Evolution is everywhere, including your religion?

Question

For those who completely ignore and say "satan is behind it," the theory of evolution, I have to ask;

How can you be so blind to suggest that, despite all things changing, humans cannot change, when your very own religion has changed countless upon countless amounts of times.

Christianity is sprung from Catholicism. Buddhism is sprung from Hinduism (I'm Buddhist). Every day, they are making changes. There is the old testament and the new one? Did God need 2 chances to get it right?

Religion evolves do fit the society it is within. Right now, the issue is with Gays being aloud to be married (quite frankly, if you change your opinion and let them, what else are you willing to change?).

So, humans cannot evolve but their religion can. Why is it evolution is only what is convenient for the religious?

Mark tried to be a smart *** saying his computer evolved into a pentium 5. Mark should understand that his computer is, in fact, aging, and, therefore, changing. He likes to think is rationalization is the end but it's not. His computer was once nothing more then sand. Through discovery, this sand was soon processed into a computer. Over time, his computer will fall apart, become old, and return to the earth to become something else. Nice try mark, but keep reaching for those stars.

Answer 1

I sympathise with your points even though there's no way biological evolution is comparable to social evolution. If you take 'evolution' to mean change, then change is all around us, even in the seasons, and certainly with humanity and religions. (But Christianity sprang from Judaism, not Catholicism!) Yet this change is more cyclical than anything (as Buddhism is keen to point out).

The amazing thing about the God of Israel (who is the same God of Christians) is his constancy. He does not change. There is not even the variation of a shadow with him. He is utterly dependable and true to his word. He is not a man, that he should change his mind! (All Bible quotes but I won't bore you with the references.) The new testament is part and parcel of the old; God simply exercised patience with his children, bringing them along gently to a fuller realisation. You should know this as the Buddhist story about the cart.

If you could get your eyes off religions and on to the Creator, you would be greatly helped to sort out what is really important. We all have to come to terms with who we are and what our Creator's calling on us is. As a Buddhist, you might think you've progressed beyond the elementary idea of deity to 'shunyata' (emptiness). I suppose Buddhism considers itself ahead of the field in spiritual progression (or evolution). As a Christian, I would urge you to go back to 'beginnings' (i.e. Genesis). I'd urge Christians who keep changing their beliefs according to political correctness to do exactly the same. God's principles never change and Jesus calls us back to the basics of a pure heart and love, which is the spirit of the Law of God. Only God's forgiveness in Christ enables us to break free from the shakles of our sin. Therein lies freedom.

Answer 2

The problem is that those who believe in Evolution show you many things that seem to be very persuasive. But the one thing you have to remember is that they are all theory's. Would you ever think that you could put a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle into a plastic bag and start shaking it and at some point in time all the pieces would fall into place? A mathematician would tell you that mathematically it's impossible. So then if it is a mathematical impossibility for a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle to come together how am i to believe that a "Big Bang" formed this as well as us? The math will tell you it's impossible. The debate does not even need to touch religion because evolution can not even be plausible in the science community when you look at the math side of things. So if evolution is not the answer what is? There is no reason not to believe in the Bible's account of creation. Much is made of the Bible not being accurate or old or out dated But talk to anyone that really has studied the Bible and they will tell you that there are to many reasons not to believe in what the Bible says. Just one example is look at the prophecys in the Bible and how ALL of them have happened EXACTLY as bible fortold. If you need an example look at the prophecys in the Book of Daniel. He talked about all the World Powers that would rise and fall untill God's kingdom was to arrive. When you read this you will see that he was right on for the last 2500 years. If there was no creator that showed him these things how could he be so accurate? To believe he dreamed these things up is just about as far fetched as to believe in evolution. If you go to Yahoo pic's and type in Pharoah's army you will find pic's of Egyptian chariot's and other objects on the bottom of the red sea that come from the time period that the bible says that Moses crossed the red sea and God drowened the Egyptian army right behind them. If the story is untrue how did those chariots get there? My point being is that many people like to discount the thought that there is a creator and the main reason they do this is that if they accept there is a creator then there is someone they need to answer to but discount the fact there is a creator then you can become in essense your own God. Iknow! Iknow ! thumbs down on the right. But just remember your denial can not change fact.

Answer 3

Evolution is everywhere, including your religion?

1. I don't see "evolution" every where. i do see change. by definition evolution implies a progression from a lessor to a greater, a weaker to a stronger, a simple to complex.

2.in many cases we see DE-evolution which would be a degrading, a worsening.

3.in other things i just see change because people are selfish and want what they want. it is a lateral change if you will.

also point of fact #1: Christianity is rooted in Judaism, not Catholicism. Catholicism is a denomination of Christianity.

point of fact #2: if you would study what your mocking before passing judgment you would know that the "new" Testament is called such first; because it is the testament of the Church in the dispensation of Grace. furthermore the Hebrew which Jesus spoke (being a Jew) is translated as RENEWED covenant.

While people change often for the worse. this only demonstrates the chaotic and selfish nature of man. proving only that we are basically unfaithful by nature and in need of redemption.

God , however does not change. although God will change His methodologies to reach an ever changing mankind. but this does not change the character of the great I AM.

Answer 4

As a Christian, I consider the science of "Catastrophism" as the possible theory wherein Creationism and Evolution can agree.

Most of us have been taught in school that Earth's appearance has undergone a slow, gradual and uniform change. Science teachers and television documentaries proclaim that these gradual processes have operated over vast expanses of time--"billions and billions of years"-- to create the world as it is today. It is upon the basis of Gradualism that the Theory of Evolution was postulated.

Catastrophists, on the other hand, see planetary catastrophes as the primary agent of change in the Earth. They believe that extra planetary bodies (asteroids, comets, etc.) have wrought sudden, dramatic change on the past, altering the Earth's appearance and destroying life in wholesale cataclysms. The time scale for such sweeping change is thus dramatically shortened in the Catastrophist view.

"The principle of catastrophism is an assertion that catastrophic natural processes have been primarily responsible for the deposition of the various layers in the geologic column and all the rock formations that we observe. Until the 18th century, no other plausible explanation was considered. The biblical worldwide flood as well as other local floods were believed to be responsible for laying down the sedimentary rock layers we observe." (allaboutcreation.org)

Answer 5

What clue do you have to claim that stuff evolve? From where do the "adaptation genes" come? Genes don't change just like that.

If someone will really change according to adaptation, then why don't people form some kind of genetic ways to protect them against deseases (Hope I didn't misspell it.) that have been ghastly common since the Industrial Revolution or even before them? Ok, you see this is not old enough, what about flu? You say that people adapt to the environment... which mkeans that according to you, our body should form some kind of defense against viruses, huh?

Answer 6

I am a believer and I couldn't agree more. Evolution and religion do not contradict each other. Religious knowledge is evolving. Daily. Our beliefs must also change. Otherwise, many fundamental churches will become extinct, like the dinosaurs that these very churches don't believe existed.

Answer 7

In the beginning GOD created the Heaven and the Earth! And HE created man in his image.Do you think that God is an one cell creature??I dont! I think that God gave us the ability to change and grow enough to survive. However we DID NOT come from monkeys or worms or any one cell creature. God created them too! Yes religion changes. Not always for the better. Sometimes change is for the better and sometimes it is not. All I can tell you flat out is that God created me and you and that the ONLY way to heaven is through the Son Jesus Christ!

GOD IS NEVER CHANGING! HE IS CONSTANT! ALWAYS AND FOREVER!

Answer 8

The Catholic position concerning belief or unbelief in evolution may never be finally settled, but there are definite parameters to what is acceptable Catholic belief.

Concerning cosmological evolution, the Church has infallibly defined that the universe was specially created out of nothing. Vatican I solemnly defined that everyone must "confess the world and all things which are contained in it, both spiritual and material, as regards their whole substance, have been produced by God from nothing" (Canons on God the Creator of All Things, canon 5).

The Church does not have an official position on whether the stars, nebulae, and planets we see today were created at that time or whether they developed over time (for example, in the aftermath of the Big Bang that modern cosmologists discuss). However, the Church would maintain that, if the stars and planets did develop over time, this still ultimately must be attributed to God and his plan, for Scripture records: "By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host [stars, nebulae, planets] by the breath of his mouth" (Ps. 33:6).

Concerning biological evolution, the Church does not have an official position on whether various life forms developed over the course of time. However, it says that, if they did develop, then they did so under the impetus and guidance of God, and their ultimate creation must be ascribed to him.

Concerning human evolution, the Church has a more definite teaching. It allows for the possibility that man’s body developed from previous biological forms, under God’s guidance, but it insists on the special creation of his soul. Pope Pius XII declared that "the teaching authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions . . . take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter—[but] the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God" (Pius XII, Humani Generis 36). So whether the human body was specially created or developed, we are required to hold as a matter of Catholic faith that the human soul is specially created; it did not evolve, and it is not inherited from our parents, as our bodies are.

While the Church permits belief in either special creation or developmental creation on certain questions, it in no circumstances permits belief in atheistic evolution.

Answer 9

Umm, wow, okay. Christianity did not come from Catholicism, Christianity is the natural progression from Judaism. Catholicism started several hundred years after the Church (body of believers) was already established.
To make you analogy fit, you would have to have Buddhism transform into Islam, without any intelligence or design behind it, it just "happened".

Answer 10

Bill, I'm all over it!

change is constant, it must continue for life as we know it to continue, including technology and society

it is one of the few guarantees

some things change, and yet somehow the same ills that troubled us did not change with but became "conservative"