Science v. Religion..?

Question

Where did we come from??

Some say we are the creations of God...
Others say we are the bi-product of billions of years or organisms coming together..
Many more say we came from monkeys (even if we did, why do we still have monkeys?? are today's monkeys yesterday's ant?? lol)

I believe in devine creation.. we're God's children.. but that's just MY opinion. What are yours???

"they came from my school"...... meaning what exactly?? It's a simple question, not an open invitation to attack someone.

Answer 1

Premise: Every event has a cause
Premise: The universe has a beginning
Premise: All beginnings involve an event

Inference: This implies that the beginning of the universe involved an event
Inference: Therefore the beginning of the universe had a cause
Conclusion: The universe had a cause

For something to have caused the universe it must have existed outside of the universe and time. That First Cause could only have been an omnipotent supernatural agent, God.

Another argument is one from design:

1. The universe began to exist
2. The universe has complexity, order and fine-tuning
3. Complexity, order and fine-tuning imply design
4. Design that began to exist implies a designer
5. Therefore, the universe has a designer

Premise 1: See Big Bang theorem (Hawking, Penrose) All matter and time itself began at this moment
Premise 2: Universe has complex designs, e.g, cellular DNA, Laws of Physics, fine-tuning for life on earth, etc.
Premise 3: Nothing ordered can come from chaos, an orderer is required. Laws of Nature are often cited as counterexamples, yet these very Laws are themselves ordered.

Premise 4: Self evident. If something did not exist, there is no beginner or designer

Thus, the universe has a designer, God.

Answer 2

You are right when you say we are God's creation. The Bible says, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). And again, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them" (Genesis 1:27).
Have you ever asked yourself how many times you act on faith every day? The truth is, we live by faith all the time, and without faith it would be impossible to live. Let me explain.

For example, right now you are probably sitting in a chair as you read this newspaper. But did you inspect the chair before you sat down, or did you first send it away to a laboratory to be tested? No, of course not. You believed it would hold you, probably because it's done so many times before, and you've seen it hold other people also. And yet you acted by faith when you sat in the chair. At the same time, it wasn't unreasonable for you to do so.

Faith in God is something like this. Faith in God isn't blind or unreasonable, because God has left His "footprints" all around us. As the Bible says, "Since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made" (Romans 1:20). It's far more reasonable to believe in God than to believe this incredibly intricate universe just happened.

But the most compelling evidence for God is this: He became a man! That man was Jesus, who was God in human flesh. Do you want to know what God is like? Look at Jesus Christ as He is presented in the pages of the New Testament. I promise that if you do this with an open heart and mind, your life will never be the same.

Answer 3

I am Christain, and believe in Evolution. Creationism is a simplified term for the process of the billions of years formation of Earth. I absolutely have no idea where Creationists get 6000 years. Homosapiens and Chimpanzees are related, but we did not come from them. We both came from the same species, and depending on the conditions we turned into different organisms. Ever wonder why there are no chimpanzees with roots from America? I believe in the big bang and that the Earth is 4.55+/-.01% billion years old. I could go on for much longer about the age of the Earth, evolution, dinosaurs, and so on. There seems to be no reasonable evidence for Creationism, simply because Creationists, such as Kent Hovind, focus most of their time trying to disprove Evolution, that they leave their own theory unsolved. I respect many other's beliefs, religions, and cultures, but this is what I think happened.

Answer 4

God created this earth and everything in it and on it as well as the entire universe. It is hard for some to believe this because they would have to rely on someone other than themselves. Science has proven nothing. They have ideas, yes, but that's as far as it goes. I'm glad I don't have to worry about that though. I look at my cat and at my trees, at my children and on and on and I'm awed at how everything is so perfectly made. Even if I were a non believer, which I was for a long time, I could not accept that all of this just came from a big bang. Impossible. If science is correct, then they should be able to perform the big bang in a laboratory and see which organisms evolves from that and how it will change over the years.

Answer 5

I agree with you, but I think you can say these things with certainty, you don't need to say that it's just your opinion. It is the logical conclusion of what we see and observe in nature and science. Read or watch the DVD by Lee Strobel called the Case for Creator. Or even go get Michael Beehe's (spelling?) book Darwin's Black Box (it's a bit dry, but it's unbiased, something your non-Christian intellectual friends can read and not feel like they're being preached to). It doesn't have to be Science vs. Religion, modern science points way more towards creation than evolution. It's just that the atheistic world is so scared by the prospect that the only other logical explanation for our world besides evolution is creation, that they keep trying to breathe new life into a theory that is way outdated at this point.

Answer 6

I believe in devine creation, too. But I also accept the theory of evolution. Everything God has created in this world has a process. Science helps us understand that. Evolution explains the process how the world came to be this way. There is too much evidence of evolution to dismiss it. If evolution, despite all the evidence is false, it means God is trying to decieve us. Why would he do that? My brain is half dead right now, so that may not have made much sense.

Answer 7

The only people that say we came from monkeys are creationists. It's an oversimplification and an incorrect statement. Early homonids were ape like in appearance.

If you believe in divine creation- you just haven't studied enough to really understand those things that don't yet make sense to you.

You probably don't know how most of the part of your computer work either... does that mean that it was created by your supernatural imaginary friend?

Answer 8

We get six thousand years from the geneology of the bible something you obviously don't understand, by the way this i to that one guy that said he doesn't know where we got 6000 years. Personally i accept the liter six day creation no evolution just adaptation

Answer 9

A) Science always wins....Religious yells loudly until it can figure out how to still exist in light of new scientific evidence.

B) Evolution is reality. You can imagine it with or without God, that's up to you. But the evidence is overwhelming.

C) You don't seem to have a grasp on what evolution is. Read a text book with true curiosity and a genuine desire to learn.

Answer 10

I think we came from something that always existed(not God). Most likely an atom or atoms. We evolved like apes and monkeys. Monkeys and apes still exist because we are cousins linked to a common ancestor. I think scientology is more realistic so thats why I think it is true.