What if God/Allah/Jehovah 'created' (creationism) everything as it says in the Bible/Qur'an/Torah, then through a series of 'tweaks' (evolution) transformed people and animals into the way they currently are?
2007-02-22 01:50:00 · 20 answers · asked by Maverick 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And, just for the record, this is what I believe.
2007-02-22 01:56:59 · update #1
This concept is known as theistic evolution and is the accepted standard of most Christians on Earth. Only the fundamentalist evangelicals amongst Christians reject theistic evolution.
Many muslims in industrial countries also hold to this view, as do many Jews.
The various other faiths either accept evolution as is or generally hold to a theistic evolution as well.
2007-02-22 01:57:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
So when god made us in his image you mean god is an indeterminate mammal of some kind?
Well thats a good idea I guess - since we're all silicon based life we know we were made from dust and the only way that could have happened from god.
I think we should adopt a similar policy to gravity - assume it only works when we can see it in front of us, but pretend there are different laws everywhere else and that if people pray they can fly - yeah great idea.
WHILE WE'RE AT IT- Let's finally reconcile the heresy of the earth going around the sun and not the other way around - they both go around each other, dont they? That MUST be what the religious people meant who burned geocentrists at the stake.
2007-02-22 01:56:56 · answer #2 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I know you're joking but I do believe in Creationism AND Evolution. A billion years is like a single day to God. I also believe that when God made the Universe He caused a Big Bang, to say the least!! I am 100% Serious. Thanks for a great question!! @8-)
2007-02-22 01:56:29 · answer #3 · answered by Dovey 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Thats what I'm trying to deal with at the current moment. I think evolution KINDA makes sense, even thou there are some flaws.
2007-02-22 01:53:22 · answer #4 · answered by Bryan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's possible, but then we would have fossilized modern animals. A god may have created the first seeds of life, who knows? I don't think it matters much anyway. It is not where we came from, but where we are going that is important...
2007-02-22 03:03:48 · answer #5 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is written in the Bible that the choice of modification and creation of new life forms that God chose is Evolution. This is specifically stated in Genesis.
2007-02-22 01:53:42 · answer #6 · answered by MrKnowItAll 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Theistic evolution. No evidence exists to show it has any validity over naturalistic evolution, so do not consider it science, but merely a doctrine of faith.
2007-02-22 01:58:29 · answer #7 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That just plugging god into a gap and trying to make religious faith seem rational. Just because abiogenesis isn't definitively explained does not mean that god is responsible for it.
2007-02-22 02:04:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
two things:
if you say god started it all (but not like in any of the holy books, that would be ludicrous) and then walked away to let things take their course: I'd say unlikely but possible. but that would be a rather weak god figure.
if you say god started it all and is actively tweaking but pretending to be a natural force I'd say you're a nutjob.
2007-02-22 01:55:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think of it fairly is the reason that makes maximum sense. its hard to tutor that human beings are "made in gods image" if god himself has no image. yet i do think of that god might have touched a pool of status water and brought about existence in it, which over tens of millions of years have more advantageous. doesnt look like a lot of a stretch to me.
2016-10-16 06:00:10 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋