Why do soo many people think that evolution is the opposite of believing in god???

Question

The idea of god is about what triggered the big bang. Evolution is about how things have changed since the big bang.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

John, not sure your facts are straight, but the majority of mainstream liberal and moderate Christians do believe in both the Big Bang (how the galaxy began, think...how a star is born) and Evolution (how life began and has adapted and changed to meet the needs of the environment. This belief is becoming more and more popular among Christians all the time. They do believe that it is/was God's plan. And no I do not know where God came from and neither does anyone else.

The Ol' Hippie Jesus Freak
Grace, Peace and Love in Christ
Peg

Answer 3

You are assuming a few things here. First you assume everyones idea of god is "what triggered the big bang". You also assume the big bang is what created everything. Which it isn't, the big bang is the expansion of matter/energy to shape our universe.
However many religions have a creation story that is in contradiction to evolution.

Answer 4

i think evolution in the sense that all animals over time have adapted to their enviornment and have evolved with the ever changing surroundings, i don't however believe in the evolution of humans. God created Adam and Eve as humans, not monkeys that evolved. Everything evolves to the environment it is in, that is how things survive, to adapt. i think even humans have done this. certain ethic characteristics are there because the enviornment they are in needed them. ie: darker skin, sunnier and hotter climates: bone structer for environment and activities relevant to that area. ect. but humans DID NOT start out as monkeys.
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would also like to say that God created the world in seven days. not the same time frame as our seven days. A day to us now is nothing like a day in eternity, which is the time frame that God works on. Man were not put on this earth until after animals. For all we know one day in eternity could be over a hundred years earth time. So animals roamed the earth along time before man was placed here. This very easily could be the time that dinosaurs roamed, the land split and they became extinct. Then God created Adam and put them on the earth. This would also explain why there is nothing about dinosaurs in the bible. Besides evolution has it's points, but it's all after the world is created, and dinosaurs were already here. If there is no God, than how did the earth form, why did it form, were did the original animals come from, and why would we evolve into humans into the life that we now have and why would there still be monkeys if that's what we evolved from?

Answer 5

It is quite possible to believe in evolution and a deity.
It's the official position of the Roman Catholic church, for example.

But it's also possible to believe two are incompatible...
From both ends of belief.
Those believing in a young earth cannot believe in evolution because not enough time has elapsed, (for one reason amongst others).
But on the other hand, Darwin saw some evolved forms as arguments against the existence of at least a *loving* God:
"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars"

Women have painful childbirths due to evolutionary consequences of big-brain development, or because God cursed them? (Genesis 3:16)
It is possible to believe both, but there is a definite case for believing one *or* the other.

Answer 6

Good question because it's just not true. Evolution and creation go hand in hand. After clicking on to answer your question I saw the second half. Can't go along with you there. Big Bang theory is like having an explosion in a printing shop and the end result is the dictionary.

Answer 7

Because if you research the philosophies that evolution is based on, you will find that it stands in direct opposition to God. A good place for you to start as a means for understanding what I'm saying would be the philosophy of naturalism-the "physical world is all there is and nothing else" school of thought. That philosophy alone attempts to refute the theological claim that man has a soul. If you fall for the tenets of evolution, you are in effect helping to perpetrate this very fraud.

Answer 8

Because that view is nothing more than twisting certain parts of the Bible to fit your worldview. Fact is the Bible is clear - God created all the animals in 6 days (not "God days" - real days), God create Adam and Eve, God made the flood, etc etc etc. If you don't believe that literally, then you are showing a lack of faith in God. Hence evolution MUST be wrong.

You cannot pick and choose your biblical concepts like a buffet. It's all or none. At least, if you're a true Christian.

Answer 9

b/c people who take the bible literally believe that the world was created in 6 days w/ a day of rest...well how do we know what was meant by 1 day...it doesn't necessarily have to be 24 hours but instead eons...god could have triggered the big bang....yeah christians who believe that dinosaurs bones were placed there by satan are nuts!! There's evolution occuring everyday...it doesnt mean you have to believe that humans originated from primates

Answer 10

Because people get decieved into thinking they have to believe in one or the other. It's a false dichotomy, and it's driven so many people into being unreasonable and rejecting science.

Then there are some people who want to take the Bible literally... sheesh. I don't understand that. So there really was a guy who picked up a donkey's jawbone and slew one thousand men in one go?

Answer 11

I think that the majority of Christians actually do NOT take issue with modern science. I think that intellgient people can embrace God and science.

However, While I dont have issue with Big Bang or adaptation.....having truely looked at evolution, I have to say that the wholes are huge and take a big 'leap of faith' shall we say.