Religion and Evolution?

Question

Can evolution and religion coexist?

Answer 1

Of course. Millions of people who believe in evolution go to church every week. Don't assume that the extremists on either end represent the majority.

Answer 2

Why would you want it to? If you had the power, and ability, which would be more efficient of your time, your end goal achieved through eons of time, relative to your creation's point of view, or immediate completion. Of what benefit is evolution? What makes evolution a better choice than everything made in it's completed form, ready for it's intended function? If evolution were possible, at a much higher rate such that final completion could be obtained within, lets say 70% of your expected life time, would you want that process to consume your development as a person? I think not, if you gave the idea a good run for the possibilities of such development. There again. some people might prefer going from ooze on the ground, to something else to a primate and then to a person as we know them now. Think of the adventures one could have as a primate during the school years. Want a girl, just take her, after all, primates act as they do because they don't know any better. Why have responsibility when evolution would take that away.

Answer 3

Yes. The missing link between religion and evolution is interventionism. Which is belief that evolution didn't just happen on its own, but was a series of genetic manipulatory experiments by "The Gods" or aliens. After many attempts they finally managed to create the Adam. However religion and evolution both need to discern between the truths and lies that seems to be endemic to most theories.

Answer 4

Religion and evolution can coexist. Just as a river stays flowing at the same place following the same course through land for thousands of years, but its waters change by the second as they move towards an ocean, religion is about the entire existence, whereas evolution only earth-bound, or a process applied to the matter of thinngs within that entirety.

All living things have evolved from their primitive states of being into most sophisticated and complex organisms as we see them today, but this evolution in all things, other than human beings, has only been physical; none of the other living creatures has shown a proof of a conscious mind alongside body, and instinctive awareness of their surroundings.

Consciousness, or self awareness is only a human trait, which means that there is more to human mind than there is all to the process of evolution in the general nature of all things none human.

Human beings have stopped evolving physically by nature, but the consciously contrived evolution, through biotechnical methods, might continue, converting human body unnaturally strong or immune to disease, for instance,

But the signs of evolution of human consciousness are clearly visible though the changes as we witness in the present age. Human beings are becoming more collectively conscious, and globally active; heightened awareness and realisations of numerous kinds of modern times are quite new to the mind, as they were never a part of human concerns. Why do we feel alone in the universe? And why do we care if this world is destroyed? We all are going to dye anyway, then why should we worry about possibilities of mass extinction centuries ahead in time? This clearly is the sigh that human mind is not merely a produce of physical arrangement, but there is something more to the mind, something more ethereal or real.

Then, if evolution were all physical, or even merely intellectual, then how would the process of evolution benefit me in, for instance, thousands of years from now? I have just a normal lifespan available to myself to evolve into the realisation of some purpose to my being, and neither the process natural evolution, spanning millions of years, and nor the scientific method that is far from being hundred percent correct can help me with that. Religion, on the other hand, suggests the way for the mind to evolve to its optimum level consciousness within the lifespan of a normal human being. And it is not a religion in its traditional sense; it is when we mean by it a way to establish a relation between man and God - the most excellent being.

The theory of evolution is a theory of science, and science is the best discipline for knowledge available to the mind. But all that we know is all that is in the world; and is all that we can know, through scientific observations, is all that we need to know? I would like to know where I am heading, for instance, and then I would need something to, beyond what I can know, to define this ignorance into light of awareness. I would rather have faith, and let all things evolve within that – to have faith is a highly scientific act.

Answer 5

In college I did a term paper on Charles Darwin. As I read about him I was amazed to learn he was a Christian, and his belief in God was very real to him. Then, when his daughter
Annie died, his belief in God started to falter. He became agnostic, yet still acknowledged for most of his life that God existed. Some people believe he turned back to Christianity on his deathbed. Only God knew his heart. But my point is, that this man who proposed and gave evidence that all species of life have evolved over time through the process of natural selection, was a believer until an unbearable crisis happened in his life. If you look in the Bible you will see that God made changes in mankind to protect them from things they didn't know. For example, people didn't know about trichinosis in pork, so His law was that His people should not eat pork. That is a small example--the Bible is full of them. Another example is that the closer mankind lived to the equator the darker their skin was-again for protection. I think Evolution and Religion can coexist, I just believe that all that changed over time was of God--science does not make me question the Almighty God. Hope this helps.

Answer 6

Evolution is the self origination of an organism or the evolving of an organism to a higher self, sometimes aided by its environment. Internally putting self together.
Religion or Creationism is the creation of an organism by a higher intelligence separate of self. Externally putting together with purpose.
One is about natural selection.
The other is about
Unnatural selection.
All involve DNA code.
The True definition of Religion is Taking care of those whom are less fortunate then ones own self.

Answer 7

No - evolution is a natural occurance whereas religion is a learned opinion!

Evolution is something that occurs, unwittingly, and I can't see any examples of how this can harm as we usually evolve to survive a certain scenario.

Religion is probably best alongside politics as these are two of the reasons why many countries are at war!

Answer 8

Christian religion posits a creationist approach to life, the universe and everything, while evolutionists posit a gene mutation approach. These things couldn't be more opposed, they're in the business of saying to each other "No! - you're wrong!" The only the way they can coexist is by being in fierce opposition to each other.

Answer 9

Everyone has their opinion on this subject but how many wars are started in the name of evolution {NONE} It's always in the name of religion!! They are coexisting together now !! We have both but I hate being preached too!! To me it's all a fairy tale Adam and Eve and a talking snake yeah righttt!!!

Answer 10

Religion does indeed appear to evolve.
Consider the path of Mormonism:
Jesus tries to reform the Jewish church.
Paul makes a church of Christianity.
An emperor of Rome adopts Christianity, and gets together a group to decide which are and aren't the books to include in the Bible.
King James orders a translation of the Bible.
Joseph Smith translates the golden tablets bearing the Book of Mormon.

Answer 11

Absolutely. In a sense, it seems God wants us to evolve, spiritually, anyway. Evolution happens in the growth of a fetus within the human body. It doesn't start out looking like a person, but it evolves into one. Religiously speaking, evolution is not in conflict with the concept of God if that is indeed how God wanted us to become who we are. The concept of being made in God's image is interesting, since everyone looks different and carries different genes from eachother, as well as different sexes. So, which one of us looks like God? We could speculate that that phrase is a generalization. But then we would be picking and choosing our generalizations. I would venture to say that Evangelism is in conflict with evolution, but evolution is not in conflict with God.