Is it possible for both the bible and evolution to be true?

Question

I beleive in the bible but I do not claim to know all the answers.
I think it is very well possible that evolution could have happened, Heavenly Father can do ANYTHING! It is possible even that evolution is true and Heavenly Father knew it would pose an issue for those who beleive in the bible and it was another way to test our faith. I like not knowing all the answers, it makes me humble! The Bible talks about everything being created in seven days, how do we know that is the same 7 days that we know to be 7 days now? I like to hear peoples thoughts on questions that have so many answers!

Answer 1

You are right. With God, ALL things are possible. Even the impossible. I believe what God's Word tells me. I do not study evolution, nor do I care what is said about it. I am not looking to discredit God or the Bible, so I leave that to the atheists. I haven't got the time to scrutinize the pros and cons of evolution, I am too busy trying to walk closer to God.

Answer 2

I personally think so...and there is some Biblical backing for this. In the Old Testament, there's the 90th Psalm and in the New Testament 2 Peter 3:8 both say words to the effect that a day is like a thousand years to the Lord.

In the book of Genesis, there are two accounts of creation: both versions record that God created the earth in 7 days...but maybe those 7 days were actually 7 thousand years or 700 thousand years or whatever.

There was no sense of modern 24 hour linear time or the Gregorian calendar like we use today...so that's why I believe that the theory of Evolution could possibly dovetail with a creation theory.

Neither one can truly be proven... it's all about faith....what you elect to believe. One doesn't necessarily negate the other...because in the end there has to be a source: who made the big bang? who created the monkeys? who made the primodial "broth"? you get the idea....

Answer 3

Lets start with this. If you believe the Bible is true, then can I assume you also believe in Original Sin? If yes, then the 'theory' of evolution poses a problem. How can we all be tainted by original sin if say Adam and Eve were just 2 people out of a whole bunch of people that evolved. Why would everyone be affected? It wouldn't make sense. Therefore we wouldn't need to be redeemed and there would be no need for Christ. That's a bit of the theology.

In paractical terms, the odds against life simply appearing from a random collection of chemicals is so astronomical as to be unacceptable. And it would have had to occur many times. Look into the detail of evolution for your answer. The science it requires is so staggering that even knowing the answer no one has yet been able to create life under laboratory conditions, let alone by accident.

Good luck

Answer 4

We have to be careful when we use the Bible as a science book -- early astronomers got in trouble because their heliocentric view of the cosmos supposedly contradicted the Bible.

On the other hand, scientists always want to know why the dinosaurs became extinct. Was it a comet? An ice age? Why don't they ever wonder about a FLOOD?

I think that there is strong evidence for evolution within the species, but I don't believe that a worm became a fish became a frog became a dog became a monkey became an ape became a human. Too much miracle in creation for it to have happened as the result of a big explosion.

I don't claim to know all of the details, but I'm confident a creator had a knowing hand in it.

Answer 5

Ever climb a latter? Never start at the "top" do we. So why should anything in creation start, say in the middle and work it's way up. "Everything" in existance starts at the "bottom," never midway or at the top, it's the "physics" of REALITY. As much as religions proclaim creation was "instantaneous" as an act of a supreme GOD "facts" state that to be a belief that is "false" for many planets are "still" in the state of evolution, including our own, otherwise volcanoes would not erupt, earths plates would not "shift" to name a few occurances of physics. If only evolutionists and religions would butt heads for awhile, they would find out even all these doctrines of modern religions went through their own EVOLUTION, including Judaism, Christianity, and all the other ones on earth. What people "believe" today is NOT what they believed in ancient time for example. Christians who have not bothered to study the issues of evolution, but adamantly side with Judaism "against" evolution and it's proofs, do not know in doing so, deny the "roots" of their own faith. By "roots" I speak of "where" the bible says mankind got it's start. Adam and Eve. If we did not "evolve," of what RACE were God's creations. They could not have been of every race on earth today. Get my point.......

Answer 6

Of course it's possible, and a great many people have no difficulty accepting both the truth of divine revelation and the truth of science. No genuine truth can conflict with any other genuine truth. Unfortunately, science is a lot more united in its truths than religion is. No matter what science discovers, some people's personal interpretations of the Bible will conflict with it, just as each denomination's biblical interpretations conflict with the biblical interpretations of other denominations. This fact alone demonstrates that many such biblical interpretations are objectively wrong, so it should be no surprise that many such interpretations also conflict with the objective facts as revealed by science. True religious belief cannot conflict with true scientific findings. But each denomination believes that its own individual interpretations of the Bible are infallible, and proudly cling to that position, even when it places them in direct and obvious conflict with reality.
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Answer 7

The Bible says that time with man and time with God are different. Perhaps the time mentioned in the Bible to create the world, six days, is really six "creative periods," and not ;literal 24 hour periods. And with this type of thinking, perhaps God utilized means within the realms of science during the creative periods. Maybe evolution was part of the process.

Answer 8

There is greater chance to assume both might turn out false.

For the bible, it is difficult to see it as the truth as there are too many loopholes here and there.

For evolution, it is still a relatively young science, it can still changes over time.

The bible also talk about god don't lie, but how do we know lying means making a promise that would not come true is ok?

The bible also say, Thou shall not kill, but how do we know it means you are alright to butcher a whole city of it's men, boys and non-virgin women and "keep" virgin girls to yourself (some say it does not say it means "laying" with the virgin girls, I say then what is the reason then? to play chess with them? Some say it is because the girls are pure and not defiling the gods, then what says the young boys? They should be killed because god give them a prick*?) , as long as it is under god's name?

God says "Thou shall not commit adultery" but then sleeping with own daughter in law and make her pregnant is good and god are happy?

The bible also says also say a lot of funny things. Is it up to men's interpretation? Or is it for word twisting so it looks right. Is the bible revealing in it's message (if that is the case, then the book has too many contradiction to be the truth) or is the bible so hidden even the most learned will get it wrong (if that is the case, what is the use of the book which bare no meaning?)

If a book is up to own interpretation, then each person will claim his own interpretation under the sentence "God tell me so" when ask to prove god told him, he will claim you commit blasphemy because you disbelieve god's word and defiled god.

Look in this scenario :

I say I am god. Then you say, prove to me. I say "You lord should not be tested, you should be the tested one". Then you say, in that case, I committed blasphemy, so strike me down. I say "You lord is forgiving and willing to give you a chance to find the way and beg for my forgiveness".

So what? Head I win, tail you lose?

If you look around and you say evolution cannot be true because you cannot see it? How can you say god is true and you cannot see it? Isn't it double standard? At least when I think there is a possibility where evolution is true is when I see how bacteria gets more resistant to anti-biotic with abuse of anti-biotic, reason?

Two possibilities:

a. The bacteria evolved into greater resistance because from the generic code of the previous version, it has to be stronger to certain anti-biotic so it might survive.

b. God is too free after creating earth and when he saw men are able to fight bacteria, he create another one just like the previous one, except stronger, but he does not want to create one that can fully resist anti-biotic, but he create in sequence, slowly so as to torture human, since he is omnipotent and too free anyway.

Answer 9

No. Read Genesis Chapter 1 again, very carefully. You said God can do anything. He can. I'm not good at finding scripture quickly to back up my points, but there are many other statements in OT & NT that make it very clear that God created every living creature type, just as they were and are.

Yes, species do change over time to adapt to changing environments. Scientists call this "micro" evolution. I don't know where in the Bible this is referred to and what it was called , but it is probably there. "macro" evolution is one species becoming another and is a fallacy of man. This has never been OBSERVED to happen, even in "primative" species. Not even bacteria.

Answer 10

Absolutely! But only if one accepts that the Bible cannot be taken literally, and has translation errors, and that the theory of evolution is incomplete.

Einstein proved that 7 days here is NOT always 7 days somewhere else. Also, if literary authors are allowed to take "poetic license" in their writings, why should God be required to talk about recombinant-DNA only, to His target audience, who were mostly uneducated shepherds?