For those of you who believe in God, and in the Theory of Evolution, how do you feel about Creationists?

Question

For me, when I was a Christian, I was told believing in Evolution meant I wasn't saved. To this day there are Christians I talk to who tell me if I believe in Evolution than I am not saved, having to do with the blood line of Adam and Eve going down through to Jesus.

Currently I am an agnostic, happy to sit on the sidelines.

So, to those of you who are Christians, how does it make you feel, seeing the Creationist Christian defend Christianity by attacking Evolution?

Again for me this is I admit a personal story, that the Creationist drove me away from being a believer, perhaps this is all for the good in the end.

Answer 1

Did you see how many people my question pissed off? WOW
That's why I answer more than I ask. I cut to the xian bone sometimes. LOL

Answer 2

I appreciate you sharing your story here. I believe that the strict Creationists are wrong to attack evolution; I believe that God created evolution to be what it is, which is a theory, so that we would seek and find that He is the one who gave us this complex and beautiful existence. I believe the two theories work together like the teeth of a zipper; if we just zip it up, they fit together, and not seperately.

Answer 3

I believe in the Creation Version, though I am a Pastor's daughter, I never was into churh like that because it was forced down my thoat.. but i was also confused because i would hear about the Creation but then when i'm in school i learned about the Evolution. it wasn't until about a couple months ago that i went to Camp.. It was somewhat of a Christian Camp and the goal was to prove to us that the Bible was true.. I learned a lot and I even got saved for, i don't know, maybe the fifth time. but i do plan to live a christian life and i try hard to do that... and it's really hard for me because i'm so young..

Answer 4

I myself believe in evolution, though I was raised in the African Methodist Episcapalian church. I left the church for my own personal reasons, and I do believe in God, but I am not a Christian. I feel that evolution is probable, but God's existence is also probable as well. I am most comfortable identifying myself as a spiritual but non religious person. Why can't the two ideologies coexist?

Answer 5

Actually, I have not yet found the commandment that goes "Thou shalt not believe in evolution".
Nor have I seen any scripture in which God explains in detail just exactly how He went about creating life, the universe, and everything.
I do seem to recall something about the number 42, though. I think it had something to do with mice, or something....

Jim, you actually let some foolishness like this drive you away from God? Oh, Hun!! That makes me cry, for real!!

Answer 6

Sadly, I often find the annoying. Of course everyone has the right - in fact, the OBLIGATION - to believe what they feel is true, but if someone told me that my shirt was made of stainless steel, I would tell them they're wrong, and this is how I often feel when people try to explain away evolution.

Answer 7

Every time I read the fanatical posts, or SEE the copy/paste BS I *ahem* Thank God that I don't follow the flock and don't believe in him. I do not like the idea of not questioning things, of being told to go on blind faith.

It doesn't sit well with me

Answer 8

Why do you let other people tell you if you are saved or not... that's between you and God

by the way you are confusing cosmic evolution (the cosmos began by chance a trillion years ago) and macro evolution (things are simply in a constant state of change)

Answer 9

I can never understand why people have to see it as one way or the other. Why not try having an open mind and coming up with your own conclusions on the subject, and not listen to what others say. I think God planned evolution, and I never take the Bible literally. 7 days? pssh, whatever.

Answer 10

Christianity is supposed to be based on knowledge and compassion but the simple fact they are not prepared to inform you, only to TELL you that you are wrong is hypocritical. If god exists and he really is a loving father figure then i doubt he would comdemn you for being ignorant or questioning things you are told.

Answer 11

They are silly dangerous people who think nothing of using the coercive power of the state to shove their god down my throat. It seems that all religion spawns fanatics which leads me to believe that a little bit of Religion is like a little bit of syphilis, unless eradicated, it always gets worse.