Evolution OR God !!!!!?

Question

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Answer 1

Me personaly I'll lean towards evolution but i'll sit on the fence just in case ;) im wrong

Answer 2

Both. Please read on before brushing this off.

There is no doubt that things have changed or "evolved" as time progressed. This can clearly be seen through scientific research and fossils. Take for example the well known human evolution. Through science we know that this has existed.

God comes into play because something had to start this process. Just because one believes that evolution has taken place, it does not dispel the idea that it is in God's plan.

The main argument against evolution for most catholics is that it does not follow God's plan laid out in the Bible's creation story. However, as all Christians know and should understand, the bible is rarely strait forward in its explanations and therefore, the creation stories are nothing more than symbolic. God's actual creation process could very well have been different than that expressed in the bible.

Finally, Something to keep in mind.... dinosaurs. Everyone knows that they have existed... People also know that dinosaurs came before humans. The bible says that humans were created within the first 7 days that the earth existed. The numbers just really don't add up. I am not at all denying god's existence. I am simply presenting the possibility that evolution is in god's plan for the earth.

Answer 3

Evolution

Answer 4

Evolution

Answer 5

I don't think it is this or that. Evolution is scientific; we would be rejecting biology and everything that comes along with it like medicine, agriculture etc. if we reject evolution.

Now for the question of God, that is up a personal decision and does not come in the way of having a scientific attitude. Or at least should not!

Faith and reason are two different things, and can co-exist. For example, we must have faith that we can complete a task, and simultaneously use reason to figure out how. However, beliefs can be different for different people but reason must be the same.

Whether God exists or not has been debated by our kind for generations, and this debate has not benefited us in any way. In my opinion, the sooner we accept that different people have different views, the sooner we can get the benefits of science (that we take for granted) to the people who deserve it the most (and cant afford it).

Answer 6

I;m a practicing Christian, and therefore believe what the Bible says, but honestly cannot see a reason why the two cannot work hand in hand. The Bible tells us of the seven days of creation. Who are we to second guess exactly how God achieved this? What evolutionary processes took place. Had the Bible told of creation as it may have happened vis a vis evolution, its possible early man would have been too freaked out to understand. God reveals to us only what we need to know, and much of that is hard to understand, be we don't have His understanding. Funny though how there is no other planet like ours, with lifeforms on it that we have so far found. How can we be so arrogant as to rule out the possiblity that He created the lot for His own pleasure, or even ours. In truth, we just don't know, but then that is what faith is based on, and God is all about faith, not religion. Faith requires us to accept Him, in His way and embrace him as the loving and all powerful father that He is, that is why its personal, not something we can impart on others, only share what He has done for us and invite others to join the party so they don't miss out on what He has in store for them.

Answer 7

Evolution.

Answer 8

Evolution.

Answer 9

Evolution.

Answer 10

Evolution. Man made God.

Answer 11

Why can't it be both? God, or ET..., could have started the whole process off and then went for a Burton. This crazy mainly American Creationism thing is unfounded and is hardly unbiased and scientific, now is it?! No offence to all you Billy Graham advocates, but shoving religion down people's throats is just plain stupid, not forgetting anti-Christian. "God in a public school! God has no place within these walls!"

Evolutionism is supported by scientific observation and discoveries. Look at the discoveries of early possible human ancestors: Cro-Magnons, Neanderthals, Hominids... what could they be... hmm? Angels?

God could have been involved at the start of creation... the one who kicked the whole thing off. I don't see why those crazy people can't compromise, instead of having crazy dudes on British documentaries claiming that the Grand Canyon is the remnants of the Biblical Great Flood of Noah... come on... they recently found the remains of a ship, buried on a mountain in the Middle East!

My point is that the concept of evolution does not necessarily have to be against God. The Bible is allegorical and features myths from the Mediterranean and Eastern regions. The main religions, apart from Christianity, daren't say that lest it bring their own religions into disrepute.

Ok, Biblical slander aside, there is room in Darwinian theory for God. The Christian fundamentalists have got to broaden their horizons and widen their perceptions. The Early Church Fathers, for example, were influenced by near Eastern and Greek philosophy. The Bible is open to interpretation and you can't just stick to one definition for all eternity.

I do wholeheartedly apologise for my attack on the Bible. I was making a point and not trying to bring the Christian faith into disrepute. I hope no-one was offended by this. If you're offended by me apologising, then heaven help you... there's no pleasing people like you...