Doesn't it seem sometimes like it would take more "faith" to believe in "Evolution" than "Creation"

Answer 1

Why?
Just because there are NO transitional life forms,
when there should be thousands? or millions?
Keep the faith !!

Answer 2

I can understand people thinking that, if all they know about evolution comes from answersingenesis.com.

This certainly seems to be the case in R&S, where the same tired old arguments come up endlessly: astronomical odds against a straw-man idea of abiogenesis; nonsense about 'transitional forms' that are actually well-evidenced; utter disregard for the actual timescales involved; repeated claims that evolution has never been observed; and over and over, the Argument from Personal Incredulity.

And when forced into a corner, the ludicrous claim that any solid evidence is 'micro-evolution', as if there were some limit on how many pennies can be accumulated to make a pound.

Above all, the monstrous arrogance to supposed that a pinch of learning and Christian propaganda is sufficient to dismiss a theory that has been accepted as fact by every serious scientist in the world for over 150 years.

Evolution requires a little thought from an open-minded newcomer. To a pre-brainwashed, hostile audience the hill's too steep to climb.

CD

Answer 3

Why not believe in both?

The Catholic Church does not take the stories of creation in the Bible literally. Catholics believe the book of Genesis tells religious truth and not necessarily historical fact.

One of the religious truths is that God created everything and declared all was good.

Catholics can believe in the theory of evolution. Or not. The Church does not require belief in evolution.

On August 12, 1950 Pope Pius XII said in his encyclical Humani generis:

The Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God.

Here is the complete encyclical: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_12081950_humani-generis_en.html

The Church supports science in the discovery of God's creation. At this time, the theory of evolution is the most logical scientific explanation. However tomorrow someone may come up with a better idea.

As long as we believe that God started the whole thing, both the Bible and modern science can live in harmony.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

Well, we don't need faith to back up evolution. Scientists didn't back up evolution just because they want to go against creation. There are too many evidences that evolution did happen. Whereas we still have not had a single certain fact that can back up creation.

My point of view is, science will go forward, more and more evidence will be discover, whether creationists like it or not.

I think people really need to move on, study more science and discover new things, understand the nature, don't just read the Bible and believe everything it says.

Answer 5

Let's see - does it take more faith to believe in evolution than Creation?

Let me think about that for a second-NO.

Answer 6

I think that if you can't believe in Evolution and the slow natural process of life evolving, then there's no way you should be able to believe in a god who magically pops up out of nowhere or was "always there" and then proceeds to create anything.

Really, creationism either requires a lot bigger, less sensical leap of faith or blind following and no questioning.
I think the blind faith, don't think, don't ask questions, god loves you, is what makes it appealing to a lot of people, actually:).

Answer 7

I have stated this before to many a thumbs down. Science tries to understand what has been created.

IF you take evolution,which can not be prov en for lack of evidence, and believe it is true then they have faith in evolution.

Many times science confirms what the Bible says about man and how he functions like , dieting, farming or agricultural and soil, man's psychological downfall, rest after 6 days of work, and relations with wives, evil despises that which is good, balance found in nature that is also in man. When spiritually drained we need to read God's word for nourishment.

Answer 8

Well,yes. You have to accept it on faith that a group of chemicals - just the right kind and in the just the right quantity - came together in just the right way and at just the right moment were struck by a bolt of lightening which somehow thereby engendered Life. Everything evolves up from there. The group of chemicals is called The Primordial Soup. That's as wild as anything in the Jewish scripture,and yes,I would say a matter of faith. It certainly isn't anything that can be demonstrated scientifically.

Answer 9

Uhm ... no.

Creation has the advantage that it is not burdened by such things as evidence, or even logic, or even following the laws of physics. Since God can create these laws, God can violate them ... so creating millions of species of animals, plants, fungi, protists, and bacteria in six days is perfectly acceptable as a "theory." Or imagining a 6,000 year old universe ... which defies not only all the evidence of biology, but astronomy, astrophysics, physics, radiology, radiometry, the speed of light, paleontology, anthropology, and archaeology ... requires phenomenal faith in the idea that ALL scientists who have ever lived are all idiots.

The only act of faith required by evolution is faith in the scientific method. Everything else comes out of that one assumption. Science can be wrong on occasion ... but not THAT wrong.

P.S. ... and dontcha just love people like Log!k who pull a number out of a hat like "1 to 10^321" without any foundation or source whatsoever?

Answer 10

It takes as much faith to believe that evolution is a fact and that man evolved from simpler forms of life. No one alive has seen God. No one alive has seen a man evolve from a simpler life form. Nor has anyone observed ANY simple life form evolve into a more complex life form. Nobody alive saw God create life. Nobody alive has observed spontaneous generation or anything like it.

Answer 11

The dog that is your avatar is a product of controlled evolution. NO faith, just fact.

If you want the Truth.....Ask a Pagan.