evolution/ creation question?

Question

i always thought that yes god did create everything but i always thought that evolution was the means in which he made/makes life (from a more indepth point of view anyway) why can't it be one and the same, why can't we just get along?

Answer 1

Well, people mostly reject the concept of evolution because it contradicts their religious beliefs. To accept that the species living on Earth today evolved is to believe that much of the Bible does not represent the literal truth. Jonah and the whale? All species fitting into the ark? Genesis in 7 days?

Many people have been taught since early childhood (by respected people such as parents and priests) that their religion speaks the truth. Religion brings a sense of comfort and community to many. To hear an alternative view, however rationally backed by evidence, runs in direct conflict with what many have heard for most of their lives. That can be a scary thing, and it becomes easier to reject than accept.

Religion is based on faith, not evidence. Science is backed up by evidence, not beliefs. As Gould said, science is an inquiry about the factual state of the natural world, religion is a search for spiritual meaning and ethical values. The two are not in conflict. My only issues are when intelligent design is trying to pass itself off as science (which it isn't) or with the teaching of creationist beliefs in a biology class (which is completely inapropriate).

Answer 2

I was like that about two years ago. I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian family so even believing in evolution was a huge difference to me. Then I got more interested in science and started studying evolution, astrophysics also the bible and other religious texts. After a while I came to the conclusion that there really was no god. It makes complete since after you separate yourself from religion and actually think about it for a while. Go to your local library or book store and get a copy of Richard Dawkins God Delusion it may help you see the debate differently. I'm glad you at least accept proven science though. You have never head gods loud booming voice have you? Sure you might have had an out of body experience. But try to entertain the thought that maybe it was you all along. And you were just trying so hard to feel or hear something. There are billions of other people that claim to talk to many different gods everyday. Perhaps all these people have done exactly what I did when I was younger. And wanted something to happen so bad they made it up in there own mind and started to believe that it was divine. There is not a single shred of evidence to prove any god. There is a book that says the world was created in seven days which we know as a fact is untrue. Of course he might have just started the big bang but where are you drawing that conclusion from? You can’t just make up a god as you go along.

Answer 3

Its not so much as just getting along, the fact is that Christianity is based on Faith that the b8ible is the word of God, and therefore infallable. Scientists like Darwin use Science to gather evidence of evolution. Unfortunately the two do not work to well together, and probably never will.

Answer 4

God did create animals with the genetic ability to adapt to their environments within a species. He just didn't create animals and the environment with the possibility of one species like a fish transforming over millions of years into a human being. The reason we can't all just "get along" is because people who fall for the myth that inanimate matter came alive all by itself and that random chance culled by natural selection produced all of the millions of complex life forms on this planet deny that there is a Creator. If a Christian says that they are not sure about how the Bible explains life on this planet and they think that maybe God directed the evolution of life forms that's one thing. I wouldn't agree with them but I wouldn't tell them that they didn't have the right to hold that view. But evolutionists for the most part have made random chance their "god" even though they would hotly deny it. But that's what it is when you ascribe miraculous powers to an unknown force. You make it the equivalent of a "god".

Answer 5

Creation states that man is a direct creation made by God with no transition from another species.

Evil-----ution states that man transitioned from monkeys.

Both can't be true. I think God has the better idea. No! I know God has the better idea.

Darkness (deceit and lies and spiritual blindness) and light (spiritual truth) are not compatible and so cannot get along!

Evil-------ution offers no hope beyond the grave.
Christ offers resurrection and eternal life in a place where everyone loves God supremely and everyone loves everyone else.

Nobody is going to make a monkey out of me, and I want to live forever in the place I described above so I choose Christ.

Answer 6

I believe that both are correct. Everything in the story of creation in the bible refers to things happening in God's time. With that being said, seven days in God's time could be several thousands or even several million years. If that's correct then Darwin figured it out, but made the mistake of removing God from the equation.

Answer 7

The evidence for evolution is and has been interpreted from a Philosophical and ideological Bias, The answers given by adherents to Evolution here in R&S is proof of the bias and agenda, Atheism has to have an alternate explanation—other than a Creator—for how the universe and life came into existence.
Darwin once identified himself as a Christian but as a result of some tragedies that took place in his life, he later renounced the Christian faith and the existence of God. Evolution was invented by an atheist.
What is sad is that Christians are falling into this Trap and trying to fit evolution into the Bible (Theistic Evolution) thinking they can make it fit.
Lee Stroble in his video listed below “ The Case for the Creator” stated (5 min. 28 sec into the video) The Case for a Creator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajqH4y8G0MI


That “There is no way you can Harmonize Neo Darwinism with Christianity, I could never understand Christians who would say “ Well I believe in God yet I believe in Evolution as well” You see Darwin’s idea about the development of life led to his theory that modern science now generally defines as an undirected process completely devoid of any purpose or plan,”. Now how could God direct an undirected process? How could God have purpose in a plan behind a system that has no plan and no purpose? It just does not make sense.
It didn’t make sense to me in 1966 and it doesn’t make sense to me now.
The Apostle Paul wrote to His Son Timothy stating that “ in 2 Timothy 4:3-4 “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, [because] they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn [their] ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”

Those Christians who believe in evolution have no idea how that effects their theology.
What is theistic evolution?
http://www.gotquestions.org/theistic-evolution.html


Eternity is a Long Time to be wrong about this

What Hath Darwin Wrought?
http://www.whathathdarwinwrought.com/

Darwin's Deadly Legacy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qHb3uq1O0Q
Darwin & Eugenics....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuTPHvedOOU&feature=related

Creation In The 21st Century - Planet Earth Is Special 1 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyUjhgsEJFw

Creation in the 21st Century - The Evidence Disputes Darwin 1 of 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbCbfzmhAN8

Some modern scientists who have accepted the biblical account of Creation
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/bios/

More than 600 Scientist with PHD’s who have Signed A SCIENTIFIC DISSENT FROM DARWINISM
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?id=660

Answer 8

Your idea sounds reasonable to me, but according to the creationists, your acceptance of evolution makes you a non-Christian.

The reason we can't get along is that the creationists have been trying for decades to do an end run around the Constitution so that they can preach their beliefs in public schools. Allowing them to do that would, besides violating the Constitution, kill science as a useful discipline.

JMB

Answer 9

The people who reject the theory of evolution because it contradicts a literalist reading of the Bible would not be able to accept your compromise. To them, God is the Absolute Authority and the Bible is the absolute Word of God. To them, all of their beliefs are one solid structure, and the rejection of any one of them would destroy the whole thing; and there goes all standards of right and wrong, all meaning and purpose in life, all sense of self-worth.

To many who reject the Creationist view, your compromise would be unworkable, because the only God concept they know is "supernatural creator who was not created; first cause who is not himself affected by anything; eternal and transcendent yet a person; omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent" -- and that concept is nonsense to them.

To many -- including myself -- scientific naturalism is not just a methodology; it necessarily implies metaphysical naturalism. We cannot say, "there is a supernatural force than can do whatever it takes a mind to, including violating all natural laws -- but in studying the way nature *normally* works, we limit our assumptions to natural forces."

To me, metaphysical naturalism is the only consistent worldview. The supernatural, by definition, does not exist: period. If something exists, it is natural; it is affected by the rest of nature, as well as having an effect; it has limitations; by studying its boundaries and the patterns of its effects, we can understand it enough to make useful predictions about it.

That something cannot be explained is not evidence for a supernatural explanation. If something cannot be explained, we just keep looking for a natural explanation.

I am able to believe in a God that fits within that worldview; a God that is an emergent phenomenon of the universe, as "I" am an emergent phenomenon of my body. To me, God is neither Creator nor Created; God is part of the creative process, and so are we, and so is everything.

That concept, however, is equally repugnant to many atheists, as well as many religious people. Just as "Evolution is the process by which God created human beings" is equally repugnant to those who insist that God made Adam and Eve out of the dust of Eden, and to those who insist that human beings are the only sentient, self-aware part of the universe, and the highest level of organization that matter has formed so far.

Answer 10

There's no reason you can't believe that evolution was just the way that God did things. Maybe He did it that way, and then blessed people with the knowledge and intelligence to use science as a tool to find out HOW He did things.