Why don't SOME Christians believe that evolution is valid?

Question

I know plenty of Christians, myself included, who believe that the Theory of Evolution is a valid explanation of the origins of more advanced species. Einstein's Theories of Special and General relativity explain gravity. These are also theories. A theory is, by definition, the best scientific explanation for a certain phenomenon based on the available data. There is fossil evidence of hominids - with both man-like and ape-like characterstics:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/

Additionally, while I do not believe in the Creation story as portrayed in Genesis, I do believe that God incited the Big Bang to create the universe, as there are no hypotheses or theories as to what caused the Big Bang.

You can believe in God, be Christian, and believe in Evolution - so why do so many Christians refuse to believe tangible, real evidence and facs in favor of a religious story with no scientific basis?

So, for or against the Theory of Evolution, what are your thoughts?

Dusty Scribe, God didn't write the Bible! I agree with Eleventy - the story has meaning in its symbolism, and the writers of the Bible did not intend for it to mean that all of a sudden, there were two people on the earth.

Answer 1

There are some Biblical literalists who cannot admit that the Bible may have a symbolic story. To them, this is admitting it is not godly. They have a conclusion, the Bible is literal, and nothing will change their minds.

Answer 2

Evolution = process of development as from a simple to a complex form or gradual progressive changes.

Darwin's' theory = development of a species, organism, or organ from its original or primitive state to its present or specialized state.

It is possible that there was something catastrophic that took place in the Universe by God. I can buy that, but I don't think it was the creation of man, animals or plants. I think it was the Universe being formed, maybe even earth being created to support the man God would soon create. All other planets and things in the heavens. I believe once all was created by God, it could reproduce after its own kind/seed, mutate or become extinct.

From the Big Bang experience, did the lifeforms riding on the meteror evolve into men, animals, insects, trees, fishes, bacteria, viruses, etc.? Finish the theory. How did this life form know what it was going to be (human, vegetable or animal)? Were they cells, i.e., differential cells?

It is plausible that God took the dust of the earth which consisted of chemical materials (iron, sulfur, carbon dioxide, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, etc.) He created, and that He created and formed man from the dust and breathed life (oxygen) into him and man became a human with a soul. You know what they say, from dust we are from dust we shall return.

Are we still evolving? Why and who stopped the process?

Answer 3

i don't think of you're in middle college?... organic determination describes the mechanics of evolution. So, me and also you may race. i'm a extra efficient runner than you. i will for sure beat you. In competitions, the the perfect one will win. i'm keen to wager the Browns gained't make the playoffs next 12 months, because they seem to be a foul team. In an ecosystem, there is competition to live to tell the tale. The fastest predators will devour, and the slowest prey will be eaten. The tallest giraffe will devour, and the shortest giraffe will starve. (not fairly. yet, if there have been a million giraffes and only one tree, only the tallest ones will be able to devour the leaves from the proper, and from the bottom, allowing them to live to tell the tale longer.) So, what does surviving recommend? How does this make contributions to evolution? we do not reproduce until eventually a particular age, and we only have such dissimilar toddlers. The longer you reside to tell the tale, the added toddlers you may have. if you're completely not worthy in an ecosystem, then you fairly will under no circumstances even reproduce. even as they reproduce, they bypass on genes. even as they die, the genes die with them. If i might want to stay always, and it develop right into a gene, finally, each human might want to stay always. all those who couldn't stay always will die finally, and the immortality gene will develop into person-pleasant.

Answer 4

I believe in evolution, because you can watch it happen with bacteria over time. It just makes more sense than anything else I've ever heard.

Anyway, I don't believe in God very much, at least not in the way organized religions do. If there is a god for me it is just everything, all of the energy in the universe, infinite, eternity..

Anyway, these two things have nothing to do with each other! I could become very religious but I'd still believe in evolution. All of biology and genetics and how things CAN even be ALIVE and reproduce is AMAZING. I would think that Christians would be happy to accept that their amazing God created such a PERFECT system!

My thoughts!

Answer 5

If you believe that death did not enter the world from sin, then there was no reason for Jesus to pay for your sin. The Bible says that the wages of sin are death, but the gift of God is eternal life. If death isn't the wages of sin, then there is no point to needing your sin paid for to inherit eternal life.

By the way, there are no transitional fossils. There is no evidence of any creature reproducing and forming a different type of creature. To pass on information genetically, you need to have information in the genes. Canines only have genes for canines and can only pass on genes for canines.

There is a wide degree of variation with species, but no evidence of a species reproducing and formin another species. Even evolutionist admit the greatest weakness of there theory is the lack of transitional species, or fossil evidence thereof.

Answer 6

I am against the theory of Evolution because one can't find the missing link. Has anyone found a missing link? I don't think so. I know a pastor in Wisconsin that said to me that he believed in evolution. He said that how far the earth was away from the sun that is how old the earth is. That is part of evolution. I don't think so. I believe in the Big Bang theory - He said it and it came about.
If you believe in evolution, then one doesn't see the hand of God in nature.
Creation is based on faith, so you don't have faith, if you want to believe in evolution.

Answer 7

2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

If you do not believe the account of Genesis, then what do you make out of this scripture?

The Bible clearly states that God made the world in six days. This is scripture. If you do not believe this part of the Bible, then what other parts do you not believe? Or is Christianity based on choosing what parts of God's word you will choose to follow? Sounds like a slippery slope to me.

Answer 8

Most Christians (coming from a very upset Pagan) don't belive in anything but their own religion. They can be very stubborn and small minded. I've accepted that all religions are right, and wrong on belifes. Infact, I was just reading a reply to one of my questions that said that everyone that isn't Christain is a devil worshiper! It was unfourantly the best answer. Christains do more harm then they realize. *Rubs the bruise that she recieved from a Christain for being Pagan* I'd personaly like to do away with the religion. But thats just my opionion.

Answer 9

I don't think it makes much sense at least to me that something as complicated as a human would evolve from a ape. I don't think species evolve from species to another but i believe there is evolution in the sense of something adapting to a new environment. If i remember correctly from my science classes in school Charles Darwin's theory never said we evolved form apes.....I'm not sure though that was what i was taught.
But to each his own if that's what you want believe then it dosen't matter to me.

Answer 10

So, you get to decide what is true or false in the Bible? Doesn't that make you "God," then?

If God didn't mean what He said, even in the details, why bother at all?

UPDATE: Jesus even said that it was written by God: "You are destroying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other things like that." (Mark 7:13)