Poll: Do you belive in 1) Creationism, 2) Evolution, 3) Both, 4) Neither/Other?

Question

Please explain your answer. Thanks!

Answer 1

evolution. The fossils don't lie.

Answer 2

2

Answer 3

Both
God created all things, but with the exception of humans, all other things have evolved since the creation of the original base species. Humans have de-evolved, no longer living for hundreds of years, and having a much lower intellect. According to science, our brains have the available space to create chemical bounds and synaptic connectors to last us over 10,000 years.

Studies, like that done by the University of Michigan, and features in the Discovery Channel program, The Amazing Life of the Human Brain, shows just how amazing the human brain is.

Every second while awake, we are absorbing 40MBs of data per second. That’s 144 gigabytes per hour and about 2 terabytes per day. That’s a lot of data even for the largest computer. When we sleep at night, and only at night or under nighttime conditions, all that data is sorted and stored through the creation of synaptic connectors and biochemical bounds. The brain has enough volume to allow for the creation of these storage connectors to last over 10,000 years.

Without the need of a creator, what evolutionary pressure could cause the need for this much volume that would take that long to fill? Clearly, man was either created by God to live that long, or if evolve, once lived that long, and has since de-evolved to what we are today. Which do you think it is?

Evolution does take place, in that animals have evolved and humans have de-evolved since the time of the creation. Many divergent species are related, such as the Meerkat/Hyena and the Lion/House cat. A house cat can breed with a lion, I wonder if the same is possible the Hyena and Meerkat?

This is why I believe in God. I use the brain he gave me, and designed for me, to determine something beyond imagining.

Answer 4

Creationism and Evolution are not separate alternative theories but facts interconnected with one another. Creation is the process of the Big Bang and scientific language does not go into its cause which is God, however you define Him either as a random event or a deliberate act by the Supreme Being. Evolution is the time element taken, and this has taken millions of years, to reach its present level of development, from when the earth was in an incandescent gaseous state, through to its solidification, cooling etc.etc. !

Answer 5

Evolution

Answer 6

I've always believed that God created our world. It makes even more sense now since science has proven that it is against all odds that the world appeared from nothing. The world and humans are too perfectly designed to have just popped up. I have not heard any evolutionist that have explained the Cambrian explosion. I also believe you have to have more faith to believe in evolution than God. As a matter of fact Darwin died waiting for proof and that's what is still going on. People are dying waiting for proof that will never come.

Answer 7

Evolution with out a doubt.

And possibly intelligent design. But I would need a lot more information to make that determination.

Why? Overwhelming evidence for evolution exists all over the world, it can be measured quantified and categorized.

Intelligent design,,, the one point missing in the theory of evolution is that very first organism, the very first cell in the primordial soup had to have in it the ability to grow, reproduce and adapt to its environment before it came into existence, otherwise we would not be here.
That suggests forethought, forethought denotes intelligence.

What intelligence,,, I don't know.

Answer 8

3 or 4. I think God created the universe, but think evolution could easily have been a tool used in that creation. I don't believe that a "day" in Genesis necessarily has to be the same 24 hour day we have.

Answer 9

Evolution.

Answer 10

3) Both ...

God came first, created starts & planets , and then evolution. It was when God put that special divine thing into Adam during evolution. That special evolutionistic trait separated Adam from all other living creatures. Since then, mankind has had the goal of shedding animalistic ways and striving to be more divine ... more humane ... reaching for the stars ... more God like with every breath, sucess, and failure ... Everything, in Him.

Answer 11

Both

I am a Christian and believe that God created everything BUT that he did it slowly over time and that adaptation occured within the animals and yes, within humans as science proves. I do not believe that one species completely evolved into another; humans did not come from apes. I do believe that we used to be much more ape-like and have adapted through the eras, just as science has proven.

I believe that although the Bible says that God created everything within 6 days, these days were actually eras and not measured in the way that we measure a day as 24 hours. I believe that animals started in the oceans and in the air because those were the first that He created, science proves that these were indeed first. On the sixth day, God created the land creatures and science has also proven them to come after sea creatures. As for the birds, that is why they remain closest to the "dinosaurs", because they adapted far less than those animals in the water and on the land. The humans came after, because He created man on the sixth day, but after creation of the land animals.

I bellieve that God explains science to us in the briefest of manners because if we had not initally sinned, we would have been happy not knowing. Our quest for knowledge results from original sin and we call it science. It provides logical explanations for us to understand and causes us to question God even more.

I am not against science as my heart is not free from sin. I desire to understand more and enjoy the discoveries that it brings. Humans have adapted and changed greatly throughout time; there is no argument. We are very closely related to the ape and I do not argue that either. I just believe that if there were evolution, some would not be left behind (as apes) except in a rare case of complete isolation from others.