Couldn't Creationism and Evolution both have occured?

Question

Honestly, think about it. If Adam and Eve were booted out of the garden, what food did they have to survive on outside? God didn't boot the rest of the animals, so maybe there was already something living there.
Maybe "out there", outside the Garden, is where God was screwing around with other creatures, seeing what might work best in harmony with mankind.
I don't think the Bible stated how long Adam and Eve lived in the Garden before their expulsion, so couldn't both have existed? Please, no close-minded answers like "You're stupid" or "Only the Bible is right", unless you back it up with some sort of valid argument

I don't see why Creationism and Evolution can't be compatible.
If God made everything right off the bat, then maybe he made Adam and Eve in the Garden, but started evolution working outside the Garden to see how it would go.

I'd also like to point out that I'm pretty devoutly non-Christian. I guess the closest I'm to is Agnostic, and my purpose for asking this question was to get a few people to at least give an answer that implied they thought about it, not just immediately dimissed it. Come on people, have an open mind; of course I realize the Bible is just stories, but if we don't have an open mind about things and be willing to change our ideas, how could we ever expect to change the views of others?

Answer 1

Christianity and Evolution are compatible. Evolution does not state God didn't create the diversity/universe/life/et. al., it only states the mechanism by which the diversity of life was created. It would be no less miraculous if this were God's method of doing it.

Creationism and Evolution are not. Creationism is a pseudo-science. A really lousy one, at that. Apparently it's sole purpose is to try and discredit Evolution, usually by untruths and subterfuge.

Answer 2

Evolution (meaning the Theory of Evolution or Darwinian Evolution) does not correspond with the Bible at all. A lot of people have tried to bring both together, but the Bible is always set aside when there is a problem in the logic. There are four main concepts or models concerning creationism: Theistic Evolution, this is the idea that God created through evolution - the Bible is often not even conisidered here; Progressive Creationism, that each of the six days were millions of years of evolution - the order is changed and a major theological crisis occurs booting Jesus out of the picture; Gap theory, evolution occured between the first two versus of Genesis one - all scientific reasoning is thrown out; Biblical Creationism, God created in six literal days.

Does God use evolution? That depends on what you mean by that word. Evoutionists use arguments from small changes within the same kind of creature (called microevoution) to prove that large changes ocrcur causing one kind of creature to become another (like a dinosaur into a bird). There is no scientific evidence for this, it is mainly just ideas thought up. Microevoution occurs everywhere and is why we have so many different skin colors within humanity (one blood - manhy people). Evolution would have us think that the darker the skin the less evolved you are.

Check out my paper I wrote on the subject.

Answer 3

Most adherents of Creationism see Evolution as false and no possibility of both occurring.

There are a couple reasons for this.

1. God created everything "according to its kind." This means the species are fixed. While extinction is a fact, the species that have survived were originally created by God. They have not evolved from more primitive life-forms.

2. Through sin, death entered the world. There was no death or evolving of species before Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge.

Others who are less fundamental in their doctrinal beliefs accept the possibility of the earth being very old and while God originally created all life, there's no reason that the various life forms we see today could not have evolved from other species. The creation account in Genesis is not scientific truth, it's religious truth. However the world began, God did it. God created the world with purpose and meaning and being made in God's image, our lives have purpose and meaning. What purpose and meaning? There are thousands of answers to that question. One answer is that we should treat others as we would like to be treated.

Answer 4

nice thinking... the outside is also already filled with animals and plants for it was the whole world that God had created. It wasn't just the Garden. No mention of the duration of the stay was stated for it wasn't deemed important by the one who wrote it. Anyway, i've also thought that Adam and Eve should have had the most complicated DNA if ever evolution didn't occur. For there are now so many different kinds of races. So it's really possible that both occured.

Answer 5

A literal interpreting of the introduction tale interior the bible could no longer be authentic - the earth is obviously lots older than 6000-unusual years previous. yet once you alter your definition of introduction to intend "god made each and every thing" then it incredibly is totally conceivable that evolution and introduction the two took/take place. the difficulty is all of us understand evolution happens through mountains of converging info for it. there's no longer info for introduction, and in actuality it may't be examined. so some distance as all of us understand god zapped us into life the day in the previous as we communicate, our minds crammed with pretend innovations and info for evolution planted all around us. it is likewise conceivable yet untestable. technological awareness deals with what we can see. Evolution is a theory arrived at using the scientific approach, some thing which in simple terms does not artwork while comparing introduction. So technological awareness says no longer something approximately it. there is neither info for nor against it. basically the creationists interior the US experience that the two are at a similar time unique.

Answer 6

Ok, simple answer- yes. I have read so many books on creation and some on evolution trying to balance the two. I will recommend a few books and let you form your own argument as there is not strait proven answer. It really depends on who/what you believe. Both evolution and creation take a leap of faith to believe. My two favorite books on balancing Christianity with evolution are The Collapse of Evolution by Scott M. Huse and In 6 Days: Why 50 scientists choose to believe in creation edited by John F. Ashton
Edit- Cardboard- think and do your research before you say there is no scientific evidence for the earth being created in 6 days. You should read these books too. There is tons.

Answer 7

if you take both moderately, then they are compatible, its called "Intelligent Design" if you think of it as Creation with a little evolution, and "Guided Evolution" if you think of it as evolution with a little help from God.

>>"Mere conjecture. There is tons of proof for evolution. No proof for earth being "created" by some magical being. Why even think it is a possibility, when no evidence points to it? "<<
simple. there are some huge issues where evolution simply doesn't make sense, or has gaps where its really just not practical within the time span given. to offer the idea that an entity of massively greater power and knowlege than we have, helped this along, is not that unreasonable.

Answer 8

We have limited explanation about what Adam and Eve were like. Nothing tells us that they were MODERN or Cro-MAGNON humans.

Consider another interesting point: The Bible says that the world just before Adam and Eve was "without form and void." It's worded almost exactly the same way in ANY translation of the Bible.

It doesn't say that there "was no Earth." It says "without form and void." meaning that it didn't contain anything that WE would be familiar with. The story starts "In the beginning." The beginning of what? The beginning of time or the beginning of "the story?" It doesn't say.

Answer 9

The Christian Creation myth and those of other religions are metaphors. The only creation theory that offers valid proof is evolution. You are not stupid, but you should maybe take the 'stories' in the Bible with a pinch of salt.

Answer 10

God spoke and it was. That is pretty clear in the Biblical account. And it does not say that God made ONLY the garden of Eden.... where Adam and Eve frolicked for an undetermined time until ousted by their sin. It says the world.
I don't believe you can meld the two together. They are too diverse.

Answer 11

We cannot begin to compare the unproven, with the scientifically supported. To use a string of fiction as a parallel, or alternative, to Evolutionary theory, is hugely flawed. Should we consider Unicorns when considering gaps in the fossil record ? Perhaps fairies are an unknown insect species ? We can only discuss the tangible, the provable, the scientifically supportable, one or the other, fact or fiction.