evolution and Christ are the same?

Question

If God is all, then Evolution would be a part of the all?

Answer 1

Exactly.

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

Hey, don;t let these fundamentalists get you down.

You're absolutely right that evolution could have been part of God's plan because God is apparently perfect but ultimately unknowable, so any so called Christian that tells you evolution never happened or that God created the world in seven days is a fool or a liar because they weren't there, they don't know and they are all ultimately blasphemous, trying to represent their own narrow minded world view as the word of God and putting their own blind teachings falsely into God's mouth

Answer 3

I think this is a good question to ask.

The easiest response, I think, is that science attempts to answer the "how"s of life (biology, etc.) and that religion attempts to answer the "why" (why are we here? does god love us?)

I think Genesis tells us a lot about how the early hebrews saw their relationship with God as expressed through their early history (and pre-history, since many of the stories fall out of our contemporary understandings of what is historical). Genesis, however, does not tell us about what really ahppened at the dawn of time. But that doesn't mean there's no value in what I read a s abeautiful text about how our spiritual forebearers saw themselves in relationship to God.

I don't know a lot about "Intelligent design," but what i know makes me suspect it's not going to hold up in peer-reviewed scientific circles, and not for reasons of anti-religious sentiment.

Answer 4

So, electric lights and Christ are the same, cars and Christ are the same, dogs and Christ are the same, moustaches and Christ are the same.
Oohoo you've got me started now, maths and Christ are the same, carpets and Christ are the same, pancakes and Christ are the same etc

Answer 5

I think that's brilliant.

Evolution is a blind process that espouces no attachment to it's results. In fact it leaves selection to the crucible of "nature red in tooth and claw."

That would make make Jesus unknowing and uncaring about creation. Completely the opposite of what is preached by Christians.

Which is it? Is your god everything, including "nature red in tooth and claw?" Wouldn't that be a god that isn't all knowing, all loving and all powerful?

I know, I should stop thinking, throw out all my books and read the only one in your library.

Answer 6

Evolution and Christianity contradict each other.

Answer 7

I believe Ea created this planet as an experiment, unfortunately because Jehovah and Allah were left in charge after Anu left the planet, people tend to believe in christianity and Islam more than themselves these days.

Intelligent christian is an oxymoron.

Answer 8

The phrase "God is all" is a philosophical catch-phrase not found in the Bible. When you analyse it, it would make everything, good and bad, part of God, which is not true.

Answer 9

but bible & christians do not agree with evolution. thats stupidity.

Answer 10

sure most intelligent Christians accept evolution.

if your belief system is incompatible with the facts of science, then it's likely your beliefs that are mistaken.