Question for everyone about God, Evolution, and the Bible?

Question

What is the relationship that the God of the Bible have with Evolution,

Also, in order for this question to "mean" something, beyond just people typing from a script, talk about your own personal journey related to this question, as it relates to "you".

Answer 1

Over the past six years, I have met some very cool people, fellow Christians, who have taught me a lot of things about God that I didn't know, of the spiritual side of things. Additionally, I learned years ago in school(at a time when my faith was low) that there was no actual skeletal link between quadropeds and bipeds that ultimately answered the question of how we 'evolved from monkeys' or however one would want to put it.

Ultimately, I put my faith God as my creator and the obvious fact that the universe and everything in it is so complex, no matter what one believes. So for me it is obvious that God created the universe as complex as it is so that we would question it, seek it, fall in love with it, and ultimately come to trust that He created it all out of Love for us.

Answer 2

This is somewhat of an existential question, so I will try and answer it as such, but I hold to a correspondence theory of truth, which rejects existential truth.

I personally at one point was a young earth creationist, but as I started studying the arguments for and against young earth creationism, I quickly realized that there were a lot of bad hermeneutics being used to advocate certain theories, there was no agreement among young-earth creationist, and to be quite honest I was left scratching my head.

At the same time though, I started looking at evolution, and realized it had several problems. It for instance cannot explain certain structures that appear in nature. These types of structures just don't happen by accident, and if they did, it is highly unlikely that they would, like 1 in 10 ^ 150. Second, pure naturalism doesn't offer an explanation for abstract concepts, such as love, hate, reason, and the like. If these things were purely natural, then they are just mere chemical processes, so they have no intrinsic value beyond that. That means I could walk into a store and take something off the shelf without paying for and not worry about the consequences, because the entire process was an accidental chemical reaction. Doing so is wrong by some other standard, so naturalism by itself wasn't enough.

I need a middle ground, so I let theology handle the abstract, and science handle natural processes. The two aren't mutually exclusive, so when I run into a problem I generally opt for theology over science as the arbiter of truth.

Concerning the Bible, It is a theological document packed with theological truth. It isn't a science book, so it wasn't written to be read with the same scrutiny one reads a scientific journal. When I read the creation account in Genesis, I conclude that God created the heavens and the earth. It doesn't offer much detail, so I don't try and extrapolate details not written in the account, nor do I read science into the account either. This way, I don't have to adopt a particular view of the earth's age or how it came into being. I just know that God in his infinite wisdom created it somehow.

This is somewhat of a fideistic position, but it is where I am at this point, and I am working through it as we speak. I've been reading and studying a lot about cosmology, and it has been an interesting study, to say the least. I will eventually come down somewhere, but the verdicts still out.

Answer 3

In our logical reality, if we are to believe in the bible and the words in which are 'Gods' thoughts, then it is absolute truth right? There is no mistakes and/or flaws to be made from a perfect being. Therefore the making of the animals, humans, and earth must cocinsice with our findings in science. Evolution is based on the findings of science and there is no room for a God that created the earth and man in seven days. Dinosaurs would have no point, nor would a person with obvious mental disorders be referred to as 'possessed' by the devil. Also, virus and bacteria would have no point in God's paradise. The myths and missing links in the bible are just as prominent as the ones in the history of the sciences. Accept science will change once it is proven untrue. God's word cannot change and must believe in hit dogmatically. Science on the other hand can be and has been in the face of speculation. Therefore, the bible is totally useless and cannot be compared to science and evolution in anyway.

Answer 4

I believe in the theory of evolution. I also believe there in God, and I believe that God used his will to manipulate the way creatures on Earth evolved. However, I don't believe that the Earth and it's creatures was created in exactly the way the Bible says. I look at the Bible as being a collection of ideas that people had about God, not as fact.

Answer 5

The bible is a fictional story written by uneducated and naiive people, used by smart people to control the masses. It is a sin to use people's beliefs as a means of control, but it is true and it is why things are the way they are.

God is not one single being that knows all and created all. That makes no sense whatsoever.

Evolution is the only thing that makes sense because scientists have used hard evidence and proof over the past century to answer so many questions of humanity and how we got "here"

Answer 6

I don't believe at this point one crosses the other. You can have both if you so choose but each has it's respective place. Evolution is science.. it is theory and it is being proved and parts disproved and new theories are being made about it. That is how science works.

Theology is social science and falls into the same realm as psychology & sociology. It is more society driven, it does not require straight fact (although social science too has facts) but it does require belief in how it is presented to society as a whole.

That is how I look at it.

Answer 7

OK no scripture. We were born with natural instincts, things we learned before our spirit entered this body. When we leave this body, we travel on to another phase of learning, so long as we have proven ourselves worthy and learned the basic instincts needed to survive in the next form. This is the true evolution of the soul, which is the esscense of man. This was all learned through revelation during prayer, and I have complete peace with the answers I have received.

Answer 8

I believe that I'am a spirtual being on a earthly journey,as far as evolution thats to be discovered,but the bible is gods word that needs to be read everyday, I constanly read stories that seem to relate to my earthly journey daily

Answer 9

i believe in evolution because there is scientific proof of it but i also believe that something had to start the process which i believe is god.

Answer 10

it truly is the most glaring thanks to nonetheless be a Christian immediately!! yet adult men such as you oftentimes are not the objective the following :) maximum Christians in basic terms ought to have self assurance in the Bible actually, reason once you imagine of it as a metaphor or religious delusion (which that's in my opinion) you ultimately get some problems with religion. you initiate asking: if god meant for us to rule the international, why in simple terms after Billions of years? Why did the Dinosaurs rule longer than we even exist in the international immediately? Why take a lot time for evolving, once you're almighty? Why are there such quite some diverse religions on earth? on the proper you ought to come to the proper, that both there isn't any god and in no way were, or that for the period of a roundabout way all religions are excellent of their inner center. that there is a few type of stress, yet not as defined as in the Bible. to have the capacity to be straightforward, there are both theist or atheist! nicely, or those fundies in each faith who take each thing actually and ignore about data...