Charles Darwin??? anyone...?

Question

why do people think that Charles Darwin didn't believe in God? when in fact he did? and how many people think that if you say that evolution is scientific fact that God will turn His back on you? WHY??? i believe in God and i support evolution. does that make me any less of a christian than you?
what is wrong with Christianity and science being mixed???

please don't get mad but i have yet to find proof of a world wide flood. i mean there was a flood, but how large was the world?( in Noah's day, in his eyes) i know that sounds like i'm limiting Gods power but is there any evidence?

and when did Darwin say everything erose from nothing?

Answer 1

I do not believe in evolution or dinosaurs but I know plenty of Christians who do.

I do not see a conflict, just a difference of opinion on how God chose to create the "universe".

The only conflict I see is when people insist that God had nothing to do with creation and insist that theories are facts.

Answer 2

Well it is like water and olive oil, both have their own taste but they do not taste good when mixd. Evolution is in error, as for Darwin being a Christian, he never said he was, there was a myth about him converting on his deathbed but it was just that a MYTH. That was the second myth found in Darwinism, the first is that Evolution is scientific. It is not proven thus it is mere throry. I have no problem with it being taught as a THEORY, but many try to teach it as fact that is unscientific and in fact elevates science to the area of Religion. For it is asking you to put faith in Science for what they can not prove. Faith is the realm of Religion, "fact" is supposed to be the realm of science. Though I believe there is more fact to support faith than fact to support science.

Answer 3

I'm not concerned with what Charles Darwin said. Many "historians" have later been proven wrong. Why are so many people trying so hard to prove that God doesn't exist and that He didn't create the world and everything and everyone in it.

For me it's a simple Leap of Faith. There are too many "perfects" in this world to be "evolution".

I Believe!

Answer 4

I wouldn't be surprised to find out Darwin was a Christian. I'm sure he was raised in a Christian home in those days.
But to believe man evolve is to say that Genesis is a lie. If one word is a lie you can't trust any of it.
I believe it is the inspired word of God so I believe He created it any way He wanted to.
What you are doing is blasphemous and anti Christian. You have to make a choice Son. That's the gift God gives you.

Answer 5

If you believe God created man, then you cannot believe in evolution. Read Genesis. How in the world can you say there is evolution?
"I said in my heart, 'concerning the condition of the sons of men, God tests them, that they may see that they themselves are LIKE animals.(not ARE animals) Ecc.3:18
"I have made the earth, and CREATED MAN ON IT." Isa.45:12
"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things WHICH ARE SEEN WERE NOT MADE OF THINGS WHICH ARE VISIBLE." Heb.11:1-3
"ALL FLESH IS NOT THE SAME FLESH, BUT THERE IS ONE KIND OF FLESH OF MEN, ANOTHER FLESH OF ANIMALS, ANOTHER OF FISH, AND ANOTHER OF BIRDS." 1Cor.15:39

People can call themselves whatever they want. If Charles Darwin was a Christian, He wouldn't have spent his life trying to disprove God's creation.



Pretty clear to me.

Answer 6

Some Christian's whose faith is so weak demand to believe in something magic to bolster their faith. The flatness of the Earth or how the sun revolves around us. Some Christians want to see disorder of evidence of God. The order in the universe to their messed up view means there is no God. They want disorder, things that cannot be explained. They need a parade of miracles and fellowship with impossibility as a constant reminder that they are different and faithful. It stems from weakness in faith. These weak Christians are making a God of science and order, not the other way.

For me when I note the sodium and chlorine combine to form salt and never sugar then I see God. Jesus may recognize these Christians as fools when he sees them.

Answer 7

Because man do not have all answers to life in general, if a scientist makes a new discovery today it may change fact from a theory proven a decade ago and therefore change the history of science. Regardless, scientist are either taking away or adding on....thats what experimenting life on earth is all about to ultimately find TRUTH. In relation to the bible. The bible has been translated over 400 times and counting. Because of that many truths have been taken away from the bible and many truths perverted from actual meaning. I believe some of those truths lost from the bible explain evolution, dinosaurs, apes, cavemen, etc. and their existence. I also believe that some evolved creatures from the time of dinosaurs existed during biblical times as well. So therefore I dont think that we as bible readers are open minded enough to the types of creatures that may have possibly existed during the time of Adam and Eve.

Answer 8

I don't know exactly what he believed, but if he believed at all it seems he leaned agnostic/deist and his concept of God was extremely complex.

He certainly didn't hold the typical Christian beliefs of the time.

But to answer your last question, there are many fundamentalists out there that claim you can only be a "real" Christian if you take every verse of the Bible as literally true, meaning that the Earth is only 6,000 years old and there were dinosaurs on Noah's ark.

Answer 9

It is not that Charles Darwin didn't believe in God. It is the fact that his teachings eliminated God's scientific knowledge from mainstream human scientific knowledge. Which led to banning God's scientific knowledge from being taught in public school's science classes. Which led to atheism spreading like a cancer in society. Which God warned us not to do. God and I are working on changing that as we speak.

Answer 10

Why make an issue of this Charles Darwin's beliefs? That's between him and God. He's long gone, so it's done and done. You are beating a dead horse.

Fundamentalism and Science do not mix because the opinions of certain people are such that they are not conducive to relevant exchange of information. However, Theology is a science. (A social science, mind you, but a science, nevertheless.)

Answer 11

The idea that evolution=atheism is what I call the BIG LIE that has led many good honest Christians to (understandably) oppose evolution with every fiber of their being ... oppose it to the point of irrational absurdity if necessary.

Over 40% of scientists are NOT atheists and when asked personally favor some kind of theistic evolution. (See source.)

The Catholic church, home to over 1.1 billion of the world's 2 billion Christians does NOT see any conflict between evolution and faith. (See source.)

The Clergy Letter Project is a signed statement of support for the teaching of evolution by 10,800 clergy members collected to date. (See source.)

The Nat'l Center for Science Education found that at least 77% of Americans in the 12 largest Christian denominations belong to churches that SUPPORT evolution education (and that at one point, this figure was as high as 89.6%). (See source.)

Although I am aware of a handful of Jewish and Muslim creationsts, it does seem to be a primarily a cause of Christian fundamentalists, and largely in the U.S.

And yet, in spite of this, a minority of religious leaders (mostly in the U.S.) have managed to spread the message to their congregations and their children that evolution=atheism .

And the tool these small-minded religious leaders use to teach small-minded religion is BIBLICAL LITERALISM. This is the doctrine that the Bible can only be interpreted in a completely *literal* way. Literalism not only leads to truly BAD science, but really BAD THEOLOGY as well. It *diminishes* God by limiting Him to the type of creation expressible in 2nd-century B.C. Hebrew. A single Hubble photograph of a spiral galaxy of over 300 million stars (!) is a *FAR* more powerful testament to God's glory than a merely *literal* reading of Genesis (where it took God 6 days to make and populate a single planet ... and then He "rested".)

LITERALISM is the enemy of both science and true faith. Literalism is the wedge! The wedge being driven between science and faith by small-minded religious leaders teaching small-minded religion! The wedge that forces good people to the point of conflict, forcing them to pick a side. Choosing either science or faith, and rejecting the other. It is a False and unnecessary choice. It is a tragic choice, both at the individual level (because both science and faith are invaluable parts of human thought) and at the population level (because it is a wedge in the voting public between the rational and the faithful ... which lets the faithful be manipulated into irrational choices).

Evolution is NOT atheism.