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2006-10-10 03:47:12 · 10 answers · asked by iraperzari 2 in Science & Mathematics Biology

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Not at all. Evolution doesn't explicity say that there is no creator. All evolution says is that life arose from specific events that led to the first self-replicating cells. Evolution does not exclude any kind of "God", it just says tries to explain how things can go from the ultra-simple single celled life forms to the marvelous creatures we see today.

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2006-10-10 03:53:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

Atheists have indeed used evolution to support their assertion that there is no god or gods.

However, there is nothing in the theory of evolution that specifically rules out a spiritual or supernatural being. It is merely because so many (especially Americans) insist that there are only two options: Fundamentalist, literal interpretation of the Bible, or a completely godless universe that allows such an interpretation.

A fundamentalist, literal interpretation of Genesis is incompatible with the theory of evolution. It is also incompatible with known scientific theories of gravity, geology, astronomy, physics, gerontology, physiology, entomology, zoology, microbiology, chemistry, hydrology, and pretty much any other science you care to mention.

However, if you read Genesis as an allegory, a story with a message, and it is the message that is important rather than the specific details of the story, then there is no conflict, and evolution is no more supportive of atheism than the study of the Battle of Gettysburg would be. Or the formation of cheese. Or any other process, event, or circumstance in the universe.

2006-10-10 04:51:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

If there is any relationship, it is the other way around. If you are an atheist, then you support evolution because it explains the existence of life that does not require a creator.

But evolution does not exclude a creator. There are many religious people who believe/support evolution. They recognize that the creation stories from their religion are allegorical.

2006-10-10 04:01:44 · answer #3 · answered by Wundt 7 · 2 0

Evolution is a breed of Darwinism

-the idea of survival of the fittest / what works survives and continues, what doesen't work, won't survive.

atheism is simply the belief that all belief in a spiritual / supernatural existence is wrong...

If this says evolution supports atheism, then so be it...

Personally, I don't know we have even come close to the truth yet.

2006-10-10 03:53:51 · answer #4 · answered by Solarsail 2 · 0 0

No. Evolution discusses how biological organisms change over time in response to stresses or mutations. Charles Darwin, who is often seen as the father of modern evolution closed his book Origin of Species with these lines: "Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved. " To Darwin (and many evolutionists) accepting evolution does not mean denying a higher being.

2006-10-10 09:49:30 · answer #5 · answered by lycaena_epixanthe 2 · 1 0

Entropy will enhance in closed systems. He develop into the two ignorant sufficient, or mendacious sufficient to pass away out the "closed systems". The Earth isn't a closed gadget. For the previous umpteen years, provide or take some, it truly is been receiving potential from the sunlight. That potential powers self-organization. the technique of self organization produces some waste potential that is going to increasing entropy. organization will enhance in one place on the fee of increasing entropy someplace else. the shown fact that the entropy argument is spurious has been spoke of for a minimum of 15 years. I certainly have a e book printed in 1994 that refutes it. It in all risk is going back plenty extra effective than that. you will locate the refutation all over the internet. How is it that he did no longer comprehend? As for hassle-free and complicated, they actually do no longer prepare. From memory, people have some thing like 23,000 genes. some flatworms have approximately 50,000. Rice has some thing like 21,000. So while in comparison with flatworms, people are genetically far less complicated, and in easy terms approximately 10% extra complicated than rice. He bases his argument on the thought people or besides the fact that are extra complicated than say canines or horses. they do no longer seem to be, or to no longer any great degree. Or does he base his argument on the thought his purpose audience would not comprehend this? those are good examples of why scientists and clever legislators do no longer hear to creationists.

2016-10-02 03:54:42 · answer #6 · answered by sather 4 · 0 0

No. Evolution supports basic knowledge. A person can still believe in a supreme being without believing every word that is written in the Bible. I believe that if a supreme being came to Earth, the very last place he would go would be into a church.

2006-10-10 03:54:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

The "theory" of evolution supports atheism because it tries to lead us all to believe that we are just here by some big accident. That there was no God who created us as the Bible clearly explains step-by-step that He did. You either have to choose infallible God or fallible man who thousands of years later came up with their own idea of how we came into existence. The "theory" of evolution tries to cut God out of the picture from the very beginning of time so yes, I feel it supports atheism.

2006-10-10 03:56:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

Nothing is beyond the power of God.

This includes the ability to create life that is adaptable to its ever changing environment.

If anything, the opposite of your statement would be true. What takes more faith, to believe that a being so powerful did what I just mentioned or to believe that a pile of goo bubbled up a cell that somehow managed to work itself into a few cells that somehow managed to morph into every form of life we know with the levels of diversity, the complexity of separate nervous, circulatory, respiratory and digestive systems working perfectly in sync and living in harmony with one another on the only known planet with an ecosystem capable of supporting it all?

2006-10-10 04:00:49 · answer #9 · answered by dbackbarb 4 · 0 0

i think in a way evolution supports / opposes atheism

1) evolution would say there is no creation (no God)
2) some say God made evolution (?)

2006-10-12 20:39:30 · answer #10 · answered by praisegodthreeinone 1 · 0 0

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