2007-06-29 07:41:42 · 26 answers · asked by SophiaLeo 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, I believe in evolution and believe in my Gods all at the same time.
2007-06-29 07:44:32 · answer #1 · answered by Mike G 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The position of evolution is that beings must evolve physically as well as fundamentally within their environment without the need for supernatural interference. The position of creation is that the absolute perfect principle of life (God) creates downward from perfection into lower and lower states of imperfection. The confusion is when you look at it realistically. We know that a human progresses from a baby to a child to an adult, he doesn't descend from an adult into a child then baby. To clarify the truth on this matter, it must be understood that the smallest essence of reality is actually equal to the highest, so that from the absolute reality there comes the simple organism of life, which eventually evolves into a higher being that will contemplate this order. In this way, both views are held correctly, the progression through time of evolution, and the logical assumption that imperfect things must proceed from the perfect.
The problem then, is proving that the smallest is equal to the largest, which is counter-intuitive. But relatively you can explain it in this manner: smaller than the quantum, is the same as larger than the cosmic. That is not to say that the quantum = cosmic, but rather, that which is smaller than the quantum is equal to that which is larger than the cosmic. You will interject at this point and say that nothing is smaller than the quantum, and also that nothing is larger than the cosmic, so that that is true, these equal the same thing in your mind: nothing. But it is not absolutely nothing, since there is a middle ground of things, between quantum and cosmic, that prevents it from being nothing. So this thing, which is not truly an objective thing, nor is it truly nothing, is actually the hidden essence of reality, the principle of life.
2007-06-29 14:56:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course, it is. Some people regard evolution as a tool that God used. I personally have grave doubts about evolution, but regardless of whether it's right or wrong, you can still believe in the God who loves you. Does God worry if we get every detail right? LOL Thank goodness, no! Or it would just be God and the angels dancing in heaven. None of the rest of us would make it.
2007-06-29 14:48:51 · answer #3 · answered by Andy 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure, I do.
The thing is I only believe what is called micro-evolution can occur naturally. Changed within a species, this how we have so many breeds of the same type of animal and such. Macro-evolution, the idea that a fish can become an amphibian to a reptile all the way up the chain makes no sense and there is no hard evidence for it.
2007-06-29 14:49:31 · answer #4 · answered by mrglass08 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, although I don't see why you would need to hang on to Evolution as an explanation of how things came into being since it's primarily used as a way to explain the existence of the universe without God.
I'm clear on this: God created everything. How that happened I don't know. It's possible that it might look like Evolution to scientists trying to sort it all out. It doesn't matter. God says he created it all, and I believe him.
2007-06-29 14:47:16 · answer #5 · answered by happygirl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There's people out there who take the seven days metaphorically. Some of them go on tosay that if man can invent machines that follow programs to build something more complex, so undoubtedly can god - his just look better and considerably more alive.
Unfortunately, that kind of thinking does not seem popular with the masses.
2007-06-29 14:47:36 · answer #6 · answered by The Arkady 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should not believe in any scientific theory. Belief suggests that you are not open to contrary evidence. You shuld be skeptical of both things until you are presented with enough evidence, then you should favor one theory over another, and continue to try to disprove it. This goes with the existence of God as well as the truth of evolution.
2007-06-29 14:46:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
I'm a christian and an Evolutionist
Its one of the great missunderstandings perpetrated by some theists and some atheists that Evolution has something to do with atheism, it dosen't. It adds nothing to an atheistic point of vieiw.
2007-06-29 14:50:32 · answer #8 · answered by Emiliano M. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible to believe in evolution as as a unproven theory and still believe in God.
Since evolution is not a scientific fact, it requires faith to believe in just as creation requires faith.
Evolution is a religious belief that fundamentally requires adherence to the religion of atheism and/or the religion of pantheism. “Evolution” is a hypothetical, unobserved process (without any known scientific mechanism) by which all things in the universe are said to have created themselves from nothing without needing the existence of a Creator. Evolution is a hypothetical process of onwards-and-upwards self-improvement where all things somehow create themselves and somehow increase their complexity of their own accord.
2007-06-29 14:51:51 · answer #9 · answered by Steve 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Definitely
2007-06-29 14:44:40 · answer #10 · answered by James O 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
yes ignorance is bliss.
GOd's creation does not evolve or change. species do not evolve or change into other species because of environmental changes. there are no transitional species to prove this theory.
believe as you will. good luck.
I have made the earth the man and the beast that are on the ground by my Great Power! Jeremiah 27:5
2007-06-29 15:01:28 · answer #11 · answered by pissdownsatansback 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋