Does The Theory of Evolution deny the Existence of God?

Answer 1

No.
Anything that evolves has to come from an original something.
God created that original something.

Answer 2

New scientific evolution discoveries can be proof that religion is loaded with un-truths. The recent find of the proven 3.3 million year old human-hobbit skull in Ethiopia for instance. To this day, the existence of God still cannot be proven, that's the problem. For so many years people believed the story of Noah and the Arc until mankind advanced his discoveries and knowledge and learned that 2 of every living thing in this planet is in excess of 50 million tons. It's not good when you discover mistakes in the word of God. which really was the word of ignorant man. . Do the religions realize that they could win this debate if they could prove that there is a man living in a cloud? What seems to be the problem?

Answer 3

No, evolution says nothing whatsoever about the existence or non-existence of God or Gods. It's like asking if Avogadro's Number denies the existence of God.

I'm just curious as to why religious people think that evolutionary theory disproves the existence of God. I always have wondered why they can't accept the possibility that science works just as well within the framework of their reality as it does anywhere else.

Two things can be true at once, the truth of one does not negate the truth of the other.

Answer 4

The threat to Christianity is both more subtle and much more powerful. It refutes the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden with the tree of Knowledge and the Original Sin. Without that the need for universal salvation by the sacrifice of God's son collapses. This is why the Christians (especially Faith based) are fighting it so desperately.
Well the Christians lost on the age of the Earth, Continental drift, the Earth as the ceter of the univers, the Earth being round, the seven spheres of Heaven, and every other discovery of science so far and they will lose on this one as well. The funny thing is that the harder they fight it the bigger they will lose.

Answer 5

The theory of evolution does not require that God does not exist, but also does not require the existence of God. It says nothing, in fact, about God's existence. A literal interpretation of the Bible, however, does perclude the proven fact that animals evolve from lower forms to higher forms.

Whatever is not provable by logic, or observational or experimental science, is open to spiritual interpretation. Cultures from before recorded history have attributed things they didn't know or understand to the existence and control of gods, or of a God.

The more we learn, however, the less of a need we have to invoke God as more things become understood. There is less that we need to attribute to a mystical diety. We no longer need to believe that Helios the sun god drives his fiery chariot across the sky every day, or that volcanic eruptions are caused by the anger of the volcano goddess Pele. In the same way, we no longer need to invoke God to explain the existence of mankind and the animal kingdom.

The choice one has to make is whether to believe the Bible and its mythology literally, as actual fact, or to believe it as a series of metaphores and parables, leaving room for one to believe physical evidence, scientific observation, and logic over magic and myth.

Answer 6

Absolutely not. If you read the bible you know that it states that a day is like a thousand years to God. Well since that's a metaphor in itself a day could easily be 100,000 million years to God too. Therefore creation and evolution could entirely be synonymous.

With all the stories and parables Jesus spoke of there is a lot of room for us to be open minded and free thinkers. The bible compares legalism as a form of witchcraft. If you find someone who is ridged and closed minded with the scriptures usually you have someone who is trying to manipulate you much like a witch or sorcerer. Stay clear of those types. They are here for their own purposes, greed and power.

Answer 7

It seems to be a common misconception on this site that to accept the theory of evolution as a valid scientific alternative to our roots you have to be a supreme-being-denying-hell-spawn of an atheist, now as I am an atheist I therefore must follow this theory and uphold it as the one true theory.

Well, sorry to spoil your sport of atheist bashing but many christians, agnostics and, of course those supreme-being-denying-hell-spawn, atheists accecpt evolution. But it is a scientific theory not a doctrine, we do not hold it as law. We merely accept it as a valid theory that can be supported as a working theory with observed evidence and quantifiable data. It is not fact, it is scientific theory and the theory does not deny the existence of a god, me, myself as an individual denies that...

Answer 8

Yes. Evolution works by Natural Selection which means that adaptaions are selected by what will survive in the given environment period. That is why viruses that kill man have evolved. The story of evolution is extremely fascinating, beautiful and endlessly entertaining to ponder about. Religion never gave me that. Jesus walking on water? Sounds less plausible than the Easter Bunny.

Answer 9

Darwin's Theory of Evolution promotes the existence of the One True God: YOURSELF.

There is only one person who can make or break you and that is you, so for all you Bible Bashers out there, get over it, Science is about ten yards in front of your pathetic old book.

Answer 10

No, it does not. It just ignores that issue. Isn't it possible that God uses evolution as a tool in creating life? Not everything he does has to be by "magic". God's actions can obey physical laws.

Answer 11

Not necessarily. Our God is described as just and benevolent, watching over his flocks. God is never described as being behind the Big Bang that started the universe as we perceive it. There are other planets that could easily have evolved into life similar to ours, so any Supreme Being would be likely to watch over them too.