Should the therory of evolution really be ignored by Christians and other religious people?

Question

*sigh*
I don't really know. I guess people are just too narrow minded. I mean, I don't really see why Evolution contradicts the existence of God. Oh sure, the Bible speaks of Adam and Eve, but should we really take that story literally? How do we not know it wasn't just a fictional story with a little moral at the end?

Evolution is not intended to contradict God. Rather, Darwin states that his theory is to claim that God did indeed create man but he was so intelligent and all-knowing that with evolution, he was able to have life create itself.

Also, the Bible states that man was made from mud and dirt. It has been theorized that nonliving materials such as water and dirt, merged together to make the first unicellular organisms that would eventually evolve into the human race.

If people actually took the time to read the entire theory, then they wouldn't be so quick to label it as some trash that should be rejected. IT fills in many gaps, if you ask me.

Do you agree?

Answer 1

Totally, Evolution is part of the masters plan, just not the key. Why must something be all black or all white? The things we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds will continue to change as we grow as a people. Someday it will come together. Don't let anyone tell you that you're on the wrong tract. I've never seen anyone more right.

Answer 2

It would be foolish to believe in a literalistic view of Creation and dismiss completely evolution. These are both extreme views and the truth should lie somewhere in between. In Genesis, God's 7 days could have been milenia to us. We really do not know. In the Book of Genesis, Man is created first in one chapter and last in another chapter? So, Creationists, having a literalistic view, which one is it? Does the Bible contradict itself? No. The meaning of the verses is simply that man was created over all other creation.

The Catholic Church does not endorse either view and we may believe what we wish. It does state that we do have to believe that we had one set of parents that all mankind has come from and these parents offended God and lost favor. This offense is carried through all generations as Original Sin and is cleansed by the Sacrament of Baptism.

Personally, I believe the beginning of time is somewhere in-between creation and evolution and the hand of God was ever present throughout the process.

Answer 3

Evolution is bad science, pushed by bad politics. There is LOTS of evidence that says it did not happen. (scientific evidence at that)

The oldest desert on earth is estimated to be 6,500 years old.

There is less than 10,000 years of accumulated space dust on the moon.

The rate at which the sun is shrinking tells us that if it were around several billions of years ago, it would have been big enough to have burned up the planets that we now know of. (including ours)
This one fact alone should make people look for another explanation other than "billions of years ago."

And for Christians who try to combine evolution with Genesis - Day three brought the plants, and day five (two days later, not billions of years) brought forth the birds and fish that started using up the oxygen the plants were giving off. Day six brought the other animals to also use oxygen. A world with just plants could not exist for very long.

And the big reason why Satan promotes the idea of evolution so diligently..... if he can convince people that there was never a real Adam, then there was never really a fall, and there is no need for a Jesus. Think of it, could a doctor convince you to take chemotherapy if you've already been convinced that cancer doesn't really exist?

Answer 4

Since, theory of evolution is a theory. In science, a theory is a mathematical or logical explanation, or a testable model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation. It follows from this that for scientists "theory" and "fact" do not necessarily stand in opposition. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theories commonly used to describe and explain this behaviour are Newton's theory of universal gravitation (see also gravitation), and general relativity. (source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory)

It should not be ignored by religious people, this is only a theory or a fact. But believing this theory, i don't think so...

Answer 5

How is it narrowminded to look at the serious flaws of evolution and dismiss it as a fact when scientifically it just isnt a fact.

I think the theory should be taught in science because it is a widely known and accepted scientific theory. But honestly teaching evolution means teaching all of it, including its flaws and why it is still only a theory.

It takes faith to believe evolution as fact. There were times when the world was flat was a fact. No scientist should disregard the proof against a theory. You may think that evolution is the best scientific possibility for the beginnings of life, but it is not reasonable to close your mind to the possibility that the theory is not accurate. There is soooo much we still dont know about the world around us, scientifically speaking. To have the arrogance to dismiss the flaws of a theory and demand that everyone accept this theory as fact takes an incredible amount of faith in that theory.

I believe in adaptation because we have physically seen the evidence of it occuring within species. Species evolution, going from one species to a new species just hasnt been proven yet. Not even close to being proven. There is this huge huge gap in the theory which is the missing links between species. It is a gap that pretty much in my opinion blows the theory almost out of the water.

Many religious people believe that God might have used evolution as a way to direct life. I dont. I dont know how it was scientifically created or organized, but I support the search for that knowledge. But to claim it is closeminded to not accept a theory you have studied but reject due to lack of evidence is simply an incorrect statement.
Given that logic I could call you closeminded for not seeing how many holes evolution has and for not rejecting the theory.

Answer 6

Absolutely not! And we don't ignore evolution. In fact, we believe in some evolution. The only difference is, God created all things. Even Darwin admitted to that. He did not discount God. Man did.

Answer 7

As the largest Christian denomination, Roman Catholicism endorses the theory of evolution. You can confirm this yourself at the Vatican's website.

Here is an excerpt from an essay by the current Pope Benedit XVI:

"63. According to the widely accepted scientific account, the universe erupted 15 billion years ago in an explosion called the “Big Bang” and has been expanding and cooling ever since. Later there gradually emerged the conditions necessary for the formation of atoms, still later the condensation of galaxies and stars, and about 10 billion years later the formation of planets. In our own solar system and on earth (formed about 4.5 billion years ago), the conditions have been favorable to the emergence of life. While there is little consensus among scientists about how the origin of this first microscopic life is to be explained, there is general agreement among them that the first organism dwelt on this planet about 3.5-4 billion years ago. Since it has been demonstrated that all living organisms on earth are genetically related, it is virtually certain that all living organisms have descended from this first organism. Converging evidence from many studies in the physical and biological sciences furnishes mounting support for some theory of evolution to account for the development and diversification of life on earth, while controversy continues over the pace and mechanisms of evolution. While the story of human origins is complex and subject to revision, physical anthropology and molecular biology combine to make a convincing case for the origin of the human species in Africa about 150,000 years ago in a humanoid population of common genetic lineage. However it is to be explained, the decisive factor in human origins was a continually increasing brain size, culminating in that of homo sapiens. With the development of the human brain, the nature and rate of evolution were permanently altered: with the introduction of the uniquely human factors of consciousness, intentionality, freedom and creativity, biological evolution was recast as social and cultural evolution."

Answer 8

I don't know about you, but i haven't the faith to believe that a damned explosion created everything. Based on the theory of evolution, i should be able to make a giant barrel and fill it with every thing required to make a city, and then compress it to within several microns, then it will release and make a city with people and everything. What crap.

Answer 9

Evolutionary Science actually makes no claim one way or the other about a deity. However, Genesis 1:24 makes the concept of macro evolution conflict with the Abrahamic deity.

Answer 10

I agree, and there are plenty of people who both believe in God and have no problem accepting evolution. It would also helpe if these people knew that the term "theory" doesn't mean the same thing as "hypothesis".