The Christians protested the world being round, the Earth's orbit...all these things having nothing to do with the Bible. Time and time again.
2007-01-09 09:30:10 · 9 answers · asked by The Killer is Me 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Concerning the debate going on about intelligent design and evolution: is it possible that the final answer about which of these two seemingly opposite ideas is correct could simply be yes?
With one position firmly held by the believers and the other just as fearlessly defended by the non-believers, if you happen to be in a position somewhere near the middle, it does not look all that complex. From this position, you wonder why either-or has to be the answer.
If you believe that some higher being created the universe by intelligent design, what more elegant and intelligent design could there have been than a self-regulating system that continually checks its own errors and makes its own corrections in mid-stream as an integral part of the process.
This all seems quite logical to me although it probably won’t satisfy the believers because they are afraid to see any truth other than the one they have been told to believe in. Inversely it certainly won’t satisfy the non-believers because it leaves them stuck with a god that they are so obviously terrified of.
To sum up this view from the center, it might be most easily be explained by saying perhaps the designer was intelligent. Problem is, the designer was likely so intelligent that those seeking to prove that it is intelligently designed may be incapable of ever understand it well enough to see it for the elegant self regulating design that it has always been.
The nonbelievers will be similarly handicapped due to the internal terror the have about the idea that there may be a God. Neither side being able to leave their entrenched position for fear they may have to admit they were wrong. While the rest of us stand by trying to figure out what all the fuss is about. Personally I don’t think anyone is wrong, I just feel both sides are about half right.
Love and blessings
don
2007-01-09 09:41:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They understand religion about as well as they understand science.
There are Christians who believe in evolution, often as a mechanism by which god created man. These Christians would even be willing to acknowledge that there is no observable difference between directed evolution and non-directed evolution. It is, like any god centered creation story, a matter of faith.
Creationists know that these Christians are going to hell, just like us atheists. They know that the world is round because the bible says so - it's the spherical part that the bible missed on. The flat, round earth doesn't orbit anything, the sun orbits the earth and the earth is surrounded by the firmament, above which is heaven. The Apollo missions were fakes as are satellite photos of a spherical earth.
2007-01-09 09:43:41 · answer #2 · answered by Dave P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is a fact, now coated in evolution there are some blunders brought about with the aid of a loss of information, and as technology discover the the main suitable option information the blunders is eradicated. this is unlike faith this is not infallible. As to the inspiration of existence there's no shown clarification so relatively we don't understand how or while existence began. God Did this is a sturdy as any. i individually prefer abiogenesis the spontaneous genesis of microbes that began to evolve. If a God does exist it proves spontaneous genesis. existence does exist. God would or would possibly not exist. I certainly have a undertaking believing the grand pohbah writer of time and the universe, and a small planet in a small galaxy in a countless universe created a ignorant little animal that needs to worship him so he does not throw a hissy extra healthful. A appropriate being with a compelling interest in my intercourse existence. Sorry individuals I ain't finding out to purchase it, discover your self yet another sucker.
2016-10-30 11:18:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be technical, evolution is atheistic. A- means "without" and theism meaning "belief in god." And, actually, to be even more precise, one would say that evolution is nontheistic. It's a scientific theory on the development of life, not a person or philosophy. Evolution doesn't say anything about god because positing god as an explanation isn't necessary in understanding the mechanisms of evolution.
Evolution just doesn't care (to anthropomorphize it a bit).
2007-01-09 09:42:32 · answer #4 · answered by abulafia24 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution to them is anti God. It contradicts the Adam and Eve story in their Bible. They apparently don't realize that other religions who believe in God also easily accept evolution as a fact. Maybe there ARE no other religions in their minds.
2007-01-09 09:44:32 · answer #5 · answered by crista 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll tell you the same thing I have told others:
You can choose to call yourself a baboon if you wish, but I know that I did not evolve from one.
I came from human parents who came from human parents, and so forth all the way down to Adam, who was created by God.
2007-01-15 14:55:09 · answer #6 · answered by free 1 indeed 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they don't understand it. Their pastor or Christian radio station/website gave them the straw-man version which they take as the truth.
2007-01-09 09:36:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
if the book said God used evolution they would probably accept it
2007-01-09 09:48:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't. it's actually a religion, because u have to BELIEVE in it
2007-01-09 10:32:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋