since evolution is a relatively new theory...?

Question

...does that mean that all the people that believed in creation for thousands of years before darwin were wrong?

if every bridge, every building, every computer, etc, etc, has a maker, why doesn't the earth?

Answer 1

Evolution answers the question "How?" not "Who?" The two concepts are not mutually exclusive.

Answer 2

Well, it does point out the fact that they didn't really examine anything, they just created a story that fit the very few facts that they knew - that they existed. That was pretty much the start of creationism, a question as to how and why they/humans existed. Nothing was examined.

And why does the theory of evolution conflict with a belief in God? One can believe in God and in evolution at the same time. Many cultures have creation stories and theories. The Iroquois Indians believed the following: The Iroquois account of demiurge is that in the beginning there was no earth to live on, only a watery abyss, but up above, in the Great Blue, there was a community called the Sky World including a woman who dreamed dreams.

One night she dreamed about the tree that was the source of light. The dream frightened her, so she went and asked the men in the Sky World to pull up the tree. They dug around the trees roots to make space for more light, and the tree fell through the hole and disappeared. After that there was only darkness. Distraught, they pushed the woman through the hole as well. The woman would have been lost in the abyss had not a fish hawk come to her aid using his feathers to pillow her.

The fish hawk could not keep her up all on his own, so he asked for help to create some firm ground for the woman to rest upon. A helldiver went down to the bottom of the sea and brought back mud in his beak. He found a turtle, smeared the mud onto its back, and dove down again for more. Ducks also brought beaksful of the ocean floor and to spread over the turtle's shell. The beavers helped build terrain, making the shell bigger. The birds and the animals built the continents until they had made the whole round earth, while the woman was safely sitting on the turtle's back. The turtle continues to hold the earth on its back.

After this, one of the Spirits of the Sky World came down and looked at the earth. As he traveled over it, he found it beautiful, and so he created people to live on it and gave them special skills; each tribe of the Iroquois nation was given special gifts to share with the rest of humanity.

Is that any more or less relevant than the Christian creation belief?

Answer 3

Yes, it means that people who have believed in simple creation stories for thousands of years were wrong. People were wrong about a lot of other things they've believed in for thousands of years too, because they lacked the tools of science that we have today.

It should be added that even the early Greeks believed in a form of evolution surprisingly not very different from what we now term "common descent" of life. So, at least they were right, just like they were right about that the Earth is round, and that it orbits the sun.

How the planet Earth came into being is already well understood in astrophysics, which includes the study of formation of solar systems. If you mean the rest of the stuff on the Earth, each one of those things are addressed by any number of branches of science, such as the Grand Canyon being part of geology, erosion, and plate tectonics.

Answer 4

Evolution is not that new of a theory. People who believed in creationism were and still are wrong. The idea of a creator is not really opposed by evolution. Evolution is the process of adaptions through generations. It does not really address the origins of life. Certainly a creator can create life and let evolution change species over time.

Answer 5

People need to separate what Evolution actually says and the philisophical musings of scientists. Nowhere does Evolution say that God doesn't exist.

The first part almost seems like you are inferring that creation is right simply because it was a commonly held belief for thousands of years. When is a belief right, simply because people believe it?

Evolution doesn't disprove God, only certain people's interpretation of God.

Answer 6

Yes, they were wrong,

theres a difference between a natural cause and things made by a human

since there is no god the people of all times who believe in creation are wrong

Answer 7

The second part of your question is just silly.
Depends on what you believe. I go by what I learned in school. (common sense)

Answer 8

Why doesn't god have a maker?