Can you believe in evolution an God ?

Answer 1

Nope. Only evolution.

Answer 2

Yes and no. It depends on which god you are talking about...

Christian God for example... this is from an answer I gave recently...

Some Christians claim that evolution and Christianity are compatible. They claim this by saying that the world was not necessarily made in 7 24 hour days, and God could have used evolution to create us... that we evolved and, eventually, we were conscious. That the creation story is symbolic and allegorical.

Then the problem comes in... it's symbolic, but there is a geneaology in the Bible, from Adam all the way to Jesus. At what point does that geneaology stop being symbolic and start being literal? Because according to that geneaology, humans didn't come into being until after the domestication of the dog.

So, yeah, it takes some major picking and choosing to rectify the two. For literalist Christians, those that take creation literally, there are all kinds of conflicts with science, evolution being just one of them.

For other religions, like some forms of Paganism evolution doesn't pose a problem. It is also in line with deism.

Answer 3

It is hard to believe that God would use evolution to complete the creation process that He started. Evolution is based on survival of the fittest, hardly a Christian doctrine. In addition, if evolution is the way that God used to finish creation, death would have come before sin entered the world through mankind in the Garden of Eden. Christians believe sin came first then death.

Answer 4

My personal belief on this subject is that certain species did evolve over time, however, God created the process of evolution to begin with. Also, man did not evolve due to the fact that we are created in God's image. Since we know that God is the same as He was yesterday and will be the same for all eternity we know man did not change or evolve like people who do not believe in God proclaim.

Answer 5

I don't see why not seeing as how God said to him a day could be as 1000 years and 1000 years as a day and considering that Genesis and the theory of evolution both show things evolving in the same order.

Answer 6

I honestly do not think you can. Evolution is things evolving on its own..without a maker. God made all according to the Bible. If you are a Christian and take the Bible as God's word..why would you even want to believe the lies of evolution?

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Answer 7

A lot of people do. They call it "theistic evolution" , meaning that god created the world by means of evolution. That isn't my view, but very many believe that.

Answer 8

Well I am content believing GOD can do both.
GOD would be just as happy using laws HE had already made for other purposes, (and being good, would use again), to make other things, creatures, and finally us.
All that GOD makes is for a reason, so why can't HE do what HE wants?

Answer 9

Didn't God create evolution? If he created everything else then didn't he create evolution too? Don't tell me the Devil created it, cause there is no evidnce the Devil even exists. Unless I'm mistaken. I'm only a troll, so I could be mistaken.

Answer 10

Yes... we would be extremely arrogant if we were to say we understood all of the ways God does the work of God. The story of creation could be allegorical, or condensed to fit into the frame work of the poetical mind. That does not lessen God to me. ..seven days, ...seven millinia.... if you are God, what's the difference? Nit picking people cause more trouble than any one needs.
Many parts of the Bible are more poetical than they are literal. And that's as it is supposed to be.