There are 2 ID theories:
1. God created everything about 6000-7000 years ago. There is no evolution, just what God created and chose to change.
2. Evolution is subtly guided by God. The earth is 5 billion years old, and evolution happened (and continues to happen), but God is guiding the process, through subtle changes to life that we have identified as mutations.
Which do you believe is the correct one?
2007-04-30 13:04:41 · 12 answers · asked by Big Super 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. 2
To "create" means to put and keep something in existence. God is Creator because He puts and sustains everything in existence. He is the maker and final goal of everything that exists, all things visible and invisible.
The truth of creation means that God's loving creativity builds into each of us a meaning, purpose and destiny which nothing can take away from us.
Does the Genesis account of creation contradict the scientific theory of evolution? No. In affirming that God is the ultimate cause of all that exists, Genesis gives its ultimate meaning and purpose - "Why" the world exists. It does not explain "how" the physical world came to be in its present condition, which the theory of evolution tries to explain.
The Catholic Church does not have an official position on whether various life forms developed over the course of time. However, it says that, if they did develop, then they did so under the impetus and guidance of God, and their ultimate creation must be ascribed to him.
Concerning human evolution, the Church has a more definite teaching. It allows for the possibility that man's body developed from previous biological forms, under God's guidance, but it insists on the special creation of his soul.
Peace and every blessing!
2007-04-30 17:20:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The second one is the most rational of the two even in biblical terms, such as in Genesis the orbital path relative to earth of the sun was created ***after**** the _day_ as a *symbol* of it, so how can the rotation of the sun be a day?... but I also don't believe in a singular time continuum and I don't think intelligent design researchers should either. There's more substantiation for a God head in Copenhagen than in Newton, biology hasn't caught up with those times yet.
2007-04-30 20:17:24 · answer #2 · answered by Monita C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most assuredly 2. Although I believe that not only is the Creator subtly guiding evolution but nature itself also adapts itself in order to survive.
2007-04-30 20:18:04 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how about a 3rd choice-
Redefine God as the Process of Life itself, the Life Force that is in all things, all beings, throughout the universe, and in the movement in the smallest sub-atomic particles. The process of evolution is God being...whatever we (the collective) choose
2007-04-30 20:27:07 · answer #4 · answered by zentrinity 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a strong supporter of #2
but I would not call it ID.
It is evolution with a guiding hand- Theistic Evolution
but for our Atheist and Agnostic friends you left out the FSM...
2007-04-30 20:09:19 · answer #5 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
2: I don't think that the 7 creation story should be interpreted literally, but rather, metaphorically. Science is good to an extent, but theology is needed to go beyond the realm of science.
2007-04-30 20:09:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I STILL don't understand how God "guides" evolution.
2007-04-30 20:08:36 · answer #7 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the one that has scientific evidence..oh wait that's none of them.
I'll just stick with evolution.
2007-04-30 20:09:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
3. The Flying Spaghetti Monster did it.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
2007-04-30 20:12:23 · answer #9 · answered by Scott B 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
most definitely 2
just as you described
the creator set things in motion , allowing for evolution
2007-04-30 20:08:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋