Who among here believes Evolution and Biblical account of life are compatible?

Question

I do. But I see it pointless to bring it out where many would react negatively. So I thought maybe someone out there have that same belief. Treat this as a survey.

God Bless.

Answer 1

I do.
Concerning the debate going on about intelligent design and evolution: is it possible that the final answer about which of these two seemingly opposite ideas is correct could simply be yes?

With one position firmly held by the believers and the other just as fearlessly defended by the non-believers, if you happen to be in a position somewhere near the middle, it does not look all that complex. From this position, you wonder why either-or has to be the answer.

If you believe that some higher being created the universe by intelligent design, what more elegant and intelligent design could there have been than a self-regulating system that continually checks its own errors and makes its own corrections in mid-stream as an integral part of the process.

This all seems quite logical to me although it probably won’t satisfy the believers because they are afraid to see any truth other than the one they have been told to believe in. Inversely it certainly won’t satisfy the non-believers because it leaves them stuck with a god that they are so obviously terrified of.

To sum up this view from the center, it might be most easily be explained by saying perhaps the designer was intelligent. Problem is, the designer was likely so intelligent that those seeking to prove that it is intelligently designed may be incapable of ever understand it well enough to see it for the elegant self regulating design that it has always been.

The nonbelievers will be similarly handicapped due to the internal terror the have about the idea that there may be a God. Neither side being able to leave their entrenched position for fear they may have to admit they were wrong. While the rest of us stand by trying to figure out what all the fuss is about. Personally I don’t think anyone is wrong, I just feel both sides are about half right.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 2

I don't. They are only compatible in the sense that people seems to have a nearly infinite capability to rationalize away the differences.

But why even ask the question? The Bible was written thousands of years ago by people who didn't even know the world is round. There's no reason to think they had any greater knowledge about the start of life.

The only real knowledge we get from the Bible is a sense of what kind of superstitions believed in by people of that time. That might be valuable to an anthropologist, but it doesn't add anything the field of biology.

Answer 3

the belief of Evolution explains the changing nature of residing issues, yet would not be sure the the way it began question effectively we are able to work out mutations and modifications which furnish a great benefit to specific persons of their survival, and a few faults that make it greater durable for some to proceed to exist, so organic determination is at artwork (we attempt to wrestle that with man made helps, yet ultimately those structures cave in and organisms give up to be achievable interior the present earth. The creation tale seems to assert that God took the primordial ooze (airborne dirt and dust/Clay) and shaped it right into a complicated shape, and then differentiated it from different complicated structures (the flora and animals) Evolution seems to help that the better complexity of shape and overall performance supply the organism greater means to adapt to circumstances in that's ecosystem, meaning guy is possibly to proceed to exist especially different non-sentient existence, and can reason and deduce strategies to triumph over the forces of nature and the assaults of wild creatures, etc (Have Dominion over them...) you will say that neither account is probably thoroughly self sustaining of the different, no longer does one negate the different.

Answer 4

Science and religion don't contradict one another. When the Bible says God made the world in 7 days, who's to say that a 'day' in that time wasn't millions of years or thousands. When He speaks of 'beasts in the field', who's to say he wasn't speaking about dinosaurs. He made the world and left it to do what it would. Things evolved, things died out, natural selection and such. The reason that the Bible is partially symbolic and doesn't tell us everything is because God thought we'd be smart enough to figure some things out for ourselves, all this time later, seems he might've given us too much credit.

Answer 5

They are not. The bible says in 6 days, evolution says billions of years, the bible says after the 6th day God looked at every thing and he said it was done, evolution says billions of years (long long ago). The bible says man brought death into the world, evolution says death brought man into this world. Too many contradictions between evolution and what the bible teachess, and no, God did not use evolution, after the creation God said it was DONE. Do not let anybody tell you evolution and bible teachings are the same. Go check out www.drdino.com.

Answer 6

They are definitely compatible. Many Christians forget that thier God was infinite and all powerful(according to thier own teachings). That being so, His days could have been millions of years instead of the 24 hour period put in place for us mere mortals. He could have made the prototypes and let them develop into what was most suitable.

Answer 7

The only way that's possible is in a deist frame of thought. That god got the life ball rolling on earth and left it to run on it's own. There's no way at all that the accounts of genesis are true in any respect.

Answer 8

I don't. Scientific theory makes more sense to me. I think of the Bible as the Hebrews mythological text. Interesting stories from an ancient people, but more metaphor than real historical event.

Answer 9

I do. Science is proving that the stories told in the Bibile are for the most part true. It's all a matter on who's timeline you want to follow.

Answer 10

Of course they are. If we didn't evolve, we would all look like Adam and Eve. Since the time of the creation, we have been evolving, along with all the species of the earth.