Evolution?

Question

I am a strong Christian and I believe in creation strongly. But evolution is starting to make sense to me because people that believe in creation (like me) say that how could nothing create something. But couldn't like some air particles are energy creat and explosion (I know it sounds stupid)? Please help me & understand. God bless

Answer 1

If you believe in evolution, then you believe that there was death before sin. Sin is what brought death unto the world. The earth was not cursed before sin. Without sin there would be no suffering or death.

Answer 2

Good for you for thinking even when you're told not to.

Couple things - one small point to start with: evolution doe4sn't cover the Big Bang, despite the confusion some people - mostly antis - have. The Big Bang is part of the study of Cosmogony.

The exact moment the BB Singularity came into existence is still pretty mysterious, which is tremendously exciting. In a nutshell, all the math we have at present breaks down at that first instant.

Just 10e-43 seconds later, when the expanding universe was stil atom-sized, the math starts working again, and science is able to track its expansion and cooling, and its formation into elementary particles, atoms, normal matter, gas, stars and so on. Everything hangs together pretty well.

But although that first instant is hidden at present, there are things we do know, and theories aplenty about some aspects of it, and why it appeared. The neatest explanation I've ever heard - which may be too glib for you - is that Nothing (no space/no energy/no time) is *unstable*, and breaks down or decays into Something (energy+ spacetime).

It's quite normal for tiny particles to just pop into existence. It's happening in space all around and inside you right now. These things don't need a cause - they just happen because it becomes probable that they will. For something as big as an entire universe to pop into being is obviously VERY unlikely, but that doesn't rule it out. In a situation with no space and no time, it might become probable after a 'while' - whatever a 'while' is when there's no time!

For an interesting picture of the formation of the universe by the Big Bang, see the link below.

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Answer 3

I'm also a Christian, but apart from the issue of interpreting Genesis chapter 1, I don't really see a conflict with "evolution" if you understand the actual technical scientific meaning of the term. "Evolution" does not of itself imply atheistic naturalism. If God was involved in changing things from the past to the present, what's the problem with that? Doesn't the Bible say, "The lot is cast into the lap, But its every decision is from the LORD." Pr 16:33 ? Isn't God in control of the outcome of all stochastic events? Thus that which otherwise may be referred to as "natural", God could very well have been involved.

Answer 4

Evolution never says there is no God. I'm not sure why there's this debate at all- other than it suggests the creation story might be more of a metaphor than fact. Evolution simply says that an organism has the means thru mutation/natural selection to adapt to its ever changing environment.
Perhaps when the Bible says man being created in "God's image" it meant the stage of evolution humans developed sentience.
Obviously God would not look like anything. I always took this at an interpretation of his Spirit than physical form. That's just a theory though. ;-)

Answer 5

Hello, I'm an agnostic and I believe in Evolution. But I won't convince you to believe in it. Just read a lot of books. Compare creation and evolution theories. Seek the truth on your own. Coz YOU are only capable of convincing yourself.

Books about Evolution : The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker
Books about Creation: The Bible

Answer 6

I suggest the film series called "The Creation Series" by Kent Hovind. He is also on here on Directv weekly on the NRB channel This man is a biologist and can relate creation and science. Study the 3 laws of thermo dynamics and remember, for there to be a first effect, there had to be a first cause but ultimately, DNA is the final nail in the macro evolution coffin. Briefly, DNA is basically and digital computer program that has to have a programmer, there is NO other way to explain it. I can give you plenty more evidence against macro evolution you want as well as evidence for creation...just let me know.

Answer 7

here is the question where did those air particles and energy come from? an explination has to be made for what made them, but that results in something creating them, and something would then have been nessecary to creat whatever made them, the cycle continues forever, evolutionist cannot explain where the first matter or energy came from.
Creationist have the answer to that question, "In the begining God created the heaveans and the earth..."

Answer 8

Some Christians think that God used evolution to create man. But Jesus said that every man will be raised to life and given an eternal body when he returns in his glory. So will we evolved a second time or how will we get this new body? Will our dead bodys turn into ooze and over millions of years reproduce us just as we are?
Revelations :
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

Answer 9

That's why he is God. He does miraculous things. Now do you for one minute think or even believe that we evolved from apes? Faith is believing things that are unseen. Without faith we have no hope, without hope we have no reason to live. Jesus is our hope, he is our Saviour. Stay a strong Christian. Satan is putting these ideas and thoughts in your head, that's what he does. He is the father of lies. He is the deceiver prowling around like a hungry lion waiting to devour. Keep your armor of God on at all times and God will protect you. God knows the battle that is going on in your mind, go to him for help and trust that he will and has already helped you. Be strong.

Answer 10

When God created the world and everything in it, he did it from nothing, there was NOTHING.... not a particle of dust or of air, it was void and empty...how could something like a particle of air appear if the main components used to make up the particle didn't exist? they can't just appear! it's scientifically impossible and every scientist knows that you can't create a particle without adding the main components, and you definently can't make it if the two components aren't available...

Answer 11

Unlike a lot of people on both sides of this issue you have an open mind. Congratulations; that puts you in a dwindling minority. If this means that you see more questions than easy answers, good, you are not alone. I wouldn't worry about trying to get this nailed down. There is a lot out there and a lot you can find or will encounter that will help you develop your own position.
In point of fact, science is extremely good at giving us accounts of the development of the world as we see it but is not very good at all at telling us why anything exists at all, that not particularly being its province.