So if you don't believe in the Bible and you've got your own thing going on, where did the theory of evolution come from? Even if we all evolved from fish with arms, who made the fish? If man and all his science can't create life itself from nothing, then who can? And I don't want to hear any scientology mumbo-jumbo. :)
2006-07-20 07:48:56 · 45 answers · asked by CHRISTINA 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You can't get something from nothing... so there had to be a Creator... that's the most obvious explanation to me.
2006-07-20 07:52:07 · answer #1 · answered by .·:*RENE*:·. 4 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Wow, the intemperance of youth.
You are asking too much, and you will find you get nothing in return. That's the problem with these "debates". We find that after awhile we are talking past one another and find nothing substantial has been learned.
First of all, what do you mean by "believe". If you think that is a simple concept, then you have gone far past quite substantial people who have struggled with it as much as Jacob who struggled with God. But if you chose to simply believe, then you have made an impressive choice.
Can you accept that others struggle, however? Sometimes these struggles do not end as decisively as yours, but you can learn to accept and commune with people who have different thoughts. I am certain that you do so already.
The issue of our bodies and the origins of consciousness likewise is not a simple one. Even in the Bible, we see differing accounts within the book of Genesis. Can you accept such a contradiction and still have belief? Of course. Jesus did. Yet, Jesus rebelled as well, by healing people on the Sabbath.
With the new tools of science, we have learned about the origins of life on this planet. If Jesus were alive today, he would rejoice our knowledge about healing. He would also seek to integrate our new knowledge into the Kingdom of Heaven upon this earth so that our tools - the tools that have no morals or ethics - are used to bring hope and justice to the world, and help to the suffering.
Now, what was your question again?
2006-07-20 08:01:37 · answer #2 · answered by Andy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The term "Evolution" basically means that things change over time to adapt to their environment, as needs be. Personally I believe in a higher power, I just don't believe any of the "Men" who wrote the bibles of the past have gotten it right. It has been proven that the building blocks of life can be created in what was then a primordial soup that existed on this planet eons ago, simply by hitting the "soup" with electricity like lightning for example. The problem we as humans have is imagining the length of time that things take to happen, and I think the western bibles only give it 6000 years, which has to be way off as time lines go. My question to you is, why does it have to have been created by "Someone" or "Something" ? Why can't you understand the concept that things just happen, for apparently no reason, and it is us Humans who have tried to explain everything that relates to us as being because of some deity or another. This smacks of Male control of everything and anyone, and the western religions especially are very male centric, and very misogynist in nature, and I wonder as a woman you haven't asked that question yourself...why is it that you allow a male dominated regime spoon feed you this drivel that they preach from their pulpits telling you that you have to believe?
2006-07-20 07:59:22 · answer #3 · answered by Crowfeather 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"any scientology mumbo-jumbo"
First of all, Scientology(Tom Cruise) has NOTHING to do with science.
Second, science has tried to disprove evolution for 140 years and it has held up. Can believers say the same about God?
Third, simple minds will only accept simple answers and evolution is a complex process that requires much study and learning to properly understand. Exercise your brain a little and look into it, all your questions will be satisfactorily answered.
2006-07-20 07:55:38 · answer #4 · answered by Kenny ♣ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I have my own thing, then I don't believe evolution. But to answer, the theory of evolution came from Darwin. If you want to know how things came from, then you want the big bang, not evolution. If you say everything came from somewhere, so where did the fish came from. Then some would say god. Then who made god? If he is eternal, then things don't have to have a beginning, so the fish could be eternal, and would not need a creator, defeating the myth of a creator by its own logic.
2006-07-20 07:54:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe you can actually pick one side or the other. What if the big bang theory is true and God caused it to happen? I don't believe man be created from dirt or single celled organisms w/o help from a superior being. If that was possible why are we no longer popping up out of dirt and organisms? I believe God created us in 7 days as stated in the bible, but I think God may have used or created science to do it with. Why Not? With God all things are possible!
2006-07-20 07:59:13 · answer #6 · answered by busyliz 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm basing this answer on these facts:
1) Humans have proven genetic coding to exist, and are able to break it down into its simpler parts, and are able to tell which genomes separate people of different races.
2) Charles Darwin, while a revolutionary, had flaws in his theory that modern science has addressed and corrected
3) We (as humans) have hundreds, if not thousands, of recorded years of human history and thousands of generations of people in our past, with family lines that are both "strong" (diverse) and "inbred" (too genetically similar, causing inherent--and potentially fatal--defects in the family line's genomes).
According to the updated theory of evolution, the first forms of life were single-celled organisms--like the ones they found on the Mars Rock so many years ago--that formed when bacteria and minerals existing in this planet's oceans bonded and began evolving, becoming more complex with each life cycle. It leaves a great deal of open space for genetic variation.
Bacteria and single-celled organisms still demonstrate this principle today; as I can see it happening, I can believe it better than I can one (white) man and one (white) woman spawning all the world's various skin colors and cultures.
Especially since experience has taught us that a community founded on less than fifty genetically dissimilar people will begin to have inbreeding problems within a generation--and will die out within ten or twenty generations. Certainly, human civilization has lasted longer than that...so why, if we are all descendants of Adam and Eve and neither were genetic-code-swapping freaks of nature, are we still going strong?
2006-07-20 08:56:28 · answer #7 · answered by bracken46 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science, not scientology please don't get the two of them confused, still has not yet been able to determine the exact way life came about in the universe. The theories are incomplete but in no way does that make them invalid. With time, as we gain more knowledge and better technology I'm sure that question will be scientifically answered. Will I be here to see it... I really hope so.
2006-07-20 08:20:21 · answer #8 · answered by genaddt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
JT - God has always existed. God created life. See how easy that is?
I agree with the question. Even if life was created by some matter colliding with other matter or whatever, who created the matter in the first place? Who created a single atom, of which matter consists? The theories of big bang and evolution don't make sense to reasoning, thinking individuals.
2006-07-20 07:54:15 · answer #9 · answered by 1big teddy graham 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It took billions of years of mixing together organic molecules for cells to form. As a biologist I can there is very good evidence for evolution. In my mind, life and the universe were created by natural events. The question lies in what created the big bang to set off these natural events. Many scientists believe that everything was created by natual phenomena, but there was also an intiating source for the cascade of events to create everything.
2006-07-20 07:56:56 · answer #10 · answered by nigel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The theory of evolution was first proposed by Charles Darwin, who, by the way, was a firm believer in G-d.
Instead of ranting, try reading Francis Collin's book, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.
Science and faith are not incompatible.
2006-07-20 07:53:35 · answer #11 · answered by Jack 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋