Do you believe in god's creation or evolution? Be specific and explain.?

Answer 1

Please read my words carefully:
If you see footmark in the sand, you'll say that someone passed from here...
If you see a piece of dog sh*t on the ground, you'll say that a dog passed from here...
So what about the enormous universe, the sky, stars, planets, earth and all the beauty in it, doesn't it lead to that someone made it?!!!

Some people say that everything is created by itself after the big-bang... I won't ask you about what caused the big-bang, but I'll ask you a simple question:
If you take all the letters of the alphabet, multiples of them, and you threw them randomly on the floor. Do you expect (by a chance of one in infinity) to get a poem like shakespear's??!!

Can't you see how organized our universe is, the planets, the eco-system on earth, look even in your own body... Can you control your heart-beat? Can you control your breath while you're sleeping? Who stopped your eye-lashes from growing after reaching a certain length? Who told the baby turtles to move towards the sea and not to the earth after they come out of their eggs? Who taught the bird how to make nests?

My friend, think with your heart and brain. If you're still lost, think about the following:

Do you know how to play safe?
Non-believer's case:
If there's no God and you do all what you want in life, then nothing will happen to you after life. But if there was God and you were mistaken, then you'll blame yourself FOREVER...

Believer's case:
If there's God and I followed His commands in life, then I'll be in Heaven after life FOREVER. But if there was no God and we're mistaken, then nothing bad will happen to us after life...

Now you know how to play-safe, in case you're not convinced?

Answer 2

As a Catholic, there is nothing wrong if I believe in evolution. I believe that God created the world, the universe, and life itself.

However, I am open to the idea that God allowed the material cellular structures of organisms to be a result of evolution and natural selection. And that the first life forms were simple one celled organisms that evolved over time into the species today while some died out. The Bible says for example that the fishes appeared before the mammals, and via carbon dating, it is true.

But of course, I do not believe the soul can evolve because for obvious reasons that's just impossible.

God Bless,

Answer 3

Evolution is proven by empirical observation. I'm too exhausted to explain it here. But this website by the National Academies of Science can put it better than I can:

http://nationalacademies.org/evolution/

Creationism (certainly not god's creation, if a god exists) is simply religion masquerading as science. It's meant to work on emotional arguments that cannot be tested in a laboratory or studied by fossil evidence.

It's deception by a group of people who are scientifically illiterate but who feel threatened by recent theories such as evolution. Some take up the jargon of science ("intelligent design") without understanding how the scientific method examines claims based on evidence.

I could go on, but what would be the point? I can already see what side of the fence fundamentalists fall on, and most are hostile to science.

If a million facts in favor of an old universe from many scientific disciplines (Astronomy, Biology, Physics) can't convince you, then nothing will.

Answer 4

Evolution just does not make sense to me. First: where did the first cell come from and how did it all of a sudden know to develop into something? Not even science can ever prove that point. Second: our bodies are too complex, cells have so many different functions. It's too amazing to think it all happened from accident and changing over billions of years. Third: yes, humans might be similar to some other mammals, but there are just too many different kinds of animals to think we all started out the same way. Fourth: what is the correlation between all the animls that died and then others came into existence, thus changing the species? And how did it differentiate between water and land animals if we all came from the same first cell? From what I've read it all seems too random.

I personally believe in God's creation. To me it makes a lot more sense to believe that a God who always is and will be created life. I truly believe that the world was created in just six days (yes...six. Nothing was created on the seventh day. It's a day of rest), and that God is infinitely wise to create so many different and amazing things that are all unique in their own way. He did not forget anything that we needed to survive. In fact, He created it all in order. First light, then separation of water and air, then vegetation, which would need the water and air to survive, and so on up to humans who would need everything from before to survive. Where would the sun, moon and stars go if there was not already a sky to go on to? Where would the fish go if there was not already an ocean for them? I think you get the point... there is order in creation as opposed to the randomness in evolution.

Now don't ask me where God, His power or omnipotence came from. That's something I'll never be able to explain. That's where my faith comes in.

But then again, you also need faith to believe in evolution. Science alone does not support evolution. In fact, I think you need a lot more faith to believe in evolution than to believe in God.

Answer 5

Evolution. An education.

The bible says that people can live to be 900 years old, women came from a man's rib, a man survived inside a whale for a long period of time then was regurgitated, a little boat was able to store two of every animal on the earth, the food they needed to survive, and 8 people were able to care for them all, a burning bush talks, a snake talks, a stick turns into a snake, a sea parts, a man was born the son of a god by immaculate conception, water turns into wine, a man walks on water, a man comes back to life after three days... I can keep going for hours.

Which one seems more logical to you? That evolution (which ONLY applies to living things and DOES NOT address abiogensis- the beginning of life on earth) occurred to change everything over time to what you see today through chemistry, biology, and physics, or that an all seeing, all knowing, loving god can murder children and throw people into hell for all eternity for saying "Oh my god" as a swear?

I know evolution is true and I don't subscribe to fantasy by saying that a god is responsible for anything I don't understand.

Answer 6

I'm probably going to Hell for this, but...

I believe evolution is God's creation, following the laws and plans that God set forth from the beginning. I don't understand the thinking that the two ideas are inherently mutually exclusive.

Answer 7

There is no need to choose. The truth of evolution is clearly demonstrated by incontrovertible scientific evidence. The truth of Creation is plainly revealed in the teaching of God's Church, including its holy book. Truth cannot conflict with truth. There is no conflict whatsoever between the truth of God as the Creator of all that exists, and the scientific fact of gradual change as one of His mechanisms of Creation, designed and put into place by Him.

Answer 8

I believe in Creation. I do not believe all mammals evolved from a rat-like creature that lived 210 million years ago, but I do think the various breeds of dogs could have evolved from one pair of dogs, and all human races evolved from one woman.
Evolution is not a scientific fact; it's just a theory, and they have no idea how evolution occured or why. They are only guessing. Nobody has observed the evolution of a totally new species. Some scientists claim they have observed the evolution of a new species of bass fish, but they are still fish, and they are still bass. One example of evolution in a biology textbook says a certain breed of birds developed a harder beak; but tell me how something with no beak had descendents that eventually evolved to where they had a beak. Nobody has ever observed anything like that happening.

Answer 9

Evolution: What do you want me to say about it? Of course, I don't believe that the fact of evolution disproves a deity, but I don't believe in a god for other reasons. There are a hundred reasons not to believe a god. I suppose I could accept a deistic god, but not one that interferes with the world today.

Answer 10

I don't "believe" in evolution because that would suggest that not enough evidence exists to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is a reality. I ACCEPT it for the natural biological process that it has been proven to be.