Can you be Christian and believe in Evolution?

Question

There are so many facts when it comes to Evolution that I can't deny them. But I also want to be Christian. So is the whole "Adam&Eve" the basis in which we have to believe or can we just believe in God and know that some of the stories, are not so much fact.

I believe that no one can tell you how to be a good Christian. No one can arue with a definate either way. As long as you believe that the world is here because of God then your right by Faith standards. Thank you!
To those who said it's either one way or the other. I think your the close minded few that are being drowned out in todays society of free thinking. We're fortunate for that. Hey even the Pope John Paul believe in Evolution.

Answer 1

I believe that there's evolution, but I can't believe that it all just happened for no reason out of nothing.
I think there's thought behind it, sort of like intelligent design, but I don't know about different versions of teaching
"intelligent design" in schools. The cons in this country might take it where I wouldn't go.
I do think God is the creator, but I don't take the 7 days' creation story literally. People who do can get kind of loony on you. A guy I knew in college once said when someone asked him if he thought the world was created 6,000 years ago, what about the dinosaurs: He said, "Satan put them there to trick us."
Darlin, don't fall in with nutcases like him! They don't know what they're talking about. I think God and Science are perfectly compatible. It's just not all written in the Bible.

Answer 2

If you really understand how God accomplishes creation you will see that a form of evolutionary concept is actually compatable with Scripture and certainly does not rule out Adam and Eve.

The cosmos didn't come into being, or maintain, exactly the way that many in science now think it did; or entirely as Charles Darwin and others saw it. Nor did it come into being exactly the way high church members and theologians saw it, based on their reading of Scripture.

The Bible is a book of unfolding and timeless mystery; far ahead of religion or science. To be just, God has to communicate the same thing to everyone. That he does through Scripture; but what has happened?

Some things are held secret in God's eternal plan and only unveiled at specific points in time. But the primary reason that nothing matches? People pick and choose what they believe, according to what they think they are reading, and proceed according to their own lights.

There is nothing wrong with facts and there are billions of them! Most are only as good as the next discovery. Facts do not have a voice of their own. A voice is given to facts when people go to justify and express what they themselves are to begin with.


I study science and I study the word. You will never have a problem with this as long as you leave the calls up to God; realizing that you are dealing with an intelligence far beyond that of combined humanity over time.

There are many things in and behind every Bible story that speak to a revelation of ultimate reality. The Bible is also the story of a new creation; which God has started to replace the universe that science has yet to comprehend.

Seek and wait for revelation. One personal word from God is worth all the ideas of science and religion. The middle road you are seeking is not a choice between this and that. It is hanging this and that in a balance and letting God weigh all matters. If you do this you will have both pure science and true wisdom.

Answer 3

Sweetie, you can believe in both if you want and there's no one on this Earth who could challenge you! Neither evolutionists NOR creationists have an absolute claim to the unarguable truth! And you can believe aspects of both. That's the beauty of being a free-thinker, as you obviously are. Good for you!

Nobody owns religion, so nobody can tell you, "You'd better not believe THAT or you aren't a Christian!" I don't think religion is a matter of "Believe this and DON'T believe that!" ... I think it's a learning process your whole life! Hang onto that independent curiosity you have and never, NEVER let anyone tell you you CAN'T think free.

Peace.

Answer 4

(1 Corinthian 10:18-22) "LOOK at that which is Israel in a fleshly way: Are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers with the altar? 19 What, then, am I to say? That what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20 No; but I say that the things which the nations sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not want YOU to become sharers with the demons. 21 YOU cannot be drinking the cup of Jehovah and the cup of demons; YOU cannot be partaking of “the table of Jehovah” and the table of demons. 22 Or “are we inciting Jehovah to jealousy”? We are not stronger than he is, are we?"

Answer 5

Science cannot give definite answers to explain past events. While it is true that we can look at evidence and speculate, you cannot test history using the scientific method.

btw... I do not dispute evolution on a small scale... but I also do not believe that evolution does a good job of explaining the origins of life.

Answer 6

If you believe in evolution then you must believe the book of Genesis is, at best, a metaphor. If you believe the book of Genesis is not to be taken literally, how are to you know that any other part of the bible can be taken literally?

Answer 7

Mmm, its a tough one. Because Evolution conflicts with the Bible. The Bible says in the Begin, God CREATED, while Evolutionist teach that, a "big bang" occurred. Which do you believe?
Hebrews 3:4 says "Every house is contructed by someone, but He that constucted all things is God".

So believing in Evolution and being a Christian, doesnt work.

Answer 8

there are so many facts about evolution? then why is it still theory? Even scientists say it's a theory. There are no facts. there are no transitional species. rather the fossil record clearly shows that there are species that are millions if not billions of years old. there is NO CHANGE EVER!
as natural law states, animals live or die. This is not evolution. this is fact. it is not a theory. why would a bird contiue to evolve beyong the hummingbird? there is no other species that occupies that niche in nature. So by definition that bird should be the be all end all of the bird species. there would be no need to change based on environmental changes. See the logic?

so a christian that believes in a creator and believes in primordial sludge and critters and humans evolved from it? they're a fake and better check what they're reading. and i don't care if the pope or joe blow says they can go together. they can't.

I have made the earth the man and the beast that are on the ground by my great power! Jeremiah 27:5

Answer 9

sure to a point. I think the laws that govern how things evolve are put in place by God. It does not say it but, I think when it says that he made man out of dirt, I think he could have taken an ape and did it because to him an ape is still dirt. When we have clay and make something and then make something else we still say the thing is made out of clay so it does not surprise me that he would have it written that man was made from dirt even though he could have used an ape.

Answer 10

I believe you can as long as you believe that it was God who did the whole thing.

He is the creator, regardless of how he decided to do it!