can christians believe in evolution?

Question

Evolution has pretty much been proven fact. It really bothers me when they make fun of it, without even having the simplest idea of how it really happened. if you want to believe in jesus and god, fine, but why can't evolution be the how god made you? what are you going to do when evolution is proved right?

Answer 1

Read the book "Letter to a Christian Nation" - it deals in depth with the problem of religious "moderates."

The gist is that it's really not possible to be a "moderate" member of a dogmatic religion. You're only moderate insofar as you've "fallen away." The lunatics, the avowedly frightening fundie freaks, those are the ones who are really in the main line of tradition, as you can see from a glance at history. If you're really a Catholic, for example, you're required to believe all sorts of things that a nonpartisan 10-year-old would laugh at for their sheer idiocy; the degree to which you don't is just the degree to which you've "lapsed." What happens, of course, is that most "religious" people quite unconsciously pick and choose which aspects of their religion they pay attention to. Not to say they only pick the "pleasant" aspects; but they simply refrain from considering (e.g.) that being Catholic means that they have to reject every major advance in science.

As we've seen with "Unity" type churches, though, it's possible to lift a terminology and apply it to a fundamentally different set of ideas; and maybe that IS the best thing to do after all with the problem of "christianity." People have been brainwashed from birth to automatically associate the name of Jesus with all that is good; but our definitions of "good" have changed - or SHOULD have changed - over the millenia of the religion's existence. So maybe the best we can hope for, if the ignorant peasant masses can't be trusted to give up their own self-destructive superstitions, is to change the meaning of the symbols to reflect truth as we know it today. This IS, after all, how christianity itself began - all its legends and rituals having been hijacked from earlier pagan cults to create a composite Roman state religion.

To answer the question...LOL...no, a "christian" can't really believe in evolution, if definitions as they stand really count for anything. To accomodate such a belief, we have to change the definition of christian - which may not be such a bad idea.

Answer 2

Sure Christians can believe in evolution! It could have happened- that's a scientific question- but it poses no problems for Christianity. God could have guided evolution. Also, despite what some say, science has proven that the earth is billions of years old- so evolution definitely could have happened. I'm a Catholic and don't see any problem with it.

Answer 3

I was once raised as a Christian however I nonetheless take delivery of evolution. I will provide an explanation for why. God stated, "Let there be gentle. " And He noticed the sunshine was once well. I'm lovely certain that after the Big Bang occurred, there was once plenty of sunshine. I do not believe the Old Testament was once supposed to be taken actually. Adam and Eve are symbolic of society on the time. I feel that is the factor in historical past while guy began to impeach himself approximately his possess morals. Maybe humans wherein establishing to be much less nomadic than ago and for that reason needed to take accountability for the relationships they'd with others round them. Most Christians reside through the New Testament. These are the lessons of Jesus. They are fundamental morals that all people must reside through.

Answer 4

In 1 word, 'No'. In 6 days the Lord created the heavens and the earth and all that in them is, not millions of years so called proven by fake 'carbon-testing' which HAS been proven not to work and produce wrong answers. Why would Christians want to believe in a lie? We came from His creative mind, formed by His creative Hand in His own image and by His creative power............not a rock all the way to a monkey and then give or take a missing link hence we have arrived.
Someone said in a previous comment that evolution has been proven.........THEN SHOW US!!!...........I suggest you get in touch with Kent Hovind (google him) who is a creationist and offers about $250,000 for anybody with one scrap of evidence in favour of evolution, why does he offer such money? simple because there is no proof. Evolution is not possible, study the human eye, and you will see that its not possible whatsoever.
So, going back to the original question, no we cant believe in evolution, God spoke and it was done on the SIXTH day not over a period of millions of years and the same God who created us, also loves us thats why we in a sinful and rebellious state, always trying to dethrone Him of who He is and deny His person are recipients of that love by Him sending His Son to die for our sins. One day every eye will see the One who created us. I trust we will all be right with Him beforehand.

Answer 5

When I was a kid, and a children's version of the bible was read to me by my parents and grandparents, I always used to wonder, cause I'd heard from some people that we evolved from monkeys, if Adam and Eve were the first people on earth and didn't come from monkeys, then where did the monkey evolution idea come from? Unquestionably, the evolution theory is much more believable than Adam and Eve, and when I'm reading all those things Christians post on here, I'm always wondering, Y'all don't actually BELIEVE that we're all descendants of two people - Adam and Eve, do you? I mean, yeah, I was raised Orthodox Christian, I went to church with my mom and dad, prayed on my own, too, wore a cross on my neck, etc. I RESPECTED my religion. But I didn't actually believe that we all came from Adam and Eve. Do you have to believe EVERYTHING the bible says in order to be a Christian? Do you have to believe in the bible in order to pray? As a matter of fact, THIS SITE was the thing that made me turn away from my religion and become an atheist. When I'm seeing all the bullshitters in here claiming to believe everything single word that comes from the bible and insult every person who's less of a believer than they are, a very high wave of disgust towards my used-to-be fellow christians, arises in me. I ain't never, in my whole life, tried to make someone believe in my god. Cause in fact, I myself didn't believe in my own god. But I RESPECTED my religion. That's what made me remain a christian. Until this site was made.
Yeah, I was a christian, and I believed in evolution. All christians who say you can't be a christian and believe in evolution can go to hell.

Answer 6

There are nearly a billion Christians in the world. Most of them by far believe evolution to have been the means by which life came about and developed. A few numbskulls, mainly in the US, are at the vanguard of resistance to the idea of evolution. And evolution already has been proved right, so the answer to your question is, they're still going to pretend it hasn't happened.

Answer 7

I think that science and religion are not enemies. they are friends. One enforces the other.

I am a christian and I believe in evolution. How can evolution be possible without the power of God to make it happen?

Answer 8

You just presume the bible is full of lies & that evolution is correct (though the amount of holes in the evolutionary theory makes me wonder why anyone would believe it). The world has only been around 7000 years . god created the world in 7 days..each with 1000 yrs per day. Thus showing we are now in the last days. Evolution is a load a pan crack to be honest and no it hasnt been proven

Answer 9

There are several points at which evolution falls down. One is, the point at which dead cells became living cells and how did it happen? The second is the lack of transitional forms in the fossil record. The third is deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. How did that just magically show up? Natural selection, or survival of the fittest, is a reasonably well-proven premise, but cross-form evolution isn't.

Answer 10

I believe in GOD and Jesus, and I also believe in evolution. I think God gave us a starting point and let nature take its course.