Why does one necessarily exclude the other?
2007-03-12 11:58:50 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, you can be a Christian evolutionist. It actually makes you appreciate God more because you see all that he did and his powers truly are shown in evolution. Many think that evolution excludes God but why? Evolution still needed a factor-a movement that caused it. I think God created the Big Bang and he put the first microorganism on the Earth. He did all of this. Evolution explains how we got here but it doesn't explain why we're here. That is when God comes into play.
2007-03-12 12:18:46 · answer #1 · answered by cynical 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The easy answer is no. If creation is entirely true, especially as depicted in the Bible, evolution cannot be. If evolution is entirely true as depicted in popular theory, then the creation cannot be true.
The biggest problem is that neither side is willing to give in a little. I am Christian and I believe in the Creation and Adam and Eve as our first parents. I believe the Bible when it says that Adam was created first and then Eve.
I also believe that the earth is a whole lot older than the Bible would imply. I do not believe that man can calculate the length of one of God's days. The general outline of how the earth was created and the sequence of steps is generally correct. I do not believe that evolution answers all the questions any more than the story of the creation from the Bible explains it all. There is enough there to give us a basic idea and I think that is all God intended to give us in the scriptural format. I also believe that he expects us to be curious and to learn all that we can and put truth together from all sources, not just one.
2007-03-12 12:24:27 · answer #2 · answered by rbarc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One does not necessarily exclude the other, there are Christians who believe in Evolution. Some Christians do not believe the Bible is literal as much as figurative.
2007-03-12 12:03:55 · answer #3 · answered by Terri 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would have to say no based on the current theory of evolution. However, that does not mean that animals and people do not experience some changes from one generation to the next. This however is not considered evolution. Evolution is only making a change from one species to another..i.e. bacteria to an amoeba...ape to man etc. This kind of change is not possible in a single generation and that is exactly (and scientifically) how it would have had to happen. For example, you can not go from not having eyes to having eyes etc. in one generation. Just not possible according to all that is considered scientific fact at this point in time. The physical world just doesnt work like that. So again, evolution as it stands today...no.
2007-03-12 12:08:14 · answer #4 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi Gorgeous!
Hmm, a tricky question indeed. If you are indeed a Christian then you can't choose which part of the bible to believe in, you have to take all or nothing or there is no point! I can understand why evolution is appealing though, but do remember that evolution is just a theory and not fact as evolutionists insist it is.
I myself am an atheist, but also don't believe in evolution! work that one out if you can. I used to believe in evolution but after studying a few books about genetics and micro organisms i have come to a conclusion that evolution quite simply can't exist! I do believe that creatures can evolve to their surroundings but can't take huge and sudden leaps or evolve step by step etc.
A good couple of books written in laymens terms are one by a Professor M Behe called 'Darwins Black Box' and another called 'Genetic Entropy' by Professor John Sanford. To explain what the books talk about would require a few paragraphs so just look them up on the internet and see for yourself, they are superb though!
These books will convince you of an intelligent designer and this is where my beliefs differ from most. I do believe in an intelligent designer, but not a supernatural one. I believe that the designers were human like ourselves it was these scientists that visited our planet years ago and after they created man in their image we mistook them for Gods, and I believe that this is what the bible is telling us, wacky huh ha ha!
Anyway hope you find an answer to your dilema he he.
love
Baroni :)
2007-03-12 12:37:30 · answer #5 · answered by baroni2486 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically yes, the only requirements for being a Christian are in Romans 10:9 and 10. However, I do not believe that the Bible supports evolution.
2007-03-12 12:01:59 · answer #6 · answered by Revelation S 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You can be a Christian and still believe in evolution. God could have used evolution in creation!!!! It never said that the Lord made the earth in seven CONSECUTIVE days!!!! It could have been millions of years in between! (Hence dinosoars). I believe that God had and still does have all control over evolution. You still see evolution today. But what I don't understand is how a protein goo could have become life. I think though that with Gods intervention that the goo could have miracuosly come to life. It all starts with God.
2007-03-12 12:04:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can be a Child of GOD and Still believe in evolution.
BUT, we all came from Adam and Eve.
Now, the Earth is Billions of Years Old.
Adam and Eve are about 6000 Years Old.
What GOD did BEFOR Adam and Eve, only HE Knows.
There could of been a Bunch of Generations of Human Beings who Lived and Died and got Erased on the Earth, befor WE showed up.
How many Millions in a Billion?
If a Civilizatin Ceased, and a Million Years Went by befor Man walked on the Earth Again, would there be Any Signs of the Previous People?
Million Years just about Erase EveryThing, wouldn't it?
Hope this Helps.
Ditto.........
2007-03-12 13:33:42 · answer #8 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes u can be. I am a Christian and i believe that how it is described in the Bible and how science describes how we werecreated goes hand in hand.
Evolution is the method which God used to make things. That which is 1000000000000 years may be 7 days for God. But the truth is that God lives in a different dimention where time does not exist, time is only in our brains to stop us from going mad.
If u think about it carefully if, someone was to be locked up in a dark room for a month, without being able to keep track of time in any way, they would lose sense of time as it is just in our brains.
That is why i believe that it is possible for things to have been made over so many years, even tho there is written in the Bible 7 days. (the Bibleical one may also be a poetical way of saying it, or a spiritual way of describeing creation as ppl would not have been, and still cannot comprehend God's power)
But, i dont think that it matters very much HOW we were made. What matters is who we were made by and that He sent his only son to die for us on the cross so that we could have ever lasting life.
2007-03-12 12:07:32 · answer #9 · answered by Eryn v 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am a christian but i also believe in evolution...Genisis never specified how the world was made, only that it was. The time frame it was made in does not nessecarily have to be 7 days...Gods timing is not our own. How do we know that one "day" was not actually thousands or even millions of years and it took that long for the complexity of the world we see today to form?
I believe in a creator and a creation, and i believe that knowing or believing one thing about it does not determine if you are destined for hell or not.
2007-03-12 12:05:19 · answer #10 · answered by B 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋