isn't it possible that creationism and evolution can co-exist?

Question

putting aside the whole monkey to human bit.after Adam and Eve were cast out of the garden wouldnt it make since that God would give the ability for everything to evolve because he knew we where living in an ever changing world and would have to adapt.
i mean really to me the fact that an animal could just change almost magically to fit the surroundings to survive is nothing short of a miracle,but maybe its just me

ok, so maybe i should have worded that different.what i ment by magically is that i find it amazing not that i think it just happens...exept in some one celled species and fruit flies for example.they can evolve in just a few generations..i didnt think i would have to explain evolution to prove i know something about it as any highschool grad should know how it works.

Answer 1

What your saying would be considered an a priori. Evolution is pretty new when comparing it to religion, so like everything else they basically want to incoporate it to the doctrines because more people are accepting it as true. But to tell you the truth, no religion and evolution cant really go together because there are too many contradictions.

Answer 2

"The whole monkey to human bit" (though this is actually incorrect as monkeys and humans, like all forms of life share a common ancestor, though Im sure you already knew this) is rather the whole point of evolution. We're talking about 3 billion or so years of development here that you can't just magic away.

Animals don't just change magically to fit the surroundings, you obviously know nothing on evolution:
1. Animals produce more young than survive to adulthood
2. Hence there is a competition as to which will survive
3. There is an inherent natural variation within species, with a few individuals carrying mutations
4. A few of these mutations actually confer an advantage on the organism
5. These organisms are more likely to grow to adulthood and reproduce
6. hence over time (millions of years) that particular mutation will be passed on down the family tree
7. Over an even longer period of time, this actually gives rise to speciation.

Answer 3

Yet if we hold to a right exegesis of Scripture, evolution is simply not compatible with what the Bible teaches. Besides the time frame issue, the order of events in Genesis do not agree with the order of evolution. Each kind of organism has within its genes the information required to adapt to its surroundings but these adaptations are bounded by the genetic information. There are many varieties of cats belonging to the cat kind but they will always remain in the cat kind family. Even fruit flies, not matter how grotesque they may be after being subjected to radiation to test for evolution, remain as nothing but flies, though mutated ones and many do not reproduce at all. Natural selection simply "selected" them for destruction. So there is no such thing as evolution for the fruit flies, but only failed experiments. It is also the same with bacterial. The bacterial never evolved into another strain of bacterial. Rather, what happened is that those bacteria with the genetic information to counter the anti-biotic simply multiplied while the other bacteria succumbed to it. Thus the perception is gained that the bacteria has "evolved" or mutated to a super-bacteria. Yet bacteria remained as bacteria! Nothing has changed except the shift in population.

Answer 4

Of course it is. For centuries, Christians believed that the Sun moved around the earth...it was just scientific fact for them. Then science proved otherwise, Christians excommunicated the scientists, and then they realized there was no way to maintain such an obviously false belief about the universe.

Evolution is trickier, because we can't go back in time to see whether people evolved from lower organisms. But we can see instances of evolution occurring today, in mutations and slow changes in species over time as they adjust to their environments. There is no reason NOT to view Genesis as a symbolic, poetic, beautiful account of how God created the world and evolution as the natural, scientific explanation. God certainly could have set the world and its laws in motion and preset evolution as one of those natural laws.

Answer 5

Yes, but if you're truly a Christian, you shouldn't believe in evolution because evolutions time frame doesn't fit with the Bible's. Thats why we have all these "gap theories" and "day age" theories. People claim the 7 day creation was really millions of years, which doesn't fit in with the Hebrew version of the Bible. Plus, if you can change one part of the Bible, what about the rest? That damages/destroys the entire Bible's message.
Natural selection, the "mechanism" for evolution, DOES take place. You can observe it. Natural selection is the survival of the better suited, genetically and physically. Evolution is a poorly defined word and therefore you'll get a bunch of poorly defined answers.

Your welcome.

I am not saying parts of evolution aren't true, it's just not all of the theory is correct. For example, people see DOG --->>> DOG, that doesn't mean SNAIL --->>>> HUMAN.

NATURAL SELECTION, a part of evolution, takes place. But, the theory of evolution points that all things took billions of billions of years to happen, stretching out the only fact about evolution we know for sure because we can observe it, natural selection. Evolution is basically mixing chance, time, and natural selection.

Answer 6

In short, no, they cannot coexist. Creationism makes a scientific theory, that an intelligence designed all species at the same exact time not very long ago. That is a testable theory and has failed the tests.

Humans are at the very end of the evolutionary process, so the idea that evolution first started after homo sapiens appeared on earth is preposterous and incompatible with what we know of biology.

Answer 7

Sloppy question. you may no longer in basic terms state that "evolution can not initiate by ability of itself" without showing why it incredibly is genuine. It does not seem to be, by ability of ways, yet consisting of it incredibly is named begging the question and could get you laughed out of any college point type. specific, it is obtainable that god got here up with evolution, set the ball rolling, and then enable it take over. So what? What does that let us know approximately evolution that analyzing evolution itself won't? how are you able to instruct it if it have been to be genuine? And who created god? it is likewise obtainable santa started up evolution, yet that gets you nowhere the two.

Answer 8

evolution and adaptation are two totally different things

setting that aside - the creation model is based on God's creation of a perfect world in which Adam introduced death and degeneration

the evolution model is based on chaotic events that continuously re-organized by trial and error and improved all by themselves.

the only similarities they have are that both are based on something coming into being from nothing (God creating / big bang)

the reality is - they are both faith based belief systems as they stand.

Answer 9

Evolution would have had to occur before Adam and Eve because of the arguments that it takes hundreds of thousands, and even millions of years to effectively see a change.

Answer 10

I don't want to sound patronising but you obviously do not understand evolution. Maybe you should try to understand better the ideas that you are trying to criticize. It is this ill informed opinion that makes creationists look as if they have thier heads buried in the sand.