Do you believe god guided Evolution, or do you believe this all happened by chance no god involved?

Answer 1

Evolution isn't chance. Its evolving to your natural surroundings. It has been scientifically proven and observed. God guided evolution = BS Environment guided evolution = 99% POSITIVE.

Answer 2

Let's get this straight for a change. You have given
two choices, evolution guided by god, or evolution
by chance. These are not the only options. No
one ever said that there is such a thing as evolution
by chance, except possibly some creationist who
was trying to discredit evolution. Darwinian evolution is not a chance process. Natural selection is an ANTIchance phenomenon. The only places where random processes are important
in evolution are: a) the production of mutations, and
this is random only with respect to whether the
mutation is beneficial under existing circumstances
or not; b) the distribution of chromosomes to cells
at cell division, during meiosis.

People who do not accept the overwhelming
evidence for evolution have been described as
being willfully ignorant. That is, they do not believe
it purely because they do not WANT to believe it,
not because of lack of evidence.

Thinking god had to guide evolution, like believing
in miracles, insults god. It is saying that the
supposed omniscient, omnipotent god did such a
sloppy job of his original creation that he has to
keep constantly tinkering with it to make it come
out right.

Answer 3

" we are talking about FOREVER, not a billion or a trillion years ago, but an infinite number of years ago, it boogles my mind and I have never heard a decent scientific explanation that even comes close...."

The universe is 15 billion years old, give or take a couple billion. There is nothing in astrophysics, quantum physics, or anything else that describes what happened at or before Time = 0 (i.e. when the "big bang" happened, or the inflation of the universe began). So, "god" or "allah" or whoever could have put the matter there and set it off, or aliens could have done it. Who knows.

Why is it so hard to believe in the "watchmaker" theory of evolution and religion? That god cranked up the universe and let it go at Time = 0, and everything evolved "by chance" from there?

Answer 4

the only thing that freaks me out is when people start talking about the beggining of everything, to me thats the only "real" evidence that there might be a god. I mean the inability to explain something does NOT prove something else, that is pseudoscience, but...everything about science and evolution the way science explains it makes sense, i just wish someone could explain the begginging w/o god, its impossible really. some people say the big bang, but where did all that matter come from, is there an absolute begginging? or was there a big blog of matter out there in space, just remember we are talking about FOREVER, not a billion or a trillion years ago, but an infinite number of years ago, it boogles my mind and I have never heard a decent scientific explanation that even comes close. It is impossible to say that matter has been around forever, where did it come from dang it, if not god. oh by the way i am a science major and never goto church. - (to the guy below and the "watchmaker", yes it sounds good but its religious and i was wondering if there was a purely scientific answerthat made some sense.

Answer 5

I believe in God or at least, a supreme guiding/nuturing force. But I believe that since God created the universe, he or she has no need to 'guide' evolution.

If people believe in an all-wise and powerful being, there is no need for that being to direct the state of affairs. That's the advantage of being omniscient, you already know how things are going to turn out so when God set things into motion, call it the Big Bang, God already knew how things would 'evolve' out of it.

If we accept that God designed everything to work precisely how it does now, there's no need for intervention.

Answer 6

Normally i don't answer religious questions as everyone has their own interpretation of this complex question. the first part of your question as to whether God/Allah/Jehovah (or one you follow) guided evolution is a matter of YOUR OWN FAITH in your religion and your BELIEF in your religion's books. the second part is based on science and deals with archealogical and other physically provable sources. This has lead to a lot of heated arguments and even lot of horrible violence between Darwinian Evolutionists and religious Fundamentalists. Darwinians say that the earth is over 5 million years old and relgious people say that it only goes back to 10000 BCE (the newly approved term, meaning Before the Common Era versus the old BC = Before Christ & old AD = Anno Domine = Year of Our Lord). Biblical events do not always conform to science facts, such as dinosaurs and cavemen. A question is therefore asked "where did they all come from?" My own PERSONAL BELIEF as a teacher combines both as i feel i am a religious (not blindly so) person as well as a scientific one. i saw a scifi movie a few years back that got me started thinking and I began to feel that there had to be some kind of divine intervention (whether GOD, gods, or an advanced alien entity) took the Neanderthal man and thru a genetic manipulation, which is not unlike what we are doing today, converted that being into the Cro Magnon Man - the direct descendant of today's human. this then allows the "seeding of the earth" to begin as science likes to state, but then explains the sudden (in geological terms) emergence of a high thinking creature. i don't try to thrust MY BELIEF onto anyone else so as Rod Serling said on the twilight zone, " this is submitted for your consideration"!

Answer 7

Some people may give theories by theories scientifically,though contradicting eachother, that evolution was happened without any divine force, noone can answer why the evolution should happen and why we are all here and had the humanrace was not evolved at all but universe was still existing, will anybody think that ther is no god.

Answer 8

I believe that science and religion talk about different aspects of human life, what Stephen J. Gould called different "magisteria." Both are important to us and both have answers to different kinds of questions. There is no necessary problem between the two magisteria as long as the practitioners recognize their limits. Some scientists are atheists and some are not. Some religious people are scientists and some are not. It is perfectly possible to be a religious scientist. The people who make me angry are the ones who think they can answer questions proper to the other magisteria, for example pastors who talk about "creation science" (which is an oxymoron) or scientists who talk about the "evolution of morals."

Answer 9

I believe in a God and yes I believe God had everything to do with evolution.

Answer 10

Yes God was andhas always been involved. What we see today has all been recorded and predicted long ago. The Prophecy is full filling itself, every day we draw closer to the end as the signs of the times are all around us.

The scriptures even say that his people will deny him.