does evolution rule out belief on GOD?

Answer 1

It doesn't rule it out, per se.

It could be that God created the heavens and the earth as an evolutionary system.

But it could just as easily be that life is self-arranging by nature and needs no super-natural explanation.

Answer 2

Evolution does not rule out the belief in God. My main argument is follows. Simply, why can't evolution be a TOOL of god to put all these things on Earth?

Most religious texts say that it took a certain number of days for the earth to be created. However, we do not know what time frame this is written in. 1 day to god is probably not 1 day to us is. The higher power probably based his/her time frame on the universe time frame, in which case there is one way to measre it.

First, measure the current frequency of the background radiation inspace. Then figure out what the frequency radiation was at the time of the big bang. Scientists know this, although I don't have it off the top of my head. This will give you a relation between the time frame at the beginning and at current stages. What you will see is that the frequency has much longer periods. Thus, 1 day in universe time could mean millions of years in earth time (I don't know the actual number).

Just something to think about.

Also, remember that the Bible was written by humans as a story to relate the message given by god. There may have been embellishments to make it easier for early societies to understand and believe. This certainly does not invalidate the truth that one may or may not see in any holy book. It simply is something to realize.

In my opinion, rather than worrying about little details, people should follow the IMPORTANT part of all holy books. That is, help other people, don't steal, be kind to others, live a wholesome life, etc. In the end believing in how we came about really only helps oneself and doesn't really help others. And that's what religion is all about anyways, isn't it?

Answer 3

Many of the scientists who first supported evolution when it was a new idea still retained a very strong belief in God. Many people believe that the description of creation in Genesis is simply a metaphor for evolution.

Evolution is the only scientific theory that explains how life developed. The idea that life evolves slowly over long periods of time does rule out creationism in the traditional sense, but that does not mean that it rules out belief in God.

Answer 4

I agree with pollo loco. The Bible also states that one year is as a thousand (figuratively of course). This implies that in the beginning there wasn't a measurement of time. And when I took astronomy I learned how the calendars have evolved over the years. Man has changed them various times.

Fact is that things do evolve. Do they evolve as science says they do? Probably in most cases. But keep in mind that science is theoretical. Science is always changing... one day they come out and say, "Whoa, look what we've found and what this proves." Then a few years later they find something else that disproves the first thing.

I think evolution and God compliment each other - but there are many closed minds on both sides of the fence.

Answer 5

It depends what you mean by "evolution". If evolution refers to the fact that in biological reproduction genes mutate and recombine in new manners, and that the best adapted organisms (and therefore their genes) survive best, there is no problem at all.

If you extrapolate this pattern and conclude that more advanced species must have come into existence in this (unlikely) manner, you are in conflict with the belief of God as a purposeful creator, and reduce him to someone who may have started, maybe even planned evolution, but then let everything run on its own. This is called "deism", and God is no longer the personal, involved God of theism.

The real conflicts come when you look at reasons why people promote evolution. "Evolutionism" is part of the naturalistic world view, in which active intervention of God is ruled out by definition. From this perspective, God *cannot* be the explanation of the complexity of the world, and therefore scientific theories such as evolution as pushed to extremes to explain it.

In other words, evolutionists purposefully rule out God.

But their conclusion is not scientific, but inspired by their world view and as much a belief (or "anti-belief") and the belief in God.

Answer 6

I'm actually not very sure of this myself. But if you read Genesis, it says God took six days to create the Earth and all of its inhabitants. Evolution took hundreds to thousands of years. So, there, is where we have a problem with the evolution theory. Since evolution has never been fully proven, and everything in the Bible has, both by primary and secondary sources, I think the Bible is the more believable one. So evolution definitely does conflict with what the Bible says, but I'm not sure you can say it totally rules it out.

Answer 7

I'm an atheist, but I say no, one does not preclude the other. My mom is Catholic and she believes that God may have created the earth and the heavens by setting up the big bang and set all of evolution in place. While the bible says 6 days and on the 7th, he rested, we have no idea what the actual concept of time entails, so each "day" may be thousands of years or mere seconds. Who knows.

I'm okay with that belief... Regardless, science has shown that the earth is billions of years old and I believe that. How it got to be that old is anyone's guess.

Answer 8

No...because it is a belief that cannot be proven or disproven...until you die. Science cant say god does or doesnt exist without proof and they shouldnt, because for all we know god created every aspect of science...any evolutionist that tries to say that evolutionary biology proves there is no god is mistaken.....all it proves is that evolution took place. Any good scientist understands that anything can be possible and therefore does not count proof of evolution as proof against something that up to this point has not been proven or disproven by scientific theory. I myself do not believe in god but that doesnt mean my belief in evolution proves he doesnt exist, the same as belief in god doesnt prove evolution doesnt exist.

Answer 9

Absolutely not! The question of the existence of God is not based on one theory or even many theories. To rule out God because you believe in a scientific theory is what happened to Galileo. When he said the Earth goes around the sun, he was excommunicated from the church because the church thought that he did not believe in God because he proposed a theory (a theory at that time) which was contrary to what was in the bible.

Many people say you cannot be a scientist and believe in God. This is a bunch of bunk.

Answer 10

In fact it probably does, because in some far distant future mankind could theoretically evolve into gods which would make god nothing more than another one of us.
And of course god can't evolve to stay ahead of us because theres only one of him and according to current thinking in evolution when you have too small a gene pool the species dies out.
But most practiacl scientists dont try to make the religious folks face reality.