Couldn't GOD use evolution as a tool to better GOD's creations??
2006-07-15 23:19:19 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
awakening1us- Well, people die don't they?
Animals have gone extinct right? He created them as well...
2006-07-15 23:25:17 · update #1
Of course people believe in evolution. What you suggest is possible btw, but an omnipotent creator could have simply designed his creation without the need for improvements. For your supposition to work, you have to assume that 'god' created faulty items.
Jamie:
Well, certainly people die - but you are assuming that this means that the design model was broken. I do not. You are also assuming the necessary presence of a god. I am not though I think we can work within that template for this discussion.
Just as I started out 18 inches long and am now 5'11" does not mean that the 18 inch model me was incorrect and needed 'fixing', I also don't believe that people being alive and then dying is incorrect and in need of fixing. As for animals going extinct, there is nothing to say that they did not yet serve the entirety of their purpose according to a master plan and then were replaced or removed.
2006-07-15 23:23:35 · answer #1 · answered by awakening1us 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I know that evolution from one species to another is just a myth. The only evolution I belive that has happened is in the intellectual area of the human mind. The herbivorous elephants that lived a 1000 years ago live the same way as they do now but the only considerable change you will find is in the humans. Compare any species to their ancestors and you get the answers. Species go extinct I don't deny it but there is a reason and purpose for all that.
Maybe if the dinosaurs still lived in conjunction with humans today we would have a terrible problem in the survival as they would be taking a bigger part of the resources of the planet (just a thought). God has plans for everthing set... If the dinasours and ancient plant didnot convert to fossil fuel, how do you think the recent industrial revolution would have been possible.
So thinking that GOD's creation has flaws takes his authority away from him that he is perfect i.e. if you think that testing his creations in this world and keeping which seems best and removing what seems unfit is totally out of question. And if that is true then what is the difference between GOD and Human - his best creation.
2006-07-16 06:51:30 · answer #2 · answered by Monk Mst 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in evolution. I am not spiritual, however, evolution could be a tool used by a god(s) in this and many other universes. If you look at evolution in a non-emotional, scientific manner, it is a logical and orderly process, flexible enough to cope with disaster (extinction) yet specific enough to evolve levels of intelligence in all species on earth. All animals contain a certain level of intelligence. For all we know, we could be God's science experiment. After all, we study insects and the so called lower orders of animals. Does that preclude someone godlike or even just alien from studying us?
2006-07-16 06:28:33 · answer #3 · answered by Mary Lynn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God certainly uses evolution in creation. The difference is that secularist will not allow Christians to ask the question of "Who was the cause of the First Action" "Who caused the First Movement" in the Big Bang or any other theory of creation.
Science itself proves that for every action there is a reaction. The secularist in charge of public education limits and denies the discuss in God being this First Action or First Movement. They will not allow students to contemplate that God can and does work outside the laws that humans have discovered.
This is one of the last bigotries that are condone and perpetrated by the established educational elite.
2006-07-16 06:29:53 · answer #4 · answered by Lives7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's called the Gap theory and it's been around for several years. The Kabbalists (Jewish Mystics) figured it out centuries ago, and I think some Christians started taking it into consideration in the 70s. The theory is that a "day" as written in Genesis, actually refers to a time period that is closer to several million years. These are God's days, and therefore since God exists outside of time (God created time) a day doesn't necessarily mean to him what it would mean to us.
2006-07-16 06:24:05 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Darwin's theory of natural selection has been grossly misstated as men coming from monkeys and such nonsense. There are defects in his theory such as the fact that the changes that have occurred in some species exist and so does the original species. He does make good points, too, or his theory would have long ago been dismissed. The idea of creationism is much harder to swallow.
2006-07-16 06:27:21 · answer #6 · answered by ringocox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who believes in science, believes in evolution. Simply because all the evidence that it exists is plain to see. Obviously God does use evolution. Why wouldn't He? Wouldn't you want to continuously improve your creations?
2006-07-16 06:25:18 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. Peachy® 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A question back: Did it just go*pop* and there was God? Where do you think God came from? Who created him? Nature and evolution might be a good response don't ya think?
2006-07-16 06:23:05 · answer #8 · answered by Obilee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Millions, maybe billions of people do believe in evolution. I don't even like to use the word 'believe' here. 'Accept' is a better word.
As for God, well that's interpretation and I feel no need to comment on it.
2006-07-16 06:27:22 · answer #9 · answered by XYZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe god made adam and eve. and then they and there children died so humans no longer existed.
so he created evolution so that they wouldnt die so soon.
(im agnostic so im just giving out a possiblity as to how evolution could fit into religeon)
2006-07-16 06:29:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋