does evolution conflict with the reality of the bible?

Question

darwins theory of evolution, dinosaur fossils, the age of earth
by scientists does this conflict with the bible

Answer 1

Reality of the bible? There is no reality of the bible. Evolution is science, creationism isn't.

Answer 2

No. Not really, but then the theory of evolution is just that a theory. The Bible above all else is a history book and the darn good one.

Of course, the Bible requires faith, but then doesn't evolution require faith? There is not even one direct clue that evolution even happened, yet, many claim evolution as a fact.

Personally, I think that the faith it takes to take an "educated guess", which is what evolution is, and state it as a fact, is pretty far fetched to say the least. Animals have come and gone all though out the history of the world, that is a fact that no one can deny. But how they came to exist is a mystery even to the most intelligent scientist.

Either everything is a miracle or nothing is a miracle, this statement was made by Albert Einstein, and to Christians like me, everything is a miracle. Life, and, more so, human life is way to complex to accept that some "voodoo" science like natural selection took place. Natural selection is an educated guess and nothing more. And the theories continually change which tells me that no one knows for sure.

NOW, the "new" theory says the the mammal explosion after the dinosaurs died out did not happen.

Now, the Neanderthals are believed to have died out instead of mating with other human types.

Answer 3

It conflicts with a literal reading.

Many Christians blame the confliction on copying errors brought about by man, the problem is; no one has anyway of telling which parts of the Bible are copying errors and which parts are from the original text. Therefore you either have to act as if the entire Bible is the original or that none of it is.

If you say that the entire Bible is the orignal then you have to admit all it's flaws were written by a perfect being; therefore making the perfect being imperfect.

If you say that none of the Bible is the original then why do you worship it?

Answer 4

Absolutely, yes. The theory of evolution conflicts with everything the Bible says.
Do not fall for believing God used evolution to create man, or anything else...that's called theistic evolution.
The arguments put forth by the people that believe this sound very convincing, but it still does not hold up to close scrutiny.

There is a way to determine the age of the Earth from the Bible. There are reasons why ages and years are listed in its pages.

Evolution...to doubt the beginning of the Bible, what other parts are then doubtable? The Bible is either true in whole, or not at all.

Answer 5

The Bible does not specifically give an age of the Earth that I am aware of and if you add up all the BEGOTTINGS you end up with a minimum of 10,000 years not 6,000 years.

Darwin's theory is accepted by a lot of Religions as written, not as extended by Atheists.

I am not aware of any citation by Darwin, specifically, that man came from Ape and I doubt he would have gotten a publisher with such a broad statement.

He did say something about BEARS turning into Whales, if I'm not mistaken, as a fer instance.

And there is NO video tapped morphology of a fish turning into a cat, except as created by ILM for the Discovery Channel.

Answer 6

The world is as it is.

Evolution is a theory that fits very well with the evidence available and is an explanation that we can understand. As time goes by and more evidence is available scientists gain a better understanding and develop the theory.

The bible is not reality, it is a story. It does not fit the evidence very well and many of it's proponents make wild claims that it is a literal truth. These claims are not substantiated and they will not accept that their claims should be subject to scrutiny..

Answer 7

Completely.
You cannot believe in evolution and the Bible. As far as people saying evolution is science, it is NOT. If your argument about evolution being science is correct, then it was OK for Hitler to wipe out 7 MILLION Jews, because through evolutionary science, they were proven to be racially inferior. Years of scientific evolutionary research went in to this. Which race is less human? Only one can be human, the others are sub-human variants.
Charlie Darwin's first book was a racist rant on the survival of 'favored races', and how certain others were sub-human and OK to enslave.
The fossil record is based on CIRCULAR REASONING. The age of the fossil is determined by the rock strata it is found in. The age of the rock strata is determined by what fossils are found in them. Carbon dating is 75% incorrect in some cases.
Study the dragon legends of the world. Do people really think that they dug up a fossil of a dinosaur and were so impressed with it that they plastered pictures and statues of it on every wall in Europe? Look at China and the dragon. Again, it was in writings throughout the ages. I think that ancient man was more impressed with said DRAGON ( ancient science word for dinosaur),coming in to their village and dragging away their livestock and families. the dragon legends of Europe were probably exaggerated stories of men killing off the last of the dinosaurs. I have dinosaurs in my back yard. They are called ALLIGATORS. Why aren't they dead? Insects? The Horseshoe Crab? Just about every plant and animal in Australia defies evolutionary science. they are still re-writing the books.
Also, for those of you saying the Bible is not true, um....open up a HISTORY BOOK, and open a Bible (written thousands of years before the history book), and you will see the REALITY of the Bible in the names, dates and places. THOUSANDS of them that correspond with the history book.
The Bible is light years ahead of modern science.
The world's scholars scratch and scrape, crawling up the mountain of knowledge. They finally crawl over that last rock and reach the top.....and find a band of theologians who have been standing there for centuries.

Answer 8

If you want it to, yes. If you don't want it to, no.

The choice is yours. I really don't understand why people think they have to make a choice between the two.

You can believe in both with no problems at all. Nowhere in the bible does it say evolution did not occur. Likewise, nowhere in evolution does it say there is no god.

People like to pick and choose their own interpretations of both of these so that they fit their personal agenda.

In the bible it says that god created the earth in 7 days. Did God really create the earth in 7 days? Most likely no, the bible has been translated over and over again.

Most likely the word day was translated incorrectly, the original meaning was more like "period of time".

People can believe what they want to believe. Faith is a strong phenomenon, however it is not fact. When I say faith it applies to both science and religion, neither one having more of it than the other.

Answer 9

No it doesn't, if you understand the Bible correctly.

The Hebrew word translated "day" in the creation story in Genesis really means "time period".

As for Adam and Eve, which mean Man and Living respectively in Hebrew, since Jesus told many of His great truths in parables, is it not likely that Genesis, written by man under the inspiration of God, is structured in the same way? All ancient cultures had myths, which were not lies - they were stories which revealed profound truths but were not meant to be taken literally.

For the best discussion of all this that I've ever read, see http://www.christianity.co.nz/science6.htm and on to 7 and 8htm where it livens up more.

Answer 10

It does conflict with a literal account of the Bible. The Bible specifically shows that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old. Science shows it is 4.5 billion years old. The Bible states God created Adam from dust and Eve from Adam's rib, evolution shows that we evolved from lesser species. The entire concept of Jesus relies on the fall of man and the original sin created by Adam and Eve, with evolution there were no Adam and Eve. The Universe took billions of years to form, yet the Bible states it took 6 literal days (24 hours not God years). The Bible states a man can survive in the belly of a whale, science shows this is impossible. the list goes on and on.

A literal account of the events in the Bible are clearly inaccurate to reality as we know it.

Answer 11

On a previous answer I missed a very profound statement in a book by Bill Bryson he is undecided about God versus Evolution.he states ( not verbatim) " If Evolution is correct, it`s the equivalent of a whirlwind blowing through a scrapyard and a finished Jumbo jet coming out the other side"
Food for thought