Can someone interpret the debate over God vs. Evolution?

Question

What is all the arguement over? Can someone explain to me why the theory of evolution is degrading the creation of God? Mature answers only please.

Answer 1

Because the proven fact of evolution is based on reason and logic. And it dictates that the earth is well over 6,000 years old(4.5 billion years) and that we evolved from other forms of life(not apes, but other primates) and did not just magically get created from dust and a rib bone.

These same people mocked medical science when it told them that men, in fact, do not have one less rib than women. I even know Christians(college educated at that) that still believed men had one less rib...until I showed them the proof that they do not.

Answer 2

Creationists are, for the most part, literalists. The world is 6000 years old. God created everything in 7 days. Period.

Not all Christians hold to magical creationism.

The writers of the Bible used a different way of writing, it was not their intention to produce a scientific description of our origins, mainly because they had no science of evolution at the time.

Evolution is a science, a study of the fossil record. It is not a religion. Since the Age of the Enlightenment, anti-religious people use science to disprove religion. When that happens, science is no longer science.

All Christians must accept that God created the human soul. Atheistic evolution says God doesn't exist, so we have no souls.

So there you have part of the conflict.

People usually take three basic positions on the origins of the cosmos, life, and man: (1) special or instantaneous creation, (2) developmental creation or theistic evolution, (3) and atheistic evolution. The first holds that a given thing did not develop, but was instantaneously and directly created by God. The second position holds that a given thing did develop from a previous state or form, but that this process was under God’s guidance. The third position claims that a thing developed due to random forces alone. http://www.catholic.com/library/Adam_Eve_and_Evolution.asp
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Answer 3

Some argue that the Bible says that the universe was created in 6 days and only a few thousand years ago. They also argue that everything in the Bible is literally true. If anything in the Bible is not literally true then there is no way to know what is true and what isn't, so you'd have to throw the whole book away. Since evolution doesn't agree with the 6 day creation story, and even more importantly, doesn't require the hand of God at any point, some Christians insist that it must be wrong.

Answer 4

creation vs. Evolution: the fake impact stems from a quirk of the English language that the be conscious ‘species’ could nicely be singular or it relatively is plural. while technology speaks of ‘Evolution of the Species’ the uninitiated assume that it talking of all distinctive species relatively than the guy species. In different words a fly will evolve right into a greater robust version of itself yet even a horsefly won't in any respect evolve right into a horse using fact horses and flies are 2 separate species of creation. And all Earthly species have already been Created. canine will consistently start doggies in no way kittens etc... Can evolution go species strains? that ought to contain hybridization and technology teaches that hybrids are born sterile. Why do species proportion DNA? All Earthly species have been Created in a sealed ecosystem from an identical development blocks, the carbon atom. Chaos vs. clever layout: creation starts as a random act of chaos??? creation starts by using clever layout. Which makes greater experience? i wish it relatively is of a few help. H

Answer 5

People who follow the Bible often misrepresent the argument for Evolution as being an argument against the existence of any God(s). This is blatantly incorrect. Evolution never makes any claim about any ultimate "beginning": rather, it extablishes that things evolve. Many religious people are threatened by this concept, as it refutes the argument that things are created once and never change... as this cannot be refuted without implicitly attacking the "Fundamentalist" interpretation of the Bible, people choose to distort the argument to attack it on a "grander" origin scale.

Additionally, many people are afraid of accepting the entirety of science, and will pick and choose to allow themselves to resist cognitive dissonance by claiming to believe in Evolution, but by stopping that belief at the point where it actually affects their own evolution through claiming "faith"

Answer 6

Evolution conflicts with a literal interpretation of the Bible. But the "debate" is only happening in the public arena and on sites like these -- in the scientific community, evolution was accepted years ago.

Answer 7

Many theists feel that if the theory is true, then creation according to the Bible would have to be false. So instead of thinking outside of their respective religion, they build up these strawman arguments against evolution.
In all seriousness it is ridiculous how far we have come, yet remain so primitive.

Answer 8

"This will never change, not even if the latest scientific notion that the genesis of all the multitudes of organic forms on earth can be traced back to one single, most primitive, primeval form of life should ever appear to be anything more than what it is today, a vague hypothesis still unsupported by fact. Even if this notion were ever to gain complete acceptance by the scientific world, Jewish thought, unlike the reasoning of the high priest of that notion, would nonetheless never summon us to revere a still extant representative of this primal form as the supposed ancestor of us all. Rather, Judaism in that case would call upon its adherents to give even greater reverence than ever before to the one, sole God Who, in His boundless creative wisdom and eternal omnipotence, needed to bring into existence no more than one single, amorphous nucleus and one single law of "adaptation and heredity" in order to bring forth, from what seemed chaos but was in fact a very definite order, the infinite variety of species we know today, each with its unique characteristics that sets it apart from all other creatures."
- rabbi samson hirsch, sometime in the 1800s

Answer 9

Why is there a debate over God vs. Evolution? God AND evolution are compatible. I believe in both and know that both are true.

Answer 10

I dont think it's so much the evolution part as it is the "We were not intelligently designed... everything happened by chance" that is degrading to God.