Is it not possible to believe in creation and evolution at the same time? Why?

Answer 1

Of course it is. There are many scientifically educated people who are also firm believers in God and Creation. They are two entirely separate subjects. Creation involves the origin of the entire universe from nothing. There is no scientific explanation for this. In fact it defies the most basic scientific principles. It was a direct act of God. Evolution involves one natural process on one tiny planet in one solar system of one galaxy, that began billions of years after the Creation. It is well understood and explained by science. Creation, being a supernatural event, requires belief, even though logic firmly supports such belief. Evolution, being a natural process, simply requires knowledge gained by studying the abundant evidence.
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Answer 2

You can believe in creation (but not creationism) and evolution. Evolution and the big bang can easily be seen as the mechanisms god uses to create the universe and the diversity of life on earth.

Creationism and Evolution disagree on so many points as to be absurd, but when looked at in the clear light of day, assuming you don't have your head up your nether regions, creationism is a loose house of cards who's sole purpose is to attack Evolution and not go against the literal word of the bible. On the most basic levels, the time scales of the two are too far off. Evolution requires many millions of years, Creationism requires a much smaller time scale to fit into the literal word of the bible.

Though I'm an atheist, I see no problem with a theist/Christian being able to reconcile their beliefs with science and Evolution, so long as they are rigid in their adherance to the utter literal interpretation of the bible.

Answer 3

the respond is, of direction, sure. i've got faith that God created the Universe, and evolution is God's way of having animals and flora strengthen. Oh, those pesky little evangelicals. continually on the small screen television, attempting to make a lie out of something that could save them from earning salary. i've got viewed those miscreants attempt to defame Masons, safeguard segregation, attack gays, etc. i myself wish they might bypass take a direction in biology so that they might recognize what they have been conversing approximately a minimum of somewhat greater. they could't "debunk" evolution. there is not any longer something to "debunk." Evolution is the very perfect and recent of a protracted series of motives proposed for the tips all of us recognize approximately countless animal species and fossils. It supplanted different theories interior the previous. maybe some day evolution gets replaced by way of a few thing else, in spite of the indisputable fact that it would not seem very in all probability now, based on the dta we've obtainable to us. technology would not make judgements per what could desire to be real, what some scripture shows may well be real, or what some guy or woman comes to a decision is real. technology merely examines the information, methodically, and it will stick to the lead of fact anyplace it may lead. we can't like it, yet that alterations no longer something. technology would not choose; it merely assesses actuality and reaches a end. wish this facilitates.

Answer 4

Yes it is. First off, anyone who thinks that the complexity of our world was an accident is a fool. Life is way to complicated for it to be an accident. The odds of even the simplest single celled life form being created spontaneously are about the same as winning the lottery 75 times in a row.
As for evolution, it's happening around us right now. How else do you explain cockroaches and rats becoming immune to poisons?

Answer 5

I believe, yes! Even if we take the Bible, word for word, the Bible says that a day with the Lord is like a thousand years. To me, that means, that when the Bible says on the first day, and the 2nd day, and all week that God created the world, it could just have well meant a huge number of years. Our time and God's time are not the same. Evolution and the way the bible says that all were created, are in the right order, it is just the 'earth' time that is different, to me.

Answer 6

Evolution in the sense it is taught refers to a non-intelligent random automatic increasingly complex development of life forms as they progress through time.

Creation, in whatever forms it takes, refers to an intelligent directed intrusive change of the various life forms, plant & animal, as desired to obtain many self sustaining ecosystems.

As long as the theory of Evolution demands such exclusive non-intelligent development, it seems that the two are mutually exclusive?

Answer 7

Creationism involves processes which the evidence from evolutionary biology shows to be impossible so the two are not compatible. Creationism can and should be dismissed as completely irrelevant and meaningless.


Edit- certain of those answerers below who insist that you can believe in both are providing plenty of convoluted rhetoric but nothing in the way of sound arguments as to why creationism, which has no valid evidence to support it should be taken seriously by those who accept evolution as fact. They are providing no sound arguments precisely because there are none.

Answer 8

because they simply go against each other. Evolution is the idea that we evolve from other things (That there is no higher power). Creation is the belief that God (the creator) has made and created all things.

Answer 9

Of course they exist simultaneously....science has not and cannot explain the mysteries of life and existance, but can provide a best guess...the rest must be accepted by faith. When all is said and done science cannot explain the spontaneous creation of elements....it is impossible....only God can create something from nothing...

Answer 10

Yes it is possible to believe in both. It is the understanding of evolution that confuses people. To evolve simply means to adjust to ones environment in order to survive. What does not adjust becomes extinct like the dinosaur. Evolution is not changing from one species to another; ie. from an ape to a human.