Evolution and Christianity?

Question

God never said that evolution couldnt happen. Christ never said anything against evolution. The bible never said anything against it. I dont believe that man came from apes but I do believe in the idea of evolution and natural selection

Answer 1

Is there even a question here? It sounds like you're just stating an opinion, and then expecting people to support or refute it?

Clearly, some humans evolved from dumb primates, while others are still trying.

Answer 2

Sure, the term evolution is not found in the Bible, not anything said against it. But what was mentioned as did happened was Creation in 6 ordinary days. And taking the whole counsel of Scripture, it certainly does not support billions of years time frame which is a prerequisite for evolutionary beliefs. Does natural selection takes place? Sure, but that's not evolution from goo to you via the zoo. Changes take place within kinds (we call that variation or microevolution, if you like) but not across or between kinds. We have observed the former but never the latter.

Answer 3

EVOLUTION

The introduction to Genesis and to the whole Bible ascribes everything to the living God, creating, making, acting, moving, and speaking. There is no room for evolution without a flat denial of Divine revelation. One must be true the other false. All of God’s works are good, great, wondrous, and perfect.

Man starts from nothing. He begins in helplessness, ignorance, and inexperience. All his works, therefore, proceed on the principle of evolution. This principle is only seen in human affairs: from the hut to the palace; from the canoe to the ocean liner; from the spade to the plowshare to machines. But the birds build their nests today as at the beginning. There is growth and development within man, but no passing, change, or evolution out from one into another.

For this theory or fallacy of evolution to be true there would be evident stages of evolution today. You would be able to find species in many stages of evolution in nature right now. For this theory or fallacy of evolution to be true there would be no God. And that’s exactly what evolutionists believe and are trying prove. The evolutionist bases his or her conclusions on human assumptions and reasoning, instead of on the documentary evidence of the manuscripts.

Answer 4

Hello, h nitrogen

Why a young and rich man had abandoned the good life in London for to suffering the hell at salvages lands by four years? No good food, no good home, no family, no friends, no girlfriends… everything like a heroic sacrifice in name of Humanity and their knowledge? How do you know that was not God behind Charles Darwin, driving him to sacrifice his life? Maybe God had choose the right moment for human kind to know about evolution? Indeed, we don’t know what or what not God said.

Jesus Christ left to us a lot of arguments for loving each other. To me everything in Christ can be resumed to one phrase: “The sacred family” It is not our nuclear family like today but that family where every brother is my brother, every mother is my mother and so on… The Antique Testament is driving human being to individualism: you need save your own soul... that is it. The idea of evolution, everybody being result from a common ancestor is more like driving us to the universal sacred family. So, if you say that Christ was behind Charles Darwin, having as ultimate goal the sacred family, and the knowledge about evolution is a necessary step for arriving there, you will be reasonable. Christianity and evolution can walks together.

Answer 5

Evolution and creation are opposite sides of the same issue; where does man come from?

You are right, the Bible does not condemn the idea of evolution, but it does the opposite; it promotes creationism in several places. In Genesis, it says that man was created from dust and the breath of God. In the gospel of John chapter 1, it mentions that everything was created by the "Word" who is Jesus. And in the fourth commandment, God commands that we worship him because he made the heavens and the earth and everything in them.

Sorry, but it doesn't sound like God was a fan of the evolution theory.

Answer 6

Evolutionist Loren Eiseley acknowledged: "After having chided the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create a mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past." - The immense journey (New York, 1957), p. 199.

According to New Scientist: "An increasing number of scientists, most particularly a growing number of evolutionists... argue that Darwinian evolutionary theory is no genuine scientific theory at all... Many of the critics have the highest intellectual credentials." - June 25, 1981, p. 828

Physicist H. S. Lipson said: "The only acceptable explanation is creation. I know that this is anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but we must not reject a theory that we do not like if the experimental evidence supports it." - Physics Bulletin, 1980, Vol. 31, p. 138.

Genesis 1:21 "And God proceeded to CREATE the great sea monsters..."
Genesis 1:25 "And God proceeded to make the wild beast of the earth according to its kind." It doesnt say he created a single cell organism and waited who knows how long until it BECAME a wild beast.

What solid evidence do you have that supports evolution? If one is willing to accept the Bible, why not something as simple as creation?

Answer 7

I think that you are exactly right. God may have created the Earth and everything on it, but since then I think that evolution and natural selection has been going on. Just look at how viruses and bacteria adapt to new drugs. Drug resistant bacteria is one of the biggest supports for evolution and natural selection in our everyday lives.

Answer 8

I cannot make you believe something that you don't want to believe, but I urge you to use discernment, reason and logic when thinking aobut evolution- all the things evolutionists accuse us of not using , but really- do the principles of evolution make sense? If this has taken place over the course of millions of years, little by little, then we are being decieved when we are told we are looking for "the missing link" we are looking for millions of missing links- besides that- there are so many common sense, scientific questions that evolution just cannot answer- no matter how you twist it.
If you are really interested in education and not just disproving something that does not fit your mold- read this article, it is fun reading but very informative and common sense-
Meet Gaspy: the lungfish:

http://www.reflecthisglory.org/study/did...

here are other bits of interesting fact for you to ponder :

Charles Dawson, a British lawyer and amateur geologist announced in 1912 his discovery of pieces of a human skull and an apelike jaw in a gravel pit near the town of Piltdown, England . . . Dawson's announcement stopped the scorn cold. Experts instantly declared Piltdown Man (estimated to be 300,000 to one million years old), the evolutionary find of the century. Darwin's missing link had been identified. Or so it seemed for the next 40 or so years. Then, in the early fifties . . . scientists began to suspect misattribution. In 1953, that suspicion gave way to a full-blown scandal: Piltdown Man was a hoax . . . tests proved that its skull belonged to a 600-year-old woman, and its jaw to a 500-year-old orangutan from the East Indies." Our Times--the Illustrated History of the 20th Century (Turner Publishing, 1995, page 94).

Science Fiction
The Piltdown Man fraud wasn't an isolated incident. The famed "Nebraska Man" was built from one tooth, which was later found to be the tooth of an extinct pig. "Java Man" was found in the early 20th Century, and was nothing more than a piece of skull, a fragment of a thigh bone and three molar teeth. The rest came from the deeply fertile imaginations of plaster of Paris workers. "Heidelberg Man" came from a jawbone, a large chin section and a few teeth. Most scientists reject the jawbone because it's similar to that of modem man. Still, many evolutionists believe that he's 250,000 years old. No doubt they pinpointed his birthday with good old carbon dating. Now there's reliable proof. Not according to Time magazine (June 11, 1990). They published an article in the science section that was subtitled, "Geologists show that carbon dating can be way off." Don't look to "Neanderthal Man" for any evidence of evolution. Recent genetic DNA research indicates the chromosomes do not match those of humans. They do match those of bipedal primates (apes).

What does Science Say?
Here are some wise words from a few respected men of science: "Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless." (Professor Louis Bounoure, Director of Research, National Center of Scientific Research). "Evolution is unproved and unprovable." (Sir Arthur Keith--he wrote the foreword to the 100th edition of, Origin of the Species). "Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever." (Dr. T. N. Tahmisian, Atomic Energy Commission, USA).

"To suppose that the eye . . . could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

A great resource for some education that is logical and common sense is called "The Science or Evolution: expand your mind" You can get this DVD from WayoftheMaster.com

Answer 9

There is no contradiction between evolution and Christianity as long as you believe that God started it all. Evolution is science. Christianity is religion. They are two different ways of knowing things and of answering questions.

Answer 10

I don't believe the Bible says anything "for evolution" I will ask my Pastor about that one. Anyhow, I don't believe I came from ape either, however I do try to eat one banana a day...hmmmmm!