Can evolution and creationism BOTH be true....?????

Question

im totally believing that God is responsible for all life on earth. now before you stubborn scientists start rambling off about the evidence of evolution, couldnt we just say that God created evolution?? I believe that the 7 days of creation isnt literal, but saying that "in the beginning there was the heavens and the earth" maybe referring to inorganic matter used by God to create life in the big bang or something???

So anyone smart enough to consider the other side of their beliefs, tell me what you think.

Non-believers, just say boo or something.

Answer 1

who would be hurt if it were true?

Answer 2

I would say that it is possible (though not likely) that both could be true given that creationism is simply referring to God creating something that leads to humans coming into existence since there is nothing incoherent or irrational about that. That is pretty much the stance of the Catholic Church. The problem, however, is that Genesis is supposed to be read literally. Originally, the two creation stories in the book of Genesis were just stories and Jewish folklore. When they became part of the Jewish faith it is clear that they were meant to be taken literally. The writers of the book of Genesis had no concept of evolution so when they claimed that God created everything in six days, that is what they meant. If you were to believe that evolution is true, then you would be denying the validity of the Book of Genesis. So the question becomes 'if the bible is wrong about where we came from, than why should we believe that it's right about where we're going'? It is important for believers to believe in the inerrancy of the Bible because once you give that up it is impossible to decide what parts are true and what parts aren't. anyone who argues that evolution is compatible with the book of Genesis is simply trying hold on to their faith and believe the scientific facts at the same time. So go ahead, believe that evolution and creationism are both true, but you'll have to say goodbye to your Bible.

To the fool that claimed that macroevolution claims that if you mate two dogs you get a cat, that is not even close. First, all dogs are decended from wolves. Wolves are a different species than dogs. In the case of dogs, macroevolution claims that some wolves separated from the main population of wolves and changed (think microevolution) their biological composition enough to be no longer capable of producing fertile offspring with the main population of wolves. Those wolves are now dogs.

Answer 3

So where is God's house? Some people look up when talking to God and some look down. So does that mean they can't find him, see him and have coffee with him? Is he 6 feet tall? 7 feet tall? What color is his hair? For every person you ask, "what does God look like?" you get a different answer. At least science can prove some facts. Oh, and I am not talking about Jesus, just God. Jesus was a significant historical figure, but I don't buy him having two fathers and born from a 'virgin'. That much science has proven to be impossible. You see, test tubes weren't around then, and if his mother was artificially inseminated, well, that kinda shoots down the theory that he is the son of god. But those are just a few of the pesky details that believers overlook and can't answer. And you thought theories of evolution had problems . . . .

Answer 4

Yes, they COULD both be true.

The ancient Semites (of which Moses was a part, they were not yet the Hebrew people) were a people OBSESSED with origins. To introduce yourself would take quite some time as you listed out quite a bit of your geneology (anyone wonder why all those geneologies are in the Bible? There's your reason).

So imagine that Moses is out leading the people and they finally say, "We KNEW where we came from in Egypt, now we're lost and adrift! WHERE are we FROM, Moses?!"

So Moses goes up the mountain and says, "God... look... the people are just shy of rebelling. They need to know where they come from." Now remember that moses wasn't particularly educated in calculus or post-newtonian physics.

Imagine God saying:

"Well Moses, here's the thing. You have these oscillating branes in the inflaton which occasionally collide. When they collide, the vacuum aquires enough energy to reach a higher vacuum energy, the zero point energy. When the branes drift apart, the vacuum tunnels back down to a lower potential energy and the released potential energy is actualized as inflation of spacetime and the spawning of all the matter in the universe."

Moses couldn't POSSIBLY have understood all that. So God did what Jesus was very fond of -- he told a parable that enshrined a truth. "I did it in a week, and I created everything, and I love everything. There's the truth Moses, I am the beginning and the origin they seek."

Moses could understand that, and the truth would be sound -- God created.


See, non-believers have this capacity for viewing things from the other side as well. It's your fundamentalist evangelicals of any religion who generally can't do that.

Answer 5

If you're a Christian, than believing in a literal 6 days of creation is the foundation of Christianity. You said you believed that God was responsible for all life on earth, you just don't believe in the 6 days of creation. If what some scientist say is true, that the earth is billions of years old, and that dinosaurs lived on earth a 100 million years ago, than we would have pain, suffering and death coming before sin. It's one of the cornerstones of Christianity, that the sin of Adam brought death into the world.

Concerning evolution, God said that each kind of species would produce after their kind. You can have micro-evolution which will give you variations within a species. Take dogs for an example. Micro-eolution will give you big dogs and small dogs; white dogs and brown dogs; dogs with straight fur and curly fur; dogs with blue eyes and dogs with brown eyes. But they are all dogs. Macro-evolution says you mate two dogs, and you get a cat. That has never happened, and never will.

The scientific reason that will never happen has to do with the DNA. Scientist now know that the DNA code is a digital code, meaning that one species cannot change into another. Digital means uniqueness. And if you want to mention mutations, mutations always result in a loss of information. Therefore, through mutations, you can't evolve into a higher life form.

In school, students are given a formula: M + E + T = life, where M = matter, E = energy, and T = time. But this is a fault formula, there's something missing. The correct formula should be
M + E + T + I = life, where I = information. Without the input of information, life can not be produced. And that information can only come from God.

Answer 6

Not only COULD they both be true, but in fact they ARE both true! The two concepts don't even overlap, let alone contradict. Creation deals with the origin of the universe, and who was responsible for it, and is clearly a matter of theology. Evolution deals with ongoing natural changes that began millions of years later, when living things first appeared. It is solely a matter of biology, and has no bearing whatsoever on true religious beliefs. Not only is God responsible for the creation of matter, energy and time, He is also responsible for the design and application of the natural forces and processes which shape the universe and control its functions. Gravity, photosynthesis, mitosis, biological evolution, all designed and set into place by the same infinite Creator, and all indicative of His infinite power, intelligence and majesty!

Answer 7

Some Christians have bought into the hypothisis of evolution. In many cases it was an instance where their public school teacher or college professor told them that evolution was a proven, scientific fact that was beyond debate. And therefore they, being rational people were forced to reconcile their theology with these so called “facts.” Thus theistic evolution was born.
However, theistic evolution is not a viable alternative for the Christian who wishes to be faithful to the Lord. It goes against the clear teachings of the Bible and makes God and man something that they are not, nor never were.
Most adherents to theistic evolution argue that the Hebrew word for day is the word “Yom”, which literally means a period of time, not a specific 24 hour day. Therefore the 6 days of creation (or 6 Yom’s) could be any period of time, thus allowing the millions and billions of years needed for evolution. However they miss that God clarifies the specific time of the Yom with the phrase, “and the evening and morning,” which are found throughout the Genesis chapter one creation account. The evening and morning were the first Yom (period of time), the evening and morning were the second Yom (period of time), the evening and morning were the third Yom (period of time), etc… Thus the Bible teaches a 24 hour day, 6 day creation time frame. To state otherwise is to call the Bible erroneous or worse, to call God a liar.
One must also realize that the Genesis account tells the reader that God created man (not an organism that would evolve into man), and that He created man in His own image and after His likeness. This image and likeness of God has more to do with the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual, than it does with the physical for God is a Spirit, not flesh and blood. So if man was a single celled organism, an amoeba, or a glob of who knows what, he must have had his full mental capacity, his full emotional capacity, and his full spiritual capacity at that time. Again to say differently is to say that the Bible is wrong, or that God has lied to man concerning man’s creation.
The one who professes Christ yet wishes to believe in theistic evolution must ask themselves, “Is evolution true?” For only when evolution is proved to be absolutely true does man need to concern himself with “harmonizing” evolution with theism. This level of proof has not yet been achieved. Nor have attempts to “harmonize” evolution with theism met with acceptance by leading scientists, educators, or the courts.
Many liberal theologians suggest that God set up the universe in the beginning and now works through the laws of nature. This silly way of trying to have one’s cake and eat it too is indistinguishable from atheism. No intellectually, honest Christian evolutionist position exists.
Theistic evolution is clearly not the solution to quieting the creation – evolution controversy for many reasons. One is because leading educators, scientists, and major science organizations are all opposed to any and all worldviews that involve God. The solution for the Christian is not to compromise the clear teachings of the Bible, nor is it to adopt a position that does justice to neither belief system.

Answer 8

I think your on to something. is it possible God evolved man into Adam and Eve, the first of our kind? Possibly. You are definitely right to say the Earth is much older then some believe. Also how long were Adam and Eve in the Garden? Could be 1 day, could be 1, years or more. We don't know one way or the other but either is possible. One thing is sure though, this knowledge has no baring on our own personal salvation.

Answer 9

I certainly don't have a problem with this. The fruit that we get from the trees looks nothing like the seed, or the sapling, or the tree that finally produced it. Who's to say God did or didn't bring mankind to maturity in some such fashion?

The only problem I have with evolutionists is when some moron grabs a handful of fossils and expects me to believe that this somehow proves there is no God.

Answer 10

Evolution is not true. There are no fossil records to show that it is true. Plus, God said that he made all of the animals to their own kind. He didn't say that he made a monkey that turned into a human did he? It would take more "faith" to be a person who believes in evolution than creation. For more info. go to www.watchtower.org

Answer 11

Um... ever heard of intelligent design? That is one of the arguments for a certain section of the greater theory of intelligent design. Why are the two incompatible? Because evolution has no predestination and is entirely RANDOM. It is NOT (as the theory goes) god's mechanism to eventually bring about humans... we evolved by chance, as everything else in this world has. Intrinsic to the theory is this entire idea of randomness, the idea that evolution does not travel a path, but meanders where it will...