If you do not believe in evolution, what DO you believe?

Question

I really don't understand what you think. Please help me understand!
Do you think humans were really around when the earth first started to have life?
What about all the fossil records that show billions of years of progress and adaptation?
What do you think of dinosaurs; did they hop on the boat with Noah or what?
What about prehistoric versions of animals we have today, for example, sloths? Obviously many species have changed since back then; why and how if not evolution?
What about cases such as dwarfism, where species who are isolated on islands tend to develop smaller to fit their enviornment?

Thanks, I'd really like to know what the other side of the coin is!

Answer 1

I believe a combination of both. I believe that God started it all. Why would he not want to let things change over time? I know from my schooling that there is no way that the earth was created in seven days. I think that when Moses wrote the creaton story down that he wrote a day just to have a unit of time down on paper. There is too much proof for anyone to argure that it was created in seven days. I also believe that much of the old testement is fables and parables to learn lessons.

Why believe in God do you ask? Well, that is just because of stuff that has happened in my life. There is no way for me to just let go of it, no matter how much i have studied the formation of the planet.

I believe that there is no way that all of this life started from nothing. Something had to start it.

Answer 2

Whew!! You have a lot of questions based on presuppositions that should also be called in to question. The theory of evolution is just that. A theory. It may seem as if it is a scientific fact but it is not. WHat fossil record shows billions of years of growth and adaptation?. Not one intermediate fossil has been found. The piltdown man was a hoax.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/archaeology/piltdown_man_01.shtm
The missing links are still missing because they never existed in the first place. AS for the dinosaurs , my bible does not say. However psalms mentions a behomoth. Some peple think this may be a dinosaur.WHat species have changed since back then? Since we do not have fossils, this statement cannot be proven. Dwarfism is a mutation, not evolution. AS for samll islanders, that is the way God made them. The same way asian people tend to be small. It is good you are seeking answers! The bible says that God rewards those who dilligently seek him. For furhther answers check out http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/qa.asp
Or try a google search. Lee Stobel has written several wonderful books on this subject.

Answer 3

I believe in creation. These are my answers to your questions as a creationist:

Yes, humans were around when the world first had life.
The fossil record can be manipulated through carbon dating. Sadly, carbon dating can not be considered an accurate measure of age as it requires an assumption of how much carbon was in the fossil in the first place. This means that creationists and evolutionists can get different ages on the same fossil using carbon dating.
Dinosaurs were with Noah assuming they weren't extinct already.
Any prehistoric animal was either an extinct animal of the same family, or a different animal altogether.
Micro-evolution, small changes to an animal's body, is obviously true as it has been observed. Creationists do not have problems with micro-evolution, but we do have problems with evolution from one animal to another. We do not believe that this can, or ever will, happen.
As for dwarfism, again, a case of micro-evolution. Animals can have small changes, however, no animal will ever change to a form that is not already in its DNA.

Answer 4

Read Genesis "the first book in the bible" to answer your first Question. The fossil records you are referring to were proven inaccurate a very long time ago, for instants the trilobite was supposed to be from one of the oldest creatures that ever lived. But, on June 1, 1968 (in Antelope Springs, Utah), William J. Meister (a non-christian evolutionist) found a human footprint "wearing a sandal" with trilobites squish on the bottom of his foot. In the pre-flood day air was purer and denser and there was a canopy in the atmosphere which blocked out most harm-full rays. therefore living beings lived a very long time and reptiles never stop growing. Man and dinosaur lived together. Mary Leaky (a evolutionist) found fossils of human foot prints directly inside dinosaur prints. as for you pre-historic version theory, it is the same animal or a cousin there of. To finish answering that question and your next, there are 6 definitions of evolution the 6th and only scientifically provable definition is micro-evolution(variations of kinds). Which is the only definition of evolution the bible agrees with.

Answer 5

im a biochem major and now in med school so belive me, i should be studying but....hehe....ok ill be concise, ...evolution is a theory of common sense and observation, its a theory based on patterns, why do whales who swim have hip bones and small littlelegs under there skin??? questions like that....anyways people asked that and foundlater that DNA makes an organism function and according to the way the pattern of the molecules inside DNA are arranged, it dictates certain features. Now DNA can be mutated for good or bad reasons...that mutation happens randomly because of the sun like in skin cancer, or just simple inaccurate duplication, the fact that DNA has the capability to mutate is evidence of change for good or bad, now the rate of the importance of change is directly influenced with time, thus in order for evolution to take plave we need milllions of years for changes in DNA to affect us. Now once this change takes place it can help or not how we are in our environment. if it doesnt then we will not be for instance fast enough and get killed earlier in life instead of reproducing and passing on our DNA to the next genration with our new mutated DNA. thus there is good and bad mutations. dwarfism is a mutation in the DNA incredibly small but yet we see the effects. luckily small people have found other small people to continue to pass on this mutation to others. evolution is about time.!!!!!!!! 4 billions years ago earth formed a habitat capable of producing DNA which is just a bunch of chemicals allighned together after 2billion years of chemicals being put together incorrectly and so forth until DNA was made and incorporated into another molecules of fats which could distinguish it form its envornment. thus after another billion years the chemicals inside the sack began to resemble what we call a cell after many trillion failed attempts.....now the only other thing challenging such an ascertaion is intelligent desine which is SCIENTIFIC!!!!!!! and its basis is on statistics!!!!!!! statistically it has been proven that another factor needs to come into play in order for the alotted time frame to exist and make these factors of evolution to exist....some call it GOD....but whatever it is it requires fator X!!!!!!!....experiments have shown though that the basic elements of DNA, pure chemicals, in lab setting with heat and electricity simulating lightning, DNA's four basic building blocks have formed....!!!!

Answer 6

Pastafarianism. With his Noodly appendage he touched the world and brought his superior sauce onto the planet. The fossil record is there to delude people with no heart who can't feel the truthiness of the correct answer. Inside the earth his great meatballs still warm us with glutin free love.

Answer 7

I believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Answer 8

And so you enter into the wacky world of the creationists.

Answer 9

if we dont believe in evolution, i think we need to believe in God. What else?

Answer 10

god put us here