Can't creatism and evolution both be correct?

Question

I mean can’t creatism simply be a way of explaining how God created humans? Could you please tell me where the bible disproves creatism, and don’t tell me Genesis 1. I mean God works in mysterious ways this can be one example. I mean God created everything, but how he created it is never said, right? Tell me what you think. By the way tell me if you are a Christian or agnostic.

Answer 1

Yes, .. but to God a day is as a thousand .. 2Peter I believe.
But remember that the purpose of the Bible is not to explain in detail all knowledge, but the knowledge that God knows is pertinent
to the things of the greatest importance. And these things are left for another place. Let us not forget the admonition about casting pearls..
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Answer 2

Creationism (creatism, that sounds like a crazy protein drink for men) and Evolution go hand in hand; in the beginning, "something" created the universe and this concept of life, and eventually man appeared. Somewhere in all that dinosaurs existed and apes evolved into man. The Bible seems to place all those events into the first five days, and honestly, it's because the writers of the Bible were quietly summing up our beginnings because they had no concept or knowledge of the pre-existence of prehistoric lifeforms or sapien creatures, much less science. In the end, the mystery will always be "where did life come from" and the answer will always be one, if a god does exist, will be one left for only the dead to answer. The living will always be without answers, only suggestions and hopes.

By the way .... I believe in a higher power and the existence of men on this planet that have spread a message of peace.

Answer 3

The only passage which seems at odds with evolution is Genesis chapter 1. Dr. Hugh Ross promotes something called Progressive Creationism. You're ideas seem to be consistent with his. You might be interested in reading more.

http://www.reasons.org/

I am a Christian and I don't think that the Bible really takes a clear side on this issue. I think Christians have made too much of it and have often made themselves look silly in the process. I do not take Genesis chapter 1 literally because the sun isn't created until the 4th day, and yet you still have light from day 1 and evening and morning for 3 days before the sun existed.. Seems it must be speaking allegorically.

Answer 4

I am a Christian. God spoke and it was so. He said "Let there be light" and there was light. He said "let us create man in our image" and it was so and God saw that it was good and the MORNING and the EVENING were the first day, second day, third day. 24 hour periods. So evolution and Creationism cannot both be right. I believe Creation is how we all came into existance.

I also believe that there is Microevolution.
Microevolution is the occurrence of small-scale changes in allele frequencies in a population, over a few generations, also known as change at or below the species level. Like Dogs are really a wolf species. But never ever will I believe that a person came from a monkey.

Answer 5

I'm agnostic, but was raised Catholic.

Evolution is certainly not inconsistent with a belief in God, nor with Christianity. The majority of Christians belong to sects that do not deny evolution. I was taught that evolution was correct in both high school (by a nun) and in college (by a priest who was a PhD biologist). Even Pope Paul II said that evolution was much more than a mere theory.

It is only a fringe group of Christian Extremists who take Genesis literally who have a problem with evolution. Others, who take Genesis as a metaphore, can still believe that God created the universe and that man evolved.

Answer 6

How can creationism and evolution both be correct? Evolution states that the world came to exist billions of years ago and that man evolved from an ape-like ancestor. Creationism states that the world is a couple of thousand years old and that man is a special creation of God, created in God's image, and distinct from all of the animals. Take one or the other, but don't try to mash them together because then you just get far too many problems. For example, if evolution is true and there was death before man existed, how can you reconcile that with the Bible stating that death is a result of man's sin?

What you and many other people don't seem to realize is that evolution was not created to compliment religion. It is fundamentally atheistic, so of course it will not go together with Christianity or most other religions.

Answer 7

Absolutely not. Evolution and Christainity are like oil and water. They simply don't mix. Why do you avoid Genesis? If you would read it, the Bible says that God SPOKE everything into existence. The Bible is about creation, not against it. Evolution is man's way of trying to run from God. Well fortunately you can never do that.
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Answer 8

Im a Christian and I agree with Carrie, Evolution is true to an extent, in which im talking about microevolution... I mean I'm sure we have changed a little since God made us in the beginning... But the bible does say that he created man... out of dust. So he hadn't created from primates or anything.. he created human and all animal seprately, in a period of 7 days.. So if u r a Christian and believe the Bible to be 100% true, u have to take that into account..And maybe the Big bang is true , who knows, maybe thats how God made the earth, maybe He made this huge bang and thats what started everything... ..

Answer 9

I am a Christian and I believe that Creationism and some form of evolution could both be true. God could have moved His hand and gone through all the "steps" of evolution in 6 actual days if He so desired. I don't worry about it. I just continue to have faith that God created everything.

Evolution is just man's attempt to try to explain how everything could have come into being without God's influence. I say that God could have used evolution if He wanted to. The more I listen to various scientists on the subject, though, the more I think that evolution is probably a very incomplete understanding of how the world came to be. It takes at least as much to believe that everything came to be without the hand of God.

Answer 10

Creationism and evolution are not imcompatible. Evolution is a theory that makes rational sense based on the physical data. It tries to explain how all living things (plants, animals and man) changed from more "primitive" physical, mental and cultural beings to more sophisticated beings (supposedly today).

But evolutionism can't explain how life or even all the elements needed to form the first life came to exist. If you keep tracing it back, ultimately, you have to say that all things were created! And that's what the Bible says.

And Geneis does explain how God created everything. He simply said, "Let there be..." and it was!

The God of the Bible is all powerful and all loving. And love naturally extends itself to others. In His love, God created us so that there is someone there to receive it and to return it.

Just my thoughts!

I'm a Catholic Christian.

Answer 11

Of course both can exist in the same realm, but this all depends on the type of individuals doing the discussing. If you get an over zealous religious person and a highly atheistic scientist then both will argue their respective viewpoint until the end of time. Creationism is simply a more simplistic way of viewing and understanding a highly complex natural occurrence, as opposed to Evolutionism, which takes the same natural occurrence and makes it even more complex in its simplicity.
The Bible does not categorically state how long it took for the Supreme Being to create the universe. Nor does it state exactly how the biological process of evolutionary development occurred. It does however speak to a more simplistic social structure in a manner that they could understand. Modern man no longer thinks in such simplistic terms, and that is one of the main reasons why this debate continues. Too many people refuse to come into the Twenty-first Century!
Remember, the Bible was written by a group of men who saw the world that they lived in in terms akin to their time. We see our world in extremely different terms. Because of this, we interpret the Bible, as well as our surroundings, in a manner befitting our more developed faculties and times. This debate must truly be viewed in this light and approached in a modern day fashion, or we will continue living in the dark ages.
In short, both aspects can and should exist in harmony with one another. It is our own shortcomings that force us to continue to view our existence in such archaic terms!