Do you feel that Evolution implies that god doesn't exist?

Question

If so, why?

Answer 1

Why sure it does. If He is not our creator then why would we need Him. If we don't believe God created us then we call Him a liar because He said He did.

Answer 2

Well not strictly. Evolution implies that the stories of creation are incorrect, that is creation in the bible, the native American creation stories etc. This implies that any religion that claims their book is infallible is wrong, at least on the creation aspect. So in some sense evolution does imply that religions have got it wrong about God....

Answer 3

No. Evolution is trying to explain the existence of how things came to be. If evolution can come up with a "proven" theory of how everything came to be from "nothing", not gas, not dust, not some any other energy source. Then maybe, just maybe it can try to imply that, but that seems to a difficult task.

Answer 4

No.

The lack of any evidence for a god is what implies that god doesn't exist.

You can certainly believe in god and also accept evolution, for example by saying that god used evolution to develop humankind. I think that's false, but it's a perfectly reasonable stance (unlike creationism, which is just plain nonsense supported by nothing but deliberate propaganda).

Answer 5

Evolution has nothing to do with the belief in any supernatural that you care to believe in. It is in direct contradiction of how life began on this earth. If you study the theory of evolution, though it will be very difficult to believe in the supernatural.
All of science, including evolution deals with the natural world only, anything other than that is superstition.

Answer 6

The one concept has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

So why are they so often linked?

Basically, orthodox religion is based on the belief that Truth is enshrined in scripture, whereupon nobody builds. Therefore religion is totally unequipped to deal with the progress of knowledge. Any new idea is seen - quite correctly - as a threat to the dogmatic obstinacy upon which Religious Authority is based. Therefore if the evidence suggests - as it does - that mankind (like all species) is the product of evolution over millions of years, religion is compelled to view this as a blasphemy against the "literal" interpretation of Genesis.

Scientists, meanwhile, even if religious, don't seek to impose science on religion. It would be ludicrous to try to insert Wright's coefficient of relationship into the Lord's Prayer; and yet this is exactly the sort of thing that religious people attempt to do with such lunacies as "Young Earth" and "Intelligent Design."

Even "Jesus" is reported to have said "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and render unto God what is God's." In other words, what is appropriate to one department of thought is not necessarily appropriate to another.

Answer 7

No. I think evolution is the method by which God explores God. Why know it all in a split second? Far more interesting to create in an evolutionary manner.

Answer 8

Its about time someone started an Evolution / Creation discussion on Y/A. Long overdue. Thanks.

My answer is "um, guess it depends on your understanding of god., but evolution is incomnsistant with most religions teachings."

Answer 9

The two questions are totally unrelated. Science is concerned with how the universe works. Religion is concerned with a relationship between humanity and divinity. There is not, and never has been a conflict there, the conflict is between Science and those people who use Religion as a tool to achieve wealth and secular power.

Answer 10

No.

You can believe in the theory of god and still accept evolution. After all if god is omnipotent, he could create the mechanisms of evolution and manipulate it either via divine selection or divine mutation.

Answer 11

Not at all. God doesn't need evolution to not exist, he just doesn't.