How can christians accepts stories about "talking bushes", etc and then dismiss evolution as implausible?

Question

Sigh.... there could be a God, I just refuse to give credence to any religion we have invented.

I'm curious about what christians make of these questions...

If the bible truly was a reliable historical document, is it logical for there to be so many different versions which contradict each other? This is a fact.

Why do so many christians without science degrees feel that they are in a position to regard evolution as "crap". As if they have knowledge of the intricate details of mutations, DNA, amino acids,etc

What about the other belief systems in this world: what do Christians make of them?

According to the bible, God played a very active role in human affairs during biblical times, always interferring. e.g. destroying lives with floods, sending plagues, burning bushes, his son

Now, as Al Pacino stated in the film Devils Advocate, he is more like an "absentee landlord". People knock and nobody is home. Doesn't that flag up any questions?

Answer 1

I don't know. I know what I was taught in school and what I was taught as a Christian.. but who's to say that Adam and Eve weren't the Neanterthals or Cro-Magnon ( I don't remember who was here first) ... who's to say that each 'day' God took to make the earth was really a million years and that in that time dinosaurs roamed the earth? As a Christian, I am open to interpretation.. and my interpretation is that it took 6 million years to created the heavens and the earth, and animals and humans. And for another million years, he rested.. who knows? I certainly don't...

Answer 2

Actually, it wasn't a talking bush but a burning bush.
there is a god, and yes there are lots of religions out there, some are indeed invented, but ones that teach the word of God unwatered down, change lives. how do you explain this away. what people like me for years and years were powerless to change, the word of God changed in me in a very short time.

I don't know about the having so many different versions of the bible and having them contradict each other, I have three versions in my home and access to a multitude of others, and my experience is that they all say the same thing using different words. there are a few bibles like the ones jahovahs wittnesses use that have been purposely altered to fit their particular beliefs. but as a whole you can grab a host of bibles, and they are going to be very close in what they present, even though they are worded quite differently. If you have specific evidence though I would like to see it, seems how you present it as fact.

Because evolution is crap. if you really look at DNA science you would see the intricate organization that cannot exist from an ACCIDENT, cannot exist from a BIG BANG. Looking at dna science only proves that a God who has far more intelligence than man will EVER understand is at the Helm.

the other belief systems? if they lead you to Chirst, to the word of God, they are good and valid, if they present anything other than the gospel, put your hope in anything other than Christ, they are deceiving those who pay them heed. and the really sad thing is. every one on the planet is headed to hell because of the way he or she has lived. God exists to provide a way out of hell, not to send them there. and He is the only way out of that place.

Answer 3

I am in medical school, and it is easier for me to believe that a supreme God purposely created the intricate detail of our bodies and the rest of the universe, as opposed to it being all by chance.

There are different versions of the Bible, but that is because they are all translations. Personally, I feel that the King James Version is the best translation.

As for God being the "absent lanlord", The Bibles states that the Devil is the Prince of the earth, meaning that for the time being, Satan can do his own will in this world. However, God still trumps Satan. Read the book of Job.

Answer 4

Sorry, I hardly ever do this, but I just gotta this time.

wrecker wrote:
"The statistical probability that the ribonucleic acids would, first of allmake themselves, then even more dauntingly, organize themselves into complete RNA and DNA strands, JUST to make the very first single celled bacteria on Earth (from which evolution claims ALL life on Earth would have descended), IS ONE IN ONE TO THE TRILLIONTH POWER!!!!!"

1/(1^1,000,000,000,000) = 1/1 = 1
wrecker just unintentionally set the odds at 100%. Even I wouldn't go that high. Sure they approach 100%, but we have to leave room for some margin of error, no matter how small.

I'd REALLY like to know how you came up with this number.

REALLY.

Answer 5

Actually to say that all Christians have the same view of evolution is wrong.
Some of us believe the bible and it's time line to be exact. 6 days created the earth and everything in it.
Some of us believe the Bible's time to be 'God's time' So a day to God may be a thousand or more human days.

My sons belief is that there is no "missing link" God chose the day we became human and badabing, Adam was born and that God really did create Eve from Adams rib.(remember - God of miracles) He believes there was a slow evolution from an ape-like creature into a more hominid creature, until God was ready for humans to exist.

My daughter doesn't believe in evolution. She believe humans were created just as the bible said. She believes the bibles timeline is accurate.

I don't think either belief will prevent them from God's glory in heaven. They both have Jesus.

Answer 6

Okay, the probability of life spontaneously creating itself may be incredibly low, but keep in mind that these chemicals had millions of years to randomly combine. After combining to form RNA, they had millions more years to form the first single cell organisms. After that, literally billions of years passed before anything remotely resembling us appeared.

These chemicals were all over the Earth, for millions of years, in an environment that we know will cause them to combine and form amino acids; we've done it in the lab. It's almost absurd to say they couldn't create life, given the time they had and the materials that existed.

And to the idiot (slickyboy40) that copy/pasted someone else's article as an answer: Next time, just post the first couple paragraphs, then give a link to the original article. I'll give you credit, though, you did leave the author's name and all the footnotes intact; good for you.

Answer 7

The statistical probability that the ribonucleic acids would, first of all
make themselves, then even more dauntingly, organize themselves into complete RNA and DNA strands, JUST to make the very first single celled bacteria on Earth (from which evolution claims ALL life on Earth would have descended), IS ONE IN ONE TO THE TRILLIONTH POWER!!!!!
No - not the number 1,000,000,000,000! the number is one FOLLOWED BY ONE TRILLION ZEROS!!! Ironically, that number is more than all the stars in the entire universe...HMMM...
I wonder why it does make so much more sense to believe in the Only True God!!! It does to this nuclear physicist who worked for NASA:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2004/1/22a/article_01.htm#ftn1

*Well, Marble Dog, if it's SO PLAUSIBLE that this occurred, then WHY on Earth can't the HIGH MINDED scientists of the evolutionist religion (dogma of demons) present us with the lab results of a remarkable experiment "creating" a bacterium? NAH, I won't be so hard on yous guys! I'm in a generous mood! Why don't yous geniuses "create" a single RNA? Nah, why ask for the impossible? Why don't you religious evolutionist fanatics "create" ALL the peptydes, amino sugars, amino acids,etc., etc., etc., etc., OUT OF PRIMORDIAL SOUP?
Aw, shoot, man, forget about it! Your blind faith in the whole evolutionary religion is probably enough for yous anyhow!
Not to mention the fact that your professors and colleagues would probably brand you a heretic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have you started on those one trillion zeros, yet?

Answer 8

Fear (not God, or god) works in mysterious ways.

I should preface my response by declaring myself a lapsed Catholic.

Confronted by our own mortality, one needs to take comfort in any defense that assures them that there is something more once this mortal coil expires. For some, it's a monotheistic, all-powerful God sitting in Arcadia (for Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike) while for others still it is the promise of being reborn (for some of the Buddhists among us).

Formally, Christians are taught to believe that those who do not accept Christ as their saviour are not granted entry into heaven, unless of course they have not in their lifetime been exposed to the word of Christ, and have led a good life.

Intelligent design is gaining credence as a logical, scientific alternative to evolution. It is promising as a way of fusing religious beliefs with scientific fact, and comforting (even to non-Christians) to think that there was some "hand" behind the way the universe was designed and our species evolved.

Answer 9

Faith. That's about as plain and simple as it gets. It's not imagination, it's not indoctrination, it's faith. I find it very disconcerting when people brush off our beliefs as silly stories and what not. Evolution isn't how it happened. To me it doesn't make sense. I don't just believe in God, I know I was created by Him. But to others, this probably doesn't make sense, only because they lack the faith. If everything could be proven, there would be no room for people to put their trust in these things. I'm not blind to the fact that I'll probably be ridiculed or made fun of for what I've posted, and that's fine by me.

Answer 10

Indoctrination, Ignorance, Imagination