u kno how some people say God made us, and some say evolution is the answer! My Friend and I both agreed God could of work through Evolution! Though he didnt have to! I want to kno is there a possiblity God worked through Evolution, or is that thought crazy?!
2007-06-01 18:40:09 · 18 answers · asked by mermaidreamer11 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is a fundamental difference between truth and fact.
It is true that God exists but I cannot prove it.
It is a fact that President Bush said he invaded Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction but it is not true.
Catholics believe that the Bible teaches truth about God but it is not historically factual at all times.
The Bible's primary purpose is to teach us the truth about God and His (or Her) love for us, not to teach facts about history or science.
With love in Christ.
2007-06-03 17:13:02 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible dosen't say anything about mitosis or photosynthesis or symbiosis. Why would it say anything about evolution, which is just one more natural process? The Bible isn't a book of science. Evolution is pure biology, and has no relevance whatsoever to the message of salvation, which is the purpose of the Bible.
You are correct of course. God did and still does work through the natural process of evolution which He designed and put into motion. We know this for a fact. But it still has nothing to do with salvation.
2007-06-02 01:58:52 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a common belief amongst Christians and the official position of the Catholic church.
It isnt a simple trouble-free answer, though, as it apparently leaves God responsible for some of the nastier stuff that has come up through evolution. The waste, the parasites, the extinctions....
(Human females having painful childbirths, for example: explained in the bible as God's deliberate curse.)
Darwin found it difficult to reconcile a loving God with wasps whose grubs ate their way through paralysed but living caterpillars.
The classic resolution is to cite "the fall", which makes the bad bits of evolution and nature mankind's fault (consequence or divine punishment).
But to my mind evolution and an overseeing loving deity sit poorly together. Pick one or the other.
2007-06-02 02:11:10 · answer #3 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course God could have used evolution, but He was pretty explicit about how He created us. Genesis says that we were created out of the dust of the Earth, not that we evolved from another creature. In case that's not clear, it says that each animal reproduced after its kind, not that it evolved from a different kind. Finally, it says that there was no death before man sinned. That pretty much rules out creatures evolving - and dying over millions of years.
I don't know how some people claim to be able to reconcile the two views of creation. There are major areas on conflict here.
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2007-06-02 02:10:21 · answer #4 · answered by iraqisax 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, there are many people who think that. My Christian boyfriend for one.
And God didn't write the bible, men did. They had no better explanation for why humans were here, and no idea about evolution at the time, so that's why there's no mention of it there.
2007-06-02 01:44:26 · answer #5 · answered by ReeRee 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God is evolution
2007-06-02 01:55:53 · answer #6 · answered by Gifted 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many people believe that G-d set Evolution into motion. The Bible is a collection of religious stories. People make stories based on what they know.. they understood creation, but evolution? It was beyond their scope, in my opinion.
2007-06-02 01:56:00 · answer #7 · answered by Kathy P-W 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible and evolution contradict eachother. A non-biblical god may have started the process of evolution though.
2007-06-02 01:44:30 · answer #8 · answered by qwert 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I agree...God made the earth in 7 days...now 7 seven days to him might be an Ice Age to us....so we really dont know how all that transpired...there were animals and primates in the Bible before there humans....except they all lived in the cloak of darkness...God said that he divided the earth...that could explain Pangea...there are many different Christian theories that can support God-driven Evolution....but not evolution on its own
2007-06-02 01:46:58 · answer #9 · answered by jlcrit 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The bible is not a biology text book.
Rather, it deals with spiritual evolution.
From the cavemans who killed their enemy, his family, and his descendants, and worshipped many gods, to the Jews who worshipped Yaweh, who only took an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth, to the Christian who is taught to love his enemies and does good to those who hate him, and realizes that God is Love.
2007-06-04 23:59:27 · answer #10 · answered by the good guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋