Another perspective of evolution?

Question

It's in my opinion that if God (this is under the premise that He exists) created a world, universe, anything and everything i imagine he could create a couple of dinosaur fossils and evidence of evolution being a possible theory...

like basically all the "facts" that many evolutionists are so geared to believe may have just been planted there for them to find by God so that becomes a possibility of our existence... Why would he do it tho?

Take into consideration the time we live in of information and technology, it's a very different place now. So if we did discover the world was only 6,000 years old after carbon testing then all signs would point him but i think ALOT of people would be uneasy about it.

That would also mean He'd be under constant pressure and expected to make this world perfect whereas it's up to us not Him.

I just think God has His own agenda, and us making all these discoveries is part of it, possibly to determine who's truly devout to Him?

It's just a possibily...

Also, evolutionism can only prove the Bible false, not God... doens't change the fact that all this came from something.

Answer 1

Well, the bible mentions there was something here on earth before Adam and Eve. In Genesis, the bible says that God created Adam and Eve were created and God said to go "re-till" the land meaning something had been there. I also have to admit that I have a dual-personality about these kind of things. I am an engineering major and the answer "God did it" doesn't cut it for us. We need the who's, why's and when's.
I think that creationism has been proven not to exist. I believe in gradual evolution of species but not so radical that whole new species spring up from some primordial humanoid, you know? Long story short, heaven is so perfect and so far above us that we will neer understand. If you want to remove God from the equation, how do you explain all the order in our world and all the entropy operating in harmony. It's homeostasis, the world has a way of doing just that.

Answer 2

If we take this premise as a possibility (a premise which is, by it's nature, scientifically untestable), then there is no reason to believe that God didn't create the entire world 5 minutes ago, and merely implant all of our memories of what we thought was our lives and history at that time.

Such a premise, while possible if God is an omnipotent being, doesn't provide any answers to any questions.

All we can go on is the evidence we see in the universe around us. Assembling and explaining this evidence is the basis of science. If God created us all 5 minutes ago, he included an awful lot of people in his creation that don't believe in him, and put a lot of very consistent information in our heads that doesn't match the information put into the heads of the people he created that believe in the Bible.

So basically, the premise that God created the universe at some arbitrary, recent point to make it look like it was older than it was is a meaningless, circular argument that cannot be accepted logically.

But you are right, scientific evidence doesn't disprove God, only show that the literal interpretation of the events depicted in a few chapters of the Bible cannot be physically correct.

Answer 3

Evolution doesn't really disprove religion. You're so wrong if you think that. All it says is that a long time ago, there were other animals living on the planet, before us. Before anything existing today. And after a long enough amount of time, natural pressures affected those animals and changed them- leading up to us.

I wish you actually understood the theory of evolution, and then you would realize how little sense you make right now.

Evolution is a fact. It happens. It is happening right now. Those lions in Africa that started swimming a few years ago? That's evolution. That's a major change in behavior to allow them to survive, and given enough time and separation, it could alter their inherited and favored traits. Which in turn will cause evolution.

God and religion are based in faith. If you don't take the bible literally (which you shouldn't anyway if you have anything resembling common sense) there's no issue. None at all. You can have religion and science, because one is based on faith and matters of spirituality, which science can't touch, and the other is based on observable facts and things that happen every day. This debate drive me nuts, because in truth, there is no debate. One is not pitted against the other, and if you'd just bother to get educated you'd know that.

Answer 4

It is possible that God created the entire universe exactly as it is now at 10:00 EST.

He created all the memories of everyone, all the fossils etc. just to make it look like that yesterday really happened, and that the universe is 13.5 billion years old.


It is possible that this is a really funny bit for God and he is constantly destroying the universe at 14:00 EST today, and creating it again at 10:00 EST so he can watch it over.


If God is omnipotent then by definition, he could do anything.


But why try to second guess it? I accept as real what I can verify as real.

Just because there might really be fairies at the bottom of my garden does not mean that I start second guessing what their names might be.

Answer 5

I see. Human brain evolution happened much faster than possible because you think that to be so, and humans are somehow "way too complex" despite their more simplified skeleton in comparison to most non-mammal back-boned critters. Therefore, due to this excessive "complexity" (for the Earth), we must've been somehow created by presumably even more "complex" lifeforms from some other planet where, presumably, greater "complexity" and further "evolved" brains must surely be possible. Things like that are possible there, of course, but not here for some reason or other. And the anatomical and genetic similarities to other lifeforms on this planet are coincidence or something or other. "Alligators have been around for 200 million years why aren't they super smart and the dominate species?" The crocodile family which gators belong to (as opposed to the wider grouping of all crocs), first appears more like 100 million years ago, if I remember correctly. There's no rule of nature dictating an increase in brain capacity must occur in every lineage, and plenty of evidence to indicate the opposite.

Answer 6

Evolution is the best theory we have based on all available data to explain the emergence and development of life on this planet.

There is no such word as 'evolutionists' except its used by Theists try to insult people who think the theory is correct.

God is a figment of superstitious minds.

Answer 7

"It's in my opinion that if God ... created a world" ... You are entitled to your opinion however insane it seems to believe in an invisible sky-wizard...

"So if we did discover the world was only 6,000 years old after carbon testing" ... I think you need to do more reading about carbon dating.

In fact, I think it best if you lie down in a darkened room for a while...

It would be a neat trick for "god" to lay all the evidence that disproves his existence.

Answer 8

Creationists keep using the old worn-out idea of " it's impossible to make something out of nothing ". Then they say that's exactly what "god" did. They say that all life has to have a beginning. But they can't say where their "god" came from. If "god" made the universe, who made "heaven" ?
Isn't the superstitious imagination wonderful ?

Answer 9

So by your logic.

God wanted me to type all these things to test people's faith in him. Isn't that just like saying I going to take out a life insurance in case I die?

Either way God can't lose, he planned for the existence of believers and non-belivers to test the believer's faith - tight fisted isn't he?

So if you're saying everything in the world comes from something, where does God come from? Kinda contradictory isn't it?

Answer 10

Its not just the "odd fossil". It is the whole backbone of physics, millions of fossils, billions of measurements of the universe and earth. He would have to decieve us in all of them. And to be sure that the deception worked, he would then have to decieve us into thinking that inventions that use the same science as these measurements of the earth and evolution (like nuclear power and computers) work when really they cannot.

So what you are saying is that god is really the great deceiver.