Christians: What do you think Jesus would say about evolution if he walked among us today?

Answer 1

Actually he would have much more important things to do. But if one had the nerve to ask Him... He would reply "Evolution? You just *got* to be kidding!"

Answer 2

First, evolution has only become a big issue in the last 50 or so years. When Darwin came out with "The origin of the species" the argument wasn't between Christians and scientists. there was a pretty even split, with Christians and scientists on both sides.
I personally don't see the issue. It doesn't change Jesus' message in any way. And as Jesus did when confronted with arguments that were blown out of proportion (there were as many back then as there is today), he would not pick a side but take the issue to a higher level.
I am a pretty poor substitute for Jesus, so I cant give you an answer that would do him justice but I think he would say that where we come from is not the important question but where we are going (not in the heaven and hell sense but in terms of relationship with God and others).
We are good at focusing on unimportant issues. Jesus is good at getting us back on track.

Answer 3

Jesus doesn't think Jesus knows. That the soul is eternal and transmigrates through different species of life. Read the original New Testament Gospel of the Nazirenes The original New testament before Constantine changed it in 324 AD google gospelofthenazirenes.com Jesus taught karma, reincarnation, vegetarianism, and no one goes to hell eternally. Fact.

Answer 4

I think he would tell folks to be careful not to believe a lie. He'd tell them they'd better check further into it.

Harvard's Stephen Jay Gould put it this way"Most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil record looking much the same as when they disappear; morphological change is usually limited and directionless." In other words, Throughout the geologic layers, which supposedly formed over eons - the various kinds of fossils remain essentially unchanged in appearance.They show no evolution over long ages. Paleontologists call this "stasis."
Wouldn't a fossil record, showing all animals complete when first seen, is what we'd expect if God created them whole, just as the Bible says?
Austin H. Clark, the eminent zoologist of the Smithsonian Institution, was no creationist but he declared:
"No matter how far back we go in the fossil record of previous animal life upon the earth we find no trace of any animal forms which are intermediates between the major groups of phyla.
This can only mean one thing. There can only be one interpertation of thisentire lack of any intermediates between the major groups of animals - as for instance betweenbackboned animals or vertebrates , the echinoderms, the mollusks and the arthropods
If we are willing to accept the facts we must believe that there never were such intermediates, or in other words that these major groups have from the very first, borne the same relation to each other that they have today."
.British science writer Frances Hitchens wrote" On the face of it, then, the prime function of the genetic system would seem to be to resist change ; to to perpetuate the species in a minimally adapted form in response to altered conditions, and if at all possibe to get things back to normal. The role of natural selection is usually a negative one : to destroy the few mutant individuals that threaten the stability of the soecies.
Why aren't fish today, growing little arms and legs, trying to adapt to land? Why aren't reptiles today developing feathers?Shouldn't evolution be ongoing?
Evolution Is not visible in the past, via the fossil record. It is not visible in the present, whether we consider an organism as a whole, or on the microscopic planes of biochemistry and molecular biology,where, as we have seen, the theory faces numerous difficulties. In short, evolution is just not visible. Science is supposed to be based on observation.
L. Harrison Matthews,long director of the London Zoological society noted in 1971:"Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parrallel to belief in special creation - both are concepts which believers know to be true, but neither up to the present, has been capable of proof.
Norman MacBeth wrote in American Biology Teacher:
"Darwinism has failed in practice. The whole aim and purpose in Darwinism is to show how modern forms descended from ancient forms, that is to construct reliable phylogenies(genealogies or family trees). In this it has utterly failed...Darwinism is not science."
Swedish biologist Soren Lovtrup declared in his book Darwinism: The Refutation of a Myth:
I suppose nobody will deny that it is a great misfortune if an entire branch of science becomes addicted to a false theory. But this is what has happened in biology;for a long time now people discuss evolutionary problems in a peculiar" Darwinism" vocabulary -- "adaptation","selection pressure","natural selection", etc.--thereby believing that they contribute to the explanation of natural events.They do not, and the sooner this is discovered, the sooner we will be able to make real progress in the understanding of evolution.
As natural selection's significance crumbles, the possibility of God, creation and design is again making a wedge in scientific circles. In a 1998 cover story entitled"Science Finds God" Newsweek noted:
"The achievments of modern science seem to contradict religion and undermine faith. But for a growing # of scientists, the same discoveries offer support for spirituality and hints of the very nature of God...According to a study released last year, 40% of American scientists believe in a personal God---not only an ineffable power and presence in the world, but a diety to whom they can pray."
Author David Raphael Klein may have said it best:
"Anyone who can contemplate the eye of a housefly, the mechanics of human finger movement, the camoflage of a moth, or the building of every kind of matter from variations in arrangement of proton and electron, and then maintain that all this design happened without a designer, happened by sheer, blind accident-- such a personbelieves in a miracle far more astonishing than any in the Bible."

Answer 5

I'm an Atheist but there's no denying that Jesus was alive and was killed on the crucifix. I think he'd take one look at our sorry asses and shake his head...

You know like when your mother looks at you and says "I'm really disappointed," and shakes her head, which is 10 times worse than when she's mad at you? It would be like that.

Answer 6

Why don't you wait until he comes back and ask him yourself.
(hahahaha)
Seriously, I think he'd be more disgusted at what folks do and say in his name than anything about evolution.

Answer 7

I think he would say...I am no kin to the monkey, and the monkeys no kin to me..I don't know much about your ancestors but mine didn't swing from a tree.

Answer 8

He would smile at the scoffers and quote Shakespeare" What fools these mortals be"

Answer 9

I doubt he would discuss it. He was much more interested in bringing peace to the world.

Answer 10

That I would like to know. He confirmed the OT when He was here.