I see evolution as an inteligent process of nature. And if it is inteligent, It cannot be random. So Evolution might actually be the best proof of an inteligent force behind life there is...
2006-08-30 05:39:20 · 19 answers · asked by Pedro ST 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I ment: "In Evolution and in God"
2006-08-30 05:40:41 · update #1
Bonzo: rejecting a new aproach to Evolution only shows that you are as close-minded as the ones who reject evolution. I'm talking about facts. Einstein believed in an inteligent force in the Universe. Was he an ignorant?
2006-08-30 05:52:44 · update #2
People: the Bible wasn't written by God, it was written by men, in a completely different age than the one we live in. Genesis also says that God made men in It's own image. But the same book, the Bible, also says that God is in everything, not in a single life form that looks like us.
2006-08-30 06:03:06 · update #3
STEPHEN J: Theist evolution only fails as an argument if you believe that Manking is a special race in the eyes of God: if you accept that we are just a part of a greater thing, then disease and death really are just a part of the process, wheter you like it or not...
2006-08-30 06:07:42 · update #4
I think it partially has to do with taking every word in the Bible literally. Those who believe the Genesis story cannot reconcile that with evolution. I always find it incredible that modern people cannot understand that those who originally wrote these stories lived in such a radically different time. A time that didn't have a true scientific community and had no other explanation available to them when presented with so many mysteries. They had no concept of "billions of years," no archaeological references, nothing but conjecture when they sought to answer the question every human being asks: "Where did we come from?" Their world was VERY small and their concept of time itself was not fully developed. Yet modern people will accept the stories told in this time period as written in stone, so to speak, before they will avail themselves of centuries' worth of scientific advancement. Science does not have to be their enemy, it is only the closed mind that makes it one.
I have a hard time understanding these closed minds that cannot conceive that an entity without beginning or end would find 4 billion years nothing but a long afternoon. Even if God indeed spoke to the people of that time, would He not have spoken in terms they could understand and relate to? I.E. Seven days could be comprehended, but 4 billion years could not have been understood without causing deep confusion.
2006-08-30 06:09:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The people who think those two beliefs are mutually exclusive either A) don't understand evolution at all, or B) assume that by "belief in God" you mean belief in a literal interpretation of the old testament.
For the first group, the theory of Natural Selection describes the process by which species evolve. It doesn't say anything about why life exists or what greater purpose is being served - those are religious questions that can't be answered scientifically.
For the second, at no point in Genesis does God say, "This is a complete description of everything that you will ever need to know, both now that you are nomadic herdsmen and 3,000 years from now when you are biologists, astronomers, and physicists." The first chapter of Genesis contained enough information for the primitive tribesmen who received it, but was never intended as the final word on all scientific knowledge.
2006-08-30 12:52:56 · answer #2 · answered by abram.kelly 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible tells us that one day is like a 1000 years to God. Why not a billion yrs? What it's saying is time has no meaning to God.
The days of God and ours are not the same. The Bible tells us that darkness was on the face of the deep when God started to make everything. If there was no sun to measure what a day was. It could have been anything. So therefore evolution is possible. But it was still done by God.
2006-08-30 12:51:35 · answer #3 · answered by Cal 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, God created the earth in 7 days but nobody knows what a day was back in that time. Maybe a "day" was 100 years or 1000 years. Who really knows? He did create man AFTER animals so maybe evolution could still be possible. I hate it when people cannot open their minds to any possibility. Evolution isn't trying to disprove the Bible and even if Evolution was proven to be true, it wouldn't necessarily prove God or the Bible not to exist. Good luck trying to get this through most of those religious freaks' heads.
2006-08-30 12:47:40 · answer #4 · answered by Fool in the Rain 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe god created the universe and everything in it including science and chemistry and mathematics etc. Maybe the bible isn't exactly correct to the exact letter, after all it was written by man and has many different versions and religions.
2006-08-30 12:47:49 · answer #5 · answered by ericg772 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Real scientists will consider ALL the evidence and will also acknowledge that in the case of the origins of mankind, that we do not have enough evidence to draw a conclusion scientifically.
You have to keep in mind that the antiChrists will oppose anything that confirms even a small tenet of the Christian faith. It's not about science, it's about hating God.
There is a big difference between the search for truth and the search for proof.
2006-08-30 12:46:56 · answer #6 · answered by Just David 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Genesis says God created distinct kinds, evolution says one kind evolved into another.
God says death is the last enemy and will be destroyed. Evolution says death is an integral part of its process. If death existed before sin, God called it very good. Try explaining to someone who lost a loved one that death is "very good"
Fossils have evidence of disease, if disease existed before sin like theistic evolution says, God called it very good. Try explaining to a cancer patient that cancer is "very good"
Theistic evolution fails miserably when it comes to being compatible with Christianity.
2006-08-30 12:45:20 · answer #7 · answered by STEPHEN J 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Evolution is defined as an unthinking, undirected process. If you believe that there was an intelligent influence in the origin of living species then it wasn't evolution that occurred, but something else. You can't call it evolution because that would be wrong, by definition.
2006-08-30 12:48:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Beliveing in both isnt such a bad thing and its alot better than just evolution. But the thing is, is that there isnt any evidence of evolution so most Christians choose just God
2006-08-30 12:46:06 · answer #9 · answered by noachian 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Christian God you can't because of Genesis. Evolution completely contradicts scripture.
2006-08-30 12:43:39 · answer #10 · answered by Meg 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋