I guess if I believe in God I cant believe in evolution?

Question

I just dont get it...why do I have to pick a side in the scientific debate and the God debate. Why cant the two co-exist. Fact is, I may be the minority but both the religious right and the scientific left are really both wrong. I believe in evolution and I believe in God. I believe both compliment eachother and both co-exist. The bible was meant to be a teaching tool and nothing more. So dont try to use that cop out like I believe the bible should be taken completely literally...that is wrong. Its not a history, geology, or an astronomy book. Its a book to teach you how to live, nothing more nothing less...so take your bias and throw it away.

To believe we evolved from nothing is ludicrous, just like to believe in any infinite values existing in this reality, because fact is they dont exist. Dont try to limit your view of God by interpretting that it somehow relates to this universe because that is also a mute point. Can u atleast somewhat agree with me on this?

Answer 1

The line drawn in the sand has been made worse by the propaganda on evolution by those who DON'T believe that God made the world or even exists. ....and by some Chrisians who want to make the creation account in Genesis a doctrine of salvation.

These evolutionists who don't even want "intelligent design" mentioned as part of the world coming into being seem to have an anti-God agenda. And they are using the law to try to have evolution taught as a "fact" and not a theory. Trouble is, they don't agree with each other and have no proof of what they preach. They believe in their form of evolution on the basis of their "faith" in their theory. They are as soundly religious as the preachers who don't want evolution mentioned .

God did create the world. As I have been looking up passages, I am suprised at how many, many times in both the New and Old Testament the Bible declares that God created the heavens and the earth. He seems to want all to know that it was HE who created all things.
But He does not explain how He created it.

That is my agreement with you.

Answer 2

No the two fit together very nicely. The problem is still peoples thinking that the two are separate ideologies.
Much has been left out of the first part of Genesis after God created the Earth and all that lives on it. If you look at the start you Will notice that it starts twice. And then there are the floods that destroyed most of what was there and was restarted by God.
Yes something has to be created before it can evolve or be evolved to fit its living conditions.
Take the Story of the Garden Of Eden. After God made Adam&Eve and they sinned they were expeled and given clothes of skins ans met other tribes that were all ready outside of the Garden . Who made these people and how long before Adam and family had they been in existance?
One of the many clues in the bible that some thing has been left out.And the full story has not been told.

Answer 3

My belief confirms Evolution. There are many people who believe in God and also Evolution. In fact, I was reading a book from the Fifties and the author said that Evolution and the Bible are in sink with each other. The first time I read Geneses I saw the development of Earth and was awe-struck. What do you think, Let there be Light Means! that's the Big-Bang! "The light dividing from the Darkness, that the Universe forming... it so amazing, I guess some people are smarter than others! And the Earth being created in Six days, that Einsteins' Theory of Relativity. If you travleed at light speed away from Earth, time would be relativilty slower compared to earth, after a while
an hour of your time would be years of Earth time. If you returned thousands even millions of years, depending on how far you travleed would have passed. And you would not have aged.
Amazing huh? Its all in the Quran and Bible and other revelations.

Answer 4

Count the various TYPES of insects, fish, fowl, animals and plants, and then convince yourself that they were all started by some pieces of dirt that accidently came together to form an earth (and found water to put on it), then created life from nothing. If man started as a single cell, then became a fish, then a monkey then a human, how did all the OTHER animals come to be? A fish also turned into a giraffe? A porcupine? A kangaroo?

Gimme a break - someone was and is in charge. Science would like to believe otherwise, but can't come up with anything except theories and guesses.

Answer 5

You can! You are allowed to believe whatever you choose. Christians call it "free will." I call it common sense. Evolution may just be a theory, creation as per the Bible is just a story. If you want to believe God is the engineer of Evolution you have every right to do so. If someone else wants to beleve that giant chicken laid the earth like an egg, more power to 'em.

Answer 6

Depending on your religion, you don't have to.

If you believe that evolution and god can coexist then it is possible. The problem comes when you try to convince others that they can both exist at the same time.

Because if someone can believe in God but not evolution, or evolution but not god, or even believe that neither god nor evolution is possible then someone can believe in god and evolution. It's not that far of a step out of the creations stuff anyways, I think.

Answer 7

Good for you! Although I now do not believe in God, there was a point when I agreed with everything you said. The beliefs can definately co-exist. If you want to take it way back, something (someone?) had to start the big bang. Or encourage the very first organisms to grow and evolve.

Answer 8

This is how I do it.

God didn't just say Poof your here, no there was the big bang. That sh^t really happened, but with all those particles floating around in nothingness....
did they really come together by chance? and even if, how did those particles get there in the first place,
Some one or something had to be a guiding hand?

Answer 9

You are just like most of the people of the world today. Show me. Let me see it. Let me touch it. Let me smell it.

You may believe in God but you are not a Christian. God is the One that will let you know if you are a Christian.

If you believe in evolution, tell me where are the plants: animals: and people that are in flux? Why don't we have people that are in the process of changing. The answer is, because there is no such thing.

The way you have chosen to live your life has an end. I'm sorry for you, but you can change that.><>

Answer 10

You are so right - to believe we evolved from nothing is ludicrous! It's so much easier to believe that God created us. I think it would take an incredible amount of faith to believe in evolution considering it's only a theory that was made up by a man. It takes so much LESS faith to believe God's Word and His story of creation. I mean since He is infallible and all.

There is a word for people who want to pick and choose what they believe out of the Bible. It's called "lukewarm." You can't have one foot on the side of the fence in Heaven and one in Hell.

Revelation 3:15-16 (New International Version)
"I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth."

Those are God's words, not mine.