Do you think god guided Evolution, or do you think this all happened by chance no god involved?

Question

I believe god guided it. What do you think? Or do you think God created the earth 6,000 years ago

I highly doubt this all happend by chance.

Answer 1

my personal view is that god used Evolution as the means to create what is.

and I belive he "helped it along" and/or adjusted it in some cases, some more than others.

if you appriciate that the word in genesis that is commonly translated as "day" just means "period of time" and stretch the whole thing out over the time that science says things happened in... it all makes much more sense.

I mean you could say the scientific big bang could count as a effective "let there be light"-ing. division and consolidation of stars and planets and such being a figurative way of saying "separation of dark and light" then water separating from dry land... and development of plants... and then water creatures, then land creatures, then people. in a very general way, it really does describe how most of science would have existance to have happened.

if you take both sides in a moderate manner, they fit together quite nicely.

Answer 2

I believe and will always believe that God created the universe and everything in it including evolution. This is reguardless of any scientific breakthroughs that come about prooving otherwise.

The Reason? A large majority of the scientific community are atheist. Understandably so- they really wouldnt have much of a job in discovering where the world came from if they thought the answer was God. Therefore, I can not depend or rely on modern day science to prove something that people have wondered about since the beginning. After all, it is "modern science" meaning new science. How can we humans, who's science and technology is so new compared to the age of the world (the last 100 years or so) prove something so grand as the creation of the universe. We are, after all, just a spec in our galaxy. God is the true creater of everything...including evolution.

God Bless

Answer 3

I don't think any gods were involved, but to say 'it was all by chance' is to cartoonishly simplify the process to the point of absurdity.

The fundamental concepts behind evolution, noise in a positive feedback loop and a nonlinear environment, has been demonstrated over and over in other fields totally unrelated to biology. Feedback in an amplifier follows the exact same fundamental principles that evolution does. Will you also argue god guides the system to pick a particular tone out of all those possible? Will you say the tone appeared 'by chance'?

I somewhat doubt you will use such deceptive language in that case.

Answer 4

6,000 years.

And you really can't ride the fence on this one, really. Either Evolution is true and we're here by chance or God created us. The history as put forth by Evolutionary theory and Biblical history are too divergent to be reconciled. The Naturalists understand this better than the Christians do, sometimes. They see that to believe Evolution relegates special Creation according to the Bible to the status of myth (a nice sounding word which also means "not true").

Here's what I mean: If you say God got Evolution started, then the God of the Bible at worst misled us in Genesis or at best left us a document that requires us to allegorize it to make it viable in light of what we understand Evolution is purporting to be. Either way, if you can't trust the first chapter, why trust any of the rest of it? So believing the Creation account of the Bible is foundational for Christians, because it's a trustworthiness issue.

Answer 5

Someone said there's no proof of Evolution. Wrong! There's much proof of Evolution but not a shred of proof for two naive Genesis creation myths. Even when I was 7 or 8 years old, I knew our planet was far older than the 6010 years Bishop James Ussher determined from his Bible study. I saw a book Mom's father the pastor had that gave Ussher's figure, but I also had dinosaur books that said Earth is 4,700,000,000 years old and gave much proof of it, while Ussher had only a book of crude tales that a bright 7 year old wouldn't believe. No gods are necessary to explain anything.They really cause many problems but solve none. "All this happened" but not exactly by chance. Scientific laws are operational. You should do more research and question your beliefs. I was told it's a sin to question religion, but I did it anyhow when I was age 7.

Answer 6

When 99.99% of human genes are shared by other animals I cannot conceive how anyone could deny that life has a common ancestry and that evolution has been responsible for our development from a lower to higher life form. There is no scientific dispute whatsoever that gene mutations cause animals to adapt and evolve. How a creationist can deny those most basic and obvious scientific facts can only be attributed to something which Jesus said that there are none so blind as those who will not see.

The evolution, not just of the earth and humans, did not need a creator so it is otiose to invent one.

Answer 7

I think even most skeptics would admit Earth exceeds the 6000 year time frame. With God all things are possible.

In the 9th chapter of the Book of Mark, it is said: "All things are possible to him who believes," and in the 19th chapter of the Book of Matthew we are told: "With God all things are possible."

The resurrection of Christ is beyond human explaination.
When you read the book of Genesis it does not limit/confine Creation to six days based on man's time interpretation.

Six days-six billion years- time does not exist for God. He handles things by his will. His ways and thoughts are not ours.

We can admit the dinosaurs exsited. Extinct by our time 65 millions years ago. By God's way could have been a blink of the eye.

How he did it-big bang-little bang-evolution-alien breeding ground (LOL) the main point is: GOD exist. and thus he did guide and direct all creation.
Apostle Paul said, " Life is like looking in a dimly lit mirror"
He also said, " I know little now but then (when death comes and present with the Father GOD) I will know all"

So will we.
Today 22 sep would have been Mothers 91st Birthday. She passed last year at 90> She is with our Lord and Now she Knows all. I look forward to that day myself.

How and all the why's aren't important. Jesus said, "if you believe" then you will live>

Believe and you will live.

Answer 8

First off, I'm glad that you aren't trying to say that the world is 6000 years old and evolution is false. This allows for an intelligent conversation where science and reason can take place. thanks.

I believe that given evolution, it is inevitable that an intelligent species will eventually happen. I'm not saying there isn't a God, I'm just saying that scientifically speaking, there isn't a need for one to explain human beings.

Answer 9

Why does it matter? In the end, just believe that God somehow created the world. If we really did know, HOW he did it, it really wouldnt matter. People would still be ignorant and stubborn about christianity. Society gots to stop worrying and wondering over useless questions.

Answer 10

God creates from time immemorial.
Creation evolves to eternity.
Man does not create, he evolves in an ever-advancing civilization on earth.
Man continues to progress in the spiritual worlds of the One True God.