Why? For Creationists who understand evolutionary theory?

Question

Okay, I've asked a couple questions recently asking Creationists to explain what, exactly, they didn't believe happened that evolutionists believe did. Most were either unable or unwilling to do so, but - in addition to people castigating me for being "superior" and "arrogant" and "condescending" - I did get some cogent answers, some of which really came close and one or two that actually taught me a thing or two. (Contrary to popular belief, I was not trying to be a wiseass, but trying to understand how rational thinking people could dismiss something that makes so much sense to me).

So, in the spirit of furthering my understand, would those of you who understand evolution (meaning that if you wonder why there are still monkeys, you do not qualify) and believe in Creationism, would you please explain to me what made you come to that conclusion?

Thanks!

Thanks, folks! Actually, though, I'm not really aiming for proponants (sp?) of inteligent design. I believe there was some divine impetus for creation myself. But those who believe in the 6-day creation as outlined in Genesis are the ones I'm looking for.

Answer 1

There aren't any creationists who understand evolutionary theory.

Answer 2

I believe God created all things, but that He went about His own way to do it. Not in 6 literal days. The Bible says a day unto God is as 1000 years to man. That just means it's a long long time. To live a thousand years would seem like an eternity. Therefore, 6 eternities to make everything. Or you could say 6 stages of creation. Genesis 1: 20-21 states "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that my fly above earth.....And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly..." That is the thoery of evolution...life began in the oceans, and that it changed, adapted, evolved to breath air and live on land. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void....." The Big Bang theory is all out of nothing. Yes, God made humans, but is it too far a stretch to think he took him thru different stages as a natural course of change? I don't believe we came from a monkey, but I think we share a common ancestor. If God had just "made" Adam and Eve, then after Cain killed Able and was banished and given a mark on his forehead that no man should kill him, and he married,...where did those people come from? And if Adam and Eve where all that was created, then all of us would look alike. There would be no color, eye, nose, or hair difference. Just a few thoughts I have on the subject.

Answer 3

Since the Catholic Church and the Jewish Theologists have no problem with Evolution (Darwin's theory) I'm mellower about it myself.

It's a total misconcept that Darwin intended people think we came from apes.

Nor does the Darwin theory attempt to try and prove than amoeba eventually became elephants.

The primary tenents of Darwin's theory is

Natural Selection.

Nature selected the best this is to survive and flourish.

What is Nature?

Well some call it Mother Nature and give it a spiritual aura.

Nature is that that is and that that always will be.

Darwin didn't say it was RANDOM or happened RANDOMLY.

His view is that it was orderly selection by the powers of nature.

Where does nature and the power of nature come from?

Big bang and a throw of the dice.

A billion-trillion to one odds ACCIDENTAL melding of Amino Acids.

Once again, that was NOT what Darwin was describing.

Natural selection sounds an awuful lot like intellegent design.

Natural selection implies an active force at work.

This was selected by "the powers that be" to survive and this wasn't.

The concept of "survival of the fittest" came from another rival theory and was melded by the scientific community into the Theory of Evolution, but that is not Darwins' work or concept.

They probably thought Natural Selection sounded too cosmic or religious.

Answer 4

I, for one have never believed there is a conflict between science and religion. Creationism postulates that a Divine power, God, Goddess, or some combination thereof, was responsible for the design and impetus wherewith all thing came to be. Evolution, or any science, is simply an attempt to understand how the creation works. If you truly believe in a Divine Creator, how can it, in any way, detract from Her glory that we have a greater understanding of Her works? Such conflict as exists is between science and those people who use religion as means of making money and wielding social and political power. Never forget that the Vatican is the closest thing to a world government that has ever existed. If the Churches start admitting they were capable of error, the clergy my have to get real jobs, and we surely can't have that.

Answer 5

Well the one thing that i can't accept is the probability of something so complex, to come come from something so random. I understand that yes out of randomness can come structure and a low form of "organization." The time slot given for evolution to occur is way to low. I mena carbon dating and other forms of dating have shown the to be billions of years old, but even that is not enough time for evolution to occur. We should still be single celled organisms floating in gellatinous goo, or a primordial sea. "The probability of a single protein molecule being arranged by chance is 1in 10^161, using all atoms on earth and allowing all the time since the world began...For a minimum set fo teh required 239 protein molecules for the smallest theoretical life, the probability is 1 in 10^119,841 years on the average to get a set of such proteins. That is 10^119,831 times the assumed age of the earth and if a figure with 119,831 zeroes." James F. Coppedge, "Evolution: Possible or Impossible. he is does probability research in molevular Biology.
This is the biggest reason why can't accept evolution at its core. The timeframe is way to small for anything to be completed. Even with a sizeable timeframe it is still improbable. i hope this answers your question.

Answer 6

Evolutionists, please would desire to you show your information of what PROVING a theory is? Creationists do no longer care approximately Evolution theory. that's beside the point. Darwin's evolutionary theory shows how time transformations animal species, which would be actual with or without God. This evolutionary theory has NO info that God does no longer exist, yet atheists like to ascertain that into Darwin's (amost non secular) theory. If God used evolution, so what? Christians are particular monkeys did no longer evolve into evolutionists!!! provided that we are without the atheist's could have faith in this "theory" Christians question the so-called "proofs". How can any sane person "have faith" that no longer something grew to become into each and every thing and not making use of a writer?!? this may well be a stretch for my faith, so how do "atheists" discover adequate faith to have faith this excellent so-called theory??? it style of feels extra like a sparkling anti-God faith!!! Time and time back, "the lacking link" grew to become into claimed to be got here across, with lots fan-fare, by making use of one searcher or yet another, then (quietly) debunked. If there is presently a so-called "lacking link" between mankind and our "monkey uncles", we don't care to "have faith" in it. we will purely wait till it gets debunked back and altered with yet another non-evidence! that is going to probable be debunked later, and yet another "evidence" foisted on the scientific community, which quickly covers up previous lacking-link debunked claims (so their place is assumed by making use of chldren rigidity fed this concept in school)!

Answer 7

I believe god "created" the universe then allowd "evolution" to happen admist the 7 "day" creation> both go hand in hand!!

Answer 8

I believe that God created all from nothing. How He did it I do not know. We have proof of years past and dinosaurs etc.
So obviously God made dinosaurs,etc.
I have read that Billy Graham believes similarly.