Evolution, Creation, and Religion?

Question

This is sort of a poll. What are your beliefs regarding the creation-evolution controversy? If you're a creationist, are you a Young-Earth Creationist, or Old Earth, or another type of creationist? If you believe in evolution, is it theistic evolution, atheistic/agnostic evolution, or another type of evolution? Why do you believe what you believe? I really appreciate your input!

Correct, Young-Earth Creationists believe the earth is just under 6,000 years old, corresponding with the 6-day creation in Genesis.

Answer 1

I believe that there is a god, but that the Biblical story of creation is simply a fable used to explain that which could not be understood by man at the time.

Evolution, as far as I'm concerned, is fact.


"There are people out there who believe that man and dinosaurs lived at the same time...These people are watching 'The Flintstones' like it's a documentary!" --Lewis Black

Answer 2

I don't think you understand anything at all about evolution if you believe that. Evolution would mean that there was no Original Sin. If there no Original Sin, there was no Adam and Eve, no Adam and Eve means no forbidden fruit, no forbidden fruit means no salvation (from Jesus). Which means the pelvic-core of Christian ideology buckles. If you try and bend the theory to suit your beliefs, you might say that god 'jump started life' by starting out with just cellular organism and bacteria and set them on a path to become what we are today. If you believe that, then what about the story of Genesis? How does that fit? Where does Adam and Eve fit in? Cain and Abel? If you accept evolution, you cannot accept genesis. And without genesis, the story of original sin falls apart and thus the story of salvation. @ The Shihan, The word theory in the theory of evolution does not imply mainstream scientific doubt regarding its validity; the concepts of theory and hypothesis have specific meanings in a scientific context. While theory in colloquial usage may denote a hunch or conjecture, a scientific theory is a set of principles that explains observable phenomena in natural terms."Scientific fact and theory are not categorically separable", and evolution is a theory in the same sense as germ theory or the theory of gravitation.

Answer 3

Evolution and probably atheistic at that. Natural, no deities involved. No God starting the chain reaction and sitting back, watching us evolve like dominoes falling. No God waving a finger and "poof", here we are.

We're here, we got here naturally, and grew(evolved) over time. I believe this because while evolution is still technically a theory and not a law, said theory has been reasonably proven numerous times enough to be reasonably true. Last I checked, short of quoting a 2000 year old book that's been mistranslated and edited over the last 2 millennia, nobody's proven God's existence even once on a small scale.

Evolution can be reasonably proved. God, being an invisible, supposedly omnipotent deity, can't.

Answer 4

KC Superstar –

The approximately 6000 year-old earth is not related to the 6 days of creation. Five hundred years ago. Bishop Ussher went through the Bible and figured out how long certain people lived (e.g., Methuselah), some other things, I suppose – then he added it all up and came to the date 4004 BC. Later, some other guy claimed to refine it to Oct, 3 at 9:00AM (or something like that).

Answer 5

I think the Hebrew Bible is mostly myth. This makes me an atheist in the eyes of most people, but really I am agnostic. I've studied Evolution enough to be confident that it is a robust Theory (with a capital T) and the best explanation for the diversity of life on Earth.

Answer 6

I am convinced of the process of evolution from my work in molecular biology. My goal was not proving evolution, but the evidence mounted up as I worked. I'm familiar with the fossil record, but it is not my strong suit.

I am a "pro-God" agnostic and favor the doctrine of Creationism ("God created the Universe.")

Answer 7

I am a creationist. I believe that God is the source of all that exists. I am also a biologist, and accept the huge volume of obvious evidence for biological evolution. If there is any conflict between these two essentially unrelated positions, I haven't found it.

Answer 8

i believe in Creation and i THINK i'm Young-Earth (that means that I believe that God made earth in 6 literal days, right? X.x)

I believe this because I've read evidence thats against evolution that evolutionists haven't been able to respond effectively to. I believe in Young-Earth because I think that God could've made the Earth old in the first place (like birthing an 80-year-old man).

Answer 9

I believe in Gnostic form of religion, meaning spirituality.
I don't think it's really either one, but a little bit of both.
Perhaps we evolved a long time ago - we peaked - and now we're heading into "transcendence", and one day we will not need the terrible "dark" manipulation and distraction called technology, but rather become aware of the "light" and begin morphing into a bodyless existence.

Answer 10

Evolution traces back to creationism in a way. I mean the big bang supposedly made the first single celled organism. My personal belief is that the world is only around 40,000 or 400,000 years old. I can't remember which. This was determined by tracing back the genealogical records in the bible.