Evolution or Adam and Eve??? What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

Genesis 1:26-28

26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Answer 2

Every credible scientific scource, that is not motivated by the need to justify a religious perspective on the origins of humankind, has acknowledged that evolution is the source for our world's diversity; including human beings. So many don't grasp this because they don't grasp the immense amount of time over which evolution has occured.

While I understand the need for many to see God's hand in all things, why is it necessary for the limitation of such efforts to the mythological aspects of Genesis? So many "scriptures" from numerous cultures contain similar stories of the beginning of the world; intended solely to make humans (and primarily men, since it has almost always been the man who was created first) feel important about themselves.

We are important; each and every one of us. There is no need to insist upon it by claiming such an obvious myth as a truth of human origin. Just as the Church was threatened when Copernicus demonstrated through science that the Earth, and thus man, was not at the center of the universe, so too are the "faithful" threatened by the idea that we are not the spitting image of a personified diety, but rather the 8 million year descendant of a species that resembled a chimpanzee.

We are made in God's image? What a limited view if you believe this to mean that we are the physcial manifestation of God's appearance. How arrogant. We ARE made in God's image; internally. Our spirit, mind and heart are capable of the most divine creation. We are capable of love, compassion, sacrifice, and reason unlike any other species on the planet. That is the image of God we should be focusing on and claiming as our heritage as human beings.

Ultimately, our origins are unimportant. What is vital is the future that stretches out before us and what we do with the time and gifts we have. Instead of worrying about whether or not you are the descendant (remember; 8 million years is a LOOOONG time) of a "monkey," start worrying about your fellow human beings. Start spreading the compassion that is our legacy. Be more concerned about how much you have loved your fellow human being and stop worrying about where you came from. Put aside fear and judgement, and embrace tolerance and compassion - and I think the issue of Evolution vs. Creation will no longer trouble you.

Answer 3

Adam, Eve and Eden Garden all do make a fiction which do not stand the tests of logic and science. That is why most of the learned Christians whole over the world question its continuous preaching even in the 21st century.

Answer 4

Ultimately your view of life will be something that you have conceived on your own. So this question does not make that much of a sense according to me.

I believe in evolution. I am completely aware of the debate that exists between religion and science, but I believe they both try to accomplish the same thing! My choice is influenced by how I had applied the concepts of evolution to explain something - our behaviour. This has converted me into a philosopher; not a scientist though.

Answer 5

adam and eve could have been the first homosapien. adam and eve had two sons. the two sons went out into the world and found two wives. hmmm, there had to be people somewhere for them to find wives. my theory is this was the mixing of homosapiens and neanderthal species and the homosapien traits remained more prominent. over time the neanderthals people died out completely and that left homosapiens to walk the earth. if a person has an open mind the bible and science correspond with each other.

Answer 6

Evolution. It does not preclude Adam and Eve so long as you don't take the story as literal.

Answer 7

Adam and Eve. I refuse to believe I come from a monkey. Sometimes I think it requires more faith to believe in evolution than on creation.

Answer 8

I'm offended you mentioned nothing of Thor's hammer! Sure, some people have a tendency to believe in facts, logical deduction, and conclusions based on reality, but I say it's not. It's something irrational, supernatural, and has no evidence. But this Adam and Eve theory you mentioned just doesn't seem right. I *know* that we are all here thanks to Thor, or Zeus, or what the Sumerians believed, but not your A&E guess.

Answer 9

Interesting question. You have to contend with both science and religion which seem initially at odds with each other, but I believe are quite interrelated.

Evolution states we evolve from monkeys, chimps is the popular assumption. However this doesn't fair to well, since science talks about earlier ancestors of man i.e. Cro-Magnom man. However, chimps are still around but earlier versions of man are not.

I would say that perhaps we did evolved through these earlier versions of human beings, siding with evolution, but regardless though, for a species to evolve it must reproduce. For the method of reproduction which humans and primates use there must be a male and female. So this for this to occur, there had to be a first generation, which would have to have had an Adam & Eve for us to be here.

So the answer to your question is both (in the most simplistic sense). God created humans (in one form or another), and they evolved.

Answer 10

Adam and Eve

Answer 11

If a tree fall in the woods, there's 3 story. Mine, your, and the tree story. Isn't?

So,evolution is our story. Creation is God's story. What is the third story? Don't create the third story.
Adam and eve wasn't a simply names of person who the first in this real, created by God. Well, God really make someones, but without a name. The names come from the Jews (Ibrani), if I don't miss. So, God really evolute humanoid like us from completely dull intelligent, to these modern age human. And it was really an EVOLUTION, coz it takes thousand years. Well, maybe we're ex-ape. But there's no ape to human without GOD.