For those of you who are believers in creation, have you researched the other side?

Question

Have you read books on evolution, and concluded they are false? No offense intended, it is just that my eyes were opened by taking it upon myself to really research other explanations (besides the bible) for the creation of life and the universe, and found that I beleive I was wrong in thinking Genisis was correct. We have EXCELLENT fossil evidence.

Answer 1

Science is an excellent instrument to develop and illuminate the human mind, like religion.
Big Bang, Evolution, Relativity...are most advanced theories for discovering the mysterious physical world; they are not absolute truth to replace the theories derived from religion. Creationism, Causality, Predestination... needs be considered in the same light.
We all, theists and atheists, do not possess the absolute truth, so we better cooperate harmoniously in learning for the illumination of our souls for the collective advancement of all mankind, instead of denying or trying to eliminate each other.

Answer 2

I have researched the other side..problems with evolution though- fossil records cannot explain the Cambrian Explosion, you need RNA and DNA AND PROTEINS TO CREATE LIFE-TO BELIEVE THAT THESE COULD FIND EACH OTHER AFTER MAGICALLY FORMING ON THEIR OWN REALLY TAKES FAITH! Sorry for the caps... I just get excited when someone wants to hear the truth. There are tons of other reasons that evolution makes no sense is that a lot of the studies doesn't tell the whole story. Case in point, a lot of evolutionist show the scientific evidence that came when a scientist formed an experiment that was set to be as life would have been at that time and they created amino acid. This was exciting since you need amino acids to make proteins. The problem occurred that it was a controlled environment which the world was hardly back then and that they could only make negatively change amino acid and no positives...but you need negative and positive to create protein...sorry evolutionist-try the truth.

Answer 3

Yes I have studied evolution. I find that most evolutionists I have encountered are not up on the latest evolutionary teachings and are using outdated arguments to support the theory; arguments abandoned or at least contested by modern scientists, including string theorists and others. I wonder if evolutionists are as open-minded to consider scientific evidence for creation ( which by the way is abundant) ;or are they dismissive, because it doesn't agree with what they so desire to be true. Believers in creation do not deny the fossil record. However the fossil record shows a sudden explosion of life. This record is good for learning about extinction, which by the way is not evolution. But there is a big problem with the fossil record. It shows no transitional species, just replicas of what we have today, or extinct species, appearing and disappearing.

Answer 4

I took a course at Liberty University called: Apol 220-'The History of Life'. This course looked at both sides of this issue. Of course Liberty is a Christian school. But, they do not play games with the truth. Anyone who takes a serious course like this one, will doubt this 'excellent fossil evidence'.
We all look at the same evidence. We just look at it with different presuppositions. All we can get from the fossil record is that something died. We do not know when or how. We do not know if what died had offspring-we don't know. Then, what about the dates. You don't know how fossils and rocks are dated-I promise you that you don't. If you seriously look into the datng methods, and how they are used-you would begin to question a lot of things.
What about modeling? There is the creation 'model' and there is the evolution 'model'. its fairly old now, but these models are uesd to test evidence to to see how valid a theory or supposition may be. You should look into that.

Answer 5

I have also checked into it and evolution has more holes than swiss cheese. The best example is the fossil record itself. Using any animal in existence, we have a present-day example or specimen. They find remains of an "ancestor" that date back millions of years. That pretty much sums up all species.

My point being --- where are all the in-between species as modern day animals were evolving? We have giraffes with long necks because they supposedly stretched them, we have their ancestors, but nothing with necks in the middle, and why only giraffes? Did no other animal need to stretch it's neck?

While Genesis does not get into specifics, no book in the world could hold the process of creation, the fossil record concludes that there was intelligent design --- that is why it is the THEORY of evolution, has always been and will always be.

Good question though.

Answer 6

Did you read about the different theories about the moon? They're my personal favorite proof.
Capture theory: The earth "captured the moon" from it's own solar orbit. Problems would be 1. According to Kepler's laws, The moon's orbit would have to be more elliptical and cross the earths. 2. It would cause the earth to heat up big time. No evidence for that.
Fission theory: Moon spun off from earth. Problem: It would be spinning at the rate of a 2 hour day. If the moon was ripped out, what could have slowed the moon down? Evidence suggests that the earth would spin faster, and rip out many more moons until almost none of the earth is left.
Impact theory: Mars size planet hits earth.
Problem: Improbibility. Never in known records has a planet hit another planet. And also, how would that mars size planet impact at a perfect rate to not have that moon part fall back or escape all together?

Answer 7

Yes I have read the other side. Actually, most people are forced to hear about it at some level if they ever take a high school or above science class.

Have you read a book called Darwin's Black Box?
There are some interesting books out like that. Just reading Genesis and then looking at fossil record is not going to be enough.

Genesis was not written to 21st century people, at least in scientific terms. You won't find anything about DNA or RNA or whatever. It is an account of the creation from the perspective of someone several thousand years ago.
I don't think that nullify's the account, but if you're looking for scientific proof, genesis is not going to give it to you outright

Answer 8

I went a step further. I was entrenched in scientific evolution. I was disgusted with the Creationists, so I set about to study the Bible to prove that the Bible's version of the origin of the Earth was a fallacy. The more research I did in the Bible, the more questions were raised in my mind about science. To make a long story short, I ended up finding that it took more faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe in Creationism. I received Jesus as my Lord and Savior, and now know by faith that the Biblical record is accurate.

Answer 9

I have not concluded that God did not or will not use the concepts of evolution to further His creative works. I have looked into the theories that life was not original with the earth and came from somewhere else. Or that it was spontaneous to this world by accidental natural circumstance. The first idea just leads back to the second at some point in time somewhere and the first, because of the complexity of even simple proteins is too far fetched to believe. Because of the hundreds of molecules needed to build a string of proteins and the hundreds of thousands needed to build a DNA string. It is impossible for these strings to build because of their chirality, unless their were intelligently designed.... Jim

Answer 10

I've researched both sides and right now i'm somewhere in the middle. Both beliefs are impossible to state completely right or wrong, however, religion can be very faulty, although evolution doesn't rule out a God either. No matter what I believe there is a "creator" whatever that is, I mean, something had to spawn us even if it's something as crazy as a super computer.