The Creationists hate me for suggesting God Designed mankind to evolve and the Evolutionists hate me for suggesting there is a Creator.
Intelligent Design is supposed to be embraced by both sides, why does neither side want anything to do with it?
2006-07-03 12:04:42 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why does neither side want anything to do with it? No one wants to admit that they are only "partially right." In my experience, people who are very hopped up by this issue embrace it so passionately and have such strong views on religion that they don't want to (or just can't) think outside of their own box.
2006-07-03 12:11:09 · answer #1 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
people try to turn everything into a fight, just look at politics, most people treat it more seriously than religion. I think they just see you as a fence sitter and not a legitment argument. Personally I'll have to disagree with them. You look at evolutionists, and sure theyve got this whole theory of evolution, it seems pretty valid some of the time, but then people remember it was written by a half senile old man who actually rejected it as a theory later in his life. then creation makes since, why wouldnt there be an all powerful being that made all of life, seeing as how every race of man has had a relegion as far back as can be remembered, even the atheists worship something "science". but in the bible with the creationists theory it says the earth was made in a week, but time as we know was not yet established, and the bible also says that the entire lifetime of a man is like a breath to God. so, if eachone of those 7 days where a day in the mind of God then it probably would have been somwhere near 3-4 billion years. this theory is most definetly legit. This is the same theory i belive in
2006-07-03 12:20:33 · answer #2 · answered by Hellion 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never could understand why people need to believe in one side. One good reason is the bible seems to state everything being created 6000 years ago. Even as a Christian I can not believe that. Each day of creation must be a billion years. Also we were created from the dust-so were the monkeys and so were the very first life, therefore if everything was first created from the dust then so were we. I know I came from my mother but still we are made of elements from the earth. So you and I were made from the dust just as Adam and Eve who were the first that God called his Human kind.
God is powerful enough to make a system to work itself so he will not need to maintain it. Evolution is necessary for that process. If nothing adapted to changes the process would have come to an end a long time ago. That is certainly an I.D.
2006-07-03 12:41:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All creatures were made by God to evolve within their own species. Wolves can evolve into domestic dogs, but humans can't evolve from or into another kind of species, not a fish or an ape. That's why humans are still humans, apes are still apes, and fish are still fish. Bones don't prove beyond speculation a so-called "missing link" because there hasn't been any ape naturally born of ape parents known to modern science that can talk and do all the things humans can do. "Planet of the Apes" is still just a fictional movie.
2006-07-03 12:08:28 · answer #4 · answered by Life 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While I have no problem with it, Creationists are generally Fundamentalists (the Bible is literal). Evolutionists are generally not against it, they just want the proof of God first. (the argument being that I.D. is not science without following the steps for hypothesis to theory)
2006-07-03 12:09:09 · answer #5 · answered by Ananke402 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey, ur beliefs make u sound like a Muslim, lol! Evolution = God's will
A verse from the Quran from a chapter entitled Insan (man):
76:28 [They will not admit to themselves that] it is We who have created them and strengthened their make - and [that] if it be Our will We can replace them entirely with others of their kind.
Also translated:
76:28 It is We Who created them, and We have made their joints strong; but, when We will, We can substitute the like of them by a complete change.
The big debate between God and science has existed for centuries, but not very many open their minds to the idea that both exist and both are in complete harmony.
2006-07-03 12:14:12 · answer #6 · answered by hayaa_bi_taqwa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may be a compromise, but it has nothing to do with reality. Fact is, in the evolution-creation "debate," there's an absolute right answer (which happens to be evolution), so trying to come up with a compromise is just silly. Compromises only work for opinions, not actual facts.
2006-07-03 12:09:09 · answer #7 · answered by Ellie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Intelligent Design was started for and only as a way to get creationism into public schools. It failed. Now that we all know what it is and isn't it's simplest to drop a failed political tool.
2006-07-03 12:12:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not against you. But I don't think science has proven God just yet. As a Baha'i, I believe in the harmony of science and religion, just as you do.
Best wishes.
2006-07-03 12:10:21 · answer #9 · answered by K M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha! Ha! The only reason I'm against is because you think we all evolved from monkeys when there is no such thing as evolution.
2006-07-04 06:52:10 · answer #10 · answered by Da Great 1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋