That God created the universe VIA the big bang, and set in motion the whole thing? Why do some Christians have to believe that he had to do everything literally as in Genesis? The Bible was, after all, written by humans, who could not necessarily contemplate God (at first anyway.)
Natural Selection can surely be attributed to God - he could have made beneficial changes (mutations) to organisms that allowed them to evolve and become better at survival. Why does he only have to have taken 6 earth days? God's days are not our days after all, he's timeless.
The only thing that does not fit is the cruelness of nature (sometimes.) A Christian God implies goodness is everything, rather than a balance (which I am personally happier with anyway.) But even then - how can you have good without bad? Everything would just be the same, and neutral. If you do believe all God created must be good, then could Satan not have given organisms their 'selfishness' and will to survive?
2006-11-18 04:00:30 · 8 answers · asked by lady_s_hazy 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why can God not have spoken 'let there be...trees' for example, at the time the first tree formed? He could still have been creating/overseeing the formation of the world, even if evolution was in place.
2006-11-18 04:09:51 · update #1
Good question. I personally see Spirit behind the machinations of this Universe, much as you. You've really answered your own question, though. A Christian God implies goodness is everything - the Christian God does not fit into an evolutionary worldview. Evolution makes a virtue out of the "will to survive". Without it, species do not adapt and move forward. What an amazing possibility to consider a world where God creates and sets in motion a process that requires a trait given to humanity by the devil. Talk about your promethean situations.
Consider also the fact that selection means that there were other traits not selected for. That means that traits and mutations were made that were not beneficial. It would be difficult to imagine the Christian God in all of His benevolence giving the cold shoulder to those whose traits don't happen to lend themselves to successful reproduction. There is no inevitable march of progress with Natural Selection. It can be haphazard and merciless to those that don't have the right set of traits.
Our more fundamentalist friends are quite right to see that evolution does not lend itself to personal, all-benevolent, all-powerful gods.
2006-11-18 04:18:52 · answer #1 · answered by The Man Comes Around 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a born-again Christian, and I believe that God created the Universe via the Big-Bang. We do not know how long a day was for God. Could have been 20 millions years for all we know. We are finite, God is eternal.
2006-11-18 12:08:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anton Mathew 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without any living consciousness existing today that was around hundreds of billions of years ago, there is NO WAY to concretely prove exactly how everything came to be.
Evolution is a proven theory, but doesn't account for the beginning of the world. An all-powerful entity creating everything with a thought isn't feasible, either.
I'm happy knowing that I will never really know, because none of it affects how I live TODAY.
2006-11-18 12:10:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The major flaw in that argument is that it still begs the question "where did god come from?" It also further complicates the nature of the universe and the causal forces therein. Is gravity god?
Ignorance about science makes a cozy bed for god.
2006-11-18 12:13:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They can't see it because Satan has captured their minds and hearts. And has blinded them to the truth. They could be free of Satan grips by just believing and by asking God for his help. I really enjoy the showing of your faith, And I do hope that your statement will manage to reach all that reads it and show them that God is real and Jesus is not just a figment of someones imagination...........................
2006-11-18 12:26:34 · answer #5 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once again, one of the loopholes of religion. It's all based on faith, which has so many loopholes it's ridiculous.
2006-11-18 12:04:26 · answer #6 · answered by winds_of_justice 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
it is written that God spoke a word and it was done,i will believe that thank you
2006-11-18 12:04:17 · answer #7 · answered by daleswife 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
cos i'm myself
2006-11-18 12:03:03 · answer #8 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋