If you are out there, please let me know.
2006-12-30 14:58:23 · 31 answers · asked by homo erectus 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am making no broad statements here, I am telling no one what I think, nor am I making a statement about what anyone should believe. I merely asked this question.
2006-12-30 15:15:26 · update #1
Many many do. Check out http://www.godweb.org/darwinday.htm. Check out
Check out what Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Presiding Bishop-elect of the Episcopal Church of the U.S.A, has to say on evolution: "I firmly believe that evolution ought to be taught in the schools as the best witness of what modern science has taught us. To try to read the Bible literalistically about such issues disinvites us from using the best of recent scholarship."
Many evangelicals believe in evolution, too. Check out: http://www.e-n.org.uk/54-Why-some-evangelicals-believe-in-evolution-(Bulldog-for-October).htm
2006-12-30 15:09:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
A true Christian would not believe any part of the theory of evolution for several reasons.
1. The Bible is clear that God created everything in 6 literal days, as recorded in Genesis, Exodus and several other passages.
2. It would deny the Genesis record -amongst numerous other passages- of original sin and that death came as a result of that sin, not before.
3. It would deny and question the omnipotence of the Almighty God, who could've easily created all things in 6 seconds, never mind 6 days.
4. If one denies what God clearly states in Genesis -never mind elsewhere in the entire Bible- then how can that same person believe anything which the Bible teaches.
5. God is omniscient and therefore knows humans -our thoughts and everything else. Do you really think He'd have a book that we can't possibly understand?
6. Evolution teaches that the Earth came from the stars, whereas the Bible teaches that the stars were created for the Earth and before the Earth. The 2 do not and can not be simultaneously true.
7. The Bible teaches that plants were created, at a minimum, 24 hrs before the Sun was created. No plant can survive without the Sun more than 24 hours. Just try it in an experiment some time. Your plants won't last very long, never mind thousands or billions of years.
8. The only begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ, and the entire New Testament all confirm the account of creation as found in Genesis. No true Christian can honestly deny the teachings of his/'her Master and the holy apostles without denying the entire Word of God
9. Numerous evidences support a young Earth, not an old Earth.
There are many more reasons why a true Christian can not or , at least, should not believe any of the false teachings of evolution- as opposed to the teachings of creation, as found in Genesis.
The available evidence clearly shows, when honestly investigated, that the Earth and the entire universe is only thousands of years old, not billions
2006-12-30 23:19:36 · answer #2 · answered by utuseclocal483 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am a Christian. I don't believe in the theory of evolution the way that you probably do. I tend to believe that God created the universe during a period of time, not 6 literal days. How long that took and how that creative process came about, one can only speculate.
One can see some evolutionary processes at work in nature but I do not believe life evolved the way Darwin's theory teaches.
2006-12-30 23:24:03 · answer #3 · answered by paulsamuel33 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do not make broad statements like that, you can get in trouble! Of course there are millions of Christians who believe in evolution! The fundamentalists are only a very small splinter group within the umbrella of Christianity... Many scientists are Christian, and they believe in evolution.
2006-12-30 23:03:05 · answer #4 · answered by harpertara 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Christians are confused about that because they cannot accept alternative truths.
Evolution applies to animals and plants,
the problem with man is that homo erectus.neanthertaler,cromagnum homo sapian all lived at the same time .and near what are the oldest gold mines known on this planet i Zimbabwe (whish means deep deposit)
almost as if someone was doing genetic experiments with humanoids .
and now ancient scriptures reveal the possibility of Alien races breeding humans for slave labor to mine gold .were we the final product
and furthermore traces of enormous advanced prehistoric civilizations have been found in the Amazon basin .
and all of known history is upside down..
there could have been refugees from Mars who settled here as well as other races from further away in the cosmos who came here to rob minerals or to settle and and who could have influenced local humanity in many ways as well as creating some of it.
2006-12-30 23:08:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am a Christian and believe in the natural evolving process of evolution. I don not believe in Darwins theory of evolution, the missing link stuff. God created all, but he could of used different ways beyond our understanding to do all that. I also believe that God could of used the Big bang theory as part of creation.
2006-12-30 23:03:49 · answer #6 · answered by Cat 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I am Catholic and I believe we have evolved, but from monkeys? ... No. It is a fact we evolve. Take a class in Astronomy or in Anatomy and Physiology. You will see that evolving is fact. We used to be taller on average than we are now. Why don't you believe that God couldn't have clapped his hands and "Bang" the universe was created? I don't have a problem with that theory.
2006-12-30 23:05:31 · answer #7 · answered by maniaajo 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No. Well, not actual christians who follow the bible. The Christians who follow the bible don't follow evolution - they stick their fingers in their ears and shout "LALALALALALA".
People who don't follow the bible are not christian, even though they may call themselves such. They are simply people who pick and choose bits of a book to follow, and interpret the rest in whatever way suits their life calling it "allegory". These people are able to follow evolution for the most part, even back to the big bang. For a lot of them "god" is the thing that made the bang happen.
2006-12-30 23:02:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I believe that evolution is a tool that God uses in creation. I just don't believe it's pure chance. The odds are too steep against it. NO universe is THAT lucky.
2006-12-30 23:04:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
No. If one believes in evolution then he does not believe in creation so then he is not a christian
2006-12-30 23:12:11 · answer #10 · answered by white dove 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋