Where in the Bible does it say that evolution didn't happen?

Answer 1

You know, in Genesis, life originally shows up in the seas, then on land, and culminates in the "creation" of humans.

Sounds similar to evolution.

And - just a thought - although it's perfectly understandable that people want to believe that they, in their current form, represent god's image, who's to say the original "adam" and "eve" weren't members of Australopithecus afarensis (Lucy, see link below), rather than Homo sapiens?

I have no problem believing in a creator that started life on a path, then stood back to watch what it would become (or evolve to be).

Evolution is a scientific theory (and I use the word theory in the scientific sense, that is to say it is supported by evidence). Belief in a higher power, creator, god - whatever you want to call it - is faith.

Those who can see the difference will have a much easier time reconciling the two.

Answer 2

In the book of Genesis it talks about the entire universe being created, including man in the image of God. I am a true, literal creationist, but I will tell you that some people who believe in creation believe that each day represents many, many years. Since the Bible says the evening and the morning were the first, etc, day, I take it to mean literal days. Nothing in the world really gets more developed, think about it. Everything breaks down, and dies. The Bible says Creation happened, so it doesn't need to say that evolution did not happen.

Answer 3

Joe understand that the Bible does teach evolution. The only thing it does not say is that God made one species like an ape and it evolved into a man. Or that life evolved from a single celled life form.

Creationists needn't be afraid of evolution in their debate. It is called "adaption" and it is apart of micro evolution where a new subspecies comes from an original one.

Answer 4

well it does not say in the bible that evolution did not happen it does say how ever that god created everything in 6 days and rested on the 7th however the bible also says that gods time is not ours 1000 years to god could be second to us, vice versa or any other time scale imaginable

how ever in the bible it does say that god created man and animal different that man would practice dominion over the earth and all thats in it

and in the bible it states clearly that humans are the only beings with souls

so my answer to you would be that no the bible does not spell out "evolution did not happen" but if you research it you will find that you have to believe one or the other

Answer 5

"And God said, Let us make man in our own image . . ." etc

There are at least 20 times the Scriptures address the creation of "something" . . . the stars, the earth, the cosmos, etc. . . in each case it says God created . . .

Now . . . you show me one speck of evidence that any species changed into another . . . a reptile into a bird . . . a bird into a fish . . . a fish into a monkey . . . if all this happened we would be DEEP in proof! All kinds of fossils, half this, one quarter that, almost this, not quite that . . . but we instead see time after time . . . a world that is totally wiped out by some huge trauma . . . and then a lawn (not a trunk with branches) of life . . . all over the whole world . . . suddenly . . . and fully formed, each time . . .

Even the fissile record says there is no evolution.

Answer 6

Nowhere

However, as the Holy Bible is in every way contradictory to science, there are plenty of "stories" in the Bible which directly negate the Theory of Evolution.

For example, that Human kind were "created from dust" and have no common ancestry with other creatures.

That women came as an afterthought, a growth plucked off of the superior male species to which they are to suffer "subjugation". In fact the female is the "default" species of human, for other animals it is sometimes the other way round.
There is no space to explain that last premise but I can assure you it is true and greatly undermines Biblical scripture.

Answer 7

Well He created man in HIS image with the ability to:
1) Reasoning- Choose right from wrong/be accountable
2) Name all the animals and reign over them.
He also breathed life into humanity which distinguished them from the animals.
So it's a contradiction, of humanity being more animal than human initially. They had the brain function that God could question them on their actions and hold them accountable, unlike animals or primates.

Answer 8

In the old testament when the story of creation is clearly told. It says that man was created my God and woman was created from man by God. Including all the other animals that were created that day which still walk the earth today except dinosaurs.

Answer 9

I can give you a multiplicity of citations but I suggest you go to a good Bible Topical Guide and look it up for yourself.. You will learn a lot of things that way..

More importantly where does it say that we have to act like monkeys, and in some cases braying jackasses.

Answer 10

It doesn't say that God did not equip the life forms that He created with the ability to evolve within their own species. But it does teach that God created plants and animals to reproduce after their own kind and that mankind did not come from an ape like ancestor.

Genesis 1:21 So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." 23 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. 24 And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds--livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

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