creation story vs. evolution theoryi am fairly interested in science, and im a god believer, but..... i do dou

Question

i do doubt, the thought of being "created" by an allpowerful being, i also doubt the evolution theory, i am plainly and simply confused....

well, i do want to think that the creation story is a joke, but can you believe what has been thought to you by people you trusted to not be the truth? and how can you really prove evolution?

Answer 1

I know why you're confused. You come here for this type of answer.

Go to school. Learn about both. Ask the experts in both fields. Don't make Yahoo!answers your source for knowledge. We're just a bunch of bored people trying to fill a lunch break.

Answer 2

First off, if someone mentions evolution can't be true because of monkeys or some such - stop listening to their rhetoric. They never studied.

Science has no problem with God the creator. Infact most scientists see an initial creation with God directing our evolution to be quite palatable.

Evolution is really simple - it just means only certain creatures of a group got to breed. So if only the tall ones get to breed - then over hundreds of years the group as a whole gets taller. Any other trait you see can be influenced like that - and many you can't see as well.

It doesn't mean you or your family are monkeys. Though some people may have little more intelligence than....

Answer 3

the fact that Creationism can exist in a world with so much education astounds me. I once went to a debate on the age of the earth, between a pasteur and biology professor. It referenced creationism quite a bit. I have alot of interest on this subject and have asked many peoples many things about it. At the debate the paster was proven wrong about 16 times/ways. For instance there are certain plants, ie: some bush, that are known to exceed the ammount of years the earth has existed according to creationism. Dinosaurs pretty well negates the whole affair. Furthermore Evoloution is not a theory. All non-bias educational institutions view evoloution as fact and they will tell you all biology science and medicine rest upon evoloution. One need only consider the method which science uses to observe and test it's provisional observations coupled with the method religion uses to fabricate facts, to arrive at an intelligent conclusion..

Answer 4

Read Richard Dawkins' "The Ancestor's Tale". It goes through a series of steps of evolution. The most speculative stage is the origin of life itself.
He is an atheist. But he does present his material on evolution extremely well, in a way that can be understood, for the most part (some parts of it are very technical), by anyone with a modest interest in science, particularly the general concepts. I don't know anyone who has read the book that has been turned off their religion because of it. But I know anyone who reads the book will not be ignorant of evolution, unless they want to be.

Answer 5

well go with evolution since it's the truth, it's been proven. Evolution is better science than the creation story. If there is a god, it says more about his power than humans just "appearing" on a planet made out of dust.

Answer 6

Lots of people feel this way. No one knows the real answer. A good first step would be to accept evolution as fact and release the idea that it's some kind of vast scientific conspiracy or lie.

That doesn't mean you can't still believe in God. I mean, evolution is a fantastically designed system - something worthy of a divine creator, IMHO.

Answer 7

Select either one and you'd still find not enough answers. Why is it that in genesis the creation was so simplistic? In fact it is so simple that even an illiterate could comprehend. He did this and that within 7 days. wow. On the contrary, science attempts to explain the details of how's. from the intricacies of the big bang to the computation of the expanding (or contracting) universe. different theories, different possibilities. but despite the mind boggling discoveries, science still has to prove its theories regarding the beginning (and ending) of the universe.

the human mind, inquisitive as it is, tries to explain the mysteries around him. it fulfills satan's words to eve "...you'll be like god...", you'll be able to discover and explain and even try to challenge god (or his existence). Try as we may to explain and be like god how the universe came to be, we will never be able to. The esteemed stephen hawkings even has a hint of god when explaining the big bang theory.

If god would have written genesis like a science book, it would have been composed of mind-boggling formulas and facts which would take eons for humans to decipher. imagine our preoccupation with the book of genesis alone! never mind the concept of salvation. Universities with over the top fees for science Phd's would not be existing... the mysteries of science is laid right there for everyone to see in the book. everyone is an instant scientist! that's a pretty scary scenario. imagine the knowledge falling into the wrong hands. maybe he knew of osama bin laden :-)

Evolution should confirm the power of the creator. he created us through evolution but he needn't explain how and why he wrote in genesis to be just 7 days. maybe 7 days to him is 1 million years to us. he is god after all. we can't be thinking equally.

Answer 8

You, and many other people. But evolution has been established science for a century, and is now a proven fact (details on request). The creation story, as with much else in the biblical tales, is clearly fictitious; I was all of eight years old when I figured that out: they cannot be reconciled with science, and since science is obviously right (it works!), the bible had to go. For much more on this, see the references, which refer in order to evolution in general, the history of evolution, and the uses of religion.

Answer 9

Everyone doubts at one time or another, simply because we
are human and because God who created us was not. We are
flesh. He is spirit. He is now and always have been. We were
created. Faith in God requires that we accept Him in full, not
in part. Acceptance by faith in full means that we also accept His word, whether it satisfies our feeble minds or not. We cannot
pick and choose what to believe and what not to believe. In Genesis, God describes through Moses, how he created everything there is. Before there was nothing. We either
believe this or nothing at all.

The evolution theory contradicts itself anyway. For something
to evolve from a cell, something or someone had to have created
that cell. The big bang theory contradicts itself. For this theory
to work, someone had to create the neutrons, protons, atoms,
etc that banged.

You will stay confused as long as you try to figure out the
ways of God by human reasoning. He is supreme and far above our understanding. Faith in Him is the only way to avoid confusion and be at peace.

Answer 10

Doubt is good. It means that you're curious and you seek the truth. There is an unlimited wealth of information on the net about the subjects you mentioned, read everything you can and come to your own conclusions. The most important thing you can do when it comes to religion, spirituality, or any other subject: USE YOUR COMMON SENSE!