Religion, in its most literal terms, depends on thing slike the Bible, to actually, literally be the word of God. If this is so, there seems to be no middle ground.
2006-09-07 13:01:27 · 24 answers · asked by cupwing2k 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Exactly...some people believe whatever the person of the hour tells them. They can't commit to a belief system. It's called humanism or liberalism.
Besides....evolution makes no sense....and the Bible does!
2006-09-07 13:13:13 · answer #1 · answered by megmom 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christianity is not the only religion. It all depends on how you DEFINE God. Was He/She/It a Creator of all things? Or did God and all things exist concurrently?
I happen to believe that the forces that control the Universe and nature are what we term as "God". So you can easily have an eternal Universe and Evolution on Earth (and throughout the Universe) without having a Christian god.
2006-09-07 20:05:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easy.
Time is a man made phenomenon. There was no watch when God created the world. For all we know a day may have been a millennium long. Since there was no light until God created it, and separated the night from the day, and since there were no time pieces. How long was a day "in the beginning"?
Given the premises that a day may have been a million or two years. evolution and creationism fit together.
2006-09-07 20:06:53 · answer #3 · answered by justmeinNC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since some believers view the bible as more symbolic (or something) rather then totally literal, I think some people look at it that maybe their god created things and got evolution started.
2006-09-07 20:04:22 · answer #4 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite easily. If one believes in God, then it follows that God could have chosen any way at all to create all the creatures on this planet. It could have been evolution, or all created in a moment.
The very definition of God is omnipotent......meaning able to do anything.
Therefore a person could believe in both, or could only believe in one or the other.
2006-09-07 20:08:25 · answer #5 · answered by keywestbeaner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Theistic Evolution
2006-09-07 20:03:50 · answer #6 · answered by onelm0 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution describes what happens after life started and what is happening to life in the universe today. Evolution is a fact based upon scientic evidence. Only the most uneducated of our society will attempt to debate it. God is here to make humans feel good and less afraid of death and dying. It gives them some sort of purpose and attempts to give their lives meaning.
2006-09-07 20:22:41 · answer #7 · answered by injectmesoon 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do.
God created, and he guided evolution from his mighty hand.
The story of creation from the bible is not literal. If this was true, then dinosaurs, nor early man, couldn't of existed. There are plenty of skeletons for both. Nor did the bible mention dinosaurs.
Creationist say 10,000 years. Impossible with the overwhelming scientific evidence.
2006-09-07 20:04:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrong. If God created the universe then He must have created the laws of physics that evolution follows as well as evolution itself.
Try to remember God would exist outside the universe, so most people who dismiss the idea of God are only dismissing their idea of what God is. It's their idea of what God is that is flawed, not the idea of God.
2006-09-07 20:08:33 · answer #9 · answered by Jake Lockley 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in God. I believe in evolution within a species. Remember the theory of evolution is just that. A theory. We can tell that species have evolved within their species by just looking at man. The common man is much taller than his counter part even 60 years ago. This is due to better nutrition and living conditions.
We know that there is man-made evolution in cat, dog and livestock selective breeding. Jacob did selective breeding in the Bible when he was tending flocks for his father-in-law and was allowed to keep certain ones for himself to build his own flocks. First he removed all the speckled or spotted sheep to add to his own flock and then when Jethro saw they increased He only allowed Jacob the white ones then they increased due to Jacob's success in breeding them for color or lack of it.
2006-09-07 20:33:03 · answer #10 · answered by Marcia B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋