Why cant we have evolution and religion at the same time.?

Question

Couldnt "God " be brilliant enough and have the patience to evolve creatures and progress them to adapt in their environments? Wouldnt it make more sense that "life" was a slow process? Its a lot less ignorant than Eve taking a bite out of an apple,

Answer 1

Yes!!!! Although I do not believe in god to have religious people walking around understanding evolution is a step in the right direction. Once you understand it you can truly appreciate the value of life and how lucky we all are.

Answer 2

There are two types of evolution: Micro Evolution, and Macro Evolution.

Micro is where animals have different diverse traits that can change and adapt, but still stay the same animal. This theory can agree with Creationism.

Macro evolution is where a creature changes into a completely other one, where it can't produce young from mating with the original creature. This theory has never been proven and does not agree with Creationism. Sure it's possible to believe in God, and still believe that people may have once evolved from other animals. But Creationists do not believed that the people on Earth decended from animals, simply because the Bible says God created us.

If you think about it, how did God get here? Maybe once there was an evolving process that lead to humans being created and then at least one of them evolved into God. There is nowhere that says he couldn't have taken the knowledge of the humans that had evolved, and used that knowledge to create Adam and Eve.

Answer 3

The problem is the fossils do not show evolution. They actually show complex creatures appearing suddenly during the cambrian explosion with no transitional forms before them. Darwin was aware of that problem. He said "they're out there by the millions.....you should be stumbling over them as you walk out your back door". That's a quote from Darwin. His explanation as to why they hadn't found them yet was that archeology was in it's infant stages at that time. He predicted that after he was dead they would find them by the millions. But here we are 150 years later and they still haven't found any. Stephan J. Gould who was a Harvard paleontolgist and one of the top evolutionists in the world until he died a few years ago said this:"there's a trade secret among the paleontologists of the world.....namely, that the transitional forms don't exist". My question would be...why is it a trade secret? If the evidence doesn't show evolution why don't they tell the world. It's no surprise that Gould and Niles Eldridge eventually gave up on darwinian evolution and started a new theory called 'Punctuated Equilibrium', a theory which Richard Goldschmidt(also an evolutionist) called the 'hopeful monster theory' a name he gave to it in derision. He descibed it by saying that a reptile once laid an egg and, VIOLA, out popped a bird. That is even more ignorant than Eve taking a bite out of the apple. Incidently, I've read the story of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis a thousand times and I don't ever remember an apple being mentioned. Could you give me the chapter and verse where you find this mysterious apple.

Answer 4

It's a possible view, and even a popular one (It's the official position of the Roamn Catholic Church, for instance)

I have trouble with it the more I understand how random, wasteful and cruel the process of evolution is. Darwin saw this with parasitic wasps:
"I cannot persuade myself", wrote Darwin, "that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars".

If evolution is not guided, this is just nature. If it is God's plan, then cruelty appears built in.
"But by then most of you will have been eaten."
(Gary Larson cartoon of an adult praying mantis explaining the"facts of life" to a group of offspring.)

Answer 5

Is it possible? Certainly! Is it likely? I don't think so. However, I have no problem with someone believing in God and evolution or for that matter, creationism, as long as they don't try to push that belief on me. Also, creationism needs to be kept out of the science classes since it is a pseudo-science.
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Answer 6

Do a search for "old-Earth creationism." The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive--God could've gotten the ball rolling with Earth 4.5 billion years ago and just not get around to creating humans until about 6,000 years ago. Check out the first link below.

Answer 7

Well, what's a "day" to God? The old ditty about "What's a million years to you? God said 'A second.'" comes to mind.

Like any human inventor, there could have been a lot of trial, a bit of error and a few "forget it, back to the drawing board!" moments. Being Pagan, I consider the Creators to be a mighty, but not infallible, husband-and-wife team.

Answer 8

Where does it say that Eve took a bite out of an "apple."

If you study the Word you will never find anything about an "apple."

Man changed it to "apple" for some reason in children books etc..

Study the Word and you will understand that the theory of evolution is just Satan fighting back, to more doubt in unbelievers

Pray and study and God's Word becomes clearer-
Good luck-

Answer 9

I am quite agree with you. God do create universe stage by stage for us to think the sign of His existence. But the evolution theory really contradict with religion.

Answer 10

I agree. There are only a few chioices, evolution without god, god and evolution, or a god who is a deceptive liar and deliberatly screwed the follisle record to decieve his people. Which do you choose?