Can we prove God or Evolution fully one way or the other???

Answer 1

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Answer 2

You can't prove there is no God. But you can prove against specific Gods of religions.
For example:
The omnipotence paradox suggests that the concept of an omnipotent God is logically contradictory, from considering a question like: "Can God create a rock so big that He Himself could not lift it?" or "If God is all powerful, could God create a being more powerful than Himself?".

Another argument suggests that there is a contradiction between God being omniscient and omnipotent, basically asking "how can an All-Knowing Being change His mind?"

The counter-argument against the Cosmological argument ("chicken or the egg") states that if the Universe had to be created by God because it must have a creator, then God, in turn would have had to be created by some other God, and so on.


As far as evolution, it is a scientific theory. It doesn't get any higher then a scientific theory, therefor it can never be "proven". It is impossible for a theory to become, lets say, a scientific law. Theories can only be supported by evidence, observation, and experimentation. This has already been done.

Answer 3

Evolution doesn't mean no God or religion. It has nothing to do with a soul which I think likely exists from personal experience. I am absolutely convinced some sort of superior being exists that cares about us and can communicate to us.

Evolution has been proven to an extreme certainty, beyond any conceivable reasonable doubt. The age of fossils is determined by the concentration of radio-isotopes in crystals and many different types of crystals and combinations of isotopes are used so there is no doubt the ages are very close. There is a progression of animals that change over time. That is evolution. You could make an argument that it is not caused by natural selection but I don't see where anybody could go with that argument. It is backed up by embryology and genetics. Variations in the D-loop of the mitochondria, a region that doesn't code for proteins, can be used as a clock. It also verifies the dates determined in the fossil record. The case for evolution is open and shut and it has been proved as much as anything can be.

Answer 4

Yes.

Although all the details have not been worked out, the framework for evolution is accetped as fact by approximately 99% of the scientific community. Now there may be some arguments about specific details, but the fact that all life has evolved from simpler forms is just that................a fact.

On the other hand, it can never be proven that god exists, any more than it can be proven that he doesnt. The very definition of god would put him past our little experiments and what not. The existence, or non-existence of a god will NEVER be proven.

But both do not have to be mutually exclusive....................who is to say that a god, or gods, did not create and direct evolution to arrive at whatever end result they were looking for? Whether or not there is a god has NOTHING to do with whether or not evolution has occured.

They are totally unrelated, although some would have you beleive otherwise.

Answer 5

The basic principle of evolution is that variations within a species cause some organisms to reproduce more successfully than others. Those that do reproduce more successfully will pass on their particular traits (size, strength, color, intelligence, or any other factor) to their offspring.

It is easy to see this in action in the case of something familiar like a dog for instance. When breeders want dogs with certain traits, they manipulate the machinery of evolution by choosing which dogs pass on their genes to successive generations--and so ultimately create all the myriad types of dogs we see today.

If for instance, all pet dogs today were just released into the wild to fend for themselves, some would live, and some would not (sorry poodles). The dogs that were the offspring of the survivors would eventually look quite different from what we started with. They would be shaped by their environment. If we took our original pool of dogs, and put some in a cold place like Alaska, and put some in a hot place like Australia, the dogs that ultimately survived in each place would look different. That is evolution.

None of this is at all controversial. And, it is so overwhelmingly self-evident that I'm always suprised that there is any argument.

Answer 6

Scientists do not " prove " things, only creationists try to " prove " things. Evolution, the change in allele frequency over time in a population, is a fact. The theory of evolution by natural selection, which is the mechanism of evolution, has mountains of evidence from many disciplines supporting the theory. The belief in god, has no evidence in support of the belief.

Answer 7

No, we can't. Both theories were formed to fit the available facts and both describe the phenomenon in question equally well, so we could never prove with 100% certainty whether one was true or not.

What we can do though, is use the scientific method to decide which one (I assume you're talking about Creationism/Evolution) is the more accurate description of the world. The way we do this is to formulate predictions made by both theories, i.e., if x theory is true we should see this or this should happen, then conduct experiments to see if our predictions are correct. Whichever model makes the most accurate predictions and explains the largest number of phenomena with the least amount of assumptions is the better of the two theories, and will be accepted by science.

At present, I believe that evolution through Darwinian natural selection is simply the best explanation we have ever come up with to describe the amazing complexity and diversity of life.

Answer 8

Not to confuse the issue, but why would it be God OR Evolution? If God exists, is it possible that He used Evolution to bring mankind into existence?

Evolution could simply a subset of tools that could have possibly been used by a Creator.

If the question is can we prove that there was a Creator as opposed to spontaneous generation of the Universe...well, I don't think so. Not "proof" in scientific terms.

Answer 9

No... You can't prove god, because it's god. That whole system is based on faith, not fact. You can get really really close to proving evolution, but the idea of proving something is that enough people believe it to be a law of nature. The human lifespan isn't long enough for one person to prove evolution, because we don't live long enough to observe it happening.

Answer 10

If you really are looking for an answer, go with the most dependable information.Science is re-written all of the time. The Bible has never been proven wrong. After all, just 300 years ago, scientist said the Earth was flat. 3000 years ago, the Bible referances the circle of the Earth. Stating that the Earth was round.

Answer 11

Evolution can be proven. Not fully, but enough to convince the people who thoroughly dealt with it that it's more than a theory. It can explain the origin of species using the information given by other sciences such as geology, geography etc. No other theory has so many evidence. This is what makes it more than just a theory. It's a reality.