As a Christian, Do you believe in evolution?

Question

I believe in God, and at the same time in some part of evolution. I believe that: Humans can evolve, for example change their skin color to adapt to the weather of a place.

Animals may change the contortion of their body, however I dont think that a fix evolved in a cat.

I believe even monkeys have somehow changed from the way they were in the past, not all, maybe just some.

what I dont believe is, that humans came from ape.
I don't believe that we were first apes then humans.

What do you believe or dont believe?

Answer 1

I think it's crap 1) can anybody believe the requisite "big bang"? 2) when I see a dog die it rots & a month later it's gone .why not a dog 1000000 years ago ? something cataclismic happened 3) forget monkeys- do humans & oak trees have a common ancestor? come on! even a member of the line? I've never seen an advanced mutant-have you? then another like mutant has to occur extant & THEY HAVE TO BE GEOGRAPHICALLY CLOSE ENOUGH TO MATE! and this scenario has to happen tens of millions of times. whe are not something pertaining to animal husbandry or Darwin's finches or dwarf or giant subspecies. we are talking about a trillion random occurences (accidents) that produced YOU & ME. I said "crap" earlier--I meant bullshit

Answer 2

It's good that you don't believe that humans were apes or came from apes, because, well, they didn't. You might want to look into educating yourself on the theory of evolution a little more thoroughly, seeing as it proposes that humans and apes have had their OWN evolutionary histories. What it does say is that because humans and chimps share 97% of the same genetic make up, we probably had a common ancestor sometime back in prehistory. This doesn't mean we evolved from them. It means there was a species way back when that was dissimilar from chimps and humans BOTH, but that had a variety of different traits. One part of the group adapted to certain conditions, leading off down one evolutionary line towards chimpanzees, and the other took over some other niche, taking a step towards humans.

One didn't evolve from the other. We evolved together. Separately, and we're similar because at one point we were all one species that divurged later on.

Get it yet?

Answer 3

Hello,

Yes I am Christian and believe in evolution.
The bible is the manual that teaches us how to please God and get along with our fellow man and thus achieve salvation or what can happen if we do not. It was not written to be a history encyclopedia or biochemistry book covering the genetic code.

I believe this whole fight between creationists and evolutionists has been a total waste of time and energy over the years. Science enhances and helps corobborate that there is order and design and continual change in the universe. Whether my great ancestors came from a lower species dosen't matter to me. What counts is how I live and act in my life now in preparation for the next.


Michael Kelly

Answer 4

Many Christians have different views on this issue. As a Catholic, I believe that evolution does exist. Some Christians look at the Bible contextually, meaning we look for the meaning of the Bible, and don't take every single part as true. For example, you may not believe that the world was created in seven days, but you can believe God was behind creation, and God is the creator.

Answer 5

I acknowledge the theory of evolution to be fact. I also believe in God. I imagine that the two must go hand in hand. The creationism story of Genesis is obviously symbolic, if you can look beyond the words and see the beautiful imagery.

One of the most common misconceptions is that humans "came from apes". There was a common ancestor, and from this common ancestor came primates -- including humans. I don't believe that humans are exempt from the evolutionary process -- but that doesn't have to mean that God wasn't still behind it.

Answer 6

Yes I believe in evolution AND God. What you're talking about is evolving within a species. That's been proven. Ex: White moths who lived in an area where the air was polluted with smoke, started having babies that were smoke colored in order to camoflage.

I do think we have a common ancestor with apes, just as I think tigers have a common ancestor with lions. That doesn't mean lions turned into tigers.

I also think that while we may be created in the image of God...that translation may be misinterpreted. Did God imagine what we'd look like...and create us in that image (to resemble the image he concocted)? Or did He create us to look like Him?

Answer 7

Some big misconceptions about evolution is the belief that man came from monkey. This is not what evolution is about. Another misconception is one animal changing into a new different animal. This is also what evolution is NOT about.
I believe in evolution because it's apparently evident. I believe God made his creations where they can adapt to the land, etc.

Answer 8

Evolution: The gradual process of development or change. Biol,: The THEORY that all forms of life originated by descent from earlier forms. Evolve: To develop or change gradually. No I don't believe in that.

Answer 9

Have you ever watched a video or anything on evolution? I just recently took an anthropology class and two evolutionary psychology classes and am now convinced in the theory of evolution. I do believe that we evolved from apes. There is a lot of strong evidence supporting this theory.

Answer 10

I'm a Christian and I believe that each individual was made suitable for their surroundings. With that being said, as surroundings change, this will in turn cause adjustments within animals so that they adapt to those changes. These changes could certainly be classified as evolutionism. As God is our Creator, we still change so as to adapt to our environment.