Do you believe in Evolution or Creation..? (I have finally come to the conclusion that yes both are beliefs)?

Question

I believe in Evolution that way I don't have to belive in God! Isn't that great?!!

I have gone to great lenghts to research this subject and I have come to the conclusion that both ARE beliefs!! = Z

Bummer that all my mommy told me about evolution being a fact and whatever is BS! It's just a theory and hey, I'm not saying it's wrong in could be proved with facts in the furtue..but right now it's still just a theory!!

Answer 1

Evolution so far as natural selection. I am Catholic, but there is a definite difference between straight evolution and the evolution of specific species because of natural selection.

NS is verified, you are denying what is obvious if you disagree with it. Evolution (as misinformed atheists will call it) is slightly more encompassing. I believe that natural selection as a process of evolution occured, but there is no evidence that we all evolved out of bacteria either.


Evolution is a belief. Natural selection is not. Science is based off of fact and evidence. They have proven natural selection. A scientist has yet to convincingly persuade me that we all were floating in a primordial soup at one time.

So, believe in natural selection. Should you believe in evolution? I'm holding off, there's not enough evidence to prove ALL of the theories. We just know how evolution occurs: Natural selection.

Answer 2

Wow, I was talking with some friends from church recently about this. I also had this feeling deep inside, "what if God didnt exist?" We talked for hours, debating on facts. Our conclusion: Yes, God exists. I'll try to give you some insight on what we went over.

Ok, let's not get too complicated and just give an everyday example. Suppose you got home today, and there was this beautiful chocolate cake with icing and everything, on top of ur table. Now, we have 2 theories of where that cake came from:

1) There was an HEB truck this afternoon going by ur house, and all of a sudden, a car hit it at 70mph, and the truck rolled over violently. There were eggs, flour, all sorts of stuff in the truck, and they all got mixed up in the crash, and the truck caught on fire, and the extreme heat baked all that stuff, and as the truck continued to roll on the street, the stuff flew through ur window and miraculously landed on ur table.

2) Someone who knew how to bake a chocolate cake, went there and did it, and then put it on top of ur table for you.

Which one makes more sense? If you answered #2, good! Then God created the Earth and everything in it. If you prefer to believe in an absurd and very creative theory called "the big bang", in which somehow gases mixed up, just in the right proportion, and then everything exploded and the earth was formed ... my friend, you have a very creative mind. First of all, how were those gases there? Someone must have created it. God. Stuff doesn't just appear.

=D Doesn't that make sense? Ok, now, let's get a lil more complicated.

Scientists say that man evolved from monkeys or whatever their creative mind came up with. Well, it has been proven that over time, living beings only lose genetic material, constantly. Therefore, evolution cannot be possible. The human body is so complex, there is no way it just "evolved" from something. A project called GENOMA, just recently finished their research. Their task: make a complete mapping of the human DNA. Many countries joined forces to complete this project, each taking a body part, like arm, leg, or whatever, and finding out the DNA code for it. Germany was in charge of the human eye. At the end of the project, they said that the human eye was so complex, that there was NO WAY it could have evolved from some other animal. It's a fact. Scientists researched and wrote it down. Aren't they contradicting themselves now? Ok, I believe I made a point on this one. Mankind did not evolve. God made man in His image.

Ok, now back to the big bang stuff. The NASA has been measuring the distance from the Earth to the moon, and it's a fact that every year the moon gets further and further away from the Earth. Fact. It's been proven. It's also a mathematical equation. So, if we take that mathematical equation, and do it backwards, we come up with how long since the earth and the moon we're almost touching. The calculations say something about 10 thousand years. It can't be more than that, otherwise the moon would have been rolling around on the earth.

Also, it's possible to calculate the rate of aging of the Earth. Every year, scientists calculate the rate at which the Earth is aging. It's roughly the same. If we then backtrack how long since the Earth was relatively "new", the calculations vary from 10 to 12 thousand years. It's fact.

Also, the population of the Earth. Today, we have roughly 6.5 billion people alive. Populations, increase in a mathematical progression. In other words, there will always be more people alive today, than there are people dead. Fact. It's not possible to have more people dead than alive. Draw a sketch of a simple family tree, and you'll stumble upon the same conclusion. So, if we backtrack how long since the beggining of population, the results say somewhere between 10 to 12 thousand years.

Every fact that we can backtrace, falls upon the same range. 10 to 12 thousand years. In other words, the Earth is relatively new, not millions of years old as some scientists say.

So, why would scientists not agree with this? Why would they come up with these ridiculous theories about some big bang or whatever? The answer is simple. At the very moment that they agree that there is an all-powerful being, a God, that created everything we know, they realize all their sins. At the moment they realize their sins, they know that they'll have to eventually have a commitment and a close relationship with God. They don't want any commitments to anyone. So what's the easy way out? Make up some random theories that we evolved from monkeys and that the Earth just happens to have been created randomly by a Big Bang, that they themselves can't explain how it supposedly happened.

I sincerely hope this has opened your eyes to the truth. Thanks for reading this, and I really hope that you now accept the commitment that God wants you to have with Him. If you're already commited with God, then I hope this text has restrengthened your faith.

God Bless all of you, and have a great day.

Answer 3

First off, you're being very scarcastic about the reason for believing in evolution, that aint good. Secondly, evolution is just a theory, but it might as well be a belief since so many people cling to that theory. (sigh) Now, I'm going to lay down a couple of facts and an analogy. If you look at a watch, it had to be created the way it was, otherwise, it wouldn't work that well and it wouldn't serve it's purpose. A watch is nothing compared to a human cell, so there's no way we could have evolved, cause it'll be nothing but chance and we wouldn't have these complex bodies. NO WAY. The watch might as well have evolved from the molten lava and the rubber trees and the LCD screen from silicon, or, whatever it's made from. Finally, if we've adapted so well in the past, why aren't we evolving now? Think about it

Answer 4

During my School days I had agreed the theory of Evolution, because the theory of creation does not help to score marks. I don't know where God is or Who is He, however, I trust in the Mighty Hands of God, The Creator and due to that I am not going to be a big loser.

You have mentioned that, Evolution and Creation are beliefs. Creation can be a belief but evolution is not a belief, its a concept which has not yet proved 100%.

Answer 5

Evolution is science I'm afraid, not just belief. And I have to say I'm tired of the crap from Christians saying it's "just a theory". More proof they don't run in scientific circles.

In science, a theory is a proposed description, explanation, or model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation. It follows from this that for scientists "theory" and "fact" do not necessarily stand in opposition. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theory which explains why the apple behaves so is the current theory of gravitation.
But I suppose that you don't believe in gravity either.

Answer 6

Of course both are beliefs, with science being the belief of logic and evidence. You're going to think I'm being mean; I'm not trying to, but most religions ask you to not believe in logic to a certain extent. If not almost completely in some areas. They call these things various tests of faith. I mean, I can't say they're not right (can't prove logic is true through logic), though if that's the case God is freaking me out hardcore, and he's going to hear a lot of whining from my end.

And also of course believing in evolution doesn't mean you have to throw out God. Can you make things evolve? Science has yet to make life better than nature can; God(s) can easily be thrown into the works, if you so choose. I personally believe in a higher power. I don't see why not.

Answer 7

Evolution is winning the argument over time because more and more evolution can be proven. The religions have had thousands of years to prove that there is a man living in a cloud but they always come up empty handed . Religion is a business. Do you think that pedophile priests thought that there is man living in a cloud watching over everything that you do while they were molesting children? Of course not. They don't believe it themselves but they make a living getting you to believe it. Beliefs that can be proven are no longer beliefs. The religions sell beliefs (look how many different beliefs there are) for $3 billion a year in tax free donations. It's a business that provides power and money. They all sell beliefs that can't be proven.

Answer 8

Speciation is the evolutionary technique wherein new organic and organic species upward push up. The biologist Orator F. cook dinner seems to have been the 1st to coin the term 'speciation' for the splitting of lineages or "cladogenesis," as adversarial to "anagenesis" or "phyletic evolution" occurring interior of lineages.[one million][2] no count if genetic waft is a minor or significant contributor to speciation is the situation count of lots ongoing communicate. There are 4 geographic modes of speciation in nature, based on the quantity to which speciating populations are remoted from one yet another: allopatric, peripatric, parapatric, and sympatric. Speciation is additionally prompted artificially, with the aid of animal husbandry, agriculture, or laboratory experiments. All varieties of organic speciation have taken place over the path of evolution; whether it nonetheless keeps to be a situation of discussion as to the relative value of each mechanism in driving biodiversity.[4] One occasion of organic speciation is the variety of the three-spined stickleback, a marine fish that, after the final ice age, has gone with the aid of speciation into new freshwater colonies in remoted lakes and streams. Over an envisioned 10,000 generations, the sticklebacks prepare structural variations that are greater advantageous than those considered between diverse genera of fish mutually with adjustments in fins, adjustments interior the quantity or length of their bony plates, variable jaw shape, and colour difference.

Answer 9

There is nothing to prevent you from making evolution a personal belief system, but it doesn't make it one. I, like about half a million ofther scientists, still approach it as a science, testing it, applying critical evaluation, and even approaching the data from the assumption evolution is false. There is nothing in evolution that excludes God, and there is nothing in "Scientific" Creationism.

Answer 10

*Sigh*

No, only one of them is a belief. The other is both a theory and a fact. For those who do not know, a theory is a hypothisis that has been tested, verified, and has viable evidence to back it up. A theory is not a guess, as theists like to pretend it is.

BTW: The ToE says NOTHING whatsoever about the existence of God. The only thing it does is prove that a literal reading of Genesis is not true.