Ok. So where do I start my rethinking Evolutionism?

Question

From some recent Q & A's, I'm wondering about what I have believed about just how things got started. I know theres a bunch of information on the web but it all seems to just try to get people to believe one way or the other regardless of facts. I need to decide for me, but right now I want to hear how you Evolutionists got to be Evolutionists.

Do you have a breif way of saying how you decided what is true? What the science proof was that brought you to where you are now?

Is there a way to balance what we think we know about God's word about Creation with what we see that doesn't seem to match exactly?

Answer 1

As an archaeologist in the Earlier Stone Age of Africa, I have been widely exposed to all realms of evolutionary theory. I personally study stone age artefacts made by our human ancestors at about 1.5 million years ago. You'll have to trust me that there are millions of pages of scientific evidence to support evolution.

I am a Christian and I firmly believe in God. I believe in the Bible as well. But I don't think we have to take the Bible word for word, and I don't think God will be mad if I don't.

There is so much evidence we come across, through our digging and dating methods that to me it is silly to overlook it all. Why would our God want to be deceitful? I don't believe God would leave us all these clues (eg. fossils, fossilized bone, ancient "human-like" skeletons) if they weren't really evidence.

I firmly believe we evolved from earlier and different forms, however, I believe God is still with me in my personal life as well. You're going to have to decide for yourself though... but make sure you weigh honestly and fairly all the evolution evidence, I think God will understand.

Answer 2

The theory of evolution, like all other theories of science, should be accepted with grains of salt, that is, you must be prepared that they are wrong. Why? Remember Newton's theory of gravity? Einstein proved it wrong. Today, Einstein's General Theory is now shown to be inadequate. This is science. Even for the atomic theory, the heliocentric theory and the germ theory, we should be ready to scrap them.

However, there enters practicality. There is what you call a pracitical and reasonalbe doubt. Then there is that doubt, just doubt. That .01% in the 99.9% in advertisments. What point is there on greatly doubting the fact that the earth revolves around the sun, or that bacteria causes diseases? For that matter, we call evolution a fact, in the same way we say that germs causes diseases is a fact. And besides the fact is the theory, which explains the fact.

Umm... I think you should get a degree in biology, or start reading a good book in the scientific method. It's complicated and sophisticated.

Answer 3

The evidence for evolution is overwhelming. I was raised as a Christian and I still am but I have been able to reconcile my belief as God the Creator is the driving force behind evolution. Also, as a covert to Catholicism, I do not hold the Bible as the literal word of God. It is a book written by falliable men, subject to their own prejudices, who could not fully comprehend the mechanisms of the Earth and of life. The Genesis story of creation, is in my opinion, a metaphor for the sequence of evolutionary events written by a man who could not begin to comprehend the science we know now. It can be difficult to believe both evolution and creation because our society has made them enemies. But they don't have to be.

Answer 4

Oh, grow up....the Biblical creation story is a fairy tale but there is nothing anyone can do to convince you of that. At least evolution has some scientific observation not just blind unquestioning faith in a book.