Christians only!!! Evolution question???

Question

I am going to try and guess why some Christians dislike evolution. Tell me if I am right or wrong Christians. While evolution does not disprove God, or even the Christian God, I think it does take away some of our significance. While humans are the most sophisticated species on Earth, that’s not good enough for some people. Some people want to think humans have a divine purpose. If evolution is right, then we are an accident that resulted from an accumulation of random genetic mutations. It makes us humans seem more like an accidental byproduct of God's creation rather than a direct creation that serves some divine purpose. It means we aren’t as special as we thought. I am making an honest attempt to understand so please no hate rants.

Answer 1

I'm a Christian and I have no problem with the concept of evolution. Micro-evolution, that is. The kind of evolution that we have evidence for (i.e., small changes within a genus). We do not have any evidence of macro-evolution, that is one genus turning into another. So rationally, it takes just as much faith to believe in macro evolution than it does to believe in intelligent design.

The reason I believe intelligent design holds more credence than macro evolution is that I see all the order around me and I just can't fathom it all being an accident.

Here's an analogy. If I want to make a cherry cake or a cherry pie or cherry turnover or a cherry muffin, I need cherries, flour, sugar, and butter for sure, plus small quantities of other ingredients. The fact that all of these items have all the same main ingredients doesn't mean that you make a cherry cake by first making a cherry pie and then adding something else to it (macro-evolution) to expand on the original recipe. The commonalities can just be commonalities without the two items being linked.

But regardless, if I want to make a cherry pie and I take all the ingredients, throw them in a bowl and microwave them until they explode (big bang, accidental creation, whatever you want to call it), how many tries will it take until I get a cherry pie?

If every single person on earth does this every minute of every day for 50 years, how long do you think it will take you to get a cherry pie to accidentally form? I mean, it's possible that all the molecules will land in that perfect arrangement, right? In theory? But you'd have to have an enormous amount of faith to believe that you're going to get a cherry pie, even with billions of people blowing up the ingredients 2,040 times a day for 50 years...or 500 years, or 500 billion years.

So this is why I think that there is an intelligent designer behind the world. Doesn't mean He didn't use forms of evolution to create the world -- actually, it seems sensible to me to assume that He did use both micro and macro evolution to create the world. But with all the amazing systems that we have in nature, how can it be an accident? How can it be an accident that made the way water is purified through being absorbed into the air, cooled down in clouds, rained down onto the earth, seeped into the soil and then emerging in a fresh-water spring? How can it be an accident that mammals create new offspring by a male and a female coming together, each with its own "piece of the puzzle"?

Like I said, it takes a LOT of faith to believe that ONE of these perfectly formed systems can be created by accident. To accept only macro evolution requires an enormous amount of faith that BILLIONS of such systems were created by accident.

Answer 2

Nah, not all Christians are like that, really. That'd be like believing the planets and sun still revolve around the Earth, it's human instinct to 'look out for number one', or think you're better than others, even if you actually aren't in some areas. I personally don't dislike evolution as a Christian, I understand completely what the scientists believe, and don't believe that humans really have any 'divine purpose', besides God's interaction with us, of course. Kind of like how a shepherd looks after sheep, to quote the Bible.

Answer 3

Creation; A consideration of the work of Creation properly follows a discussion of the divine purpose. The reason is obvious, because creation initiates the execution of these purposes. While the purpose of God are eternal as Himself there could be,so far as we can conceive,no execution of them before the creation of the Universe. He must have begun to do, and to exercise of His creativity power, what he from eternity had determined to do.It is Worthy of God to do "all things after the counsel of His own will",by His own Wisdom.

Creation;producing something out of nothing.When God created the Heavens and Earth,he brought into being that had NO existence before.Thru faith and the Bible we have to understand that the World was framed by the Word of God.

God made the Heavens and Earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th. We,have to take that literally.

Answer 4

there are a number of issues

First the Bible allows a variety of animal adaptations. 1) God created the original animal kinds 2) the entrance of sin into the world changed not merely man but animals and the rest of the universe 3) both theories allow animal adaptation which we will call microevolution a variation within animal types

Second, I personally think it is extraordinarly unwise of christian groups to embrace theistic evolution since it is contrary on many levels with the scriptures. So in that regard I actually would agree. Naturalistic or theistic evolution is contrary to the Bible

Third, the evidence for goo to you via the zoo, microbe to microbiologist just is not there. What you see in the speculations of evolution is merely a result of hidden assumptions and circular reasoning that deductive thought. The strongest evidence is in favor of creationism
and students are rarely taught the crticial thinking skills to recognize they are being taught not science but the philosophical presuppositions and matierialist philosophies and humanism

Answer 5

that's in basic terms a tiny fraction of the rivalry over evolution. There at the instant are not any a million/2 way something creatures immediately and quite no concrete info of them in the previous, regardless of claims of people with withered tail backbone. Giants and adult males with fantastic toughness ought to nicely have existed ,evolution or no longer because of the fact the gene pool would not have been something like as contaminated on the daybreak of their introduction, as that's now. yet you're completely top, no concrete info yet in straight forward terms faith. that's faith that evolutionary theory is actual or faith that precisely programmed existence got here of layout particularly than 2nd guessing trial and mistake. speaking donkeys is unprovable besides ,however existence is crammed with speaking serpents in each and every style of guises. so which you're making an outstanding element each and every of the flaws you point out are so a techniques unprovable, as a result completely a rely of religion in whoever you suspect. You win the argument and that i agree on present day info of the two evolution and particular introduction being in step with faith no longer demonstrable actuality.

Answer 6

I believe God's Word where it says He created Adam from the dust of the earth (minerals that are bodies still posses and use today) and breathed the breath of life (oxygen) into him.

God never creates "accidents".

Other assumptions (divine purpose, we're special, etc.) have no significance in this belief.

However, the pursuit of the meaning of life could be a tool to lead one to seek or pursue God. With the plethora of "answers" to this pursuit, many are led in the opposite direction.

Answer 7

Well the question is for Christians only, but I being a muslim would like to answer it because if Christianity means to follow the teachings of Jesus, we muslims are more christians than christians themselves.

No one will disagree that we humans are a superior being, more superior than the other beings we know scientifically. God doesn't need an accident to create us or the universe, He says Be and it is. The creation of the universe is greater than our creation and in our creation itself lies the proof of creation ( http://www.harunyahya.com )

Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day,- there are indeed Signs for men of understanding,- the Quran (don't worry the Quran is not only for the muslims, it addresses the Christians and the Jews and the whole of mankind)

Answer 8

evolution disproves ANY intelligent design from God.
REALLY study, in Hebrew context, Genesis 1:1-4.
Please note three:
1. God formed the earth out of nothing.
2. God restructured the earth, since it was void of shape.
3. God then reshaped the earth the way it is today.
When God created man, He formed man from the dust, or soil. He created man in their image (Trinity), and He breathed life into Him. THEN, Eve was created from the rib of man.
Evolution goes against the Bible. We were not formed by splitting ameobas, since how did these amoebas know male and female? Too many questions that science can only speculate.

Answer 9

exactly what I think. I hope this doesn't come out as a hate rant, but why can't people realize that although many scientific findings discredit many, MANY religious writings, there may be fact that there is a god (I think there is), but a few books may be a lttle off. You give some great points.

Answer 10

WISDOM; every human does have a Divine purpose in life, that is to repent of our sins except Jesus as our personal lord and savior of our lives and plead the blood of Jesus over our lives and testify of the changes that god will manifest daily through the holy spirit by having a personal relationship with Jesus. THIS IS THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON WE HAVE AGAINST SATAN. PLEADING THE BLOOD OF JESUS AND OUR PERSONAL TESTIMONY OF THE CHANGES THAT CHRIST WILL MAKE IN OUR LIFE. as for as evolution goes, THE MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE allow JESUS CHRIST to renew your mind to have a mind of CHRIST then revelatoinal wisdom will carry you through this life to the next one awaiting.