Assume god created this world, if he did...he formed the parameters of this world...undoubtedly. So If god created this world and the parameters that govern it...wouldn't human life have to follow those parameters? Understanding the principals of our world, human life must take the course of evolution...or he would not be suited for life on this planet...without building a body that was suited to this world specifically, we would not survive.
So if god had created this world, would he not understand that life forms have to evolve in order to develop the ability to cope with their world?
Would it not have been a logical path to take? To create a seed of one organism and let it evolve? If there was no evolution, which does occur in the world that god specifically designed, how would man have survived.
We have to be designed within the parameters of the world, or we would not exist within it.
2007-09-26 21:31:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Well, you pretty much answered your own question, if it is indeed a question rather than a statement. Creationists believe that "God" created the heavens and the Earth and all things in or on it. Evolutionists believe that the presence of Man can be attributed to possibly an accident of nature, such as a bolt of lightening striking a body of water with a simple life form in it, which in turn caused it to change and evolve. Then there is "Implantation". We were put here by beings from another world at some point. Kind of like "The Martians have landed, and we are here."
2007-09-26 21:50:50 · answer #1 · answered by celtmaidn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possible but if you keep going back you end up reducing God to what? God becomes the creator of the laws of physics "THe mind of God by paul davies".
Because God is mysterious and can do anything he is not incompatible with anything.
The real issue between science and religion has not been one of facts. Rather history shows us that the catholic church was highly scientific and enlightened. Many of the early discoveries in astronomy (stars are suns for example) and genetics were done by priests. Newton was deeply religious.
The problem has often been about the nature of the knowlege. Galileo claims the sun was at the centre of the solar system and the Jesuits said "You are the sun of the Devil"...no they said "Please provide the scientific proof or shut up". You see Galileo (who was imprisioned for insulting the Pope) couldn't prove his claim. The church too a central role regarding knowledge. But science allows anyone to discover and talk about the truth. This was the first shift in knowledge that was so important for western culture.
Then with evolution the line was drawn. Suddenly the idea that God created the world was attacked, more importantly that God created us. Suddenly science rushed into the void that religion had filled for thousands of years. How humans came about was not longer a myth told but a fact proved through scientific methodoly.
As the debate raged evolutionists attacked the church as unscientific. Myths about priests thinking the earth was flat, were ignorant and so on were put out and about.
So if God has no role in the creation of the world, what is God's role? That is really the debate for modern religion. God is not so powerful, doesn't intervene in the world. So God is relegated to intervening in our hearts and souls.
God is where science can look. The church still tries to limit where we look in case we look there and don't find God.
I personally think we can find God in the nature of man.
2007-09-27 04:48:32 · answer #2 · answered by flingebunt 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evolution starts from nothing but particles. Life from a nonliving form which evolved into bacteria and so forth, based largely on chance. Creation is specific design. If a seed of one organism was created then it would be design and hence even if it evolved it would be creation. All organisms evolve infact they are still doing so it is the large leaps in evolution that creation disbelives.
2007-09-27 04:50:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no conflict. And it is not just a matter of God creating the laws of physics then sitting back to watch. The laws of physics contain built in "driver seats".
God can steer the development of every natural process and not break any law of physics. Every law of physics is now understood to be a probability. No matter what course evolution takes, science is helpless to say that God is or isn't driving it.
2007-09-27 05:40:50 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think theres no conflict between the two, science and religion are complement paradigms they both end on one cause and that is God. science is an incrsease in knowledge, thus God created our unrestricted drive to know giving birth to sciences.
2007-09-27 05:09:50 · answer #5 · answered by miko 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋