Can you be Christian and still believe the books about the History of Evolution?

Answer 1

This is like adding a 1 to a 0. It still equals 1.

Evolution is nothing.

Evolution is a theory. It will remain a theory.

God created and man tries to define.

Matter of fact the deeper science and mathematics behind science goes the more amazing creation becomes.

If you know about the bible a little there was a group called the Sadducees. The Sadducees did not believe in life after death, a resurrection, some did not believe in anything. These were the equivalent of today's evolutionists and atheists. Jesus was quite hard on them.

Answer 2

There are not books on the HISTORY of Evolution, only the THEORY. A theory is an idea or opinion, not fact. I am a Christian and believe the truth that is in the Bible. If it contradicts the Bible, I do not agree with it. That is not to say that every theory pertaining to evolution for modern day can not be, but as it pertains to creation, it would contradict what God says.

Evolution can refer to any sort of progressive development, and often bears a connotation of gradual improvement: evolution is understood as a process that results in greater quality or complexity

Answer 3

Definately.

I personally think Evolution is just having growing pains with Christians, and eventually Christians will come around and wonder what the whole fuss was about.

There was a time when it was considered against the church to say that the earth orbited around the sun (not the sun around the earth), which was supported by versus such as--

Psalm 104:5 -- "[the LORD] set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved."

Ecclesiastes 1:5 -- "the sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises."

-- and Galileo was forced by the church to to recant his view.

Answer 4

Many people claim that they are Christian and have no problem with science.

But the best Christians are those that reject such heresy as the Earth orbiting around the sun, that the sun is really like other stars, that the Universe is more than a few thousand years old, that humans are related to other animals, that dinosaur fossils are anything more than unusual rocks, that molecules exist, that gravity is really just the influence of mass on space/time, etc.

Answer 5

Why are you a Christian? Were you saved from your sin? Do you believe that we are all sinners because of original sin? Where does the concept of original sin fit in to the Theory of Evolution?

Answer 6

I believe that you can believe whatever you want. I know a lot of people that combine different parts of faiths(ex: such as turning the other cheek from Christianity and the state of Nirvana from Buddhism).

Answer 7

Of course you can. Besides, science gets closer to the truth every decade. Sooner or later, it'll agree completely with Scripture.

BTW, the Big Bang IS in Scripture. God said 'let there be light', and BANG! There was light! That encompasses both the BB AND String Theory. You DO know that words are vibrations, right?

Answer 8

Sure you can. A person only has to believe the truth about Jesus to be a Christian. Of course, after a while if a person has been a Christian and studied the Bible they should place more trust in what the Bible says about how life came into existence on this planet than what scientific theories postulate about it.

Believing that inanimate matter was organized by chance and came alive all by itself and that random mutations plus time plus natural selection created every complex living organism on this planet takes a lot more faith than it does to believe that a supernatural being who is far wiser than we are is responsible for what we see around us.

Scientists who are honest realize this truth and they even admit that the only reason they support it is because they don't want to open the door to supernatural intervention.

Professor Richard Lewontin, a geneticist (and self-proclaimed Marxist), is a renowned champion of neo-Darwinism, and certainly one of the world’s leaders in promoting evolutionary biology. He recently wrote this very revealing comment (the italics were in the original). It illustrates the implicit philosophical bias against Genesis creation regardless of whether or not the facts support it:

"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfil many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."

Many evolutionists chide creationists not because of the facts, but because creationists refuse to play by the current rules of the game that exclude supernatural creation a priori.4 That it is indeed a ‘game’ was proclaimed by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dickerson:

Science is fundamentally a game. It is a game with one overriding and defining rule:

Rule #1: Let us see how far and to what extent we can explain the behavior of the physical and material universe in terms of purely physical and material causes, without invoking the supernatural.5

In practice, the ‘game’ is extended to trying to explain not just the behavior, but the origin of everything without the supernatural.

Actually, evolutionists are often not consistent with their own rules against invoking an intelligent designer. For example, when archaeologists find an arrowhead, they can tell it must have been designed, even though they haven’t seen the designer. And the whole basis of the SETI program is that a signal from outer space carrying specific information must have an intelligent source. Yet the materialistic bias of many evolutionists means that they reject an intelligent source for the literally encyclopedic information carried in every living cell.

Answer 9

Absolutely. The goal of science isn't to disprove christian (or any other religion's) belief. Its goal is to uncover the past and discover the way things really happened.

Answer 10

The Bible is salvation history. It is about man's fall from grace and man's redemption. It is not a book of science.