Is it possible to believe in God while accepting evolution theory?

Question

I think yes. I don't see the point in imagining God creating everything one by one rather than setting the universal rules that will result in the creation of all.

I'm a Muslim and I don't think that Islam disproves Evolution. Why is it wriiten then that We created man of some kind of soil. It's obvious that it's meant Human was created on earth.

Answer 1

yes yes the most intelligent thing ive seen on here

Answer 2

The Creationists invented something called Intelligent Design, which they tried to pass off as a science. It centres around the idea that god created everything & since it's creation the universe has changed and evolved from God's original creation.

Personally I think this is a load of crap. No real scientists will accept it because it can't be tested and therefore cannot be proven.

Answer 3

Yes, I think so, God was just smart in letting a simple star explotion, the Big Bang Theory, create or universe. Otherwise he would have had to work alot. So everyone and everything came from the gases and pieces of star.

There is word out there that Gods 6 days of working took 6 million years or so and i think this technically true considering space time, kind of like time zones I guess. I just looked up on Wikipedia some intersting information on the Big Bang Theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_theory

Be sure to check out 4.3 Abundance of primordial elements and 8 Philosophical and religious interpretations

Answer 4

Yes it is...God would not not design a system that is always changing without giving the lifeforms a way to change to fit the world...God would have created a self sustaining system.


arablvr:: Evolution has to do with how life EVOLVED not how it was created (apples vs oranges)..there is actually nothing that says God did not use evolution as a tool despite your opinion. I guess I am just not so vain and foolish to say I know exactly how God does and did everything.

Answer 5

I think many people who believe in God also does believe in evolution theory. But after noticing all the new things happening in science I realized that the whole evaluation theory is not trustworthy. Science comes up everyday with new and contradicting information. 40 years ago according to science the gravest problem the world was facing was that the earth is become clod and now the 'global warming' is an issue. This shift of change happened just in few years. As I was growing up I was told that according to science we are using only less than 10% of our brain and now according to latest time magazine which is focusing on the brain tells me that we are using all 100% of our brain. Just in few years science is chaining its views drastically opposite to previous one. Science is not consistent, it is chaining, updating...I can't put my trust into science about some of the most important and life challenging issues. Thus, I believe in the word of God. It it no updating, it does not change its views according to new information. It stands against the inconsistent word.

Answer 6

Yes, I do. I do think God or some universal being created life and then perhaps either caused the mutation that resulted in evolution, or allowed the mutation to take place for the evolution. I realize this may contradict the biblcal story of creation but perhaps, Adam and Eve, were the first human but they were evolved form an earlier stage and God then decided to reveal himself/herself to them. (Both male and female, he created them in his image and I think God has a feminine side.

I still think God is in control and that evolution isn't a big surprise.

Also, it isn't Darwinism, it's the theory of evolution.

we will never really know until we drop dead.

Answer 7

Well, God said in His Word that He created everything in six days. So, no, for a Christian who believes what God said in the Bible is true, it is not possible to believe the idea of evolution.

Answer 8

Why not? I've known devout Christians who faithfully checked their horoscopes every morning. When I pointed out that belief in an omnipotent deity is incompatible with the belief that the motion of the stars and planets determines human destiny, they just gave me a kind of blank look. Apparently it's possible to believe in all sorts of things at the same time.

Answer 9

particular. at the beginning i will basically point out that i'm agnostic. thinking the sheer scale of a risk techniques this universe might have developed, you won't be able to help yet evaluate the assumption of a guiding hand. they say god works in mysterious techniques. if so, how is it so stressful to settle for that an all-powerful innovations might evaluate a plan of advent in this scale? Of each and all the planets at the instant time-venerated interior the universe, in basic terms Earth is time-venerated to comprise existence, and in basic terms another planet found has a reasonable risk of actively helping a inhabitants. to tell the certainty, i discover the assumption of 'Adam & Eve' to be appallingly idiotic. It develop into an undemanding idiom for user-friendly minds to hold close. We now no longer desire fairy thoughts to help us understand activities. this question develop into particularly ultimate replied in an episode of South Park! (Stan asked why evolution could no longer be how god's plan labored) that is particularly an suited many times held via theoretical physicists and astrophysicists world huge.

Answer 10

A friend of mine once suggested that perhaps God created things to evolve, like evolution was part of the plan all along.

Answer 11

Yes, and the Catholic Church does so. One can believe in a god having created the universe at the big bang, and the rules by which it has developed since then, but such a belief has no predictive power so it is pointless -- even if it were correct.