Are evolution and religion mutually exclusive?

Question

Isn't it possible to believe in a creator deity and accept evolution?

Considering that scientific theories such as evolution by natural selection can only address how life came into existence and religion seeks to address why life exists, can't the two things co-exist?

Why are creation and evolution debated as either you accept a literal interpration of the creation story (any creation story) and believe in "god"or you accept evolution ?

Why must the search for the origin of life and the quest to give life meaning be reduced to an either/or debate? Isn't possible that the "god" who created life works through the natural processes described by natural selection? Must the creation stories of the Bible or other scriptures be literally "true" in order to have meaning or can they be read as allegories and still have meaning?

Answer 1

Depends on your religion (and that should be a *big* red flag.)

Answer 2

The main problem with evolution and Christianity is that the theory doesn't fit the nature of God as revealed in the Bible.

Answer 3

Most moderate christian religions have long since accepted the idea of evolution. The catholic church has also recently backed the theory of evolution. It is only extreme Fundamentalist religion that has a problem with evolution.

Answer 4

Evolution is bad theology. God created complete - not using evolution as a tool.

They cannot co-exist without negating parts of each other.

Replacing the God of creation as recorded in the Bible with another god is denial of God.

So you can put any other god in the position of creator, but you will find that at the core, evolution denies the influence of any director.

Answer 5

As far as I know, there is only a small subset of christianity worldwide (centered in the US) that tries to deny evolution (like denying gravity, yeah?).

The others have gotten over it long ago. Sadly the US creationists are rather loud but they are the laughing stock of the rest of the world, and frankly an embarrassment to the US. Aside from them, there is the lone muslim creationist nutter but really, that is all there is.

Answer 6

i do no longer hink it makes you an atheist besides the fact that it does lean you in that direction. the concept that evolution espouses say that we've moved from chaos to business enterprise. while, actually, this no longer in basic terms is defective yet is going against all medical know-how that we've. technology has shown that business enterprise comes first and then, via the years, chaos. All issues that are created,initiate as prepared organisms. via the years, via exchange, those organisms exchange into extra chaotic. we don't ever see issues coming from no longer something- user-friendly regulation of biogenesis. in accordance to what all of us comprehend now, something won't be able to come from no longer something, a minimum of with the help of medical ability. If something is prepared, then we are in a position to infer an organizer. And that organizer can exchange what ever he/she needs to make something come from no longer something. So there we've the simplest clarification for "interior the beginning up God created the heavens and the earth..."

Answer 7

Evolution denies the need for a God to be involved in the universe.
According to the Bible, the choice is clear. We can believe the Word of our omnipotent and omniscient God, or we can believe the illogically biased, "scientific" explanations of Humans.

Answer 8

They are not mutually exclusive, as the Pope has come to understand. But of the two, only one is of use for making scientific predictions, and it is not religion -- which is not useful for that or for anything else except warm fuzzies.

Answer 9

no evolution is science fact creation is a man made fairy tale for christians

Answer 10

yes cuz creation is biblical.....evolution contradicts scripture and this is a repeated post...see science