Is the belief in a Supreme Creator irreconcilible with the theory of evolution?

Question

...because i have always believed in both.
Are there any valid arguments out there that says these two beliefs cannot co-exist?
Id love to know your opinions.

Thanks All

Answer 1

No. it is not irreconcilable.
I mean the central belief is that "God is omnipotent" so should not the natural response of every deist to scientific finding be to say :"praise the god, for he has created that too". Of course this does not add any value to the science, but will NEVER contradict it.

Evolution is only irreconcilable with LITERAL reading of the bible. Now if you believe in King James word for word -- then evolution cannot be true, because the bible says:

"And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day. "
[genesis 1:11-13][1]

So if you take it literally evolution is impossible -- God made all plants in ONE day.

Answer 2

Yes, with Christianity. With other religions-I do not know. The Bible says that in the beginning God created everything out of nothing about 6200 years ago. That is in direct conflict with evolution. The two can not mix the least bit.
Some try to blend the two in whats called the "gap" theory which makes geologic time available between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, and "progressive creationism" which says God started things rolling and then allowed evolution to work it all out over time.
Realistically there are only two theories about the origin of things, evolution and creation. There is no other choice. The bottom line is that either God created everything, or everything created itself. The real good part is that, contrary to popular belief, there is no absolute evidence for either view.

Answer 3

No, not strictly irreconcilable. Religious belief can be changed to account for evolution - but then, it can be changed to account for anything.

The problems for religion if evolution is true are:

1. A *good* Creator is irreconcilable with evolution. Evolution is an utterly unjust and agony-filled process that has continued for hundreds of millions of years; if God created it, God is not good.

2. Perhaps religion is an evolved adaptation that will be adapted away from when the environment it has helped bring about makes it no longer adaptively useful.

Answer 4

The two do not cancel each other out. The only time that evolution cancels out God or a creator is when someone literally looks at the story of creation as the only way creation happened - 7 days, etc. etc.

If divine creation is looked at from the standpoint that all that happens in the world on any level was created by an infinite creator- evolution was also created by that same infinite creator.

Answer 5

The theory of evolution is now nearly to a collapse with the introduction of a new theory about ...intelligent design. A panel of all sorts of scientists (biologist, biochemist, mathematicians, etc., etc,....) came to an agreement to study objectively of the theory of evolution. Eventually they all agreed that nothing could have been evolved out of nothing, and thus they unanimously came up with the idea that there must be a maker to all these things. "Inteligent Design" is what they call it. Basically, these scientists were not inclined to study religion as basis for their search for truth. It just so happens that the theory conforms to some biblical text.

Answer 6

Yes and no. The problem is that evolution is a theory that works but cannot be fully proven for millions of years. But the theroy of evolution tries to answer a different set of questions than reiligion. It trys to answer the How of things, whereas, religion trys to answer the why of things. There is no reason that they cannot be compatible.

Answer 7

I don't believe them to be at all irreconcilable.

In fact, I believe that denying the wonderful, observable, verifiable, complexities of nature such as the fact that biological organisms adapt over time in response to environmental pressures is tantamount to diminishing rather than glorifying the greatness of God.

Answer 8

I think it isn't.I once have read somewhere that even the Church accepted the theory of the Big Bang in Universe.Of course,they said God existed all the time and before it.