Creation or Evolution?

Question

What do you beleive? And could you have some details to support your view?

Please, and thanks.

Answer 1

I believe the God is omniscient and omnipotent. As such, I see no problem with believing that He could design the laws of physics and nature so that life would develope and evolve exactly as it has, so that humans, His Special Creation, would appear on the earth.

Of course, as an omniscient, omnipotent being, He could have just snapped His fingers and made us appear, but the empirical evidence leads me to believe that He did not do this.

This is not to say that I believe the bible, or more specifically, Genesis, is a lie. I believe it speaks to us allegorically. Just like the story of the little boy who cried wolf, the lesson is no less important if there wasn't really a little boy who cried wolf when there wasn't one, over and over again, until nobody believed him when there actually was one.

Everywhere I look, from beautiful sunsets to majestic mountain ranges, to caterpillars that morph into butterflies, I see evidence of God. I also see a God who rarely, if ever, violates the Laws that He created. When God saves someone's life when they've been shot, for example, He doesn't stop the bullet in mid-air so it harmlessly drops to the ground, allow it to pass through their body without any kind of injury, or instantly heal their injuries without the need for a hospital visit or time to recover.

Even when it comes to spiritual matters, such as sin, God has rules that must be obeyed even though He made those rules. If God didn't feel it necessary to obey His own rules, then He wouldn't need to send His Son to us as a living sacrifice for our sins. God could have simply pardoned us for all sins, past, present, and future. But He didn't.

God obeys His own rules. That goes for nature, also.

It's like asking who created you. Your parents or God? Most christians I know would say God, but in reality, it is both, and to give one or the other more credit for our existance is a personal choice, based on faith, not evidence.

God wants faith. Those who feel that listening to YEC lectures increases their faith might as well go to one of Benny Hinn's charlatan faith healing ceremonies. The boost in their faith will only last as long as the charade. YEC's lie to people, and the people who believe their lies are putting their faith on shaky ground.

Those who insist that biblical inerrency must apply to areas of science such as geology, cosmology, biology, meteorology, and paleontology are misapplying scripture. It is equal folly to consider all biblical stories to be allegories as it is to consider everything in a strictly literal sense. Each interpretation has its proper place. Thus, when I argue with young earth creationists, I am not disagreeing with the bible, but with their inappropriate, literal interpretation of Genesis.

Personally, I believe that creation through evolution shows much more genius than suspending the laws of physics to work magic.

Don't let YEC's convince you that you can't believe in both. Nobody has to make such a choice.

Answer 2

Creation.

By faith I know the Bible to be true and accurate.

But beyond that, just think about it. There have been creation stories that go farther back than any thought of evolution - not only Biblical but also within many cultures such as Native American Tribes, the Romans, Greeks, Aborigines in Austrailia, and so many more. How could so many people for so long come to such similar conclusions (that some higher being[s] created the world) if there wasn't some truth to it?

And who knows? Maybe during creation a kind of evolution occured. Who says that it has to be one or the other? It could be both.

Answer 3

Creation. Evolution is scientifically impossible...

If we were evolved, where did the originial creatures from which we evolved from? Huh? Huh? Didn't think I heard any answers.

Science has demonstrated that macro-evolution would not have happened. Even in micro-evolution, animals adopt to change. If we came from monkeys and fish, what changes needed to happen? The monkeys and fish today seem to be getting alone pretty well.

To me, Creation is the only plausible choice. In fact, I know that God created mankind -- see Genesis. Evolution has too much scientific evidence going against it and very little to nothing going for it. On the flip side, the scriptures are plenty of evidence for me in Creation - I know that Creation is how it happened... I don't believe it, I know it.

Think about that, evolutionists. Oh, and elchistoso - don't give me that 'empirical evidence' junk. Translated that means "I have know idea but hopefully my big vocabulary will confuse you."

Answer 4

I believe both must have happened in some way. Obviously, evolution takes place everyday, according to science and experience. However, all must have started somewhere, therefore, creation started it all. I'm sure that the story of Adam and Eve in the Bible was written and told so that the people of that time could understand it. I'm not real sure the people of that time could comprehend the evolution rules. I.E. See that monkey, that was you years ago. However, my Christian beliefs tell me that Creation started it all somewhere!!

Answer 5

I believe in both.


Creationism and Evolution can coexist in my mind. I must learn and apply the concepts of Evolution to pass my classes, but believe in Creationism by faith. I do not "believe" in Creationism, in that I was not there when the world was formed, and do not claim to know the process by which it was formed, only that it was created by the Creator. Whether evolution was a mechanism of it or not is not relevant, I believe, only that it was Created.

I feel no need to reconcile my beliefs in each with the other. It is what it is.

Answer 6

evolution. creation is just a story some people made up for people to be humane or something. evolutionary theories are based on observations and hypotheses. if there was no science, people would still belive that the earth was flat, that the sun circled the earth, that the earth is the center of the universe. the roman catholic church made gailleo say the earth is flat, banned his books along with newtons and other early scientists because their ideas go against their "belief" and recently unbanned those books becuase they know that they're wrong.

Answer 7

Evolution: The vast majority of modern science indicates
that evolution is the model most able to predict variation, etc.
Creationism predicts nothing, and is therefore useless in
science.

That being said, evolution is happenning in a universe.
No clue who/what made the universe or if it was made.

Answer 8

Evolution of course....in nature's law everything starts from something simple and evolutes to a more complex one. Nothing can emerge suddently without having developed over the pass of time

Answer 9

Even Darwin himself said there were holes in his hypothesis. How can the eye, which is so complex be formed by chance? How can everything be so well made? How can the earth find it's own way around the sun all by itself? The answer is, it can't. It just isn't possible. Fish cannot, over many eons of time, give rise to mammals. There is evidence of intelligent design every where.

Answer 10

Evolution. What evidence is there to support creationism? intelligent design?
There's real evidence in favour of evolution.