Do you think evolution contradicts God?

Question

I do not think it does as Eintein said "God does not play dice witht he universe" everything is for a reason.

Answer 1

That premise is one of my biggest philosophical pet peeves of all time...
The answer to that question is a definitive NO!
Evolution is simply what scientists have noticed is actually going on (God created a universe and lifeforms that are in a constant state of change, mutation, and adaption...or there is no God, but in either case, life has been proven through genetic and other scientific research to be a constantly changing process of trial and error over billions of years)
Life seems "miraculous" until you realize it took billions of years of trial and error to get where we are today.
To me, it's "miraculous" that it's taken so long, but only until I consider that the reason it's taken billions of years, is that there is no intelligent design.
I know evolution is "real," but is it the most intelligent method of producing lifeforms capable of self-awareness and the ability to rise above it's own lack of design?
I don't think so...
Evolution works, no doubt about it, but it seems to me that it's not the most efficient way to achieve the same results, so if Evolution was God's first choice of "human creating" methods...
I wish HE had come up with a better plan than...
"That which changes and adapts to an ever-changing environment, lives long enough to survive and reproduce so that..."
"...that which changes..(and the cycle endlessly repeats the trial and error process so that mankind has suffered for millions of years because of this evolutionary (slow) process).
I strongly believe in scientific progress like the human genome project, which is one of the 1st major steps we can take to finally take control of our own evolutionary progress, and put a halt to our way-too-short-and-brutal lifespans, and "evolve" away from the slow, mindless, dog-eat-dog, trial-and-error process of "Evolution..."
So that we all can live longer, healthier, more fulfilling, and more productive lives, and pass on that improvement (quickly, instead of slowly) to future generations.
The existence of God (or Gods) is not a theory can be tested, verified, or proven either way (unless you consider dying as a way to "test" the theory) so Science simply doesn't give it much thought because Science knows that if there is a God or Gods (cosmically powerful, bodiless beings of pure intellect or energy or both) we cannot know them (or even know they exist)
They would be beyond our current ability to discover and interact with them (that's the problem with limitless beings of pure energy, by their supposed nature, they are self-isolated from their own creation because, being bodiless...
They can't join the party...

Answer 2

It depends on what you believe in. Evolution doesn't necessarily contradict God, it mainly seems to contradict creationism. And it is possible for evolution and creationism to coexist. Maybe God was the guiding force behind the beginning of the world, and maybe evolution was what then began the process of shaping the kinds of life that God had brought into being. Religions other than Christianity no doubt think differently.

Answer 3

Evolution does not contradict God. Evolution is a fact even in a short-time scale. Frogs with 5 legs are probably a result of pollution, but it is evolution at the same time. If that frog reproduces, will a five, six or eight legged frog survive? Possibly. God is Spirit, not material. Gene-splicing by man is playing God but at the same time is producing evolution. The concept of evolution is not a question. No matter if in nature or artificial, genetic mutations are a fact of life. If that wasn't true, we would not have bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Of course, what made them resistant? Us. They evolved.

Answer 4

The Einstein quote was not referring to any sort of deity that most theists would recognise. He was expressing his distrust that core features of the universe appear to have randomness as their basis. The Bohr- Einstein letters discuss this, and he never conceded in his lifetime, but the evidence since then may well have convinced him.

On evolution the more one understands it, the more the tension with the idea of it being God-guided increases.
Darwin saw this:
"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"
Evolution is messy. It has great successes in the very long term because it is indifferent to how many casualties, failures, are left behind. 99% of all known species are extinct.

Do 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 5

Christians believe in a tinkering god that changes things as he goes along, but I think God put everything in the universe it needed in the beginning and then "fertilized" it. Then he sat back and watched what happened (and still is.). Sort of like how a seed has what it needs to become a plant. It just needs the right conditions. So evolution is part of the program. There are so many perfect systems that regenerate themselves. How can it be an accident?

Answer 6

Do Santa Claus & the Easter Bunny contradict God? Well, yes & no. They kind of miss the point. They don't exist but they're a nice story to spread if you don't believe in God I suppose...Christmas is about Christ being born. Easter is about him rising from the dead. But let people have their fantasies if they like. Some choose to believe that there was no creator or intelligent design & that everything simply "evolved"...Though I'm not sure how they'd explain the platypus or other beautiful & unusual creatures whose characteristics appear to serve no evolutionary purpose but to be more like a work of art for its own sake...

Answer 7

ok - long answer made short. Evolution includes loss of existence, as issues are tried and those variations that paintings proceed, yet those variations that don't paintings die. in the time of the Bible beginning at Genesis, God ascribes loss of existence as being the end results of sin. If there replaced into loss of existence until now sin, then the Bible is incorrect on that count sort. If Genesis is fullyyt a "tale" - an analogy, or in spite of, then Adam and Eve might desire to have been symbolic, and subsequently the story of the autumn in Genesis 3 had to be symbolic, and subsequently sin entering the worldwide by Adam and Eve's disobedience replaced into in straight forward terms symbolic. Now get this. If the autumn of guy into sin replaced into in straight forward terms symbolic, then the loss of existence of Christ on the go replaced into meaningless. long tale short, they contradict simply by fact they are diametrically opposed.

Answer 8

I agree with Brick I think evolution could in a way also have to do with God. There is too much proof to deny that evolution did not occur to some degree, but there is also plenty of scientific proof supporting many theories in the bible. I think the truth lies somewhere in between the two.

Answer 9

Christians who i think have been comfortable with evolution:

The 6 days represent eons of time, and man was formed of the clay over a very long time. The literal story is for the sake of the simple . St Augustine

Things acquire perfection by degrees over time.
St Maximillian Kolbe

"Christ the Evolver" Teilhard de Chardin , SJ

Answer 10

I don't see any reason to think that evolution suggests there is no God ---
then again, if you believe in the revealed religions as given by sacred texts, it *does* contradict that stuff

but not god "as such"
there are plenty of good arguments defending God's existence that fit with evolution (the "watchmaker" argument, etc)