven" and "day" because....? if you are going to go that far to propagate it then why did you believe it in the first place cause even the word day can mean eon so what is the author even saying. He's means what he says, he just didn't know whatw e know now, like the earth is older than 6000 years.