Are there Christians who believe in Evolution?

Question

My husband does, and I do not. My problem is this: Why would God use a man who wasnt even a Godly man (regardless of death bed confessions) come up with this only 130 yrs ago and it be a theory that took millions away from believing in God and/or accepting Christ. Would God have created a system that led soo many away from believing he existed? I look forward to hearing responses!

Kind of a side thing: Isnt it possible to still believe the earth is billions of years old and still embrace a creationists stance? Is evolution imperative to believe the earth is very old?

Answer 1

I don't know how a real christian can believe in evolution.

Answer 2

Sure. The only ones who have a problem with it are those who believe in the literal truth of the Bible.

There are those who believe that the domain of religion is to deal with matters of meaning and that the domain of science is to understand the physical world.

As for Darwin leading millions away from believing in God, I don't think so. Would you accuse Galileo of doing the same, for saying that Earth and the other planets revolve around the Sun? The problem in that case was that the Church had, for its own various reasons, adopted a view of the Universe adapted from Ptolemy, a pagan astronomer. It considered other views to be heresy. The fault here lies not with science, but with the Church, which had no business making claims about the structure of the Universe. The same applies for Darwin; he merely observed the workings of Nature and came to a conclusion that, while revolutionary, was not unique; Alfred Russell Wallace was on the verge of publishing similar findings.

The turning away from religion that has occurred over the last few hundred years has very little to do with science and a lot to do with Christianity's failure to adapt to increasing knowledge about the structure and functioning of Nature. The Church has been playing a losing game that it shouldn't have been in in the first place. Rather than making claims about the nature of the Universe that are open to being tested and, at times, disproven, the Church should have been focusing on things that all people think about: "what is the meaning of Life?", "what does it mean to lead a good life and to be a good person?", "how should human beings treat each other?", "is this all there is to Life?", and other issues involving meaning and existence. The rise of "alternative religions" is a reflection of the fact that many people hunger for spirituality, and that the Church has been doing an extremely poor job of satisfying that hunger.

Answer 3

Yes, I do.
Think abou tit for just a bit, the two are NOT mutually exclusive.
Creationists cannot explain fossil evidence of the earth, evolutionists still dont know how it all started, I keep hearing about lightening striking "primordial soup" somehow starting the whole life process.
God created evolution, after all, what is a "day" to God, why coundt it be a kabillion years?
Putting it into a 6 day week is just trying to put God's timeline in human terms and what was a day before the heavens and earth were created?
If you thinnk in terms of the two in one seamless theroy it makes perfect sense.
I've always thought the whole argument to be a bit silly, how does either one affect the way we live our lives this day or how we relate to our fellow humans?

Answer 4

I have heard people (who say they are Christian) say that they believe that God used Evolution to create man...

Since we do not KNOW how God created man.. it probably helps some to make sense of things they don't understand but still believe...

As for myself, I think it is quite possible that God created the earth in a state of being billions of years old, with fossils in the ground already and even light in motion in space so that it would reach us from stars millions of light-years away.. and yet the earth could still be just a few thousand years old...

Also, who says that the earth was not created so that living things on it would not evolve AFTER being created?...

Also, take any artist or person who creates things.. and have them make 20,000 of something (no duplicates).. and tell me how different those 20,000 items would be.. there would be many similarities and some with just minor differences.. it does not mean that one of the items evolved from the other.. just that they were created nearly the same...

The model-T automobile did not "evolve" into the Ford Mustang.. all of the various cars in between were created.

Answer 5

There is a school of thought that postulates that there was a long gap of time between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2.
I think it's entirely reasonable for a Christian to accept the concept of natural selection (survival of the fittest) within a species. What has yet to be substantiated is the notion of cross-species evolution. Evolutionists also have a hard time explaining how something that was dead somehow came alive.

Answer 6

You can be Christian and still believe in evolution, you just can't believe in a literal translation of the Bible.

You have to look at the history of the Bible and understand why it was written and who wrote it. God did not write the Bible. It was written by men and it's purpose was to create a system where people needed the Church. It has nothing to do with reality or how our Earth was created.

Answer 7

Yes there are numerous worldwide Christians who believe in evolution as an act of nature that performs the will of THE LORD GOD. Man's evolution was shown in a vision 2,700 years ago by THE LORD GOD to Prophet Daniel 7:4...saying lt was lifted up above the ground; and it was made to stand on its two feet like a man; and a man's heart was given to it. That was the vision which means that the small remnants of the mammals climbed up the trees and then as monkeys inhabited the thick canopies of the forest; later the monkeys went to the savannahs of africa and there without trees and fruits learned through their new environment with the predators like lion, tigers, cheetah, etc to run and walk and constantly upright to see wider view for security reasons and then they learn to walk for 3 million years in the savannah as homo-habilis and homo-erectus; then after 5 million years walking and forced to eating meat thus, wtihout fruits, the proteinous contents of the meat expanded the apeman brain and he became a man (with the spirit of a man given by THE LORD GOD) -according to GOD's plan. Similarly, the earth was created only for a moment which is understandable under the principle of the SEGMENTATION OF TIME. This means that any number say trillion, trillions. trilion of trilions of years, etc divided by infinity is actually zero in human standard. Thus, time and space are relative. It is likened to mega-second which is one millionth of a second but it exist in the micro world and this is called the segmeted time (macro-micro). Thus, to THE LORD GOD a trillion, trillion, trillion of years is not even a blink of eternity. So spiritually speaking, the creation of the whole universe is merely seven days under this principle of segmented time where even evolutions of everything took place performing the will of GOD. THANKS GOD; FEAR GOD; PRAISE GOD; GLORIFY GOD; LOVE GOD AND WORSHIP GOD.

Answer 8

I am not sure. I believe every word of the bible. I believe God. Period. But I also know I never got Wisdom teeth. Mine fused with the front molars and are now gnarly big *** teeth. 8 points. Great for me. Sort of of. No pulling by the Dr. So, does that mean that I evolved past the present human condition with regards to teeth according to the evolutionary theory? My child had Wisdom's and had to have them pulled 2 times... I am not sure where I am at with this.

Answer 9

i grew to become into raised as a Christian yet I nevertheless settle for evolution. i will clarify why. God reported, "permit there be easy. " And He observed the easy grew to become into good. i'm rather particular that once the huge Bang got here approximately, there grew to become into lots of sunshine. i don't experience the previous testomony grew to become into meant to be taken actually. Adam and Eve are symbolic of society on the time. i think of that's the evaluate historic previous while guy began to question himself approximately his very own morals. perhaps human beings the place beginning off to be much less nomadic than interior the previous and hence had to take duty for the relationships that they had with others around them. maximum Christians stay by the hot testomony. those are the training of Jesus. they are worry-unfastened morals that anyone would desire to stay by.

Answer 10

Yeah, there's lots of variations on evolution just as there's lots of variations on Christianity.

Yes, some Christians believe in evolution -- that evolution is part of the creation process. Google "Theistic evolution" and read the Wikipedia article if you're interested.

Answer 11

I am sure many do. even at 10 years old I told my bible teacher that genesis was only a story simplification of how God created the world he could have used evaluation and I believe he did.