Christians and Evolution?

Question

When I first came to this site around six months ago,christians would choke if they tried to use the "E" word.
I now see more and more saying that they believe in god AND evolution and some even claiming it as an invention of god.
Are they finally starting to see the light but are too scared to admit they might have been wrong?

Answer 1

I doubt it's a sign of any general trend. To make any significant headway towards educating the masses of people who've been brainwashed into denying evolution will take many years, I think. In fact, most people tend not to change their minds on things at all, which is why we need to concentrate on educating the children before they're too firmly indoctrinated.

Answer 2

I seriously doubt these are the exact same Christians. This is probably not a trend either. This is simply circumstantial. That you are running into different Christians who have varying beliefs.

When I graduated high school I firmly believed that the Earth was 6,000 years old. As I entered my biblical training I began to have a deeper faith and a better grasp on the Creation account and the purpose behind the account. I also have learned more about evolution and still continue to learn about evolution.

So, at the point of my high school graduation I can firmly say that I was wrong. There is no way in my mind that the world is only 6,000 years old, especially the entire universe. Though I had accepted that the world was only 6,000 years old, I also know that the scientific evidence weighed against such a conclusion. So my belief in a 6,000 year old Earth/Universe was a faith statement.

Currently there is no doubt in my mind that evolution exsists. The extent of how evolution played into our exsistence, that is the homo sapien sapien, is still something I am learning and evaluating.

However, since my time here on Yahoo! Answers I have always believed the same about Creation and Evolution.

The most important conclusion on this matter, however, is that God is the Creator of the Universe. HOW and WHEN are questions that are answered by science not theology.

Answer 3

Why are we so preoccupied about Evolution? Does it really matters?

Haven’t we seen already that all those “holy books” were made hundreds and thousands of years ago, and that they were made so people back in that time could understand things?

If God exists, then he should come back down and do some updates to those books accordingly to our current technological status.

And if it doesn’t, then even more sense that the books are all fake.

To those religious people out there, don’t you think you should use that brain of yours, that it should be superior than the ones from other animals since you don’t think we all come from the same common ancestors? Don’t you think you should use that brain of yours and analyze everything and understand that there are REAL fundamental reasons and physical evidence that proves that there has been evolution in our planet?

And you should also use that brain that God gave you to understand that there is no evidence that there is a God, or that the “holy books” were written by God through the hands of humans.

Or you rather don’t think and be like a monkey that eats bananas and thinks that lightning and thunders are Gods?

I don’t know, sometimes humans really act like we do descent form the monkeys.. and still don’t have learned to use the brain.

Answer 4

This is the phenomenon that has been labeled "God of the Gaps." As each natural phenomenon becomes explicable, God's part in each retreats. In Augustine's day they believed God sent angels to open flowers in the morning and close them at night. Now we know how that actually works and no one thinks angels are involved. More and more Christians are accepting what Jews have long known, that the creation myths are theological fables intended to teach principles about the relationship of God and man, and not a historical chronology of the cosmos.

Don't mind though. We have lots of jobs out there which the superstititous and ignorant can perform that I'd rather not do.

Answer 5

The bible teaches that to God a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day. Creationism or Intelligent Design is more rational than Atheistic Evolution.

The former says something/someone made something out of nothing. The latter claims that NOTHING made something out of nothing!!!

As for Darwin, having read his writings (he published far more than Origin of the Species) and visited his home at Downe in Kent, I think he missed the point. I think that the person who got the closest to figuring life out and who had the benefit of his research was his wife!

Answer 6

I dont beleive so.

I believe that this demonstrates that evolution is so factual, that it even affects religions...

Christianity has been forced to evolve since it was created. It took the Church 300 years to admit its mistake with Galileo. So, I say kudos to those Christians who are at least admitting to the fact that evolution is real. If they want to beleive that evolution is a creation of God, so be it. But at least they are progressing, rather than regressing or stagnating...

Answer 7

I thing the problem is terminology. Alot of people are taught that evolution means we evolved from apes period. And they are left wanting as to where the apes came from and so forth. When people find out what evolution actually means it makes a lot more sense and doesn't contradict creation as much as they thought.

Answer 8

Religion is a delusion for escapists. Evolutionary belief will bring punishment upon them for doubting their creator. Many will claim evolution as `God`s work`, batting for both teams. Sad,so sad.

Answer 9

You are telling me that a squirrel can turn into a flying fox without any scientific proof?And then accuse me of being unscientific ?The Americans have a saying for this ;It is known as Kool-aid drinking.

Answer 10

Friend, the "E" word doesn't scare me and you haven't seen me change my mind about it. Evolution is absolutely contrary to the biblical account of creation and you cannot claim to hold to both.

Those who are "finally starting to see the light" are being blinded by the pseudo-science of this age and do not understand the absolute necessity of the literal account of the first man and woman - Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, etc. if you claim to be a Christian.

god bless