Is it right to believe in GOD and in EVOLUTION at the same time ???

Question

Or one of them has to be dropped..

Answer 1

I think you'll find most Christians believe in both.

It's just the fundamentalist nutters who think you have to choose between them.

And I bet you start a flood of drivel from them, mate - be prepared!

Answer 2

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 3

If God is anything less than all-powerful, there could be an element of evolution and creation mixed in together, but in that case, He would be no God at all.

Loius Pasteur once said that life could only come from life. There had to be some living being in place before life as we know it began. That being is an all-powerful God. This leaves us with a question. What is He going to about the mess we're in? there are very logical and satisfying answers supplied by Jehovah's Witnesses if you take the time otlisten to them.

Answer 4

You don't need faith to believe in evolution, you just need to study the evidence, the Complete Works of Charles Darwin are now available on the internet, the site just opened last month. If you have evidence you don't need faith at all to believe something.

God is another matter entirely, if you have faith in God you won't consider proof or evidence important because there is none for God.

You can have faith in the celestial teapot, the flying spaghetti monster too and like God no-one can prove they do or don't exist. You can believe in anything with faith and that is the big problem with faith.

Answer 5

Evolution says nothing of God. To my knowledge, God has said nothing of evolution. The only conflict can come from some extreme religious views.

Answer 6

Micro evolution is a science. It says that if you breed to types of dogs together, you may get a new breed of dog. Same thing for any other animals (or plants).

The Bible agrees with this, it says that things will reproduce after their own kind.

Scientist are thinking of reorganizing the system of defining how animals and plants are defined, because there are things that have been said to be related, but are now known not to be related, and things that have been said are not to be related but are now known to be related.

There are 4 other types of evolution (how things began, the universe, solar system and life), these are only theories and not science.

Answer 7

No, that's the biggest misperception. Many christians, including evangelical ones, support evolution (just do a quick google search). There's no 'belief' in evolution on the level we're talking about. Of course, I think that everything here is an illusion and therefore everything is belief but that's on a different level.

Answer 8

I believe it was God who caused evolution. I don't get how scientific people believe evolution just happened surely something must have caused it? I believe evolution happened because God made it happen!

Answer 9

I know many Christians who do- which would mean they do not take God's word for what it says. No, evolution has nothing to do with God's creation. The bible says He created it in 7 days- and with every verse about each day, He ends it with "That was the first day, that was the second day, that was the third day"
--God wrote this for our understanding--He can do anything and He did create the world in 7 days.

Answer 10

If you believe in an all-powerful, very personal God who reveals Himself as love and purpose, then you have to drop an unwieldy, amoral system like Natural Selection as a means for the governance and progress of life.

If you believe in a cold scientific process that takes no account of morality into its equation of success, then there isn't much of a place for an all-powerful, personal, all-benevolent god.
With an evolutionary mindset, it's possible to believe in an impersonal force. It is possible to believe in a god who is personal and all-powerful, but not all-loving in the sense that we know (and the sense expressed by the Christian God). It is possible to believe in a god (or gods) who is loving and personal, but not all-powerful.

That's how I see it.

Answer 11

You can believe in God and in the theory of evolution as long as you believe that God guided this process. (Although I think that the idea of Evolution is bogus.)