Christians who believe God created the earth using evolution?

Question

No one answered the first time. Just thought I would try again. Question is on this link.


http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Atqf9NIbIpEnjqeRxzTyZm_d7BR.?qid=20070129130715AAZvkHq

The question is on a link so I didn't have to re type it, but thanks.

I don't have a problem with those that believe in God. I am a Christian for pete's sake. Did anyone actually read the question?

Answer 1

Evolution will only "disprove" God if your concept of God is faulty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

Reality exists. Instead of trying to deny reality, why not find where your God fits into your reality?

Answer 2

You can't use the Bible to support evolution, or use evolution to support the Bible. Evolution is a religion - yes, a religion - that requires death in order for a species to get "better" and survive. The Bible states that the world was perfect, but then made brought sin and death into the world. We humans and the planet itself have been getting worse, not better - just look at how long we used to live after the Fall (800-900 years), compared to now (70-80 years). The genealogies given from Adam to Christ add up to only around 4,000 years; you can do the math yourself. But evolution requires millions of years.

EDIT: Yes, you are right, Stacey. Death occurred after Adam and Eve sinned. There is no way any Christian who knows the Word could believe in evolution AND the Bible. When I was less spiritually mature, and did not know the Bible as much as I do now (not that I know the Bible as well as I would like to now), I used to think that maybe evolution could co-exist with the Christian faith. But it simply can't. One or the other must be true- and since the Bible is ABSOLUTE Truth (versus evolution, which, if it is science, must be relative and subject to change, as per the definition of "science"). I hope I have answered your fairly loaded question :D

Answer 3

How could the Earth be created through evolution? Evolution is a biological process.


As for Christians who believe in evolution. They don't bother me. Evolution in no way contradicts a belief in God, or a non-literal reading of Genesis. They have simply accepted the fact of evolution and included it in their religious worldview.

Answer 4

I hope you will pick up a copy of Dr. Francis Collins' book, _The Language of God_. Dr. Collins is the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and a Christian. According to him there is “a consistent and profoundly satisfying harmony” between 21st-century science and evangelical Christianity.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week947/profile.html

Sam Harris' review of _The Language of God_: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060815_sam_harris_language_ignorance/

Answer 5

the point of evolution is not to explain that there is not "need for a god", evolution is an explanation for the observed state of life on earth, you can choose to believe that it's a way of explaining how god created the diversity of life on earth if you wish

Answer 6

An actual Christian couldn't believe that God created the earth using evolution. Maybe that's why none answered?

I believe that, but I'm not Christian.

Answer 7

Why does it bother you so that someone believe in God? Sure evolution has been proven to most of us but that does NOT in any way shape or form disprove that we were created by a higher power.

Answer 8

Death did not exist for human beings - but Scripture does not imply that there was no death among animals/plants. If that were true, then how could man and animals eat plants, as God commanded?

What did Scripture mean by death, anyway? Physical? Spiritual? Separation from God? If Jesus reversed the curse of Adam by allowing spirtual life, then why do people still die physically?

Answer 9

There was death before Adam and Eve ate the fruit, there just wasn't human death. Big difference. There was plenty of animal death. Darwin messed up quite a bit actually, but evolutionists try to ignore that part.

Answer 10

I believe that. I seen no reason evolution and creation need be in conflict. The bible is written so the simplest can understand and accept it and also so the more complex thinker or curious person can too.