What are your thoughts?
2007-09-14 20:47:13 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm Catholic and I believe in evolution. I'm not trying to push my beliefs on anyone, I just wanted to know how everyone else felt about this issue.
2007-09-14 20:57:57 · update #1
Of course. And God said, "Let there be evolution".
2007-09-14 21:02:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
you cannot serve two masters at the same time. while you believe that God exist you will also believe that everything around you is a product of creation.. every bit of it. In evolution..complex life form originated from a simple living organism. I prefer to believe that there is a Creator. and we have many reasons to believe. Everything that we see around us from infinitesimally small things such as atoms and electrons to the very huge and gigantic galaxies and heavenly bodies there are systems and laws. We can see that these thing have designs unimaginable to the human mind. From these we can comprehend clearly that a design needs to have a designer. Chance can never make even a "simple design" such as the human brain. Over time man have seen that fish remains a fish and monkeys remain monkeys. I will never serve a poor master like darwin!
2007-09-15 04:22:28 · answer #2 · answered by rockwell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is a Theory, however I don't belief that accepting it excludes the existence of God.
'in the beginning....'
It was a bishop that 'did math' to determine 'when the beginning' was. There is nothing in the bible that says "in 6000 bc God made Adam."
While I dispute much of the so called evidence of evolution, we cannot ignore the fossil records that suggest a longer time frame.
Thats my rant and I'm going to bed!!
God Bless.
2007-09-15 04:03:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, my belief is that God created the earth from a mixture of dust and gases. Since all of those materials were hot, he put water to cool the earth. then, he added land and animals to live there. One of those animals were monkeys and he decided that someone had to take care of the kingdom he made so he decided to make monkeys into a higher being, so he made them involve into humans, and the first humans were Adam and Eve. then the whole Adam and Eve story goes here, they get sent out of the kingdom, etc. Then, since God still believed in the beings he made, he made more monkeys evolve.
2007-09-15 03:58:49 · answer #4 · answered by DaneFil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can believe whatever you want because God gave us all a "free will." Evolution: the big bang, what made the bang a little bang? Way off just like the earth was flat. Be realistic or even a 1/2 moron.
2007-09-15 04:03:28 · answer #5 · answered by Titus12 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
But you cannot believe the Genesis account as literal fact and evolution - they are contradictory.
So you cannot believe the Bible to be infallible truth and be logically consistent.
However, it has to be said that there are vast numbers of other logical problems and factual inconsistencies that gt in the way of a literal acceptance of the Bible. It is readily proved to be a fallible document, and so if your faith depends on it being infallible then you are in trouble.
2007-09-15 04:01:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose you could believe in some kind of god and evolution.
Now could you believe in the god of the bible, and the bible as the complete source of christianity, and then also believe in evolution? No.
The bible, basic creationist idea, and evolution are at odds with each other.
2007-09-15 04:23:08 · answer #7 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do. Who am I to say that God's plan was not for the world/universe to evolve in the way that science claims it has? Maybe God created the world as it says in the Bible, but did this in a plane separate from our world, wanting it to grow into the perfect world he created? So we could learn. I'm just human; can't claim to know the truth.
2007-09-15 03:56:47 · answer #8 · answered by Shimoyake 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I firmly beleive that evolution is God's way of creating the universe new every day. A universe that does not evolve is stagnant. A stagnant universe would certainly be a boring place to exist.
2007-09-15 03:52:23 · answer #9 · answered by John Silver 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Because God being omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient
would not have objected to his creation the 'energy and matter'
from being used according to his laws such as gravity, fusion and fission (created by him) in the process of evolution.
2007-09-15 04:00:50 · answer #10 · answered by mahen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was God who created the process of evolution! He had other things to do. In evolution, you can't get something from nothing, someone had to start it!
2007-09-15 03:52:17 · answer #11 · answered by ZORRO 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋