Why do so many Christians have this strange NEED for the Bible to be literally true? The Bible is full of metaphores and stories that teach you important things. By taking the stories as literal truths you are missing the lessons that they are trying to teach.
Not to mention that unless you believe that your God created the entire universe in six twenty-four hour days (which is silly, how long would a day be to an omnipotent being? As long as He wants it to be) there really isn't any clash between the theory of evolution and the Biblical creation story. I mean, science has even found that animals evolved in about the same way that they are mentioned in the Christian creation story.
So you have a problem with the idea that humans weren't created looking just as you do now, right? How dare someone say your ancester might be a "dirty ape"! Does it make you any less a child of God if He made our race from dust or from primates?
Why do you want your religion taught in a science class?
2006-09-14 08:09:42 · 27 answers · asked by WatersMoon110 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeah, maybe I have answered my own question. But it's still a valid question. Why on Earth would anyone want their religion taught as science?
Don't they know that the entire point of science is to analyze things and take them apart? I can't imagine the damage trying to scientifically prove that God exists could cause to the Christian religion!
2006-09-14 08:20:08 · update #1
No - the Theory of Evolution hasn't be disproven, it's been added to.
And Creationism isn't a Scientific Theory. It's a story. Fine for Bible Class, horrible for Science Class!
If your answer to everything is "God did it" you cannot even discover new answers.
Science answers the question "How?" How did we get here? How do new species develope?
Religion answers the question "Why?" Why are we here? Why do bad things happen to good people?
There is no conflict, unless you are so close minded you refuse to even consider anything that wasn't written by some guy a thousand years dead in the book you've chosen to worship.
2006-09-14 08:27:03 · update #2
Why don't you learn something about Evolution before you make claims about it? Oh yeah, because the Bible doesn't say **** about evolution (not that I believe that many of you have read the Bible either).
Just because a new species evolves doesn't always mean the old species died out. Darwin's finches on the Galapogos Islands (exucuse the spelling, there isn't spell check for details) are a currently evolving species. Within generations they can change the size of their beak and even the very foods they live on, but all can still interbreed.
Humans evolved from an ape, through many different species. There is a fossil record of skull and other bones that show the changes (there was a great show on the History channel about it).
2006-09-14 08:33:58 · update #3
Traditional church of the papacy of Rome has a vested interest of Heaven on earth, hence rejection of the said theory.
The said theory is also in opposition to a similar thread of the scripts of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, in which the world, and man, were created. Hence no monkeys. However, the days before first man, or Adam, were not further illuminated upon.
2006-09-14 10:17:24 · answer #1 · answered by pax veritas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lets put one thing straight first.
PURE Science and PURE Religion do not contradict each other
Evolution is a Scientific THEORY it is NOT Pure Science.
God has Created Rules and follows them.
God is Logical he does not contradict himself.
There is only ONE True Religion.
Evolution is a theory that all living creatures evolved from some a common evolutionary ancestor.
Evolution also states that this creature evolved from rocks and rain. the reverse steps are
animals and plants - single celled organism - prehistoric cell and mitocondria and chloroplasts - ooze that contains building blocks of life - rocks and acid rain - lava and gases from volcanoes.
that is what unpure-science claims you evolved from
Evolutionary Theory also is missing too many pieces to make a detailed map or picture. like making a puzzle with only 0.1% to 1% of the pieces. doesn't work period.
and since religion gives the only other alternative i'll have to go with the belief that we ARE created by God.
after all how does a quatinary biological programing language (DNA) that works actually come into existance by accident.
there is too much order in the universe for it to have just happened.
2006-09-17 17:42:40 · answer #2 · answered by Kuraimizu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is so true. It has so many evidence of its truthness and also the evolution thign only supoprts itself to apoint. While the Bible supports more than that. It has to do with Macroevolution and Microevolution: whcih contradicts itself. Non-believers will one day use Micro-evolution then Macreolution. They always switch toone another just becuase they see how they can't win teh fight and that thier argument doesn't work adn contradicts itself. While the Bible doesn't.
Microevolution is the process that is responsible for the many variations of some species of living things, such as dogs and finches. Macroevolution is the mythical process by which one kind of creature, such as a reptile, turns into another kind, such as a bird. It is argued by evolutionists that given enough time, the small changes caused by microevolution can add up to big enough changes to create entirely new species. Although this argument may seem reasonable on the surface, closer examination shows that it must be false.
There is so much more evidence that hte Bible is more reliable than Evolution
2006-09-14 08:32:30 · answer #3 · answered by Mia 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If your answer to everything is "God did it" you cannot even discover new answers.
This comment by you is exactly why the theory of evolution was created and add to that to deny sin and the existence of a God. However you need to discover circular reasoning that is done by the scientific community to establish the time existence of the earth. Go back and check that logic out. That is what put the word theory in front of the words 'of evolution'.
As christians we are only laying out the facts as we know them for you to accept or reject. Choice is yours only.
God did not want robots
2006-09-15 11:49:34 · answer #4 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are correct in the fact that God's concept of time is not the same as ours. He mentions this in the Bible when He says " a day is but a thousand years", God says that to let us know that His days are not comprehendable to us.
There are some metaphors in the Bible, but you would be surprised how much of it is not simply a metaphor.
Evolution in itself is flawed because the idea is that one species evolve the old one dies out.
Monkey-to-neanderthal-to-modern man does not work because monkey's didn't die out.
Also, God didn't say He molded us from monkey's.
The fact is, species either adapt or die they do not evolve, evolution involves more physical changes than what is realistic.
In the hundreds or thousands of years that people have lived in Alaska they have never started to form into walrus's or polar bears.
2006-09-14 08:28:21 · answer #5 · answered by righton 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I actually don't want Christianity taught in public schools. I think that all Christians should take their kids out of public schools and teach them in private schools that are not state funded.
The theory of evolution really is not scientific, but developed by some scientist. You doubt that God could create the world in 6 days, I say he could in 6 minutes or even seconds if he wanted. You think he is some human God that is using human understanding to do things so you can understand it.. Get a life. God is bigger than all of this and does what he wants. Just stick around another few years and see what happens as he is taking peace from the whole world...
Rev 6:4 And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
2006-09-14 08:26:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If God is all powerful, then why couldn't he have created the earth in 6, 24 hour periods. Christians reject the Theory of Evolution because its a theory and they have their own. Science has not always been right before and who is to say that scientist won't come up with another theory in 50 years. Christians don't want their religion taught in science class, but rather the theory of creationism or intelligent design at least. I figure if your going to teach one theory, then at the very least mention the other theories out there. Who is to say what is truly fact. Christians will continue to believe what they believe, and it is their right.
2006-09-14 08:17:42 · answer #7 · answered by Venus M 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Primarily because many of the theories - particularly those of Darwin - have been disproven by contemporary eveolutionary biologists. Science can not prove or disprove the existance of God, Jesus, or whatever religious figure there is. It may be able to disprove things in various religous texts, but not the existance of a creator. Evolutionary biologists and biochemists also agree that human could have 'evolved' from from primordial slop consisiting of a few minerals and amino acids is extremely unlikely, even if given hundreds of millions of years to assemble and recreate new substances. I don't know why Darwinsist still hold to their disproven theories, but this is a free country and you can choose to believe what you want - and many do despite evidence to the contrary.
2006-09-14 08:19:00 · answer #8 · answered by B77KMJ3321Z 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
WatersMoon110,
I think that you are guilty of taking things literal out of the Bible yourself. But that's beside the point.
You said scientific Theory? Maybe we just don't accept the Theory because of the lack of PROOF. Get the proof, and there may be belief. Right now, all I hear are those stating that Evolution has been proven when it hasn't. That is; speciation amongst higher forms of life. It isn't there. And I noticed that they watered dowm the definition of evolution on Evolution 101. It's just that they are acting like people with a bit of frustration. A little DESPERATE, perhaps? They seem to be anxious for that proof but aren't finding any.
And all that government funding has politicized it, so another reason to doubt!
2006-09-14 08:18:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
it doesnt make since, I am a christian and i believe that if you take to of the same animals and put them in to different habitats then they will be used to that environment thus become different, but to say that we came from apes is just funny,
The book of genesis tells us that everything was created by God nothing evolved. Every creature was given the ability to reproduce after its own kind as is stated ten times in geneis 1. Dogs do not produce cats. Neither do cats and dogs have a common ancestry. dogs began as dogs and are still dogs. They vary in species fro Chihuahuas to Saint Bernards, but you will not find a dat or a cog (part cat/dog) throughout Gods Creation. Frogs dont reproduce oysters, cows dont have lambs and pregnant pigs dont give birth to rabbits. God made monkeys as monkeys, and man as man, Each creature brings forth after its own kind. Thats no theory; thats a fact.
Why then should we believe that man comes from another species? If evolution is true, then it is proof that the Bible is false. However, the whole creation stands in contridiction to the theory of evolution. Dr. Kent Hovind of Florida has a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution. Evolution true science fiction. His website is http://www.drdino.com
2006-09-14 08:33:28 · answer #10 · answered by ixfriendlyxi 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋