Would their motive be the bible?
Afterall, some believe that for evolution to be true than their bible would be false.
Do some Christians believe that since there is so much evidence of evolution, that both the bible story of creation and evolution can be true? One does not necessarily exlude the other, does it?
2007-04-01 08:55:57 · 17 answers · asked by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
From what I can tell, it starts with hard-core literalists. You know, the dudes who insist that it all happened in six days, 6000 years ago.
So, yeah, evolution does discredit a hard-core literalist interpretation of their texts.
But then there are a lot of good people who are doing their best to find the truth. They read the articles that the hard-core folk write and decide that it makes sense. What they don't realize is that the basic assumptions that the hard-core literalists are making are ridiculous. And I'm talking about their versions of how evolution works, not Genesis. If most of these people just had good information on the process of evolution, they'd understand and accept it.
Which is why the hard-core creationists do everything they can to make sure that the masses never get good information about how evolution actually works.
2007-04-01 10:11:59 · answer #1 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most Christians today do accept evolution. Not in the form of random genetic accidents, but as orchestrated through intelligent design. Those Christians who don't are largely American Fundamentalist. (Outside the United States you don't find many Christians who fight over this.) For the Fundamentalist this is a threat to the authority of the Bible which says that the earth was created in 6 literal days.
I believe there is no problem with being a Christian and accepting evolution as a fact. I still cringe when a person will tell me that science proves this or that... Like since a chimpanzee is 98% genetically human and that humans should not consider themselves as "special". These scientists have a tendency to use evolution to remove dignity, freedom, and all spirituality from the human condition. Perhaps this is the greater threat from believing in evolution.
2007-04-01 16:10:16 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. D 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is no motive. The bible has been around much, much longer than the theory of evolution. It has stood the test of time far longer than evolution. It has been put through much testing and still shines. Evolution is being picked apart even by it's own believers. And in case you haven't studied it enough, evolution has very little evidence and lot's of conjecture. It takes even more faith to believe in it than the bible. So I'll stick with tried and true.
2007-04-01 16:08:58 · answer #3 · answered by JohnFromNC 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, their motive is the Bible, because we believe the Bible to be correct, and if it is correct, which we believe it is, then its information is more worthy than anything else. Sure, the Bible has been changed as more facts have come to light, but so has every encyclopedia in existence! Would you go to a 1914 edition of an encyclopedia for a paper about TODAY'S mass transportation system? I think not.
2007-04-01 16:05:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If evolution happened as it is said to have, there would be thousands of transitional forms, so where in blue blazes are they? The whole story falls apart in the light of REAL research. It is still a theory- and wrong.
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2007-04-01 20:04:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The anti-evolutionists are just antisecularist freaks, just like McVeigh and Ruldolph. They want to make their narrow view of truth the one truth and stop others from disagreeing with them by any means necessary.
Those are the real ones, not the followers we tend to see here, but the ones really working to get rid of evolution.
Since THEY don't understand evolution, they think it is an easy target in their war on secularism.
Scary people, those antisecularists. I don't care whether they are Christian bombers or Islamic Hijackers they are the same bloody thing.
And to the guy who said no one observed anything....
Um here you go, observations:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html
Please, people, don't make comments as truth unless you're willing to be shown they aren't wrong.
2007-04-01 16:01:37 · answer #6 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I know some people that believe that God created evolution, or something. Like, they believe animals and people can evolve, but God is the one doing it.
2007-04-01 16:00:12 · answer #7 · answered by ☭ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes our motive is called the truth. GOD created all. Why do you show disrespect for the Word of GOD by not capitalizing the word Bible?
Yes, creation does exclude evolution.
2007-04-01 16:00:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I agree with you. And you don't have to believe in ID to believe that either. Science and creation, IMHO, both exist. But specifics of how and what are yet to be discovered.
2007-04-01 16:00:34 · answer #9 · answered by FaerieWhings 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Did you evolve from a whalebone?
The bones in your back truly look like those of a prehistoric animal.
2007-04-01 16:00:45 · answer #10 · answered by gnostic 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋