A) Do you believe the theory of evolution?
B) What is your faith?
C) If the theory were proven true (which I believe it has), would it disturb/alter/effect your beliefsf much?
2007-05-06 12:18:26 · 27 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wouldn't bother me in the least. My faith doesn't hinge on whether evolution is true or not. My faith is centered in Jesus Christ and His atoning sacrifice on the Cross -- not on how the world began.
I'm Catholic, and the Catholic church isn't hung up on Creationism, the way that other denominations are.
2007-05-06 12:25:13 · answer #1 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
By the definition of science, Evlolution can't really be proven true. However, it hopefully will never be disproven. Gravity hasn't been proven true either, yet it seems to work most of the time.
Evolution does explain everything we know about how contemporary life came to be, so until I hear a better explanation, Occam's Razor seems to prove it true.
My faith is no faith at all really. I see religion as a relic that can't survive the way a changing organism does (that just happened to be a relevant analogy). It's applicable now, but eventually progress will make it irrelevant or impossible, a sort of natural selection. My faith is a faith in temporal, contemporary surroundings. I know what I can see and what I can't prove wrong. I can't explain where the universe came from, but it doesn't matter much to me. It's here now.
I suppose, if, someday, we could somehow watch physical events of the past play out by some sort of technological wonder, evolution could be proved true or false. Proving it true would just reaffirm for me that change is the only constant.
2007-05-06 19:34:00 · answer #2 · answered by Pianist d'Aurellius 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A) Do you believe the theory of evolution?
Yes
B) What is your faith?
None, I'm an atheist
C) If the theory were proven true (which I believe it has), would it disturb/alter/effect your beliefsf much?
No as I already believe it to be true
2007-05-06 19:27:01 · answer #3 · answered by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well - it would just be one of God's tools or a reflection of God for most believers...
Which I think is pretty much a given for most people of faith... it's only hardcore fundies that don't get it...
Evolution is not the "opposite" of creationism you know... Evolution is also just when your hair grows faster in the winter... or when male seahorses developed the ability to get pregnant...
All of these "little evolutions" (like people getting taller over the years) HAVE been proven and well documented... so EVOLUTION HAS BEEN PROVEN... it doesn't mean that religion has been proven wrong... or that somebody (God) didn't flick the switch on...
Only that some people can't recognize a metaphor and think that every word in the Bible is infallable... even the parts written by King James...
2007-05-06 19:25:46 · answer #4 · answered by rabble rouser 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A) I TRUST in evolution as a fact and a theory given the large amount of evidence for it.
B) I'm an atheist.
C) It's already true - it's not proven though. Nothing in science can be proven because we do not know everything in the universe.
2007-05-06 19:32:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
A) No, but I do ACCEPT it based on the evidence. Using "believe" here is very misleading (and seems dishonest from the way you worded it).
B) I am atheist--I have no faith in anything supernatural.
C) I strongly believe that if you've got some belief based on ancient superstitions, and some science comes along and directly contradicts all or part of it, then the only logical thing to do is abandon that whole or part of your superstition, since now you can reach a new conclusion based on actual evidence. Anyone who doesn't do this is squandering their brainpower, imho.
2007-05-06 19:33:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A ) I believe. The theory of evolution has more physical proof than the theory of god.
b) Atheist,.
c) The FACT of evolution is true does not affect me in any way.
2007-05-06 19:29:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
A) Yes, I believe the theory of evolution
B) I'm a Christian
C) It wouldn't change my beliefs at all. Most people don't realize that evolution does not disprove God, it explains how so many varieties of creatures and plants happened. It also explains how creatures have changed over time. (Not how they came about or how/what created us.) I take biology and recently studied evolution. One thing taught by evolution is that all organinsms on earth orginally came from the same organism, but they somehow were isolated from one another. I believe that God was that organism that all organisms evolved from because I believe we were create in his image.
Plus the spontaneous generation theory is that all living things came from other living things, contradicting the big bang theory.
I hope you understand where I'm comming from. Thanks for your time.
2007-05-06 19:29:12 · answer #8 · answered by divadaddygogirl 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I believe in evolution the process. Not the origin. That theory is severely lacking in the evidence department.
Seventh Day Adventist Christian
Like I said, I don't have a problem with all of what darwin said, I just think it has limits. If those limits didn't exist, it would cause problems with my beliefs, yes.
This is sort of a response to Christians who say it does not really affect them. WOW. If creation did not go down the way the Bible says it did, then just throw the whole thing away. Our whole belief should have the foundation that God is our creator. That he stooped down and formed us out of lifeless dirt. If you take that away, we are just an accident and Jesus would have no reason to come and save us. I cannot believe that some who profess to be followers of this Creator could let go of this sacred truth.
2007-05-06 19:26:13 · answer #9 · answered by The GMC 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Not one tittle would anyone's faith change. I have seen claims that evolution has been totallly debunked and Creationism proved. My own faith is in evolution, although certainly not as a religion. As far as I'm concerned, evolution has been proved to be fact, however, nothing can be proved to a person who refuses to believe. 4HIM proves my point. The same goes both ways, I guess, and short of a bearded man in a white robe suddenly appearing in front of me out of nowhere and who can read my mind, no so-called proofs will ever do it.
2007-05-06 19:33:48 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a) I do not believe in "universal common descent", but other than that, I don't have much objection to evolution or natural selection.
b) non-denominational protestant
c) I don't believe it can be proven true or false. Even if one could show that evolution occurs today, that still doesn't tell us how life arose in the first place or whether all organisms have a common ancestor.
2007-05-06 19:30:34 · answer #11 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋