Creationism and Evolution are not mutually exclusive....?

Question

An atheist can not believe in Creationism. A believer has to believe in Creationism, and may or may not believe in Evolution. Right?

Being an atheist, I'm not the one to explain this BUT God could have created the universe and then evolution took over... hmmm?

Being an atheist, I'm not the one to explain this BUT God could have created the universe and then evolution took over... hmmm?

Being an atheist, I'm not the one to explain this BUT God could have created the universe and then evolution took over... hmmm?

Being an atheist, I'm not the one to explain this BUT God could have created the universe and then evolution took over... hmmm?

Answer 1

I guess so. Sounds like you pretty much touched all the bases.

Answer 2

You can believe anything you want. Revealing it may show you're an idiot. "The universe was created, but the Creator doesn't exist!" wouldn't be the dumbest thing I heard on Y!A.

The term "Creationism" has several meanings. The simplest docrine (currently the recognized doctrine of Roman Catholicism) is: "God created the universe." From there you go through progressive strains of stringency to Biblical Creationism -- exactly as the Bible says, and beyond to the lunacy of "Scientific" Creationism.

Evolution refers to the development of life (usually on Earth). Creation encompasses evolution and cosmology, the development of the universe.

You're describing theistic Creation and naturalistic evolution. You can't be an atheist and believe in theistic cosmological Creation, but you can be a theist who believes that God or some other Creator created the universe and just watched (or ignored it) after setting it in motion.

Answer 3

Creationism and Evolution can not co-exists because each idea fundamentally contradicts the other. Evolution is a testable hypothesis observed through empirical evidence. Creationism come straight from the ancient scribblings of ancient peoples. Hmm.

Besides, creationists goal of disproving evolution doesn't do a thing to prove creationism, it simply disproves evolution (which has yet to happen). Saying Evolution OR Creationism is false dichotomy as there could be a million other explanations for why/how human life evolved.

Answer 4

Let's separate two things...
Anyone may believe what they wish. And they should not be persecuted or socially disadvantaged for that, as an ideal. (It doesn't apply in all countries, by long way)

But are there inconsistencies in holding any of the beliefs or combination of them?

I can understand a believer holding creationism (with a young earth) And creationism is clearly not an option if you do not believe in a deity.

But the position of guided evolution, or of "intelligent design" I find difficult to accept. There is so much that is random, happenstance, and indeed cruel in the evolutionary process, or in the world as we see it, that I find it rather surprising that the idea of a benificent, loving, God can be associated with it.

With the ID route, it becomes immediately necessary to introduce the concept of "The Fall" to cover why much of creation now DOES NOT look good, and well designed.

Answer 5

An atheist simply doesn't believe in god or in gods. Creationism infers that someone (god?) created everything, however, this isn't necessary, as the 'creator' of the universe could be considered as the Big Bang and the fundamental laws of physics that followed. Life could also be viewed in this way with the evolutionary process as the 'creator'. Believers can and usually do believe whatever they stumble upon or are told or decide to believe in my experience.

Answer 6

It has a tendency to be unique of one yet another. My concept is; Why no longer the two? So, God created the creatures and people and did so in one in each and every of those way that they could be waiting to evolve over the years to an ever changing ecosystem and nutrition furnish SO, ought to it particularly is that we've been created, then over the time people have been in the international is a few form or yet another, we've developed to our contemporary state? Early people, as technological understanding has chanced on, substitute into very furry and had distinctive useful factors than contemporary people, yet as people grew to alter into concern solvers, we invented clothing for heat temperature and over the years lost the would desire to have a furry physique. Our useful factors replaced by using fact we found out to cook dinner and prepare and tenderize our nutrition so it substitute into no longer as frustrating. So, the open techniques says they do no longer look to be jointly unique, or a minimum of would not would desire to be jointly unique.

Answer 7

Creationism- the universe was 'created by something'

Evolutionism- the universe evolved from something 'less'

you can believe that 'God' did it all in 7 days
you can believe that is happened on its own according to the Law of Physics

or
you can believe that 'something' put it all here and let it unwind on its own..........

Hmmmmm

a 3rd viewpoint maybe?

Answer 8

No. I know some atheists who don't believe in evolution, and plenty of christians who do, and don't believe in a literal creation story. I won't claim that their ideas make sense, but that's what they believe.

Answer 9

Someone who believes in Creationism does believe in Evvolution they believe every new thing was newly created and had nothing to do with the old world

Answer 10

Pretty much. However, when someone that believes in god also believes in evolution, they usually refer to it as theistic evolution to distinguish it from the more common use of the term creationism which does not accept evolution.

Answer 11

People can (and do) definitely believe in both. Just from the perspective that God used evolution as a tool of creation.

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