Do you believe in god or in evolution?

Question

or on both explain

Answer 1

I believe in both, I believe evolution is the mechanism used by God to create life and life diversity, as a matter of fact I feel proud of God becuase he allows us to understand how he managed to create humans and all living species. If God had used all of his power to make living creatures just by wishing, I'd probably be dissapointed.

Answer 2

I think the facts we use to support the theory of evolution are pretty undeniable. As specially the fact that we share such a huge part of our DNA with every other living thing in our world.

The fact that we see evolution and we can trace many aspects of evolution back millions of years makes it hard to deny.

I don't know if I believe that building blocks of life were created by environmental conditions reacting with existing chemicals or that life was seeded here by some other means. Either way though, I'm sure we and everything around us all evolved from the same ancient source.

I don't think our science is any more likely to solve this question than our religions are. There is just way too much we don't even know to ask. How can we hope to know something like that.

We need to keep looking and guessing. Our search for unknowable answers is the seed of our existence. It's why we are what we are and it's why we will likely always find a way to survive.

We are humans because we need to know.

So to answer the question, both but it depends on what you mean by god.

Answer 3

God....

Why?? Simply put, we'd have a better chance of winning the lottery everyday for the next month, than this planet and all its creatures coming to life from one giant explosion.

(One side note, not one scientist will be able to prove outright that the Big Bang actually occured. All they can do is extrapolate on events they see today and theorize that it happened billions of years ago, the only difference is they have faith in themselves... ... So we're all in the same group, we all have faith, we just place it either in God or the scientists)

For those who argue for evolution, there are several books out that challenge Natural Selection and Evolution, I will take some examples from one, Darwin's Black Box by Michael Behe.

Darwin wrote in The Origin of Species, the cell was a mysterious black box. We could see the outside of it, but we had no idea of how it worked. Behe's book was written to expose this Black Box.

In Origin, Darwin stated,

"If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case." - Charles Darwin

Today's science has found several cases Mr. Darwin. Sorry.

There are systems in nature that are "irreducibly complex" meaning These systems have mutually-interdependent parts designed with a final purpose in mind. Take one part out, and the whole system doesn't work. Another way to look at it is it would be impossible for that system to evolve via natural selection.

Take the eye for example, it is my opinion that the eye is the most complex and perfectly designed system in the world. Your eyes can move and react quickly to its environment, focus far and near in no time, detect millions of colours and shades, and send these signals instantly to the brain.

There is not one component in the eye that is useless, or less important than the rest. They are all needed for it to function, and one missing piece or defective part would result in the lost of sight, period.

So how did eyes evolve? It doesn't. An eye missing a retina, can't detect light, or without a cornea can't focus at all, ultimately rendering it useless.

So in nature, what would be the point of having parts of an eye that didn't function. None. So there was either a full functioning eye at the start or none at all. It just didn't evolve.

So after going through all this trouble, I believe that we didn't evolve from monkeys, but were created by an all-knowing being. This is just one of many reasons why I believe with all my heart that there is a God.

Answer 4

Me too, I believe in both. not just evolution but the entire creation of the universe, and if you think about it, many things in the Bible can be interpreted as a metaphor for the events we tend to explain through science. That makes sense in a way, think about trying to explain to early Christians notions like Big Bang or evolution.

Answer 5

Evolution is not a matter of belief, but of incontrovertible and observable fact.

Belief in God, on the other hand, is pure belief and is not subject to evaluation by means of facts.

That said, there is no conflict between belief in God and intellectual assent to the reality that the universe and living things evolve. Evolution explains part of how God creates his creation.

People who want to make it a conflict between "god" and "evolution" are wandering lost, and need to find a hobby.

Answer 6

I believe in God because he is real, tangible, and the Creator of the universe. I do not believe in evolution because it is an untested and unproven theory (although it's taught as fact) with too many loopholes and missing steps (rather like the Big Bang theory).

That said, however, I believe that God created the universe and the earth over a period of time using natural forces which He controls, not through some mystical wave of the hand in which everything magically appeared.

Answer 7

I'm a creationist and a science student. It's an interesting position. I suppose my viewpoint is closest to "intelligent design", for the most part.

My main perspective, as a physics student, is of the large-scale universe; and I'm especially interested in its beginnings. It seems to me that it makes much more sense that the universe should have an intelligent cause which exists outside of time, rather than having no cause at all. A God as the cause of the Big Bang, and of time itself, seems so much more logical than saying "Well, we're here; so it must've happened."

Regarding what I know of biology, natural selection makes sense to me; but macroevolution does not. Those transitional forms don't seem viable to me, and I don't know of any fossil transitional forms that are any more removed from the general category of animals than natural selection could make them. Additionally, the Earth seems strangely young to have been around for long enough for evolution to have taken place.

I've only taken freshman/sophomore level biology and geology; and I haven't yet graduated with my physics degree, so I'm not the most well-informed; but I keep up on the major discoveries and theories, so that's got to count for something.

As far as I can tell, there seems to be a strange dichotomy between an apparently old universe (though we still haven't figured out star formation) and an apparently young Earth. It isn't so much of a problem if one assumes the Earth was created within an already-existing universe, but still... there are problems with every theory out there. I'm a Creationist because that theory seems to have the fewest problems; still, I'm hoping to increase the amount of information we have about the universe so we'll know for sure why we're here.

Much remains to be discovered... Like most scientists, I'm just in it to find out the way the universe works. It's almost a religious quest, really; humanity wondering about where we came from and what we're supposed to be doing now that we're here. Even the most convinced evolutionist has to admit that knowing those things is part of his motivation, even though he probably supports different answers than mine to the important questions.

Answer 8

There is a ton of evidence to back evolution.

There is no evidence to back the existence of God.

You can do experiments which use artificial selection to simulate natural selection, and you can watch evolution take place. There are also observations of evolution going on in nature right now (the antibiotics statement above being a fantastic example.)

There is no experiment to reveal the existence of God. More importantly, there is no experimentation. People have faith. They don't question what they "know." They only "know" about their religion, because other people told them what to believe. That just isn't thinking about the world around you.

Because the asker juxtaposed God and evolution, I assume he or she is Christian (certain American branches of Christianity are the only religions I am aware of that deny the validity of Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection.) That would mean that you do not believe that the one and only prophet of God is Mohammed.

But other people do. The terrorists who flew planes into the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001 believed it so much they were willing to kill and die for it. But you believe they were wrong, right? Is your faith stronger? How do you PROVE you were right and they were wrong in which religion to believe in? Is there an experiment? Is there some kind of objective way to tell who is right here?

As long as there is religion, there exists the possibility of manipulating weak minded individuals into doing evil things. The only solution is to teach and expect every single person on the planet to think for themselves. That means not taking your life philosophy out of some ancient text, or listening without question to those who do.

Don't worry, I'm not holding my breath. Apparently we as a species still have some evolving to do.

- Cai

Answer 9

people believe in god for two reasons:
1.death
2.lack of knowledge
long time ago, people thought the lightning was the anger of GOD. it was because lightning was strange to them. so they believed that lightning was the sign of God's presence. because they didn't have another answer for that. but now we know that there is no god in lightning. it's just because of the electricity. so in these days, nobody admire god for lightning. so the belief of metaphysics retreats, as the human knowledge develops.
But I think the human knowledge will never find out whether there is a god or not. because when a question has been answered, some other questions would be created about the first one.
For example when human found out the lightning cause by electricity, there was another question:where has electricity, atoms,etc. come from?
Thereby, the human will never prove if there is a god or not.
but there is a sense in human, which need to worship somebody, which is able to do anything and has even create itself(human), for the two reason that I had already written.
So the human race need to worship god, even though it doesn't exist.

Answer 10

Evolution is part of the beauty of God.